About

Gender

Male


Location

Miami, FL


About Me:

I am a Network Administrator who has become fond of the technical side of APM.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I have a QAV250, QAV400, Phantom 3 Advanced, Zeta Buffalo 79 wing, Assassin flying wing, Parkzone Visionaire, Blade MCPX v2, Trex 450 and a Trex 700e. Very much interested in UAVs and Pixhawk. Most of my aircraft are using pixhawk.


Hometown:

Miami


Activity Feed

Chadel P. replied to Serge Gonzales's discussion X-8 Catapult (credits to bretbb of rcgroups for the original design) in Catapult & Bungee Launchers
"Serge do you think you can build one of these for me?"
May 10, 2015
Chadel P. commented on brett binnekade's blog post Skwalker X8 catapult
"Who will be willing to build one like this catapult for me?"
May 10, 2015
Chadel P. replied to Oliver James's discussion 450 Heli UAV in ArduCopter (traditional heli) user group
"Ray is correct. You should at least be able to hover a helicopter or even better, recover the heli manually if something goes wrong. Also a separte screen for viewing video is not optional but mandatory. 
The reason I use a 45amp esc is because I…"
Oct 30, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Oliver James's discussion 450 Heli UAV in ArduCopter (traditional heli) user group
"Looks good so far. But thats alot of stuff to power on a small heli as a 450. What size flight battery do you plan to buy? Take a look at my setup minus the video equipment. May add it later. My setup is a VWINRC 450 frame (best 450 size UAV heli…"
Oct 30, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Where can I mount APM on a 450 heli
"Wow very nice. Check out my setup.IMG_1479.JPGIMG_1478.JPGIMG_1488.JPG"
Aug 18, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Where can I mount APM on a 450 heli
"Also, where did you mount the GPS? Is the GPS cable long enough?"
Aug 18, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Where can I mount APM on a 450 heli
"Hi Testuser0001. 
Do you have any pictures of you setup?"
Aug 18, 2014
Chadel P. posted a discussion
I have tried the WINRC 450 TB frame and its nice. But I need a really nice way to mount APM on a 450 heli. Can't seem to find the kits that let you mount APM under the heli. Cheers.
Aug 14, 2014
Chadel P. posted a discussion
Good day, I am currently building a qav400 and using a pixhawk. I soldered all 4 ESCs to the PCB and soldered the xt60 with positive and negative cable. I connected the motors to the ESCs.To recap, the battery connector, motors and ESCs are soldered…
Jul 11, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Should I use PPM encoder or PPM receiver?
"Was wondering the same thing."
Jul 7, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Should I use PPM encoder or PPM receiver?
"I have a spectrum satellite receiver. But I read somewhere that it's better to have a full receiver vs the satellite. Is that true? Or am I perfectly good using satellite?"
Jul 7, 2014
Chadel P. posted a discussion
Good day.I usually fly helicopters but I bout a quadcopter, pixhawk, 3dr radios and gps.I realise the pixhawk uses PPM. I have a 7ch spektrum receiver. I was wondering, for a quadcopter, do I need 8 channels or is 7 channels enough? Because I know…
Jul 7, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Too much collective pitch
"Perfect. Thank you so much. Solved."
May 17, 2014
Chadel P. posted a discussion
Goodnight. Can someone assist me with tuning my 450 size heli. I have so much collective pitch. About 40 deg positive and and about 22 deg negative. I am looking for the 10% positive and negative. Where does one set this?
May 15, 2014
Chadel P. replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Stabilize mode compensating in wrong direction
"Thanks, this worked."
May 15, 2014
Chadel P. replied to gsenroc's discussion 450 heli project with PX4
"Wow. That looks good. Great job! Right now I am impressed but not sure if I wanna venture that far yet. Still tuning my heli. Haven't used my gps or compass yet either."
May 15, 2014
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