Ready for my maiden

[gtv]

Well I have finally got my bixler ready for her maiden FPV flight,running stock motor, 5.8ghz 200mw tx, Cyclops storm osd stock ant. for the moment. not going to go fair out just give her a shake down.

[Granpaw Jonah]

Looking good there. I'm hoping to fly with OSD for first time. Weekend is looking promising. Yeah.... everything crossed.
  Gramps...looking for luck...... ^-^

[stevestoys]

Nice looks ace mate. Enjoy ;D

[Dizzy]

gtv nice clean looking build you have there  nice to see a home brewed fpv cockpit, i suspect your watching the weather closily.
Good luck with your maiden :D

dizzy

[mrwilljackson]

awesome build - don't forget to record your maiden! good luck!

[keukpa]

Woah Woah Woah Woah (That's English for Stop a horse)

Take OUT the stock motor.... put in a 2200KV one....

The stock motor is RUBBISH, I have one of these, and was trying to FPV, but the motor just can NOT fly the plane with FPV gear on.... I have some videos on here of its performance...

Check em out....

Keukpa

[gtv]

Woah Woah Woah Woah (That's English for Stop a horse)

Take OUT the stock motor.... put in a 2200KV one....

The stock motor is RUBBISH, I have one of these, and was trying to FPV, but the motor just can NOT fly the plane with FPV gear on.... I have some videos on here of its performance...

Check em out....

Keukpa

Hi and cheers, but I have a 2200kv in my zagi great performance but run time is to low, with this setup I can get 30mins plus on a 2200mah battery. the cockpit fully installed is only 100g more that stock so I am hoping it will be ok, I am not looking for vertical climb more like a floater. If I do do find its not up to the job I will be changing it for a lower kv something around 1400kv and a bigger prop.

[electricmick]

Always run the biggest prop you can fit on a pusher config, without going over current on ESC and motor, as it will improve efficiency a lot.

[keukpa]

Trust me, you'll find the stock motor is poor! You'll need FULL throttle to keep the thing in the air! :)

Good luck with it tho!

Keukpa

[gtv]

Trust me, you'll find the stock motor is poor! You'll need FULL throttle to keep the thing in the air! :)

Good luck with it tho!

Keukpa

OK just come back from the field, as a dry run everything worked ok. I had a problem with video see my other post but apart from that the plane flew well, set up the gps PA and RTH, that was a but scarcely as when it circles it seems to have a diameter of around 300m, does this sound about right?

As for the motor, it ran fine was happy at 1/2 throttle with full throttle at take off to gain height fast, ok will will not climb straight up but I am happy with that at the moment.

[Coyote]

Nice clean build, looks great :)

[CurryKitten]

Trust me, you'll find the stock motor is poor! You'll need FULL throttle to keep the thing in the air! :)

Good luck with it tho!

Keukpa

OK just come back from the field, as a dry run everything worked ok. I had a problem with video see my other post but apart from that the plane flew well, set up the gps PA and RTH, that was a but scarcely as when it circles it seems to have a diameter of around 300m, does this sound about right?

As for the motor, it ran fine was happy at 1/2 throttle with full throttle at take off to gain height fast, ok will will not climb straight up but I am happy with that at the moment.

That's made me happy - I've got a newly built Bix 2 ready to maiden with a similar FPV setup.  The motor has been worrying me as people kept on moaning about it.  I hope to go into the maiden with a little more confidence now

[electricmick]

Glad it flies well, 300m is OK for a circle about home, you can increase gain to tighten it up if you wish. You will probably find that on a windy day it tends to be blown downwind a bit as it tries to turn upwind, conversely it turns very quickly downwind, so the plane tends to fly an oval offset downwind, again not a problem.

[gtv]

Ah thats peace of mind thanks :)