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My chargers soft touch buttons stopped working. Found some surface mount buttons off some old circuit boards I had lying around, bit of servo wire and some hot glue and its good as new. Might not be pretty but it's functional. :)

Palindrome, is that some new type of multirotor? :) :)

FPV on a fixed wing is as much fun as a quad but just remember, you cannot stop. Once you commit yourself to a gap you have to keep going no matter what. :)

Looking forward to the pics of a heli embedded in a phantom. :D :D.

My son learned to fly one of these at 8 years old, I think there is a video on here of him. I'll see if I can find a link. I have had 4 of them, 2 are still flying, the other 2 are now parts but they have had a hammering. They have been crashed more than I can remember and still come back for...

Most version of Windows have a built in screen capture utility called "Snipping Tool". Pretty easy to use, select what you want to capture and give it a name. No messing with file transfers and resizing, it's saved right there on your PC. Image quality is much better than taking a picture of a...

Be careful running WiFi on a flying quad, it can overpower control and video signals if it is too close to them.

I agree with Admiral, start him with a toy. Once he knows whether he wants to continue, then look at building something. I have to disagree with Tony on the cheap Chinese TXs. Without that cheap stuff I could never afford this hobby. I am still running my FRSKY X9D Taranis and have never had a...

Those props are really aggressive, you need lots of power and a real strong high C battery. I regard props as a consumable, part of the cost of running high speed, low altitude proximity. I generally buy 50 at a time, but then I have to wait nearly a month for my orders.

Yup but you still have to tell Betaflight that you have done it.

A lot of hype about reversing motor direction now, the idea is that if they spin the other way, they flick small branches out instead of dragging them in and snagging. There is an option in latest betaflight for reversed motor direction.

Most openTx based radios will allow you to do both, I back my Taranis up regularly. The software even has some settings that are difficult if not impossible to do on the radio, not critical ones, just quality of life type stuff. EDIT: Ok I just noticed which radio you were talking about. No...

Many years ago I caught someone actually leaning in to my car, he had manage to unlock it, to take a present I had just bought for one of my stepsons. It was a toy, less than $50 worth. I kicked his ass, literally, then gave him the choice of me calling the cops or giving me everything in his...

Good catch Tony, I missed that yaw thing, and the lack of response when you dropped the throttle. I wouldn't go any further until that is sorted. Do you fly anything else with that transmitter? Also sustained full throttle with no load is not a good idea. They spin way faster then they are...

That's weird everything I see looks right. In video 6 armed, is self level on or off, it looks like it is trying to level itself, does it stay like that until you disarm it? Have you changed any PID and filter settings? What version of Betaflight are you running? Can you give us some screenshots...

txrcnoob What video card do you have?

We use a thing called a VSR (voltage sensing relay) to connect motor home house batteries to the main vehicle batteries. Using one of those you could hook your marine battery to your truck battery, that way it is only connected when the truck is running and charging voltage is above 13.5v. While...

The video quality is not terrible but with the lack of stabilisation, the dropped frames and the audio sync I would expect that to be a sub $150 quad. Have you tried a different memory card?

Turn off self level modes while testing, this will eliminate any chance of it trying to vary motor speeds to attain level while testing. If motor speeds are consistent in motors tab and throttle is smooth in receiver tab it is a most likely a flight controller issue. Is the flight controller...

Making laws that a large proportion of those they are aimed at will ignore is at the pinnacle of poor governance. Added to that, is the likelihood that law enforcement don't have the resources or the inclination to enforce them. Similar things are happening here and the cops that I know...