 Hello everyone so I thought I'd show you in this flight today that Things don't always go to plan for starters look at my takeoff throttle 67% Terrible for this craft. I want you know sort of at least up in the higher 70s Maybe the lower 80 80% But you want to make sure you give your plane enough thrust to get off the ground Without trying to cut the grass Now I've got the Caddx Ratel in here and it's a CMOS camera So without the filter on which it doesn't have at the moment. There's going to be some It's going to be some Jell-O The higher I go more Jell-O is going to be So we're going to fly around a little bit low just to just make sure everything's working, okay? Now I'm going to say a quick little thing about the GPS module on this. This is the Beltian, Bertian The 180 I'm not overly impressed with it. I'm not overly impressed with it. I'd normally run the U-Blocks MN-MN 8 type Satellite receivers and they they work a lot better, you know, you normally got between 17 and 22 type satellites Where on a good day, you know, this is a pretty clear day. It's early in the morning as you can see the sun's just rising it's on a pretty clear day and The best I will get out of this satellite receiver is about 15 satellites 14-15 satellites. That's the best and as you can see at the minute I haven't got that. Even though the H-stop is quite low so all the satellites I'm connected to are all overlapped nicely In a place and that sweet spot there the H-stop That's pretty good 1.3 So so yeah, I'm just having a little bit of fly around quite low There's no one here, you know, I can go up in the air when I first could take off I always have a little wrecky around me I can see because I'm looking into a screen Not goggles. I can see all around me anyway my peripheral vision and everything and just a quick flick around with the eyes When I go up, I can see if there's anybody on the other side of this hedge and bits and pieces. I don't want to startle anybody But this is a video about Some of the things that can go wrong. So I mean at the moment I'm flying around and the VTX that I'm using is one of them little cheap V Was it a V0 VTX-01 or something from Banggood? I don't expect too much out of it. It's 200 milliwatts. It's served me very well so far, especially when you take into account the price and So a little, you know, obviously I've made a mistake my head when this starts doing its thing So you know so far so good something a little fly around and is it's it's you know this they are wing I think it's a lovely little thing to fly. It's a great one to learn on I'm sure that's what people say that they're a learner's wing and I think it's great. I've never flown another wing so I couldn't give you a comparison Hey, what's it like to this or that? I don't know. All I've done is had to go on this one And I like it. I just like the idea that it's quite small Even you know when people come up and talk to me and they I let them feel the weight of the wing and I know it's naughty because generally I don't have a battery in it starting off with And they feel the weight and they say wow, it's so light. Of course, you know, it's polystyrene. That's what I tell you which is made out of polystyrene I tell my life flying it because you know the motors on the back and even if I did crash into something is You know, you know, it's just polystyrene. It's not gonna hurt. It's not gonna break anything. And that's great Yeah, so as you can see flying everything seems to be okay, doesn't it? I mean even going around the back of the trees I'm using a linear antenna on the transmitter and I've got a circular polarized antenna on the receiver so I know that going behind these trees on my quad and that's got a circular polarized antenna They do work better. Again, I use in this area here I always use 200 milliwatts on my quad or on the On the wing on the wing. I like their choice because it only goes up soon to be watched And and on the quad Yeah, the Well, I put on 200 milliwatts around here because the thing is I like flying quite low And if you have all that extra power flatten out, you're gonna get a lot more reflections So you're gonna see more perceive it as interference in your in your image Which I try and keep cut down as low as I can so not not always having that high power high gain or anything is It's great for you But yeah, so as you can see everything seems to work and okay Any fault so far. It's it's me the pilot Everything seems to work and okay if you see that my RSSI seems to be awfully low as I tend to run this in a mode called Dynamic So it adjusts itself as needed So here I don't like I've skipped forward to when it gets into a bit of a mess here You see a bit of jello there's a little bit higher. Here we go. Look, I'm running into a bit of pickle here because for one thing on My radio I've been playing around with it in the software and I think I've got my Position hold and my return to home at the wrong ends of the switch So where I'd normally pull the switch towards me for a turn to home Push the switch away from me for position hold I think these two are in the wrong place because it's not doing what I'm expecting it to do And as you can see I've got no picture and that can be quite scary And I think in these times when this happens This is the time when you really got to keep you cool I'm looking away because I get quite a lot of telemetry sent through to my radio So I can have a quick little look down at my radio and I can see that I've still got a bit of altitude I'm still moving. I still got you know GPS lock and all this sort of thing and But yeah, this is what can happen I mean you can run into this and you can think oh my life What am I gonna do and the best thing I can say to you is look you just as soon as you get a little tiny glimpses Try and get your judgment on where you are And If you've got the benefit of some big home-based structure like right there top You know in the left-hand side now you can see what I'm gonna get back to so you can see all these trees and everything That's are there in the way of me And this is where even on the same amount of power That the circular polarized antenna works a lot better because there was no faults with the craft There was no faults with the VTX But with a circular polarized antenna, you know that does actually work better Through there. Now I must admit this is in the middle of it seems like the summertime by looking at the video and There's a lot of foliage on the trees and that will eat up That will eat up very quickly your signal. So yeah, so that's it. You know, I'm out of danger And I'm glad that I didn't lose the craft Especially down in the area over there. So that means I'd have had to cross quite a few fields and probably upset people trying to get it as I Didn't have to get a telling off when one day I went in there looking for my hoops. So, yeah These these are just some of the things you're gonna be careful of like I said right at the start It was about not giving it enough throttle and I hadn't flown it for a little while and I'm you know So I didn't give it enough throttle throw it up in the air But tell you make sure you always get plenty of throttle when you're better off giving plenty of throttle. Don't try and take off in a Assisted mode being like GPS or anything because when you're trying to throw it up in the air It's automatic. You're gonna try and bring you down and and if you do run into lack of signal You know try and get a bit higher try and have a place you can look for that to bring you back in and I'll catch you in the next one guys Take care of yourselves