Bart, I am with you on this. I still fly two HFP boards. One on an Octa and one on an XY8 (still a green board). I've spent hours messing with the GPS to no avail. Even with the external mag. I am trying out the X right now. The GPS is amazing, but so far overall it does not compare in smoothness to HFP. But, I am not comparing apples to apples as the SuperX is just on a small quad. The Manual and AL flight modes on the HFP are great, but there are so many times when GPS would be a great asset. If nothing else, it saves a ton of stress to fly a long scene, where disorientation is common and with the NAZA or super X I can set sticks to neutral and regroup. Not so with the HFP.
So, yes, there is some discontent in the land of HFP. This latest announcement did not help. I am not giving up on HF, but I just purchased an Alexmos board and built a brushless gimbal for the GH3 and it is amazing! If HF is releasing a Brushless gimbal controller, it better be solid or there will be hell to pay. I am very curious about their BGC but HF needs to fix their GPS as a top priority. An announcement should have been made on this front.
Tahoelight, I'm pretty much in 100% agreement with you, esp on your first paragraph. Love the HFP flying, be even better having a GPS/ATT mode for insurance , recovery or what ever you want to call it. It takes so much stress and injects so much more enjoyment to flying when you have a few $$ dollars in the air. When I have my x8 in the air and I lose orientation, I literally almost have a 2 second heart attack.
I switched my xy8 to x8 to try the XaircraftX flight controller. Right now, I'm not sold on the x8 config & XAircraft. It's been very windy here, but that's a good test.
On my XY8/hfp, I had to have the gains set perfectly on my larger alexmos gimbal gh3/gh2/ to get perfect video. If I didn't have the HFP (and alexmos) gains set up perfectly, I could here it on the MR and see some extra jitters in the video So far that's what I'm getting on the XAircraft. Video can be rock steady on hoover, but then when it starts moving around, I get some occasional jitters. It's still too early, but I also haven't got the silky smooth flying on the XAircraft yet. Sometimes it feels decent, but then when some wind comes, it's a jittering fool. It's easy to fly though with the ATT & GPS modes, just not silky smooth. I still tuning to get subtle moves in ATT and GPS mode. I shows promise, but........ Maybe I should try it on a hex...
It would be so simple if HF would get a decent GPS/ATT type mode for a reasonable amount of $$.
For what it's worth, the funnest and smoothest flying I get is with gopro on my NazaV2 f450 with tiger motors. If I could set the exposure on that camera, I'd fly that the majority of the time in narrow mode. It's so much fun to fly when there isn't much wind......
I'm going to switch gimbles this afternoon and try to get a couple tuning flights in on my x8 w/ XAircraft. Maybe it's my gimbal settings, This stuff is just confusing.