Gender
Male
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Location
Midlothian, TX
About Me:
33 Years old, helicopter mechanic, been into R/C for at least 15 years. Have several years of machine shop experience and am well versed with machining titanium, other materials, and alloys.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I want to setup a full autonomous quad rotor for surveillance purposes.
Hometown:
Midlothian, Texas
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I was wondering if I programmed a mission that required the quad to fly out of ground and TX communication range would the quad finish the mission and return to home as programmed?
Like the title asks. I was wondering if anyone is using the hero 3 for fpv and if it is any better for fpv use than anything else out there in the price range.
"Is there any type of formula to figure this out without actually just buying stuff and trying it."
"Yes to all of that. Good idea on the test stand. As far as power to weight ratio for picking a motor setup I read that I should try to maintain a 60% weight to available thrust ratio to have a good responsive craft. Meaning that say I have a max…"
"I figured that would fall under the hardware I had mentioned. Thanks for the suggestion to buy more though I will make it so."
Well I am diving head first into this corner of the R/C hobby. I have been doing R/C aircraft for quite a while now and was amazed the first time I saw a well performing quad rotor. I am now even more amazed with where the prices are in relation to…
