RC flying is crashing.
Flying, Crashing, Repairing, Repeat indefinitely! That's how to best describe this hobby. Simply because that is how it works.
It has been really awful weather here in the Netherlands last two months. Especially in the weekends, of course! So I did not get much flying time in, lately. It has been storming, with all sorts of precipitation, combined with temperatures now nearing the freezing point.
Those few flights I got in with my Bfight 210, however, were very "educational"!
I already knew that the receiver range was not much more than 150m, with a clear line of sight. I leaned that the same holds for the video transmission signal.
On one occasion, I got a little disoriented, because of the limited periferal view through the goggles. I was flying along at the clearing next to the camping. The one with only two trees. I was sitting under one tree, because I did not want to be too prominently in my flight footage. And I thought I was cruising along happily around "my" tree, where in fact I was flying around "the other" tree, some 150m away...
Video feed got distorted, and before I knew it, I was on the ground already! I had the beeper tied to a switch, so I could have the quad call out to me, but I did not hear any beeping... It was only after walking a full circle around "my" tree, that I figured it out. When I walked towards the other tree I started to hear a faint beep in the distance. This time, the quad was laying in plain sight in a relatively flat patch of sand. So soon after I heard the beeping, I also saw the quad laying on the ground, so I could switch off the beeper. Much to my surprise, the only damage I could immediately see was a light scraping over the propellers, and a good chunk of sand in between he frame and flightcontroller stack. Antennas were still intact, props were still on - not even loose, so basically, it was ready to fly
For as far as the Bfight 210 is concerned, spare parts are somewhat scarce. Luckily, GearBest recently added frame arms per set to their collection
BFight210 4mm Thick 3K Carbon Fiber Arm 2pcs
Motors of the brand FLoveFly are not available at the time of this writing yet. Or at least not in 2205 2300KV version. But any other 2205 2300KV will do too, of course. This does mean, however, that you'll want to exchange 4 pcs at once, if you "loose" only one motor, because you wouldn't want to mix different brands of motors. I would recommend the DYS Race edition motors. Not the cheapest, at some €15 per piece, but strong, high standards ones, with decent bearings:
I would buy 6 at once, so you have one spare of each type, but that's me. Contact me through the contact form in the menu on the top-right to see if I can arrange a one-off coupon code for such a set of 6. I think my contacts at GearBest are good enough to get such an additional discount...
Another example of how things can go south is of course my Tundra. Flying at the same clearing near the camping, I managed to put that one in the top of a tree. See this post: https://ericflies.blogspot.com/2017/10/owww-those-trees.html and subsequent repair posts to read how that happened.
There will be more crashes, and I won't be hiding them from you.
As I learn from them, I hope to share what happened, and - if possible - why, so that you don't have to make the same mistakes I do :)
Stay tuned!
Flying, Crashing, Repairing, Repeat indefinitely! That's how to best describe this hobby. Simply because that is how it works.
It has been really awful weather here in the Netherlands last two months. Especially in the weekends, of course! So I did not get much flying time in, lately. It has been storming, with all sorts of precipitation, combined with temperatures now nearing the freezing point.
Those few flights I got in with my Bfight 210, however, were very "educational"!
I already knew that the receiver range was not much more than 150m, with a clear line of sight. I leaned that the same holds for the video transmission signal.
On one occasion, I got a little disoriented, because of the limited periferal view through the goggles. I was flying along at the clearing next to the camping. The one with only two trees. I was sitting under one tree, because I did not want to be too prominently in my flight footage. And I thought I was cruising along happily around "my" tree, where in fact I was flying around "the other" tree, some 150m away...
Video feed got distorted, and before I knew it, I was on the ground already! I had the beeper tied to a switch, so I could have the quad call out to me, but I did not hear any beeping... It was only after walking a full circle around "my" tree, that I figured it out. When I walked towards the other tree I started to hear a faint beep in the distance. This time, the quad was laying in plain sight in a relatively flat patch of sand. So soon after I heard the beeping, I also saw the quad laying on the ground, so I could switch off the beeper. Much to my surprise, the only damage I could immediately see was a light scraping over the propellers, and a good chunk of sand in between he frame and flightcontroller stack. Antennas were still intact, props were still on - not even loose, so basically, it was ready to fly
For as far as the Bfight 210 is concerned, spare parts are somewhat scarce. Luckily, GearBest recently added frame arms per set to their collection
BFight210 4mm Thick 3K Carbon Fiber Arm 2pcs
Motors of the brand FLoveFly are not available at the time of this writing yet. Or at least not in 2205 2300KV version. But any other 2205 2300KV will do too, of course. This does mean, however, that you'll want to exchange 4 pcs at once, if you "loose" only one motor, because you wouldn't want to mix different brands of motors. I would recommend the DYS Race edition motors. Not the cheapest, at some €15 per piece, but strong, high standards ones, with decent bearings:
I would buy 6 at once, so you have one spare of each type, but that's me. Contact me through the contact form in the menu on the top-right to see if I can arrange a one-off coupon code for such a set of 6. I think my contacts at GearBest are good enough to get such an additional discount...
Another example of how things can go south is of course my Tundra. Flying at the same clearing near the camping, I managed to put that one in the top of a tree. See this post: https://ericflies.blogspot.com/2017/10/owww-those-trees.html and subsequent repair posts to read how that happened.
There will be more crashes, and I won't be hiding them from you.
As I learn from them, I hope to share what happened, and - if possible - why, so that you don't have to make the same mistakes I do :)
Stay tuned!
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