Hi All,

I just wanted to share my experience from the last 1+ years improving my quad, I hope not to bore you. :D

Also, I am open for any cool suggestions from any of you.

The main objective until now, has been to build all parts needed for this quad by myself, to not to depend on spare parts that needs to be bought from Hong Kong stores or stuff like that, if anything breaks, I should be able to fix it with the tools and materials available.

What I am having problems with right now is that I don't have landing gear, I am not sure if I need it, sometimes I do, most of the times not.

The first quad was an ELEV8 kit with a Hoverfly Pro, that copter was abused by my inexperience flying any kind of RC aircraft, now that copter is gone and the hoverfly is resting in a box, maybe will use it in the future.

Now it's time for the APM2.5

After many different frames, most of them made out of aluminum and kitchen tables, I decided it was time to go with carbon fiber.

I bought some CF tubes and plates from Hobbyking and started with the building process.

The results are a very stable quadcopter.

I am using the following components:

APM2.5

Turnigy Plush 30A ESC's

RCTimer 880kv motors

3S 5000mAh and 2200mAh

Yesterday I recived the usb connector to be able to use the gopro3 for FPV, it's all soldered and mounted in the quad, can't wait for the weekend and give it a try for the first time, probably will end up at the top of a tree :D.

Here is a test flight (no FPV) that I did a couple of weeks ago:

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Tono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2AmLcnTod0

And also added some pics of the quad.