Recent content by Cowcharge

Hey all, flew for the first time in a month today, first 2 flights since my X-Star came home from the factory. Everything went fine, except for two things: 1., another brief switch into ATTI mode as if the GPS signal was lost (I still showed 7), which is why I sent it back in the first place...

Does the video have to go to the TV through a tablet? Can I pick up the signal with a separate 900MHz receiver? Thanks.

It's not the same setup as the stock props. With the MAs, the 'hex opening' (really just some tabs) only keeps the nuts there while the props are off. They don't affect the operation unless you manage to cross-thread them because you didn't notice they were sitting crooked, which would be hard...

If the nuts are just loose in the props you can snap them into place. The problem ones are the ones where the nuts weren't drilled and tapped deeply enough to ever tighten down.

Reformat the card, re-download the update.

Yeah I've got some bags on order. Just seems like this technology isn't ready.

When I was about 12 I broke my 5-iron playing in the snow.

Be patient with me, I never had to build a bunker to keep any of my toys in before.

That's not a good analogy. 'What we want to do with it' is fly a specific aircraft at its highest possible power efficiency without sacrificing performance. It's more like debating which tire would be optimum on the Rolls.

There are only two kinds of pitch I'm aware of. Blade pitch. Stock props are 5.5" pitch, while the MA props I bought are 5". Lower angle of attack, less drag, and it should generate less thrust at the same RPM. And audible pitch. MA props have a lower audio pitch, which implies lower RPM. which...

It's been in the double-digits-below-zero-F down here in Maine the last few nights, too. Before the wind chill. Got up to a balmy 3 above this afternoon. If it's above zero in the day tomorrow I'm gonna try to fly. I just got my toyota glove in the mail today.

Hehe you sound like turnigy's PR man (j/k). I'm gonna build a big one that uses motorcycle batteries.

... and used some other kind of battery. So many videos of these things bursting into flames, I'm getting paranoid to have them in the house at all.

I have 2 sets of the MA props, but I just updated the firmware and I'm going to wait until I'm more used to the machine before I try them so I'll have a better sense of the difference.

Well if the improvements are real then Autel's props can't be optimum.