LiveTrash
New Member
Hello everyone,
I'm looking to build my first quad copter. I've never flown one before but have played around with quite a few RC flight toys in the past and would love to have the versatility, speed and control of a quadcopter. I've always been a go big or go home kind of guy and would prefer to jump right in to something medium range and work slowly at learning to fly and getting comfortable with it.
I'm not really familiar at all with the different components but after watching a few videos, I came across a FliteTest video that had some links in it to their store selling packages.
This being one of them: Just add this to the end of the store.flitetest website. /power-pack-e-quad-pack-kiss/#product-description
I'm comfortable with the price of something like this so long as I'm getting quality hardware. I'm hoping the more seasoned members can chime in and let me know what is good and what isn't. With a sale price like that package, is that a fair deal or am I better off buying the components separately?
I would much rather prefer to build my own than buy some plastic-looking thing from the store. I prefer to have the open design with a nice looking carbon fibre frame. I like the idea of the programmable flight controller to add a certain level of ease and difficulty to the flight of the quad.
From other electronics work I've done, I've always seen brushless motors as superior. Are they something preferred in the quadcopter world or is that sort of a personal preference?
Do these flight controllers allow changes such as self-levelling on/off (probably a major part in learning to fly the thing without crashing it) Or is that a standard feature? Does a specific flight controller need to be purchased to allow a custom firmware to be loaded on to it or is that something standard as well?
Any input is much appreciated. I'm figuring out quite a bit from reading over posts on this forum and various articles I am finding elsewhere.
I'm looking to build my first quad copter. I've never flown one before but have played around with quite a few RC flight toys in the past and would love to have the versatility, speed and control of a quadcopter. I've always been a go big or go home kind of guy and would prefer to jump right in to something medium range and work slowly at learning to fly and getting comfortable with it.
I'm not really familiar at all with the different components but after watching a few videos, I came across a FliteTest video that had some links in it to their store selling packages.
This being one of them: Just add this to the end of the store.flitetest website. /power-pack-e-quad-pack-kiss/#product-description
I'm comfortable with the price of something like this so long as I'm getting quality hardware. I'm hoping the more seasoned members can chime in and let me know what is good and what isn't. With a sale price like that package, is that a fair deal or am I better off buying the components separately?
I would much rather prefer to build my own than buy some plastic-looking thing from the store. I prefer to have the open design with a nice looking carbon fibre frame. I like the idea of the programmable flight controller to add a certain level of ease and difficulty to the flight of the quad.
From other electronics work I've done, I've always seen brushless motors as superior. Are they something preferred in the quadcopter world or is that sort of a personal preference?
Do these flight controllers allow changes such as self-levelling on/off (probably a major part in learning to fly the thing without crashing it) Or is that a standard feature? Does a specific flight controller need to be purchased to allow a custom firmware to be loaded on to it or is that something standard as well?
Any input is much appreciated. I'm figuring out quite a bit from reading over posts on this forum and various articles I am finding elsewhere.
