ARWing Pro - This Sucker's Fun! - Second Maiden
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- From Auto-launch to auto-tuning - to successful landing.....It was awesome.
There is nothing special about the flight except that everything worked exactly as it should - pilot included. I was able to do a full auto-level and auto-tune and fly around a bit in fully manual mode.
I'm really glad I made this model and have had a chance to fly it. Piloting a flying wing has been a dream of mine since I was a kid.
For some reason the DVR did not record, so I there is only Gopro footage of the flight. Sorry for those interested in the OSD elements.
Awesome flight and footage!
Cheers from Bucharest Romania!
Thanks. Just a rookie pilot here, lots to learn.
Awsum Job Dude !!! Great to share the happyness for you !!! A week ago I ordered my first wing yay !!! Hope you've ordered more batteries !!!😉😎
Just had my first two crashless flights with my AR Wing Pro last week. Im using Ardupilot though rather than inav. Its my first fpv aircraft so its been a steep learning curve after decades of simple LOS flying.
Thanks for leaving a comment. I've now gone through 2 of them. Ardupilot is really good, but extremely complicated. I've played around with it a bit - I have a heavy lift quad (15" propellers) built using a pixhawk 2.4.8 (clone) and ardupilot. I find it much easier to use Inav for basic stuff - Ardupilot is a little overkill for most hobby purposes, but is much more versatile - extendable. Inav can't do camera gimbals properly, but ardupilot can. Flying FPV is a lot of fun - good luck with it.
great flight congratulations! Could you please upload the raw video of the fpv goggle? to see the OSD without stabilization. thank you
I don't have any fpv video from this flight. I have 2 other flights that I'm making into videos that have fpv video. I will have something out shortly.
Hi,
I started flying RC planes forty years ago and stopped 12 years ago when FPV and auto pilots were first appearing and costing quite a bit.
Recently I got the bug to fly again and among other things pulled out my 2 meter motorized sailplane. I've practiced to reaquire rusted skills on an easy to fly plane and expect to use the 2 meter Salto fairly soon.
On the other hand I would like to give FPV and auto pilot a go given the cost has come down and I have 400 acres of uninhabited fields to fly over. My assumption is that for the auto pilot I need a flight controller to mate with the Specktrum receivers & DX6 that I still own. Do you have any suggestions regarding a basic flight controller that could fly programmed patterns with a return home feature?
I do have the wireless video equipment that at the time cost as a total package roughly $350 for the goggles & another $100 for a pair of 1 watt camera/transmitters. However, for the price, back in 2001 the image is the old standard video resolution and not close to high def. so any suggestions on video hardware would be welcome too.
Thanks in advance for helping me out.....
Thanks for watching and taking the time to ask your questions. I'll do my best to give some basic information to help.
Flight controllers and Autopilots for fixed wings are two similar, but different things.
An 'autopilot' is a hardware device that has a gyro and maybe barometer and takes care of flight stabilization only. Some may have a return to home feature and basic failsafe abilities. They are very basic in their abilities. A main purpose of these is to help a pilot maintain level attitude.
A 'flight controller' is a much more capable hardware device that will have the ability to connect multiple external sensors (GPS, compass, pitot tube), and run firmware that manages flight stablization, gives an OSD if you use FPV, provides enhanced failsafe, and allows you to programme flight plans. One of the most popular firmwares used for fixed wing style aircraft is called: INAV.
For a basic setup, I would recommend 3 flight controllers:
1) matek f405-wmn: www.mateksys.com/?portfolio=f405-wmn
2) matek f411-wte : www.mateksys.com/?portfolio=f411-wte
3) speedybee f405: www.speedybee.com/speedybee-f405-wing-app-fixed-wing-flight-controller/
Inav firmware can be easily installed on any of those 3 flight controllers.
You should have no trouble connecting Spektrum based receivers to any of those flight controllers - however I personally have zero experience with Spektrum equipment.
As for very old video equipment, I have no idea if it is possible to mix in with modern flight control systems. FPV systems are still not cheap. A reasonable analog video transmitter, camera and antenna costs me about $100 CAD / model. If you go digital, that is probably closer to $250 CAD/model.
If you choose digital FPV, you are mostly confined to the products made by the producer of the digital system (dji only works with dji products). With analog video systems, you have more choice in terms of cameras and video transmitters.
For analog goggles, I would suggest:
skyzone04x, hdzero or, orqaFPV as high end choices
skyzone cobrax for less expensive or if you must wear glasses
I am not qualified to give suggestions on digital systems as I still fly analogue.
I would also suggest looking at Joshua Bardwell's website: fpvknowitall.com in the 5" quadcopter 'what to buy' page. He has some good information about FPV systems there.
I hope that this is a bit helpful.
Safe flying.
@@blueskyfpv Thanks, most appreciated. I now have a starting point....