What motor brands are the most robust as far as breakage and the ability to fix them?

Hello all!

I wanted to start a thread on what motors everyone believes are the seem to be the most robust as a reasonable cost? 

Lets put a limits on say 50$ max per motor and preferable much cheaper.

I have had 7 motors go bad in the last 9 months, wit

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Questions for clarification on expect RTL behavior

Hello all!

I had a few quick questions here to validate some thoughts on expected RTL behavior for a heli/multi-rotor.

1. Where is home?

• Expected Answer: Where there GPS believes it was when the vehicle was armed.

2. Does home reset each time I re-arm th

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Question on using multiple 3dr radios to control multiple drones

Hello all!

I was looking at q-ground control and noticed that mavlink supports up to 255 devices. This got me thinking. How does one go about controlling multiple drones at a physical communication level?

Using the 3dr 915 mhz radios - Can I simply hav

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A report about high wind flying with a copter - thoughts and questions

Hello all!

I had the time yesterday (and guts) to see how 2.8.1 would do in high wind situations and thought I would share my experience with everyone as I was over all impressed.

Conditions:

• Overcast
• Temperature: 60-70 F
• Wind was out of the SSW at 30-35

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Tuning Question - Problem - Hover great in stabalize mode and alt hold mode, but wobbles slowly in auto, loiter and RTL.

Hey all!

I'm pretty new to this whole multicopter thing and have been flying a quad for a couple months and just assembled a hex rotor copter. (sacrificing the quad)

Everything looks good so far getting about 8-9 minutes of flight time on a 3s 4500ma b

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