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Twitchy little thing! The best part about you doing this is that it proves the motor position does not have to be equally spaced. Nice work!

This reminds how good it felt when I was doing aerial video using RC powered paragliders. If the engine ever cut out it was a nice slow graceful glide back to mother earth. I am still not convinced these heavy lift rigs cant carry the extra payload of a chute. BUt this is a whole other topic...

I was thinking there must be a fair amount of heat trapped under the heat shrink tubing used over the Esc's. There are so many other exposed electronics on here what difference could it make to cut it off? As there really isnt a lot of airflow in most AP I would think this would be advantageous.

Jeeze, Crashing into a freeway would not be good for the hobby.

Just make the negative form (mold) and drill a hole in the bottom. Attach a shop vac to it. Place your lexan sheet on a piece of stainless or something really flat. Heat it in the oven to about 300deg and start playing with temp/time. Should be fun once you have it dialed in. It doesnt take...

you should use your extra Xaircraft FC for this. If it works as well as mine you will be in great shape. And if it blows up or goes down in a flaming crash, it's much less of a loss.

Bart, my neighbor is a huge thermo plastics forming company. But they are gonna be pricey without quantity. I have a vacuum setup but no heat.

If you plug your esc and motor direct to the receiver and that didnt work you have problems. Do you have a normal esc to try as a test? As far as I know the only difference in the Xaircraft esc's is they are higher frequency PWM. So who knows, maybe they do need the Xaircraft FC to operate...

I bought Heli-x for my mac and it is great. You dont need a multi rotor to get the hang of flying. The controls of a heli are similar enough.

Where do you get those clover antennas

As I am starting to do architectural photos I see the need for FPV to frame the shot. I think if you were using a super wide angle lens this is not necessary. But to get a non deformed image you need to frame the shot and that requires a few things. I don't need long range, maybe 1000'-2000'...

I wasn't sure how to do this either and was told to do the calibration both ways by different people. In the end I individually plugged each esc into the receiver, not the flight controller. The only other adjustment I made was to set the response to "instant." Most esc's have a soft start...

I see you tied some line between each arm on another video that came up. This is an idea I have wanted to try since day one but never got around to. My thought was if you tensioned an isolator between 2 lines you could potentially dampen a fair amount of the vibes before they travel down to...

I did see Dr.Who but didnt remember that. Thanks.

I am a professional basket weaver. haha I do metal, plastic wood fabrication. So I have the luxury of a very large man cave. :) So what exactly is that pic of you posted? It looks like some hippies flying-saucer?

My heli haven. Also happens to be my business.

Thanks but link doesn't work.

that was awesome! i can see the advantage of having a "beater" quad now. What FPV components are you using? I am getting close to diving into that.

Yes, only the XA FC and AHRS. No compass/gps. It really does fly amazingly well. The whole reason I used it was to show people that you can get great results without MK or DJI. I am positive after a few tries playing with gains it will be even better. It is shot at 60fps too so i could slow...

Finally! I got my hex running smooth enough to attach the camera and play a little. Now to get the jitters out of my hand.