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The legs are 3mm carbon fiber tube with a solid carbon fiber rod superglued inside and heatshrink tubing over the outside. Each one is held on with three tywraps which usually just pop off on crash landings leaving the leg intact and ready to be tied back on. The colored shrink wrap makes them...

The Naza software doesn't account for magnetic declination, if you leave it pointed straight forward chances are it will have TBE (Toilet Bowl Effect) or continuous circling when you put it in position hold since the magnetic compass and GPS coordinates can never get in sync to hold position...

The little guy is pretty fast for what it is, the big Disco is still faster though... The white stuff is grass fertilizer, we always put down a lot of it this time of year so the grass will be nice and green come summer ;) Ken

Today was a bit warmer than its been here lately and the wind had died down to 6 to 8 mph, a gentle breeze compared to some of the steady 20+ mph that's been blowing through recently. I really didn't plan to go flying today but seeing the clear sky and light wind got me out the door with the...

Having done it with both stock and Sunex lens, you want the stock wide angle lens for FPV. I'm using the GoPro for the pilot cam on both my QAV500 and Talon Tricopter, the biggest disadvantage vs. a dedicated FPV camera is the GoPro doesn't handle changing light conditions as well, flying...

I have a set of the Base edition, a set of Dominators, and a set of the new Attitude. Main differences, the base must be cabled to external receiver they don't have a provision for a built in RX module, they do have adjustable interpupillary distance which is a must feature IMO, they are however...

When I test RTH I usually go out about 30 to 40 feet, not sure there's a minimum distance required other than it won't rotate to face the take off point within some fairly small distance, it just flys backwards in that case. Should things go wrong just quickly flip the switch back to manual...

Yes I am. Haven't had a lot of opportunity to fly it lately but it's still just as much fun as it was the first day. Last time out I stuck a cheap FPV cam and TX on it and gave it a try flying with the goggles, definitely a lot different than flying a quad FPV. The Tri is very graceful in the...

Mine is just two axis, I just feed in a few clicks of rudder trim in position hold when I want a 360 degree veiw... Ken

Sorry guys, it's not up to me to decide who gets the beta firmware, that decision is made by the folks at Photohigher who allowed me to test a copy as I was one of the people that did beta testing of the RSGS before it was released. If it's any consolation the wait will be worth it and from...

First test flight with beta firmware 1.5. Last night I loaded the firmware, did the level settings and autotune, this afternoon I put the GoPro Hero3 on the platform in 1440 48fps Protune mode and went out front to see if there's any diffference between the new firmware and the 1.2 that I had...

I'm looking at it purely from the point of view that I want to FPV one of these things upside down around the field then flip it rightside up again! The video you could get from either the pilot cam downlink or an onboard GoPro would be absolutely crazy being able to fly that way. For APV I'll...

I'd be tempted to try the new module in my Doms if they had the adjustable screen distance like the Basic and Attitude, I really don't undertsand why they left that feature out on the Doms. I put up with not being able to clearly see all of both screens for the entire season on the Doms and was...

If that much... I have the YS-X6 that had this capability from day 1 over wifi which is much longer range than bluetooth, I could never get much more than maybe 20 to 30 meters before it would drop the connection while in flight. Just about all the bluetooth stuff I've ever used had a range of...

SD, I don't think the HD will be available until spring of next year and all the vTX I have max out at 640 x 480 video frame anyway so no need for HD goggles. Ken

In their current form they're only good for about the same current capacity as the Mk BL 2.0. Theoretically the ESC32 can handle 50 amps continuous but with the caveat they need proper cooling and firmware changes as the factory default for current limiting in the code is 20 amps. I don't think...

P.S. I have both Dominator and the new Attitude goggles, the builtin vRX in the Attitude far outperforms what my Dominators can do with the vRX module. The price difference isn't that big, I would definitely recommend going with the Attitude vs the Dominators. Ken

Yes, the weight factor in falling from a given height can be just as fatal regardless of the the number of props but an out of control 700 class heli with blades spinning at 2000 to 3000 RPM isn't going to just stop those blades instantaneously, they're going to keep spinning until the come in...

Having used the same I2C converter you have I found that it's no where near as steady and smooth as the Mk BL controllers, the MK code just isn't optimized to work with PWM ESCs especially when you add the delay of converting I2C to PWM before sending it to the ESCs. No matter what I did I could...

The Ardupilot is not even close to being as plug and play as a Naza controller. While it will usually fly with out of the box settings seldom will they be exactly the right settings for the frame that you're installing it on. Of all the Atmega/Arduino/Multiwii controllers out there, the Ardu is...