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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:04 
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Oh I see - they mean a control transmitter with an FPV display on it.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Yeah, alls you need is the quad itself. Your batteries from the X4 will work too.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Ordered :)

Tempted by the Phantom 2 as well - 20 min flight time even with a gimbal and camera attached!


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Fuckin' hell, they *do* ship quickly, don't they? Just arrived, charging now!


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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During the slow rotations on the beach, esspecially around that solar powered light with ladder cage, my brain kept looking for the C4 logo to appear.

All looks like a lot of fun.


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How close to the transmission limits is the AV headset stuff? It'd have to be fairly powerful to work at long distances.

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Technically the legal limit is 25mW, 250mW is workable with decent antennae.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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So, technically, you need some kind of license?

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600mW is quite common too, I think?


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So, technically, you need some kind of license?

Technically you can't really do it, but it's all under negotiation.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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After adding the fpv kit, how much more load can one take?

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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You could build one to carry anything really.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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I ordered a Phantom 2 the other day. 20 minute flight times even with the camera and gimbal - yes please!

Anyone want to buy my Phantom 1? ;)


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Is that the one that ended up in the quarry?

£9. Final offer.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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£5 and some sort of comment under your forum name.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Is that the one that ended up in the quarry?

£9. Final offer.

:P Technically no, as all of the components ended up being replaced :P


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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I'll buy it for £2 a month over a period of 1 month.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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I've just put new motors on my main quadcopter, smoother, better quality ones. So this means I now have enough spare bits in the box to make a whole other quadcopter. So I think I'll put together something small, light, overpowered, fast and robust that uses cheap props that I won't cry when I break. A beater of a thing that I can just fly for fun.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Bought this frame from Deal Extreme for a whole £12:

http://dx.com/p/hj-x-mode-mwc-alien-mul ... ack-193525

This stuff is getting so cheap now.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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If anyone is on the fence about buying a DJI Phantom 2 and is looking for a reason - I've got a $150 discount code for a Phantom 2 (or a Phantom Vision) that I got for being an early adopter of the original Phantom - problem is, I didn't realise this until I'd already ordered mine.

So, if anyone is looking to buy a Phantom 2 or Vision between now and December 31 and wants $150 off - drop me a PM. You just need to send the relevant code to your dealer before buying and they can take the amount off :)


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Video of the new Phantom and gimbal flying around Shrewsbury in the floods.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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That's incredibly stable - it remind me of a game the way it moves and pans.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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I needed to find out a bit about Wordpress and stuff for something at work and so decided to make my very own blog. I've never had a blog before. Do people still have blogs or am I about ten years late with this? Anyway, I don't expect anyone will ever really read and I don't know if I'll keep on updating it but it's actually quite nice to have somewhere to write stuff down and keep bits in one place.

It's here:

http://loopdreamsfpv.wordpress.com/


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 22:40 
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That's a great idea. I'm sure people will find your posts very handy mate.

Needs a teaching n00bz how to fly planes section too :)

Cheers for today, really enjoyed having a fly of your plane with the control set up you had, defo took the edge off and it's got me wanting my own now.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Very tempted to get something like this now.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/stor ... _RTF_.html

I'll wait for my birthday. Probably.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Yeah that would be perfect, it'll use your car batteries too. Although I'd probably get the one without the radio gear and get that separately.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Yeah some of the TXs that come with the RTR planes look pretty gash.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Try and pick up a second hand DX6i from ebay, receivers are less than a tenner from HobbyKing. That way I can still connect it up to mine with a trainer lead and you can also use it for a flight sim on your Mac (as long as you can run Windows on there somehow).


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Make sure it's Mode 2 or else you'll have a horrible time.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Yeah saw that on a few, left stick throttle like yours is, is that not swappable then?

It felt right to me anyway, so yeah, get me one of those.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Was this from a little helicopter? it's awesome. Also, living in a world where there is a place called "Shark Island" never fails to make me happy.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Just updated the firmware on the autopilot board I have. It should now have an artificial horizon in case I get in a cloud and also has what's called a fence mode. Which means it'll only allow the plane to fly within a limited area. So once it gets past a set distance, say 2km, it'll just turn tail and fly itself back to wherever it took off from. Quite excited to try this. Just need to set up a plane to fit it into.


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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They're great new features.

Still need to get my gubbins for my plane. Car kinda swamped everything but all sorted now so this is my next 'priority' :D

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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There's barely been a flyable day for months anyway mate. Hopefully the weather's looking up a bit now..


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True. To be honest, I think I'll wait till I have some birthday pounds and buy a new DX6i and receiver. Get some buggy action in the meantime.

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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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Thank fuck for some decent weather at last, I thought winter would never end.

Got a load of flying in yesterday with my trusty quadcopter. Over winter I've added new motors, shed some weight and tweaked and tuned the flight controller software. It flies pretty well now (even though I did nearly side slip it straight into the ground on the first video here):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xxO3JMQtw8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIgwGndBcQk


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 Post subject: Re: Radio controlled aeroplanes, and that... and now cars!
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I'd been doing so well at not buying new things, just tweaking and working on stuff I already had. But then I saw this sexy piece of gubbins and had to have one: :nerd:

http://www.eagletreesystems.com/index.p ... uct_id=136

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It's an autopilot and an on screen display that I can use in my quadcopter or in planes. So many graphs, numbers and features and stuff for me to tinker with and geek out over, should keep me going for ages. Plus it'll be nice to know that if I do decide to push the range of my video or control link that the thing can just take over and fly itself back to me.


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it'll be nice to know that if I do decide to push the range of my video or control link that the thing can just take over and try to take over the world.

Careful.


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Beautiful night for some flying on Tuesday. I went down to the beach and flew around this old wreck.



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Was that sped up at the beginning? It looked like it was screaming along!

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I went down to the beach and flew around this old wreck.

Bit harsh, it's not that bad.

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Was that sped up at the beginning? It looked like it was screaming along!

Just normal speed all the way through. It was perhaps going 50mph, but pretty low down so that makes it look quicker.


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Had a great flight this morning with my trusty twin motor. Got the FPV kit on there that I've been tweaking and rewiring to get rid of interference and increase the range. Pretty happy with it now. I got just to cloud level and then shat myself. I went higher on the flight before this one but I had left the lens cap on the recording camera.


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Does the camera turn with your head?

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No, it turns with my thumb. You can get ones which do that, though, pan and tilt.


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Do you have a modified transmitter with extra "stuff" on for controlling the camera?

You can tell I know all the technical terms.

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No, I've just sacrificed rudder control so it's just left and right on the left stick. I can switch it out though and get control of the rudder back but for a hand launched thing like this to just stooge around I never really need it.


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Just watched that edit back, happy accident but the track mixes perfectly during the approach and landing.


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Plane no.3 arrived today.

Was looking at a Parkzone P-40 ultra micro for a while as it was 49.99 on eBay but after a quick read up the general opinion is that the updated Mustang flies better so went for that instead.

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