Plenty to go around. I suspect China has a lot up there just for dji in case of emergencies. 🤣😂🤣

Love the way we can customize our gear to suit our needs.

Yep, 4.5.1 came out a while ago. I only decided to move on from 4.4.3 to get better support for GPS. Been using Configurator 10.10.0 for a while.

True if you fly drones that have the option of acro. I started with cheap hobby grade without acro, and an interest in getting smooth footage from a GoPro attached to it. Now that Betaflight is well developed, getting comfortable in acro mode as soon as possible is advice I agree with. Still like the option to flick back into angle mode in emergencies, and for smooth landings.

I bought the camera, vtx and canopy about 7 years ago, when gear was still reasonably priced. It is a BoldClash BWhoop B06-06. I made a video about it back in the day - kzbin.info/www/bejne/faSZh5qhia6gmJI from about 2:25

Got to step one - flying OK in Angle mode. Now need to activate profile 2 when switching to acro.

Thanks!

Good luck with your interest in fpv drones. I hope some of my videos give you ideas on how to build a drone from cheap or recycled parts.

Thanks Glenn! Good to remember the state of things a year ago - it was a good run. Flying is getting more complicated with the range of gear I'm exploring these days.

@skybug3 I see that! It looks like fun :)

Happy New Year to you too!

GoPro set in Linear mode. Would have to fly a lot higher to see curvature of the planet.

Capella Reserve at Hallett Cove, south of Adelaide in South Australia. Not many people there on a hot, dry summers day.

@skybug3 Awesome terrain. Thanks for sharing your video

Not pretty, I know! Watched a lot of KZbin videos, but still find getting a good looking joint is sometimes difficult. Using more flux and a more powerful iron on large wires seems to help.

Why do you have to be such a jerk? This guy is a hobbyist having fun and the joints work for him. His stuff looks 10x better than mine and I’ve never had a failure. Sorry it’s not up to your NASA standards you backseat internet no life loser

@@skybug3 acttualy its not that bad, nice work there my friend, just some tips to improve it, buy i good solder iron, a good solder wire and a good flux, with all that you will be amazed with the end result, i started using cheap solder wire and the joins also look like that. the material you use to work its really important. keep your excelent work!!

Turn off radio. Hold trim buttons into centre and restart. Should bring up next option to write firmware.

@@skybug3 I did thanks

Spent many years trying different things to reduce vibration when in flight. The first thing was finding well balanced props. Next home made foam camera pods. They reduce vibration, protect cameras and float. The final element had been the emergence of cameras with effective stabilization. For me, the GoPro 7 remains a very good unit. Newer models are heavier and do not have better performance. Smaller more recent "thumb" style cameras can not yet match the GoPro 7 for stabilization.

@@skybug3 That's GOOD info, thanks. Time for me to rid myself of my old 1080p stuff that once upon a time was state of the art! Long before drones I shot 100 miles of kiteboarding from a jittery helmet cam, and spend those many hours in Post trying to stabilize! If you been doing this long, you'll remember those days!! But, I'm stoked for you because the whole fun of it, is steady improvements and that is what "gets us out there" to go for it! Oh, and in my old days, I used gel-pods, actually soap beads that are pretty tough, instead of foam. Gotta be something better now tho! LOL! Good luck.

I never had a problem with 3S and standard Bugs 3 ESCs with the small amount of testing I did. However, I saw too many reports by other flyers of failures. One of my Bugs 3s even came with a charger that would charge both 3S and 2S batteries. These days, I've moved on to SpeedyBee F405 flight stacks, but still run Bugs 3 motors even powering them with 4S batteries.

I enjoy the process of tweaking and adding to my drone fleet, although sometimes I feel I forget lessons learnt, and have to get back to basics.

Second flight of the day curse. Might try deep breathing before landing next. 😅

Yep - things can go wrong so quickly when you have to make critical decisions under pressure when controlling any aircraft.

The cover and fpv cam is a Boldclash BWhoop B06-06 FPV AIO that I bought about 6 years ago. Not sure if they are still sold. This hobby has changed a lot over the years, with products and companies rising and falling. Here is a video I made back then showing lots of options for fpv on tiny whoops - kzbin.info/www/bejne/faSZh5qhia6gmJI

No - rinse well and fly! You have a good point. I'll see what I can do. 😁

I started with a cheap generic game controller with a usb cable when I was learning acro with the FPVFreerider simulator, but found it did' not feel like a real fpv controller with proper gimbals. There may be less expensive fpv controllers than the RadioMaster Pocket that I use, but I have not tried them. Make sure they have a USB port to connect to a computer. The Pocket has 2 USB ports, one for charging the internal batteries, and another on the top for computer connection. When the Pocket is turned on and a USB cable connected to a computer is inserted, there is a choice of modes to select - Joystick, USB Storage etc. I find it easy to use. If you find a cheaper controller than the Pocket, search KZbin to check if anyone can demonstrate successful use of it with a SIM.

Lucky to be there on such a nice day.

Amazing what a bit more velcro to keep a GoPro in place can do! 😄

Fair point. Showing my age here! Grew up in a time before every suburb of a small city like Adelaide called itself a city. 😅

Thanks!

Been a while coming..

Had problems with 3 SpeedyBee F405 30x30 stacks so far - crash into the sea killed the first one. Hard crashes on land on two different quads left me with one working stack - ESCs dead on one, FCB dead on the other. Though I'd lost quad battery telemetry from the surviving FCB, but it turned out to be a damaged RM RP1 TX ELRS module. Good diagnostics to troubleshoot this new gear helps. Hope your next build goes well.

@ Itsbeen a long time since I’ve built anything, so I need the helpful words. Thank you so much for your kind responses, always. I can tell you’re a good person. To me, that’s very important, in this world we are in. Your friend, Chuk

I have one of each. The ELRS version uses the Internal module (Under model Setup, Page 2) for the model. The CC2500 uses the external ELRS module. Under model setup, I select External module and turn off the internal module.

En este vídeo enseñaré como poner las voces y los comandos de los modos de vuelo de nuestra emisora Radiomaster Pocket para que hablen y se escuchen en español.De normal nos lo va a poner en inglés. Por lo que que tenemos que descargar un paquete de datos de un archivo de mega para que aparezcan en español kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooDRkohrg6-Zga8

This hobby can take you to unexpected places. 🤣

Happy to be of service!

Looking forward to getting this up in the air again.

Thanks! This build seems to have a lot going for it so far.

Maybe a tad over saturated, but cute in a 70's Kodachrome way - just needs higher resolution, better focus and stabilization. 😂

Another great spot 😀

Should be a good build for fpv - time will tell! 😊

Seems to drift a bit on the Yaw axis with 2 blades in the wind. Next outing will be with triblades.

I have screen brightness on the rotary but have volume ramped to the max and wear ear buds when flying with crashing waves. Would like a second rotary switch for volume, although I could probably figure out how to adjust volume on one of the push button switches. Not sure I'd like a know it all voice in my head when flying! 🤣😂🤣

Good that RM keep working to refine the design. Think I'll be sticking with the Pocket for a while.

Enjoying the evolving world of quadcopters for a lot longer than expected. So many aspects and challenges for us on technical, social and political levels. 😊

Lucky with a break in the weather to have a good look around.

I was so good at breaking the plastic arms off Bugs3 in the early days that I eventually learnt the art of plastic welding with reinforcing copper strands. Since then a mix of luck and experience has resulted in no more frame damage. Lost at sea appears to be my current biggest risk. 😅😅

@@skybug3 good man! That’s actually a cool trick with the plastic welding copper strands.

Hope I'm running out of things to go wrong as better flying weather arrives.