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Sorry if I came on a little strong... I thought you were serious about your initial remark regarding RTL, and in retrospect, I think you were just being lighthearted.. In my own experiences RTL has saved my bacon (as well as aircraft) several times, and I always make sure that it is one of the...

Here's a video of a short test flight:

I had been flying my Tarot 650 Sport quad with 13"props and decided that since I have T-Motor MN3520 motors, I'd go with 15" x 5 props. I ordered then a LONG time ago and they finally arrived from China. Here is how it looks now: The aircraft weighs 3.1 KG AUP (6000 mAH 6S lipo and a small...

RTH is for sissies? Are you kidding us??? You got your aircraft back, didn't you? What's better - being a "man" and losing your aircraft, or worse - having it crash into someone/something? Sounds like you have no compass display/OSD?? Even so, simply doing a 180 isn't going to help you unless...

No, that's out POTUS.

This is a smoking deal! If I hadn't just dropped $400 for a Parrot Disco I would buy this! somebody is gonna snap it up...

The takeoff looked good. I suspect that there was something wrong with the GPS/compass and when the pilot switched to autopilot, it eh aircraft toilet-bowled into the building. Perhaps he should have first put the aircraft into a Loiter mode, which requires working GPS/compass - it it holds...

Does it matter? I suspect not.

Good luck with that - doubt that customer support will be very responsive!

Don't know. If the GPS/compass was not calibrated properly I don't know if collision avoidance sensors would have helped much. I think they should have programmed a waypoint very close to the launch area where it drone would loiter in place for a few seconds - this would confirm that the...

Okay, it's not a quadcopter - looks like a hex with dual motors on each boom: https://dronedj.com/2018/04/02/russian-postal-drone-crashes/ Looks to me like it toilet-bowled at high speed - wonder if the compass was properly calibrated.

When you said "Perch like a bird", I expected something like this:

Yeah, it is a foamy, but there isa lot of tech in it as well - flight controller, gimbal withcamera, etc.

Heard of the Parrot Disco? It is a flying wing that has some pretty cool features, but many were put off by the price. But since DJI has dominated the industry, Parrot became one of the casualties, and has discontinued the Disco. But there are vendors out there that have Discos in stock and are...

Well, I've given up... Adding caps didn't help much and after trading emails with a couple of E.E. buddies, they have convinced me that I need to shield the three wires going from each ESC to its respective motor. This could be done by taking some coax, cutting along the length and stripping out...

I saw this video. My setup is different that the one shown in the video - the guy is tapping his main power source for the camera/vtx; I chose instead to use a separate power source - a small 450 mAH 3s lipo dedicated to the camera/vtx. I've sent an email to a couple of buddies who are...

Saw a coup,e of comparisons between LC filters and straight low esr caps - the caps performed better..

Well, that sounds like I'm wasting my time....

I have been trying for some time to get decent FPV video out of my quadcopter. From my initial flight, when the video was totally useless, I've taken as series of small steps, each time the video quality improved a bit. I started with installing a cloverleaf antenna on the vtx, followed by...

Well, I did install a driver that was recommended - it just hit me later that perhaps it was the culprit....