I love helis and was really curious about the new FBL controller from Radiomaster. Crazy that you got Bert on to review it. For those of us who've been around a while he's a legend! I have a 600 kit that's been waiting on electronics for years. This seems like a pretty good excuse!
Rotorflight is the OpenTX of FBLs, it's an open source FBL firmware. So there are several different Rotorflight FBLs on the market now of which the Nexus is one. There is also the Flydragon V2 from STEAM which has a built in Express LRS receiver.
New-ish to Helicopter stuff and came from Tiny Whoops (FPV world). Soo excited for Rotorflight due to the fact it is derived from BetaFlight. I could go on and on ...but when BK learns to tune these and create files for builds, it can only lead to advancement in the hobby. Thanks again for your time.
Hell yeah!! I originally told myself I'd try rotorflight in 1 heli just to play around with it. A month later all of my helis are flying on Rotorflight with the Flydragon and Nexus. This system flies amazing and I think will help bridge a gap between thr drone and heli world.
I've converted my S1 and S2 to ELRS after I got an ELRS/Nexus based RS4 Venom. Now I'm swapping out the FC of my S2 so I can convert that to Rotor Flight2. I just picked up a Gemini and Nimbus to build over the winter break, those are going to be ELRS/Nexus. Its an awesome system, dont let the price fool you people it's not a gimmick or trap, its 100% awesome....if you get over the hump of learning it. Thats the Achilles heel....you dont get a paint by numbers setup or a copy/paste profile to download offline like you do with the other's, you really have to learn about what your doing and why. But for sure you can really get deep into it by going the path of pain; you discover so much more out of yourself and your craft.
When setting up the rC helicopter in Edge TX, be sure to turn on the servo monitor screen on the main screen. You need to check if the keys move properly. (idel 1, 2, normal throttle % )
This is so timely and very cool to see- I just learned elrs nexus and rotorflight too and they worked great on an align 300. I have been racking my brains for a larger build and saw a tron dnamic combo for $1539 at BK Hobby. But next day I looked and it's back to $1710 wtf! oh well now align 550 is looking pretty cool too. And waiting for November price drops. I can build a heli kit and it will fly but the way Bert flies is completely unconscious and amazing.
Looking good and costing much less for the tx/rx electronics is really a no brainer...I noticed his radio giving percentage callouts, I have mine set to voltage remaining, I'll have to look into it...
I'll be trying this set up on a small heli to start with. For the price it's definately worth a try. Always wanted a V bar system, they're a premium product but not cheap.
@RCVideoReviews So cool your so helpful.. I always wanted a Futaba, but OpenTX came out and saved me a ton, never looked back. I'll have to admit, I wasn't flying machines costing thousands of dollars, though...🍻
Dont forget to tune the filters before finetuning the PIDs, the increase in performance with less filtering is gigantic. And with RF2.1 you can increase the Q-value of the RPM filter notches to 10 instead of 5, which is more narrow. With my specter NME I can easily deactivate the lowpass filter and run Q=10 for fundamental, 3rd harmonic mainrotor and fundamental, 2nd harmonic tailrotor. For autorotations I let 2 dynamic notches active which start filtering above the fundamental frequency.
@@RCVideoReviews Nice, thanks for the info. Filters are the one thing we could not mess with until now, which makes it very exciting to play with. Bert will have a lot of fun with this combo. Maybe he will share his diff when he is happy with the way its flying, would be awsome.
Good job, guys, excellent video. I guess none of you know the big propeller is supposed to go on top on the helicopters.😁🤣😂😂 Great flying man I can't even think that fast.
I gave up on Rotorflight after trying to setup a nitro, I spend many hours and late nights scrolling YT and the RF discord and I didn’t have John’s phone number unfortunately 🤣 nor do I have Bert’s 25 years experience and I couldn’t work it out, I’d already setup an electric heli on RF and was in the process of starting to learning how to tune, I’m also very familiar with EdgeTx which helps but I just wanted to get out and fly my nitro, I was over spending hours and hours on the computer instead of the sticks, finally caved and went vbar, first time I touched the V touch control Tx i had both nitro and electric 700’s ready to maiden in under 3 hours, and all I’ve been doing since then is flying, if time is money rotorflight is the most expensive system out there for the average not so techy guys like myself, that said RF is only going to get better and easier, lots of folks are loving it which is great 👍🏻
@@elitecol69 Dropouts on some old tech Futaba or Spektrum protocols maybe. I haven't heard him ever complain about it. But ELRS as shown in this video? No, he hasn't done that yet; nor has he done a RF2 based one yet. I know he's planning to eventually try it; but it's a steep amount of time to invest when you already have paint by numbers level with Ikon and VBar getting you airborn and reliable.
that was no smooth flight.. the guy needs to practice a lot .. he was very lucky with not crashing it .. somehow.. he always managed to keep it in the air despite the uncontrolled movements :)
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I love helis and was really curious about the new FBL controller from Radiomaster. Crazy that you got Bert on to review it. For those of us who've been around a while he's a legend! I have a 600 kit that's been waiting on electronics for years. This seems like a pretty good excuse!
Rotorflight is the OpenTX of FBLs, it's an open source FBL firmware. So there are several different Rotorflight FBLs on the market now of which the Nexus is one. There is also the Flydragon V2 from STEAM which has a built in Express LRS receiver.
Absolutely brilliant!
New-ish to Helicopter stuff and came from Tiny Whoops (FPV world). Soo excited for Rotorflight due to the fact it is derived from BetaFlight. I could go on and on ...but when BK learns to tune these and create files for builds, it can only lead to advancement in the hobby. Thanks again for your time.
The more skilled pilots getting involved and offering feedback, the better it will be. You're absolutely right.
I use this system and I'm happy to see Bert trying it.
When Bert says these three things are good, then they are good. No doubt. He is a legend that good. 😂 I❤this.
That's what makes me want it even more now, agreed! 👍
So nice, to have more and more RC OG’s coming to the bright side.
Hell yeah!! I originally told myself I'd try rotorflight in 1 heli just to play around with it. A month later all of my helis are flying on Rotorflight with the Flydragon and Nexus. This system flies amazing and I think will help bridge a gap between thr drone and heli world.
I've converted my S1 and S2 to ELRS after I got an ELRS/Nexus based RS4 Venom.
Now I'm swapping out the FC of my S2 so I can convert that to Rotor Flight2.
I just picked up a Gemini and Nimbus to build over the winter break, those are going to be ELRS/Nexus.
Its an awesome system, dont let the price fool you people it's not a gimmick or trap, its 100% awesome....if you get over the hump of learning it. Thats the Achilles heel....you dont get a paint by numbers setup or a copy/paste profile to download offline like you do with the other's, you really have to learn about what your doing and why.
But for sure you can really get deep into it by going the path of pain; you discover so much more out of yourself and your craft.
When setting up the rC helicopter in Edge TX, be sure to turn on the servo monitor screen on the main screen.
You need to check if the keys move properly. (idel 1, 2, normal throttle % )
This is so timely and very cool to see- I just learned elrs nexus and rotorflight too and they worked great on an align 300. I have been racking my brains for a larger build and saw a tron dnamic combo for $1539 at BK Hobby. But next day I looked and it's back to $1710 wtf! oh well now align 550 is looking pretty cool too. And waiting for November price drops.
I can build a heli kit and it will fly but the way Bert flies is completely unconscious and amazing.
You must have missed a sale? Wait for Black Friday 😎
Looking good and costing much less for the tx/rx electronics is really a no brainer...I noticed his radio giving percentage callouts, I have mine set to voltage remaining, I'll have to look into it...
Did you do any pip tuning.
WOW I did NOT expect to hear Bert say that he did the Rotorflight setup all by himself...!!
He's in beast mode on this stuff right now.
that was a fantastic review from Bert, very detail and honest!
Bert is a beast! I've still got his Heli flight training videos
Man can fly that's for sure. And he cooks through a heli setup pretty fast.
I'll be trying this set up on a small heli to start with. For the price it's definately worth a try. Always wanted a V bar system, they're a premium product but not cheap.
Good luck with it. The payoff is worth the effort.
Whomever made the saying, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"... Myth busted!... Or.. Bert is just that darn good! 🤙
He picked it up fast too. It's one thing to pick one tech and teach yourself, but three at once..that's impressive.
Haha! You got him to do it...😅
You said you would, did everyone pleasure him as you asked?
Also, a moment of silence for Futaba, lol... Good stuff...🍻
Dave will probably be flying both for some time. I don't know if he'll retrofit his Futaba fleet.
@RCVideoReviews
So cool your so helpful..
I always wanted a Futaba, but OpenTX came out and saved me a ton, never looked back. I'll have to admit, I wasn't flying machines costing thousands of dollars, though...🍻
Dont forget to tune the filters before finetuning the PIDs, the increase in performance with less filtering is gigantic.
And with RF2.1 you can increase the Q-value of the RPM filter notches to 10 instead of 5, which is more narrow. With my specter NME I can easily deactivate the lowpass filter and run Q=10 for fundamental, 3rd harmonic mainrotor and fundamental, 2nd harmonic tailrotor. For autorotations I let 2 dynamic notches active which start filtering above the fundamental frequency.
Filters are a big topic right now in RF. My filters are set and Bert has my filter settings.
@@RCVideoReviews Nice, thanks for the info. Filters are the one thing we could not mess with until now, which makes it very exciting to play with. Bert will have a lot of fun with this combo. Maybe he will share his diff when he is happy with the way its flying, would be awsome.
Good job, guys, excellent video. I guess none of you know the big propeller is supposed to go on top on the helicopters.😁🤣😂😂 Great flying man I can't even think that fast.
Ditto. My brain does not compute what's going on when they fly like that.
I gave up on Rotorflight after trying to setup a nitro, I spend many hours and late nights scrolling YT and the RF discord and I didn’t have John’s phone number unfortunately 🤣 nor do I have Bert’s 25 years experience and I couldn’t work it out, I’d already setup an electric heli on RF and was in the process of starting to learning how to tune, I’m also very familiar with EdgeTx which helps but I just wanted to get out and fly my nitro, I was over spending hours and hours on the computer instead of the sticks, finally caved and went vbar, first time I touched the V touch control Tx i had both nitro and electric 700’s ready to maiden in under 3 hours, and all I’ve been doing since then is flying, if time is money rotorflight is the most expensive system out there for the average not so techy guys like myself, that said RF is only going to get better and easier, lots of folks are loving it which is great 👍🏻
@@BigWillieFPV And that's what I'm afraid of. I think I would be ok. But it's risky. I want a new transmitter, I WISH V control was in my budget. 😂
@ what craft do you fly atm? What are you aiming to fly in the future?
I will work on my nitro soon. I can help once I get it figured out. ❤
Welcome to the "light" Bert!! Way to go John!!
Jeff, your next!
i see someone familiar here lol
Jeff has had many issues with RM TX's dropouts, VBAR is way more reliable, even Spektrum.
@@elitecol69 Dropouts on some old tech Futaba or Spektrum protocols maybe. I haven't heard him ever complain about it.
But ELRS as shown in this video? No, he hasn't done that yet; nor has he done a RF2 based one yet. I know he's planning to eventually try it; but it's a steep amount of time to invest when you already have paint by numbers level with Ikon and VBar getting you airborn and reliable.
@@elitecol69 strange. i have never had a dropout on elrs with RM ever
"Still taking it easy " lol
Right? Cracks me up when they say that.
Come put with a vbar at half the price then you would have something .since we no that not happening poentx/edgetx is the next best thing
that was no smooth flight.. the guy needs to practice a lot .. he was very lucky with not crashing it .. somehow.. he always managed to keep it in the air despite the uncontrolled movements :)
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