AtomRC Swordfish with Walksnail Avatar HD
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- The AtomRc Swordfish is quickly becoming one of my all time favorite airframes. It works especially well for FPV with plenty. of room for gear. I would like to thank bonafidepirate for his input on helping get the Swordfish in the air. I highly recommend checking out his channel if you are into FPV.
/ @bonafidepirate
Great flight, and very enjoyable to watch with the narration! Thanks for the kind words too, I'm happy that I'm able to help. It looks like you're getting along nicely with the Swordfish at this point! lol
Thank you Keith! Appreciate all of your insight.
Check your NAVI flight controller to make sure that it has not come loose frrom the plywood. Mine came loose after one minor hard landing. I think AtomRC has it glued to the plywood with contact cement which may not be enough to do the job.
Thanks for the tip! Will definitely have a look. Thanks for watching!
The antennas provided by Walksnail are known to be not very good. I'm a big fan of the TrueRC antennae.
On the topic of the plane rolling on launch, I was seeing that the motors were not starting simultaneously on launch. I applied an idle speed when armed set at 1200 and that seems to have solved the problem of the rolling after hand launches. The motors will still run all the way down to 0 when you lower the stick after you exit the launch sequence.
I will definitely look into idle speed when armed. Thanks for the tip!
I noticed on mine that the Swordfish v-tail elevators (whatever you call them), the control surface moves slightly faster on the left side, in one direction from center, then the right side moves faster in the opposite direction from center. Basically, the left and right v-tail control surfaces do not seem to be moving symmetrically from center (not sure if that is an iNav setting or what). I had assumed ATOMRC set that up properly. It is subtle, but it seems to fly ok like that. My settings on iNav are such that it goes straight up extremely steeply. No issues launching at all. Hopefully, you can tell if your flight controller is showing level when you plug it into iNav. FYI - your fonts look great. I have issues with mine (artificial horizon and return to home arrow). Whatever combination you and BP are using works.
This was cool, i recently got interested in Planes and wings. Also running Walksail on my drones
Great video. Looks like it flys great! Just curious what Walksnail firmware are you running here?
How is it possible that you only have 13mbits right after the start?
I believe I may have found the issue. I have two patch antennas on my ground station that are setup as RHCP and the Walksnail System is LHCP. I will be making the necessary changes and do another flight to see if the Mbps increases.
It's as soon as he arms. Signal drops from 4 to 2 and Mbps drop by a half. I suspect it's the 'calibration issue' suggested by Walksnail which seems to be affecting the majority of their VTXs now. Two of my four VTXs have this problem.
@@wattage2007 I believe you are on the right track with the calibration issue. I do know there was a piece of documentation that Walksnail has and there is a video here on UA-cam explaining how to for a lack of better terms calibrate the system. With that said, I have been able to get out a fair bit of distance with not to much problem. The bitrate seems to hold pretty solid even though it drops in half after arming.
If you're looking for efficiently, single engine platforms are better and rear engine configuration
Yeah, don't think anything can touch the Mini Talon/Mini Talon Pro types.
what battery did you use for 23 minutes of flying time?
@gsulliv1 I have been using the ZOHD 4S 18650 3500 mah lithium-ion pack.