Checking in from Sydney

[min0nim]

Hi all!

What a great forum. Like loads of others I suspect, I've gotten here through photography. I've been looking at kite photography for ages , but when starting out on that, found just how accessible multirotors are.

I was almost convinced to get a phantom so I'd have everything sorted to be able start beautiful aerial photography....haha, how naive I was a few weeks ago!

Thanks to a lot of good reading here, I've bought myself a Blade Nano which I'm crashing all the time, and now parts for a F550 to learn how they all go together.

I recon' in about 10 years I'll be able to fly one we'll enough to risk putting my precious camera and lenses on!

Speak soon,
min.

 

[Fat Corgi]

Welcome. Don't be dismayed, the crashing is a big part of it. As is the rebuilding after a crash. No better way to learn what everything does, and how to make it better.

 

[PeteDee]

LOL, I prfer the not crashing part of the flying.

Cheers

Pete

 

[mrkeb]

You're smarter than me. I have two blade QX350's and wish I'd bought something more robust. After replacing three bodies and one gopro camera (ouch) I've become a bit gun-shy. Did you know that Gopro wifi blocks Auto-home on the blade unless the body is shielded with foil. I found out after I lost my first 350Qx and Gopro silver into the sun.

 

[brewski]

Hi MinOnim, I am from Aust too (Cleveland Qld) & have only been into quads for about 6 months. If you check out my post on Members Intro you will see I'm a Multiwii convert. This platform is the cheapest way into this great hobby & the current MW2.3 Navi b7 has all the advanced features of APM/Megapirates such as Missions, Autoland, Fencing & much more. I have been running this version for two months now & have found it stable & easy to fly. An even more advanced version is due for release sometime this year. I havn't even bothered tuning PIDS as it flies so well with the frame I have. I've ordered a Mobius camera & plan to do photography as well as FPV. What flight controller are you going to use with your F550? Cheers..B

 

[min0nim]

Hi Brewski, looks like you've been well and truly bitten by the multirotor bug.

I went with a Naza for the F550, but have got a Hoverfly Pro for larger X8 that's almost finished. It's pretty hard to find people using some of the more exotic FC's in Aus, so I really just took the plunge on the HFP because I enjoy manual flying, and the HFP is supposedly king if that.