European Union is regulating drone and RC airplanes law and starting from June 2020 all member countries will have to align its laws to meet EASA regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947. According to them: drone pilots will have to register and pass an online test commercial drones will be classified into classes: C0, C1, C2, C3,…

Jumper T16 RC transmitter messed around in the RC hobby in the last few weeks. FrSky wants to ban it since according to them it’s a clone of FrSky X10 (bullshit by the way). The question is: is Jumper T16 a good radio transmitter worth the money and what’s more important, is it a real…

INAV 2.2 is almost ready. The list of changes is long, those are the most important ones STM32F7 optimizations. F7 flight controllers are now as fast as F4 Better airmode handling for multirotors Betaflight D_min equivalent called D-Boost Iterm Relax Smart Audio 2.1 New Mission Planner Continue mission on failsafe waypoints in CLI stick arming…

If too long didn’t watch: it’s a GPS equipped beacon/locator DIY system based on popular radio development boards compatible with Arduino: LoRa32u4 and ESP32 LORA32 working in 868/915MHz band using LoRa modulation. You put a beacon on anything you want to track: airplane, drone, car, boat, wife, husband and use Locator to get distance and…

This video is for both fixed wing and quad pilots that think about flying slightly further away than usual and have zero experience. I will skip aspects like hardware setup, RC link and concentrate on not so obvious aspects like knowing your ground, trusting your hardware, wind, OSD, directions, planning and so on.

Quad backpack… there are cheap quad backpacks, there are photo backpacks and there are expensive quad backpacks. Currently, I own a quad backpack that belongs to the last category: Torvol Quad Pitstop Pro. After using it for 3 months, it’s time for a review. It’s not an ultimate quad backpack, but probably it is the…

In today’s “beginners” episodes: how to bind FrSky receivers with OpenTX radios. Almost all receivers: FrSky X8R, X4R, XSR, R-XSR, XM, XM+ but also “long-range” R series like R9, R9 Slim, R9 mini. With all the FrSky (and not only) OpenTX radios: Taranis X9D, Taranis Q7, X-Lite, Horus X10S, Horus X12 and so on… But…

7 inch quads are great, but they are tricky. It’s much harder to make them fly smoothly than 5-inchers. It’s just more demanding in term of stiffness, propellers, vibrations, jello and so on. After almost one year of fighting with all those issues, here is my list of 7 tips and tricks how to get…

PIFF controller in INAV is with us for quite some time now. And it’s working just fine, much better than classic PID when it comes down to airplanes. There is, or rather was, a small problem tho: Iterm. When P and FF components of the controller are not tuned, Iterm might do crazy things that…