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Me too ... lol ... At this point I'd rather be the guy wearing a baseball mitt standing at ground zero hollering "I got it, I got it !" :p

:rolleyes: ... You're very welcome ... That's what we're here for. :D There's sooooo much to learn that it can be overwhelming, but a complete understanding of it all isn't really needed to enjoy flying. Start with something prebuilt and (relatively) cheap because you'll be crashing it a lot...

:rolleyes: ... TBS Triumph is a proven good antenna but they're kinda pricey, as is anything from TBS. Triumphs are "cloverleaf" aka "mushroom" antennas which are a type of "skew planar" that are extremely common and can range in price from dirt cheap to ridiculously expensive. As with anything...

:rolleyes: ... The LOWEST loop times for any normal PWM ESCs are still at 1KHz. If you can, set those ESCs for "one shot" mode so they will at least sync with the FC at it's lowest loop time. There's sooooo much delay between the perceived (by the FC) corrections needed and the implimentation of...

I remember those ! .... Because we all know that in case of a thermonuclear blast that hiding under a WOODEN DESK is a really safe place to be o_O .... lol .... kindling anyone ? ..... And then, if you didn't burn up, you could go outside for recess and play on the melting asphalt school yard...

:eek: ... Your PID loop frequency should be like 8KHz !!!

:D ... Sixty years young and still a kid at heart but just can't sneak up on anybody anymore, sounds like I'm walking on twigs when I try ... lol ... as long as I can keep riding Harleys and flying quads though I'm happy :p

:rolleyes: ... Glad you've got it all sorted out ... I was going to suggest providing an alternative video source to the VTX to tell which might be faulty, but you already thought of that and congratulations for doing so :) Insulate only the VTX side that's against the carbon, you want that...

... They're going to want pictures or a video of what the problem is ... lol ... but since it's too late now, the warranty claim will be denied.

:rolleyes: ... There's also those little Bluetooth "Tiles" you can mount on ANYTHING and track them on your phone. It will even display the location on a map for you in case it's out of ear shot...

:eek: ... For $20K you'd think they'd have incorporated at least some rudimentary collision avoidance sensors. Any cheap and simple ultrasonic transceiver would've prevented this from happening. ;)

...ROFLMAO .... yep, purely for looks with no reasonable functionality at all :p

o_O ... That ability has been around forever ... you can either mount a battery monitor that will beep at whatever voltage level, telling you it's time to land, which also serves well as a lost model alarm (works well for "toys") OR install a common beeper and assign it to an aux channel...

:rolleyes: ... Ummm, yeah, what they said ! :p

Love it ... I also made a delta like that (without rudders), so I'm very familiar with "Yank and Bank" too. :D Impressive performance on that video ... Reminds me of a P51 Mustang I made that I could "Hang from the Prop" like that. It used an Enya gas motor though, so there was no reversing out...

I was on the internet before it was what people think of it as today. There were not even any graphics capabilities AT ALL. It was basically nothing but (green) lines of text which was ridiculously difficult to type and if even one character was out of place (a space where none should be or no...

VERY FEW people have any idea what's actually "available". Keep in mind the militarized industrial projects divisions (like DARPA) keep the general public in the dark with regards to what capabilities we really have, to the tune of about a fifty year delay. You would literally refuse to believe...

Easily ... lol ... the prototype was bolted onto a workbench, but the final iteration was the size of a suitcase. This was an industrial grade (but home made) Carbon Dioxide laser that could literally cut a car in half. The problem with it was it's invisible. I had to buy some seriously...

I ALWAYS fly it like I stole it ! .... lol ... and you should see what happens to a balsa and doped tissue RC airplane when it hits a tree, it ain't pretty ... weeks to build and mere seconds to destroy :eek: "Hot wire", in this use of the term though, is a long taught piece of nichrome wire...

You're absolutely correct ... The Patriot missile defense system was really a lot of hype ... it got a lot of press and hoopla but in actuality it's really not all it's made out to be. :( "Brilliant Pebbles" ( and Eyes) now THAT's another whole ballgame right there .... but shhhhh ..... we're...