Recent content by Desert Dave

To misquote Thomas Edison, this hobby seems to be comprised of 1 percent flight time and 99 percent waiting for parts!

Criminy! I placed an order with Banggood on February 21. Today, April 16 I FINALLY received my Cheerson CX-20! Surely it was a good price, but I swear I had three freakin' birthdays waiting for delivery! I'm stuck at work for the next ten hours, but looking forward to getting home and unpacking...

Thanks for the advice. I've been reading everything I can find on the APM and Mission Planner. Trying to get familiar with all the various components and features. Plus, learning that this is NOT the kind of thing I can just take out of the box, cram in a battery and start flying. So I'm...

Well, this weekend I went ahead and dropped the dosh on a Open Source APM Cheerson CX-20 from BangGood. Unfortunately, with the Chinese New Year in full swing they won't be shipping until the end of this week. So in three to five short weeks I should be taking delivery and working through the...

All I've read leads me to believe the Cheerson CX-20 and Quantum Nova is the exact same bird. There's tons of info on the OpenSource FC in the Cheerson and lots of folks doing mods and such. Plus, the Chinese suppliers have it for around $280 including P&P, so it seems like maybe one of the best...

Thanks for the info on the Blade. I've looked at it previously, but the RTF version is around $500... quite a bit above my $300 target. The specs look good, but I can't justify that much dosh right now. Glad you're enjoying it!

@Kevin806 I'm in the same boat. I started with a Syma X1, added a Syma X5C-1 and now I'm ready to bump up to a "featured" aircraft. Looking in the $300 £200 price point there is the Cheerson CX-20, the Quantum Nova (seems to be an exact clone of the CX-20) the Walkera QR X350 or the Flying 3D...