27-05-2018, 07:13 PM
Dirk,
If you are on the fence about a disco... They really are an incredible bird, and just outstanding for under $500. The performance is as good as any PX4 or ArduPlane equipped wing out there, and certainly in a class of it's own for what you get at the price you can get one right now. I can think of no comparable product which can match the vision system. Cost and availability of replacement parts may be it's achilles heel, if it has one. $119 for a pair of replacement wings, $119 for the fuselage, $40 just for the nosecone... $249 for a replacement motor??? and that is while stocks last (there are long time disco users who are buying up the cheap aircraft right now for parts).
The alternative is to choose an airframe and build your own... depending on what sort of experience you are after. If you wanna wing that offers a DJI drone like experience out of the box... then the disco is probably the one for you. If you are happy to build your own then there are heaps of awesome possibilities. I love the Nano Talon and will certainly be building one soon. After something bigger, check out the X-UAV Clouds. I am certainly happy to assist with the build, or any questions you might have along the way.
I maidened a tiny little Wing Wing Z-84 (AUW 390-grams) equipped with a Pixracer (running ArduPlane) with all the fruit today. Came in for a particularly low pass on my last automated landing and caught the trees... The fact that the airframe cost less than $50 express shipped from banggood made that experience great deal less painful than it could have been.
If you are on the fence about a disco... They really are an incredible bird, and just outstanding for under $500. The performance is as good as any PX4 or ArduPlane equipped wing out there, and certainly in a class of it's own for what you get at the price you can get one right now. I can think of no comparable product which can match the vision system. Cost and availability of replacement parts may be it's achilles heel, if it has one. $119 for a pair of replacement wings, $119 for the fuselage, $40 just for the nosecone... $249 for a replacement motor??? and that is while stocks last (there are long time disco users who are buying up the cheap aircraft right now for parts).
The alternative is to choose an airframe and build your own... depending on what sort of experience you are after. If you wanna wing that offers a DJI drone like experience out of the box... then the disco is probably the one for you. If you are happy to build your own then there are heaps of awesome possibilities. I love the Nano Talon and will certainly be building one soon. After something bigger, check out the X-UAV Clouds. I am certainly happy to assist with the build, or any questions you might have along the way.
I maidened a tiny little Wing Wing Z-84 (AUW 390-grams) equipped with a Pixracer (running ArduPlane) with all the fruit today. Came in for a particularly low pass on my last automated landing and caught the trees... The fact that the airframe cost less than $50 express shipped from banggood made that experience great deal less painful than it could have been.