Recent content by bigholty

lol Dead Cat i like that , well im not buying one because the "young, hot-dog style, flyers because think they look cool" im 47 and in no way could i be called a hot dog style flyer , i eat them lol for a newbie to quads would you say " spider " type frame would be better to learn with

Hi all still very new to all things multirotor , just wanted to know a few things about the actual shape of the quad frame , firstly im thinking of getting a TBS quad but wanted to know the differences in the actual main chassis , the TBS has a large main body but most others i see have the...

wow , now thats a read , ok so i have no experience in flying quads except for my little hubsan x4 , which ive crashed so many times it scares me to think if it had been a large scale quad id be stuffed ..i thought i knew what to go for ...original ideas were towards the TBS ,but im now unsure...

ok im a total noob to all this , so if you go to a bigger prop same pitch as the smaller prop your displacing more air at a slower RPM , would that require more amps pull on the motor at the lower rpm ?? but isnt it like a bigger engine on a car the lower the rpm the less energy used if you are...

i have a little hubsan x4 , ive learnt to fly a full figure 8 and maintain a 4 foot altitude in my living room lol, ive learnt to fly it from a upturned sauce pan to a mixing bowl in my spare bedroom with a fan blowing across the flight path , dont know how much it would help in flying a bigger...

lol having just read the very next thread , its seems to have answered nearly every thing i wanted to know ...apart from is the TBS airframe a good option to start with ??

Hi there the names Ian , new to flying but very keen to learn the basics up to the final build , im looking at the TBS Discovery ARTF kit , what are your views on this kit. Also the transmitters whats the main reason to have so many channels , some ive looked at have 12 channels ?? is it for...

Thanks for the reply Dave , im not rushing into it , i know i have huge learning curve ahead , but isnt that the fun of it all , build it fly it brake it bend it fix it fly it and so on till the brake it bits are father apart ...

Hi all very new to flying anything , ive been for a while driving a 1/5th 26cc hpi baja , but have been watching the quadcopter thats been filming our activities thinking that 3 dimensional stuff looks fun , then when realizing it was carrying cameras i was blown away and have been reading up...