28-01-2016, 11:35 AM
Yes, yes and yes Bob!
It was going very fast, straight down into the ground as he was attempting a flip at the time without first adjusting the PIDs to provide quicker roll. Ie. he attempted the flip from too low an altitude. But that's 10 year olds for you...
So yes, it is a good machine for the price and the OSD is good. Yes, the machine was moving quite quickly, and yes, the arms are quite solid. Yes, it uses CC3D and the OSD is basic but good. It has sold out several times so there's plenty of spares available. Arms are about $2 each or something. The same arms are used by other quads too. To give you an idea of how popular it was - I ordered mine in October last year - this is version 3 of this model. There were almost 3 thousand of them on back order when I placed my order! And there's been several production runs since.
I suspect it filled a hole in the market which the manufacturer was initially unprepared for. Every couple of weeks it goes on sale as they take pre-orders, it even went down to about AUD$150 at one point... then back up again as they got more stock.
It was going very fast, straight down into the ground as he was attempting a flip at the time without first adjusting the PIDs to provide quicker roll. Ie. he attempted the flip from too low an altitude. But that's 10 year olds for you...
So yes, it is a good machine for the price and the OSD is good. Yes, the machine was moving quite quickly, and yes, the arms are quite solid. Yes, it uses CC3D and the OSD is basic but good. It has sold out several times so there's plenty of spares available. Arms are about $2 each or something. The same arms are used by other quads too. To give you an idea of how popular it was - I ordered mine in October last year - this is version 3 of this model. There were almost 3 thousand of them on back order when I placed my order! And there's been several production runs since.
I suspect it filled a hole in the market which the manufacturer was initially unprepared for. Every couple of weeks it goes on sale as they take pre-orders, it even went down to about AUD$150 at one point... then back up again as they got more stock.
FrSky Q X7 Mode 2, Turnigy 9XR Pro and Evolution. Multirotors, planes plus a couple of heli's. Too many to list.
Aaaaand if the wife is reading this: "The club made me buy these planes, I had no part in it, honestly!"