This is all the same with Volantec 500mm P-51D, isn't it?

Hi Andrew, I just picked this up from Ali Express for $121 AUD. couldn't resist. Can seem to find a CG setting that anyone agrees on. Can you give me your recomendation. I havent flown for 6 years. Got this to start from the begining again. Have a large collection af various model, found I struggle to fly any of them. After 2 massive model crashes. Ralph

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for gravity adjusment use aditional baterai, encrease duration❤

Do you have a contact Facebook? I have the same aircraft.

I just want to say that your hairline is astounding for your age.

Your dedication is unmatched thanks Andrew you’re inspirational and a Aero modeller to boo

does it do 3d flying???

Hello can you use the 900mhz modules also with 868mhz eu mfg

Safty switch settings are awesome

My favourite kind of pan setup, placing the camera just ahead of the wing leading edge, or inline with twin propellers. Provides a very real-pilot perspective. Very slick how the servo was integrated into the Altus, just like it was meant to be. A very scenic and relaxing demo flight.

Andrew,,,great pair of videos. Thanks for your continued dedication to this area of flying. I wish I would have had these two a few years back when I first gave this venture a shot:-). I am just about ready for my first flight trial but have one question (and hope you are still monitoring). I am using a wing this time around. I very much understand your comments/instructions of the +4 degree addition to the Fixed Wing level trim line of the Mechanics tab in the PID page of INAV and its purpose. It’s necessary to fly the bird:-). My question is as follows. Before we get into the INAV setup,,,the craft has to be a tested/proven flyer (which means that this amount of elevator is ‘tweaked’ in physically to the airframe to fly). However,,,once I have the bird flight proven and we start the INAV phase of the build,,,do we physically remove this elevator pitch (with wing elevons flat with the rest of the airframe) and let the INAV settings take over (once the setup is complete)? May sound like sort of a naive question,,,but it is a detail that I wanted to make sure of. Thanks so much.

I 'landed' upside down on my gimbal on a black top parking lot and it's totally fine! So maybe the gimbals aren't so fragile, or maybe I got very lucky

I have successfully put an analogue camera onto slip rings and a 360 degree servo. Unlimited panning in any direction. Haven’t got into digital yet, or kmow if the slip rings will pass digital signals. Has anyone tried it?

Beautiful peaceful place to fly. My field is no longer and currently searching for a new area, I can only wish for space like that to fly.

What kind of glue are you using in your glue gun? I got a totaled SkySurfer and a kit to move over all the electronics. I have been doing research and there are so many recommendations for glue to use? Do you recommend a glue or use the glue gun with what kind of glue sticks? Thanks in Advance

Really awful electronics, i have burnt electronic board twice

hello how to set pan servo in ardupilot. i have tried setting pwm 800-2200 but can't reach 270" 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Im glad i watched this, i almost didnt buy them because of the glasses issue

Thanks for the video Andrew. I just purchased the goggles. I do have a question though. Can a second pair be used for ride along goggles? Can more than one goggle be paired with the transmitter? Can hardly wait for it to come in.

Nice and simple, just like my panning setup....Try servo slow Andrew for smooth panning....🤔... Lovely calm day, dull but I find the Avatar system works well on dull days, we have lots of dull days lately....😳😏😀🇬🇧

Great flight mate

I'm not into FPV or camera-tracking doobries (I'm mainly a glider nut, so... flaps, variable camber, etc.), but this kind of application should (hopefully) alert more radio manufacturers to the importance of providing a couple of good slider controls besides the usual battery of (cheap, largely useless) 2- and 3-position switches on their non-specialist transmitters.

Great, looks better than the head tracking faf. Think I'll try it with 2 axis and use sliders on the side of my TX16s

Cheers Andrew 👍💪✌

Thanks for the ride around the island Andrew. House and a helicopter pad, i am wishing. 👍 Keith. UK 🇬🇧

Bring that thing up this way on your hols sometime, mate. We could do with a search plane with some endurance to run a very large grid over the Taipan Country wherein the wind gusts and lowering white mists transported (1 of) my little LDARC TinyWing450s on Sunday. We did miraculously recover a crashed Drift from the slopes of Mt Hopeless once via a Phantom and room-end sized TV. But the little fellah, I fear, has gone to Boot Hill. 😭🙄

beautiful flying spot !

On my head tracking planes, I like to have a three position switch that switch’s between head tracking, knob control and look forwards. Controlled from the radio.

Thanks for this great step up in understanding possibilities and their programming.

I just built one!! How much reflex did you end up with?

Hi Andrew. I realise you did this review many years ago. I live in Samoa and fly RC planes. I have a few fun brushless boats electric boats I throw around a fresh water pond I have access to. Enjoyed your review and wanted to try this Compass as a beginner trial. Other reviews don't seem to be too positive and thinking whether this one is ok to start with or try the Joysway Dragon Force 65 instead. Would appreciate your thoughts, sir. Take care. Peter

What is the Wi-Fi remote record range? I want to fly out a few hundred meters before I start my recording

Hello!I would like to see a VTOL variant with rotary motors, as an example-Hee Wing T1 Ranger VTOL-they use rotary servos to switch from vertical takeoff mode to horizontal flight mode (and as an option-not with two rotary motors, but with all four at once).

blimey, genius. anything to annoy putin.

Brilliant just great vid, thank you

Hello can you help me how to setup fs gpo1 to fly sky remote control.thank you

hello between this and the runcam thumb pro which one is better and why?

How did you get the wind direction Andrew?...Is this Inav?...🤔🤔😳🇬🇧

Thats a great setup Andrew....Good to see you enjoying the Caddex HD system at last....Such perfect calm weather too...🤔😏😀🇬🇧

Beautiful bay & coast made so much better with a birds eye view.

imma getting one and fitting stab to it.

Hi Andrew, but the T1400 is a copy 1:1 of the SkySurfer X9 that you reviewed 5 year ago, i mean.

Hello..what is the effective range of this transmitter using also a radiomaster reciever..?thanks..

Nice to meet you, I'm from Osaka, located in the west of Japan. You have a wonderful aircraft and a blessed seaside soaring area! I'm envious. I was envious and watched from start to finish. Thank you!

Hey Andrew! When I tighten the prop nut onto the shaft, the prop has a lot of resistance (does not spin freely) and when I've tried to up the throttle, the motor doesn't have the power to spin it. Do you have any ideas what that might be?

The comments about channel 5 highlight the continued need for the ELRS project to fix this issue. The arm function should not be a channel at all. It's just a one bit flag in the data packet that is not even part of the normal 10 bit channel data. In the early days of ELRS it would have been necessary to use a channel on the radio to pass the arming status to the Tx RF module. Even today that is a valid option for backwards compatibility, but the actual bit flag in the OTA data packet should never have been treated as a traditional channel. Instead, the original implementation should have allowed for mapping any Tx channel as the arm input and then allowed mapping the arm output onto any output channel in the receiver. This would have allowed more flexibility configuring models on the Tx, and fixed wing users could simply not map the arm flag to any receiver output. The problem is that they never had fixed wing applications in mind or frankly anything else other than multirotors. Now that ELRS is serving as the actual RF foundation for new products from Jumper and RadioMaster, they really need to coordinate and fund a code cleanup effort that will get rid of the legacy channel 5 conflicts. Update EdgeTX and ELRS so the serial data stream between the Tx and its RF module includes out-of-band data like the arm flag and then update the EdgeTX or ELRS Lua to allow configuration of a switch for arming *without* controlling a conventional channel.

I have the same plane and put landing gear on like yours but it seems to tip onto a wing as it builds speed tp take off. Have you had similar problems?