Excellent video. The ASW28 is a great flying bird. I have two of them and like you I extended out the control surfaces. What FC are you using and what version of ARKBIRD? Greetings from Florida USA. Again Excellent video.
Hello Jason! Thank you, FPV flying in the great nature of Norway is great fun. I’m into electric gliders, and I’ve fallen in love with the ASW28 from Volantex. I’ve build thee of them and got some expensive experiences from them. The first one I set up only with a simple receiver and a 5 channel radio and I crashed it after a few flights due to a receiver fail and no failsafe. However, I learned that the model had low authorities both on ailerons and elevator. The next model I expanded the ailerons and elevator like Brian Philips has done here on RUclips. I put in a receiver with stabilization and I bought a Spektrum DX8 G2 radio. This model flew very well, I had many nice flights with it until I tried FPV on a screen, without any flight controller. Of course, I lost it. The third one, the one in this video, I fitted out with an Arkbird 2.0 Light OSD and flight controller. I also extended the ailerons and flaps further to get even more authorities and less wing load. I, however, did not move the CG (I don’t know why) so the plane was very nose heavy, but in the stabilized mode it flew well, if you like, check out my other videoes on the channel. However, I experienced that the Arkbird was not very reliable, maybe because of the misplaced CG, or maybe caused by some hard landings. I now build my fourth ASW28, I have abandoned the Arkbird and dived into INAV. I’ve bought a Matek F722 Wing flight controller board. That is a steep learning curve, but when you get into it, it's very powerful. The INAV system requires a lot of channels to get full use out of it. So I've bought a Radiomaster TX16S transmitter with Open TX. That is also a lot to get into. That's the reason why there are no ASW28 videoes on my channel recently. Now it's winter in Norway, that means heavy snow and rain, and gale-force wind most of the time, not good conditions for flying, I'm looking forward to spring and a lot of FPV flying again. Sev
@@springpilot Yes...It seems you have a lot of valuable experience with the ASW28 platform. I have INAV also and I am using it with a F405W FC Board. My I also recommend the Volantex 759-3 Phoenix 2400 E-glider sold at Banggood. I think you will be extremely impressed with it. It has excellent flight characteristics right out of the box - all stock. It is one of my favorite gliders at the moment even surpassing my ASW28(s). Cheers
Thank you! I'm using two 3s 2200mAh connected in parallel. For more information about the model you can check out "ASW28 modified for FPV" on my channel.
Hello Alex! In a way it is. If you look at the right hand side of the ODS screen, you'll see in the upper right corner two indicators, banking the upper and tilting the lower. In the middle of the right hand side of the screen, you'll see the barometric hight of the model. All these indicators are highly dynamicly updated so you (at leased I) have a good orientation of the model's vertical movements. Yes there is no sound. But I can very well do without the annoying OOOOUUUYYYIIII-ing and enjoy the sound of air flowing past my plane.
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Excellent video. The ASW28 is a great flying bird. I have two of them and like you I extended out the control surfaces.
What FC are you using and what version of ARKBIRD?
Greetings from Florida USA.
Again
Excellent video.
Hello Jason!
Thank you, FPV flying in the great nature of Norway is great fun. I’m into electric gliders, and I’ve fallen in love with the ASW28 from Volantex. I’ve build thee of them and got some expensive experiences from them. The first one I set up only with a simple receiver and a 5 channel radio and I crashed it after a few flights due to a receiver fail and no failsafe. However, I learned that the model had low authorities both on ailerons and elevator.
The next model I expanded the ailerons and elevator like Brian Philips has done here on RUclips. I put in a receiver with stabilization and I bought a Spektrum DX8 G2 radio. This model flew very well, I had many nice flights with it until I tried FPV on a screen, without any flight controller. Of course, I lost it.
The third one, the one in this video, I fitted out with an Arkbird 2.0 Light OSD and flight controller. I also extended the ailerons and flaps further to get even more authorities and less wing load. I, however, did not move the CG (I don’t know why) so the plane was very nose heavy, but in the stabilized mode it flew well, if you like, check out my other videoes on the channel. However, I experienced that the Arkbird was not very reliable, maybe because of the misplaced CG, or maybe caused by some hard landings.
I now build my fourth ASW28, I have abandoned the Arkbird and dived into INAV. I’ve bought a Matek F722 Wing flight controller board. That is a steep learning curve, but when you get into it, it's very powerful. The INAV system requires a lot of channels to get full use out of it. So I've bought a Radiomaster TX16S transmitter with Open TX. That is also a lot to get into.
That's the reason why there are no ASW28 videoes on my channel recently. Now it's winter in Norway, that means heavy snow and rain, and gale-force wind most of the time, not good conditions for flying, I'm looking forward to spring and a lot of FPV flying again.
Sev
@@springpilot
Yes...It seems you have a lot of valuable experience with the ASW28 platform. I have INAV also and I am using it with a F405W FC Board. My I also recommend the Volantex 759-3 Phoenix 2400 E-glider sold at Banggood. I think you will be extremely impressed with it. It has excellent flight characteristics right out of the box - all stock. It is one of my favorite gliders at the moment even surpassing my ASW28(s).
Cheers
cool! what battery did you use?
Thank you! I'm using two 3s 2200mAh connected in parallel. For more information about the model you can check out "ASW28 modified for FPV" on my channel.
Hey. there is no variometer on OSD. This is the most basic glider device. to determine the upward flows
Hello Alex!
In a way it is. If you look at the right hand side of the ODS screen, you'll see in the upper right corner two indicators, banking the upper and tilting the lower. In the middle of the right hand side of the screen, you'll see the barometric hight of the model. All these indicators are highly dynamicly updated so you (at leased I) have a good orientation of the model's vertical movements. Yes there is no sound. But I can very well do without the annoying OOOOUUUYYYIIII-ing and enjoy the sound of air flowing past my plane.
Nice, I need a arrow home check out my asw28 maiden I landed in a tree