Took my Mini Talon out for a quick flight to test the Runcam Owl Plus, but for some reason the throttle wouldn't work. So I had to quickly nip home and get my Skywalker, put the Owl on there by which time it had gotten pretty dark - a good test of the Runcam Owl Plus, and the Firefly 7S HD camera.
Nice to fly the Skywalker again :)
By the way, the live video recording is bad because my groundstation was sitting in the back of the car pointing down the field (its got a 3 turn helical) so most of the flying was outside of the 'cone' .. my goggle feed was perfect on bignose skews.
Final flight of the morning as the battery was running low but the footage is lovely and smooth - nice to have the plane flying well and reliably for a change.
Read MoreFirst proper FPV flight with the Mini Talon today, I did a few circuits testing PA and RTH then went out a little further, just the 1.2km skew to skew but still enjoyable in the nice calm weather....
Read MoreSo I got up nice and early this morning to get this Bush Mule maidened in the nice, calm, still air. However the FrSky telemetry was giving me range warnings so I had to bring her back in...
Read MoreSo I took the mini talon out to fly after doing some tweaks yesterday - I moved the Runcam forward so that it wasn't having its whitebalance upset by the presence of the nose in the live view,...
Read MoreSo my wife bought me this 4K actioncam for Christmas and this is the first time I've tried it - looks like it's okay to me considering how foggy it was. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vikcam-Action-Unde...
Read MoreWell, it's been a while since I have been out and about - to be honest with you, it's been my own fault - I've been assuming the worst will happen with the planes ...
Read MoreHere are the settings I use on my Runcam Owl Plus which sits on my Skywalker. Bear in mind I normally fly in low-light conditions such as early morning or late ...
Read MoreJust finding out why the Mini Talon wouldn't throttle up - turns out my reversing the polarity on my camera has somehow killed my ESC - I have no idea how that ...
Read MoreDefault settings, but with Colour mode locked on for night vision mode. Bad reception because my groundstation antenna is a helical and was pointing out the ...
Read MoreD'oh! Looks like I missed a little issue from my last crash with the Mini Talon - the deans connector has come detached from the cyclops tornado current sensor.
Read MoreSo my first flight in six weeks went well - 20 yards of range with the EzUHF on a mag-mount antenna I bought off ebay. Lesson learned :D.
Read MoreSo today was a bit blowy so I figured what better chance to test the stabilisation mode of the T1000FC autopilot. I only flew LoS so it was never going to be ...
Read MoreI fitted the T1000FC flight controller to my Mini Talon and initial testing didn't exactly go to plan - the position of the GPS and the control box made the plane very ...
Read MoreA quick look at how my Mini Talon turned out and the stuff I'm planning on doing with it now that I've got it flying nicely.
Read MoreShort flight with the mini talon just before I went home as it was very dark. Still flying brilliantly. I think I'm going to put a Cyclops Storm in it as I'm nervous about ...
Read MoreTook the Mini Talon out around the local field to check all was in order - Good video link, good control link, plane flying well. Ready to have a good play with her ...
Read MoreI really should stop flying "line of sight" - it's dangerous. These Mini-Talons fly forever so need to land either long, or shallow .. not high and steep like this one.
Read MoreBattery getting low, would have struggled to do a Go-Around so had to land her one way or the other. Was a little too high, nothing to it but to dive and manage ...
Read MoreNice little flight with the Skywalker, here's the landing in manual mode (after PA mode tried to kill me earlier :o )
Read MoreI'll give the Mobius camera its dues, it was very dark compared to how this video came out so it did quite well but very overexposed... when I took the goggles off ...
Read MoreJust keeping my hand in and gaining confidence, another quick run to 1km with the Skywalker. Going to start pushing it a little further over the next couple of ...
Read MoreWell the gimbal footage is pants but then again I didn't tweak any of the settings of this crappy el-cheapo brushless gimbal yet, and I was also flying LoS which ...
Read MoreDawn, November 2015 - Skywalker 1900 - Wing View. Enjoy.
Read MoreChallenge on FPVHub set by BlueFlyer - challenge accepted! Wouldn't want to take this to the face though!!
Read MoreLong time no see! Finally looks like I have gotten my Cyclops Tornado RTH working on my Skywalker, here's a short line of sight video while testing it out.
Read MoreSo I bought a Cyclops Tornado OSD + FC to replace the crappy Turnigy T1000FC that never worked properly... here's a trim flight and testing a couple of flight ...
Read MoreGave up on work for the morning to take the Skywalker out since it was such nice weather, here's the first flight. GoPro3 Silver recording, Mobius as Live camera.
Read MoreUsing the T1000FC stabiliser, it's fair to say the Skywalker is easy to launch...
Read MoreUnofficial FPV meet in North Lincolnshire - here's some of the things Mark (MarkLincs), John (Keukpa) and myself (Steve W) got up to :)
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