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  1. glowingturnip

    avoiding the clones...

    as per my previous thread, I'm in the process of rebuilding my 450 quad and upgrading its parts, and I'm now looking at flight controllers. Rather than use the existing KK2.1.5 board I've got, I'd like to upgrade it to either a Naze32 Rev6 or a CC3d 32 bit, or something of similar spec...
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    Crash !!! Ahem, looking to upgrade parts, suggestions ?

    Oops, it's been a long time since I last posted on here, apologies for that, how is everyone ? Anyway, last time I was out had a little bit of a crash... full speed head-first into the hillside while I was, ahem, practicing without auto-level. The two front frame arms pretty much...
  3. glowingturnip

    trouble sub-trimming my yaw

    Hi all, I've recently noticed that my yaw doesn't seem to stay in trim. I suspect it's my transmitter, but the whole thing seems a bit odd, so I though I'd let you know my symptoms and see if anyone has any ideas: - FlySky FSi6 transmitter, and KK2.1.5 board - i've recalibrated both gyro and...
  4. glowingturnip

    rc controlled off-road vehicle

    Please don't hate me, not a quad-related query and I don't think we have an off-topic section to post in, but at least it's to do with rc and fpv... So our place in Spain is rural and has very rugged land around it, and I was toying with the idea of getting an off-road car/truck/whatever to...
  5. glowingturnip

    First FPV flight...fail

    So I'd consider myself to be a competent l.o.s pilot, but this is my first attempt at fpv flight, which as you can see, didn't quite go so well... Resulted in a broken stilt, and I didn't have any spares, so that was the end of that. Anyone got any tips for learning fpv ?
  6. glowingturnip

    events in Paris

    I don't really want to write this, but here goes... I'm a quad enthusiast, and I know that all the regular contributors on this forum are fellow enthusiasts too. I really enjoy the challenge of building, maintaining, upgrading and flying my quad as a harmless piece of fun and for a bit of...
  7. glowingturnip

    got a slight yaw...

    Last couple of flights, I noticed that I was getting a slight slow yaw in the same direction (anti-clockwise) when hovering with hands off the right hand stick. I checked the receiver test screen and was properly getting zeros when stick is centred and the correct travels in either direction...
  8. glowingturnip

    Nearly lost my quad...

    So I learned avaluable lesson - if I fly late in the day, the sun sets on our side of the valley while the other side is still lit up, so the quad gets silhouetted against the hills and sky, making it very easy to lose orientation when line-of-sight flying. This was just a normal flight, camera...
  9. glowingturnip

    Torre Zambra, Spain

    So here's my first attempt at aerial videography. It was fun to do, but I've clearly got a lot to learn - amazing how much steadier and slower you need to fly for a good video, and I need to plan my shots better. Lots of props-in-shot - I'll be replacing those legs, but suspect I'll have to...
  10. glowingturnip

    improving flight times ?

    So since adding gimbal, camera and long legs to my quad, the flight times have dropped from about 8-9 minutes per battery to only about 6 minutes, and I'm wondering how I can improve that. The all-in weight of quad+camera+battery etc comes to around 1.3kg at the moment. KV980 motors, EMAX 25A...
  11. glowingturnip

    Hobbyking Beer Lift competition

    I presume you've all seen this ? I'll certainly be having a go, although considering I'm on mostly stock parts, I'm sure I'll be seen off ;-)
  12. glowingturnip

    not sure if posting videos found on Reddit is on, but...

    this one's quite good, guy flies his quad into himself http://i.imgur.com/sk4X6hi.webm
  13. glowingturnip

    Eachine Gimbal (@holtniel)

    Hi Neil, I just wanted to ask you a couple of things on this gimbal, since I know you've got the same one (or anyone else who's got one too for that matter !). I've not mounted the gimbal on my quad yet, but have been playing around with it for the last couple of days, and when i rig a...
  14. glowingturnip

    just mucking around - Montes de Malaga, Spain

    so I talked my wife into videoing a couple of flights, line-of-sight: I think I lost her a little there, so we did a second one a little tamer and a little closer in: After that, on the same battery, I got attacked by a swallow, which was trying to mob the drone like it might mob a bird...
  15. glowingturnip

    duck legs

    are there any better long landing gear legs than these that I can go for, for an SK450 frame ? on Amazon They just look a bit flimsy, I can imagine them snapping off all over the place. Maybe I just need to buy several packets. (PS I couldn't post this in the Components subforum for some...
  16. glowingturnip

    thinking about aerial photography

    So I'm starting to think about adding a camera+gimbal to my quad. (450 frame, KK2.1.5, rest of the set-up as per my sig) I'd be looking to take smooth good quality video with it, possibly taking stills from the video stream. There's a lot of nice scenery round where I fly in Spain so I'd be...
  17. glowingturnip

    motor failure crash - please help !

    So I was flying the other day, and all of a sudden, in steady level flight, one of the motors stopped temporarily, so the quad ended up falling end over end, from quite a high altitude - broken frame :-( This was a problem I've seen a few times before, but only very intermittently, and I...
  18. glowingturnip

    Tuning tutorials / videos ?

    Hi, Just wondering if anyone has links to useful tuning videos and/or tutorials ? Maybe an idea to set up a sticky with some on it ? For a beginner like me, it's probably the most daunting area. I've not really had a try yet, though I did notice that my quad would lose height if I pitched...
  19. glowingturnip

    weird crash

    So I had a strange crash the other day. I was about to lose control and crash into something, so did an emergency landing instead - wasn't very high, so the quad landed ok, the right way up, nothing broken, and I killed the throttle and got it into safe mode immediately. It landed in fairly...
  20. glowingturnip

    newb hello, and a question about range

    Hi all, I'm Stuart, and new to the hobby. I've got a stock kit from RadioC, one of these - http://www.radioc.co.uk/product-p/5501.htm I spent the last week or so on holiday and learning to fly it every day - very enjoyable, worked my way through a big bag of props, and am slowly starting to...
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