First, I have to say that after weeks of waiting for legs to rebuild my F550 (everything is stock parts, no alterations or replacement of props with other brands), I have flown with both small props using a 4s 4.0 Lipo and the larger props using a 3s 3.3 Lipo. I was able to have it take off and gently navigate it around my front yard today. For many, this might not sound like a great accomplishment but for me it was. In the ATTI mode, it did its best to maintain a stable hover but I still experienced very slight yawing and pitching requiring me to put in minute stick corrections to compensate but not bad. I also notice that it has a tendency to shoot up with only a slight increase in throttle. Is this something I should expect and get use to? One thing I did not try is the GPS mode.
This is because I am not sure if I was successful going through the celebration and it complete correctly. I am able to get it into a sold yellow by flicking between GPS and Manual. The yellow light is solid. I then pick it up and (in the middle of a field and me not wearing jewelry on) I picked up the craft and slowly turned clockwise a full 360 degrees but I did not see a change from yellow to green (how close to each other is their hue?). I then turn the craft vertically and I then repeated the rotation procedure. Many times the light went out. I then rotated it back horizontally and placed it on the ground for takeoff. This is when I notice the steady (yellow or green, I am not sure) flashing light. My question is was the compass successfully calibrated. If so, does anyone have an explanation as to why I did not see a color change between the horizontal and vertical portion of the calibration process (as stated in the online Naza manual and from other YouTube on this subject. I like to put it in the GPS mode and test the Failsafe and RTH features but I fear that if the GPS is not calibrated and working I don’t know what to expect (outside of a definite uncontrolled crash).
Thanks to all in advance :nevreness:
This is because I am not sure if I was successful going through the celebration and it complete correctly. I am able to get it into a sold yellow by flicking between GPS and Manual. The yellow light is solid. I then pick it up and (in the middle of a field and me not wearing jewelry on) I picked up the craft and slowly turned clockwise a full 360 degrees but I did not see a change from yellow to green (how close to each other is their hue?). I then turn the craft vertically and I then repeated the rotation procedure. Many times the light went out. I then rotated it back horizontally and placed it on the ground for takeoff. This is when I notice the steady (yellow or green, I am not sure) flashing light. My question is was the compass successfully calibrated. If so, does anyone have an explanation as to why I did not see a color change between the horizontal and vertical portion of the calibration process (as stated in the online Naza manual and from other YouTube on this subject. I like to put it in the GPS mode and test the Failsafe and RTH features but I fear that if the GPS is not calibrated and working I don’t know what to expect (outside of a definite uncontrolled crash).
Thanks to all in advance :nevreness: