FLIGHT CONTROL

Hi everyone,I am new to DIY Drones. I am trying to develop the FCS for a small model aircraft. I want it to be able to perform flight control and navigation functions. Could you tell me what hardware components I can choose (with moderate cost) that can effectively perform these functions?Regards
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  • Hi Sesan. Welcome in the gold mine for diy UAVs. As Chris suggested, go through the discussions and posts. There's a huge lot of information to gather.
    I landed here a few months ago and since then, I think I spent more time on this blog than with my wife. Maybe diy UAVs are harder to understand? Well, I'm not quite sure about that...
    @ James: sorry too for your airframe. I hope you could salvage the hardware. This remembers me that last spring, I made a nice aerobatic evening flight with my small brushless Extra 330. Suddenly I lost control (Rx probably) during a dive at about 100m from ground. The thing went straight down like an arrow at 250m from me, just behind a terrain elevation. I picked up my bag and stuff and during my walk to the crash scene, as I could not yet see the wreck, a thick cloud of white-grey smoke came up. I ran to the plane; its nose was going up in flames. I was afraid the lipo battery would explode but I could somehow take the plane off the burning nose. The 11V 2200mAh lipo had slipped from its bed straight into the motor shaft protruding backwards... E-flight can be as explosive as gas!
    But I have to admit this has nothing to do with the question by Sesan...
  • Sorry about your lost RC plane. And thanks for the piece of advice
  • The first of advice I'm sure you will find everywhere is to make sure you keep your rc controller attached as your failsafe should your software develop a problem like mine did. I destroyed a plane yesterday testing software which wasn't quite flight ready. Had I have taken of with the original controller and got some height first before switching to software control I might have been able to save the plane.
  • 3D Robotics
    Well, you're at the right place ;-) This is your answer. Please spend some time on the site and you'll find what you need.
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