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Osprey
Wow, I just made my maiden flight with the new S800 and Z15 with DJI 5.8ghz video link and iOSD (not markII), but i will down load the upgrade as soon as it is available.
It took about 8 hrs to put it all together and program 2 Futaba T8FG supers to control the ship and Zenmuse.
I have a F450 and an F550 with Naza and they work great, I have had my dealer replace a Naza once, it went bonkers on me and caused a hard landing w/o any damage, I wrote about that in a different thread.
I was a bit apprehensive after reading about the problems users have with the WKM on this and other boards.
But I charged up a couple 6000's and decided what the heck, the wind was about 3-5 gusting maybe 15, I am in the mountains, the temp was a balmy 15F.
I had some problems with the IOSD right off the bat, scrambled pic and flaky telemetry display, but the cold is probably the reason. So I tried a hover at 10' in my confined driveway, lots of trees and gusty wind. I took off in ATTI mode after swinging the compass and checking that everything seemed to work Z15 included.
It took off perfectly drifted maybe 3' left before I caught the gust and stabilized at about 10', my trim seems fine I use settings recommended by my dealer:
130 130 140 160
120 120
A little sluggish but smooth, Ok so I tried GPS, perfect 2-3 lateral drift maybe 3" vertical in gusty wind. My Naza's are about like this as well.
So I tried home lock perfect as well. I climbed a 100' or so very smooth the Z15 was making the video look very smooth even though the 800 was tossed by the gusts. Descending I did notice some vibration once I looked at the video closely, but that is to be expected IMHO.
My only problem is with the somewhat flaky iOSD, but I think the temperature had something to do with this. We checked it inside later and it was working fine. I read somewhere that others are seeing temp related problems with V1, and that new FW is coming out to upgrade to MKII that hopefully will fix this glitch. I also have a problem that new FW will fix, some of the Telemetry info is cut off L&R on my monitor, this is also supposed to be fixed with the new assistant SW not yet available.
So all and all a very successful maiden flight. It feels really stable and possible a little sluggish (this is probably because of the low trim settings, I will play more with them), but low trim setting = smooth flying for me at least.
The most impressive part is the Zenmuse/NEX5n, wow super smooth and very controllable. The video downlink worked well also, but as I said the iOSD needs work. Bleeding Edge I suppose...
Now if the wind drops off at sunset I will go back out for a sunset flight. But I hear it roaring around the house now at 20-30mph. More to come...
It took about 8 hrs to put it all together and program 2 Futaba T8FG supers to control the ship and Zenmuse.
I have a F450 and an F550 with Naza and they work great, I have had my dealer replace a Naza once, it went bonkers on me and caused a hard landing w/o any damage, I wrote about that in a different thread.
I was a bit apprehensive after reading about the problems users have with the WKM on this and other boards.
But I charged up a couple 6000's and decided what the heck, the wind was about 3-5 gusting maybe 15, I am in the mountains, the temp was a balmy 15F.
I had some problems with the IOSD right off the bat, scrambled pic and flaky telemetry display, but the cold is probably the reason. So I tried a hover at 10' in my confined driveway, lots of trees and gusty wind. I took off in ATTI mode after swinging the compass and checking that everything seemed to work Z15 included.
It took off perfectly drifted maybe 3' left before I caught the gust and stabilized at about 10', my trim seems fine I use settings recommended by my dealer:
130 130 140 160
120 120
A little sluggish but smooth, Ok so I tried GPS, perfect 2-3 lateral drift maybe 3" vertical in gusty wind. My Naza's are about like this as well.
So I tried home lock perfect as well. I climbed a 100' or so very smooth the Z15 was making the video look very smooth even though the 800 was tossed by the gusts. Descending I did notice some vibration once I looked at the video closely, but that is to be expected IMHO.
My only problem is with the somewhat flaky iOSD, but I think the temperature had something to do with this. We checked it inside later and it was working fine. I read somewhere that others are seeing temp related problems with V1, and that new FW is coming out to upgrade to MKII that hopefully will fix this glitch. I also have a problem that new FW will fix, some of the Telemetry info is cut off L&R on my monitor, this is also supposed to be fixed with the new assistant SW not yet available.
So all and all a very successful maiden flight. It feels really stable and possible a little sluggish (this is probably because of the low trim settings, I will play more with them), but low trim setting = smooth flying for me at least.
The most impressive part is the Zenmuse/NEX5n, wow super smooth and very controllable. The video downlink worked well also, but as I said the iOSD needs work. Bleeding Edge I suppose...
Now if the wind drops off at sunset I will go back out for a sunset flight. But I hear it roaring around the house now at 20-30mph. More to come...
