Introduction time. I'm John, I dropped in to the field last Sunday and met a few members. I haven't done anything serious with model planes since school, and that was a long time ago. After chatting...

Thanks Wayne. After much reading I've decided to buy an FrSky Taranis TX and spektrum module. HobbyKing have them on back order. I may buy a 9tx if it takes too long to get the Taranis as it will tak...

I found this searchable database while wandering around the 'net. Thought it could be useful. http://www.servodatabase.com/servos/all John

Hi all My recently purchased pre owned floater has stripped gears in one of the servos so I need to replace it. The replacement servo has arrived but I'm wondering what was used to secure the origi...

Thanks, it looks like a thin version of the foam tape. I'll see what I can find locally, hobbyking have too much of my money this month but it's something I'll add to a future order.

Thanks Andre, I dropped into Bunnings today and had a look at their offerings. I found a double sided foam tape about 1mm thick. Its branded "Bear" and its an Outdoor Mounting Speciality Tape of the t...

It could be a bit dampish tomorrow

That's a bit cruel. Linux is very useable.

Not flying as such but a bit on testing LiPo batteries http://youtu.be/usRE3gLFnOc

smuzz Wrote: (04-03-2014, 08:01 PM) -- When I looked at the link on my 'phone it went to the mobile Daily Mail site, which had a date of 17 April 2003 - so you're right mate, it was a while ago. ...

If the weather stays like this, modelling one of these will be the way to go.

No plane bits sighted in my run over the wet area today but if anybody has lost drink cans and bits of white paper there's a few there.

These appear to be taken on 1 April 2012. Does anybody recognise themselves or their vehicle? and at Penrith John

G'day Christian, good to see someone else with a Phantom in the hanger. They're a friendly mob here and you will learn how to keep that plane in the air. I'm in the same position as you, learning h...

I went over to lake McCoy this morning to see how it fared. Its a bit dampish underfoot.

Here are some video frames from today

I spent a bit of this week getting to grips with the trainer settings in Open Tx, both on the Taranis and 9XR. It's a deceptively simple procedure to implement, made more difficult by a documentation ...

I looked outside this morning about 10am. Cloudy but no rain. Drove over to the field. Light rain and soggy but no water lying on it. Drove out of the rain at the 5 ways. Hasn't rained at all here.

Forecast looks good. SHMBO has organised things to do tomorrow and Saturday. Sunday will be my day.

I've been looking at that one as well Bob. The FC firmware is a port of Arducopter. That's a plus, and the machine is a rebadged Cheerson CX-20. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21127...

Sad to read this today. From the daily mail in the UK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-177139/Teenager-killed-hit-model-plane.html Teenager is killed after she is hit by model plane ...

The transport has a split radiator and won't be ready until Monday so I'm stuck at home this weekend.

I went to pick up my cards about 11ish, the gate was locked so I repaired to Bunnings.

This has been a bad month for me. Some sort of virus at the beginning of the month and then the car away getting a heater core replaced. I just got it back but have to help the grandson move tomorrow....

It looks like its based on the balancers that are all over eBay, with the addition of the board with the connections to the halogen globes and the battery. Andre, can you read the details on the t...

I've bought a fair bit from Banggood over the years. Shipping can be a bit slow sometimes but otherwise they are ok. I'll recommend them.

Banggood have a 250 size kit http://bit.ly/1H6mZPQ There is a review and a couple of build videos on YouTube, this is the review http://youtu.be/oQeNV-Wr8RE you can find the build videos from there...

You should add the the controllers can also be used with fixed wing as well as rotary wing aircraft, Bob. The CC3D one doesn't support a GPS receiver so doesn't have position hold and return to home....

I just had a look at the US store, the only one I can find is a nano Revo. I wonder if that is the only one they are going to build? The kit with GPS and all cables is USD104.00. Not sure about shi...

I've got some of the nano CC3D units in a drawer here Bob. I'm thinking of seeing if one will stabilise a suitably shaped sheet of cardboard.

I'll let you hold onto mine a bit longer Wayne. My wife is a bit crook this morning. I should hang around home.

I took a different tack to the APM flight modes on my Quad. I've set them up as flight modes on the Taranis and just override CH5 with the required value rather than change mixes. CH 7 is Return to L...

54 motors and a Hobbyking FC. http://youtu.be/t5JgnMJzCtQ

Interesting, I wonder how it will go in the real world?

http://youtu.be/h7sd6yrLNr0 Something for when the wife is away.

Some more from the Author of the last video. Floating Quadcopter 500 mm 2826 NTM motors https://youtu.be/51KQZqGmlug Pushing the limits of FPV flying and video editing. In this video we get a...

I'm hoping that it will be drier by the time I'm back in OZ.

I flashed my CC3D with Librepilot - it's a fork of Openpilot by some of the original developers and will have continuing support of the CC3D FC as well as the revolution FC.

secant0give Wrote: (09-01-2016, 06:36 AM) -- What did you think of libre pilot? -- Similar to Openpilot, setup procedure is the same. My reason for change is Librepilot promises continued developme...

BOB Wrote: (09-01-2016, 12:19 PM) -- HI, John. The problem with CC3D is the software there not updating it and the revolution what is the successor to CC3D controller is not been released they will n...

Here is the complete revolution package from Banggood complete package (http://www.banggood.com/CC3D-Revolution-Mini-Combo-OP-Flight-Controller-OPLINK-Radio-Telemetry-GPS-OSD-Power-Distribution-Board...