eric's model flying blog

This is going to be a small series of me assembling a ZOHD Talon GT in an INAV configuration. I have the Talon on order already, and am waiting for it to arrive. Banggood was kind enough to supply me with a MATEK F405 WING flightcontroller, a Ublox M8N GPS , and an FrSky XM+ receiver to test this configuration 😁 The Talon was paid for regularly, mind you. Just to be clear and transparent on that. This makes an INAV configuration possible, but the most obvious next step would be to introduce a long-range transmitter module / receiver combo. The XM+ shoud have a decent enough range to fly line of sight, and maybe some FPV, a little further out, but an FrSky R9M setup (ca. €100), or even better: a Crossfire setup  (ca. €200), would be the way to go for this type of flying. I don't have those yet, so donations are always welcome! That can be as simple as clicking on any of the (affiliate product links in this blog, and ordering something from those stores that are linked. It do...

Rebuilding my Durafly Tundra took longer than expected, and the result was not good enough. So my plan was to do things right, this time around, and get new parts wherever needed. That ended up in me buying a new Tundra all over again...

Meanwhile (while I was working on my S500 homebuilt quadcopter), I joined a Dutch drone forum that had just started: www.dronepilots.nl. After a while, they organised a price draw of one of the drones they had received for a review. And guess what? I won! 😃 It's a GDU Byrd, formerly known as ProDrone Byrd. I won one with the old ProDrone logo still on it. It's a full size foldable drone, with a modular gimbal system. Mine came with the standard 1080p camera. It has a holder for a phone or tablet on the controller, and after the accompanying app connects to the controller's WiFi, you get pretty much all the functionality you'd expect from a drone capable of autonomius flight: auto take-off, auto land, GPS and baro assisted position hold, (auto) return to home, waipoint missions, video and photography remote control, etc. Full resolution video is stored on an SD card inside the camera, and (if you indicate that in options) a lower resolution version on the mobile d...