About

Gender

Male


Location

Gauteng


About Me:

Living in South Africa and love RC planes Hobby. Flying Helicopter and planes


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am a amateur engineer and love to play with electronics to see how this can add a new dimension to our hobby.


Hometown:

Pretoria


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Chris Breytenbach replied to obarrero's discussion Problems with auto take off in FX-61 Phantom
"Oscar did you came right? I had many successful auto takeoffs with my fx-61. Do your wing fly in a strait line when on manual mode? Meaning Is your wing trimmed correct?

When you initialized your wing does it react correctly when you are in…"
May 15, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Hugues's discussion XUAV Talon on its way in X-UAV Talon
"My Talon arrived this week. This would be my second uav, fist one and still flying is FX-61 wing. Very good uav but space get cramped when you add APM with telematry radios, video down link, still photo camera and 5000-10000mah batteries. Full load…"
May 15, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Damo's discussion Right Aileron Raises when i roll the APM to the right in ArduPlane User Group
"Damo, when APM in stabilize mode and you tilt Apm to the right, right aileron need to move down and left aileron need to move up. This is to level the plane, and is the same as left stick input on transmitter.

Thus your option 1 is moving in the…"
May 6, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Marius van Rijnsoever's discussion Launching FX-61 in FX-61 Phantom
"Hi Marius, i have had so far 25 flights with my FX-61 and all of them with apm auto launch. When it was light <1,5kg hand launch was no problem. Once i passed the 1,7kg mark i had a few unsuccessful launches. It does not glyde far enough before…"
Mar 2, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
"Very nice.
Will it be able to land in rough field?
Keep us up to date with the maiden."
Feb 27, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
"Matt

Yes with SX230 Camera and 1x5000mah battery or 2x2200 bateries."
Feb 27, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
"My protection for the camera."
Feb 27, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
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Feb 27, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
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Feb 27, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
"Calle,
Here is a photo from 83 meters in hight."
Feb 27, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
"Calle,
 I have drilled a hole in the bottom of the plane for the lens to open. I placed the camera at the back, between the batteries in the from and the motor at the back. I my photos you will see I have black foam at the back. This is where my…"
Feb 23, 2014
Chris Breytenbach replied to Matt's discussion Show your setup! in FX-61 Phantom
"All am am new to this forum.
I am flying RC planes and helicopter for the past 3 years. Getting into UAV in the last 4 months.

Here is my Fx-61 setup.
Stock Motor, Servos and ESC
Prop busy testing 9x6 (Max 10,5amp), 10x5 (max 12,4 amp)  and 10x7…"
Jan 29, 2014