So I've been working on a 180 build I call ZeroCool (if you get the reference your cool in my book) and today she had her first flight. I just finished installing the Seriously Dodo FC in her last night and tested out to make sure motors work and everything. Today we had 60 degree weather here and I know it's going to snow this weekend...so decided to skip some indoor flight tests and head to a field near my house.
I flew her in line of sight and started in angel mode. She flew great and I was able to turn her around and do some tests. I took her into horizon mode since I wanted to see if you can roll and flip ok. I remember setting the rates to 0.50 the night before. I soon discovered she was not rolling quick as I expected. Figuring it was probably horizon faults, I put her in acro. The roll and pitch was slow. But decided to get some height and try to roll her.....yeah that didn't end well. She hit the soft ground pretty hard.
How hard?
Well the strap got ripped and threw the battery loose:
I somehow ended up only with three motor tops (what are they called btw, I need to order new ones to replace the missing one):
One prop was bend and another was broken in half:
And her feet had some dirt on her:
I took her home and checked the FC, it's fine. Initially I lost video feed, but upon looking into it the VTX connector was loose, I zipped it up. Motors spin up fine. Need to get new motor topper things so I can put props on her and make sure she can still fly, but she seems ok. I did look at the rates and they were at 0.00...so I think that should explain the slow roll and pitch. I moved it to 0.60 for all three and hit save, unplugged and replugged and made sure it saved my settings.
I had my daughter record it with the go pro (she's 8 so take that for what it's worth) and though I had the DVR on the FPV glasses rolling but found out they weren't. I'll post the video on youtube and update this link.
UPDATE: Youtube link:
I flew her in line of sight and started in angel mode. She flew great and I was able to turn her around and do some tests. I took her into horizon mode since I wanted to see if you can roll and flip ok. I remember setting the rates to 0.50 the night before. I soon discovered she was not rolling quick as I expected. Figuring it was probably horizon faults, I put her in acro. The roll and pitch was slow. But decided to get some height and try to roll her.....yeah that didn't end well. She hit the soft ground pretty hard.
How hard?
Well the strap got ripped and threw the battery loose:
I somehow ended up only with three motor tops (what are they called btw, I need to order new ones to replace the missing one):
One prop was bend and another was broken in half:
And her feet had some dirt on her:
I took her home and checked the FC, it's fine. Initially I lost video feed, but upon looking into it the VTX connector was loose, I zipped it up. Motors spin up fine. Need to get new motor topper things so I can put props on her and make sure she can still fly, but she seems ok. I did look at the rates and they were at 0.00...so I think that should explain the slow roll and pitch. I moved it to 0.60 for all three and hit save, unplugged and replugged and made sure it saved my settings.
I had my daughter record it with the go pro (she's 8 so take that for what it's worth) and though I had the DVR on the FPV glasses rolling but found out they weren't. I'll post the video on youtube and update this link.
UPDATE: Youtube link:
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