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Sorry, AUW = All Up Weight.

Haha, I found that to be the best part.

I don't know for sure. What is your AUW?

I just looked, your going to really want to watch your weight. You should be able to move up to 10'' props if it looks bad. The quad should be able to life at least twice the weight.

20C 5000mAh (5Ah) would do it, as your not going to be pulling full 30 amp all the time. BTW you really should get at least 35 amp ESC for these motors. You want ~5a higher ability than draw, other wise you may run your ESCs hot and over time damage them. Another thing: your battery comes...

Haha, if you have never flown with a 0 latency camera you may not nosice the delay unless you see your self or something, but it can make a difference, and even as you said keep you from crashing.

They can, it depends on a lot of other factors also, but I am using an ESC with UBEC built in and it does not get a bit warm. A UBEC or S-BEC would be better than a linear BEC.

ESC (Electronic speed controller) this is what turns DC power into AC for the motors and takes the digital signal from the flight controller to fade that power on the motor. BEC (Battery Eliminator Circuit), originally when engines were gas powered you'd have servos on planes to control the...

http://quadcopterforum.com/threads/battery-c-rate-and-what-it-means.4695/ 10C on a 5200mAh battery is 52Amps constant discharge and 104 Amps for ~10 seconds of discharge.

Thanks for the post. My USB-asp is slowly moving here.... err I think, because the Swiss Post tracking numbers never work. Also I have a bash script that I am working on for when you first install a Debian based system, in hope of avoiding you installing things as you need them for months...

If you use the gopro for live output to your ground station, be aware that you are going to have latency. Where as using a board camera you would have almost 0 latency. Like you said, it should be manageable if you are not flying too fast. It still could make a difference, but if you decide...

Also if you want to save on weight a Mutistar 5200mah (made by Turnigy for mutirotors) will save you a lot.

Nice and neat build. Yeah, I made the mistake of testing on concrete a couple times and hopefully won't anymore. Broke props faster than the motors could spin up haha. Did you have to use Wine or a VM for Linux? It is supposed to run naively. I run a heavily modified Debian based system.

30 amp ESCs for 15amp motors is great, you could get 20 amp ESCs, but 30 may last longer of normal wear and tear. (no crashes or shorts). You could just grab a uBEC, it probably means more weight though. How much current do the servos draw?

If you can get a device with 802.11ac or 802.11n that would be better for bandwidth and range. EDIT: Sorry, I had just skimmed your post First question is how big of a screen do you need? What type of price range do you have? If you have a laptop or something you may be able to use that...

DIY is very satisfying and if anything goes wrong you can repair it. Also you can upgrade it as budget allows you over time. ~$250 is the starting price of being able to DIY. Here is mine: http://quadcopterforum.com/threads/approximatly-250-build-build-log-and-suggestions.3699/#post-6286

No problem there. APM draws a lot of current, so they had to include the power module because not too many BECs will supply the amperage needed.

Haha, he should do a DIY next :).

By super view I assume you mean like a really wide angle lens? I could see how that would make a video appear a lot faster. 6S 6'', what is the KV rating for those motors? >:) That would be a setup I'd love to try (and most likely crash haha). I'll be watching for that video.

It may or may not be sped up, you can take a 6'' prop and cut it down to 5''. The quad will look like lightening :). I'd be interested to see if it is because either way that is some great flying haha. This guy cuts his props down, his video just looks sped up xD. Charpu has kinda been...