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  • INAV OSD Map and Radar modes explained

    INAV 2.0 introduced two new OSD modes: Map and Radar. Here is a video describing what are Radar and Map modes in INAV and how you can use them.

  • Matek F722-STD not booting without battery and how to fix it

    What to do when Matek F722-STD flight controller is not booting without connected battery and connection from Configurator is not working? Simple, power GPS and magnetometer from a different pad. All 5V pads are powered only when external power is supplied to the flight controller. Not when power is applied via USB cable. If you…

  • EMAX RS2 2206 1600KV motors hands on

    Think about an electric motor for your 5 (or maybe even 6) inch acro or FPV racing quadcopter. What do you see? Something in a 2205-2306 size range with a KV rating somewhere 2300KV and 2600KV. Sometimes even more. And it works great, as long as you wat 5-inch props and 4S batteries. You can…

  • How to flash FrSky R9 Mini, R9 Slim and others with your radio

    FrSky is not making things simple with R9 long range system. New firmware appears quite often and there is no way to flash receivers over the air. You can use some PC software, passthrough from FC and things like that, but from my perspective, as long as you can get to the receiver itself, the…

  • INAV OSD Profiles – because one OSD layout is not enough

    INAV 2.0 changes a lot. Including OSD. One of the new functions is something called “OSD Profiles”. You can set up 3 independent OSD layouts to radio switches and change them during flight. One OSD profile can display all the data, second one minimal set of data and the third one Map or Radar mode.

  • Custom FrSky R9M 868MHz antennas giveaway

    As you might have realized, from time to time I’m making an antenna and I have the equipment for it. I’m also strongly considering to produce a small batch of antennas for FrSky R9 long-range radio system since there is a high demand for such antennas. I have made a first small series or FrSky…

  • Matek F411-Wing Hands On

    Let’s take a look at the new flight controller from Matek designed for airplanes: Matek F411-Wing. Comparing to its older brother (or sister or just a sibling) Matek F405-Wing it is much smaller, lighter and lacks many of the features: 2 UARTs instead of 6 5 servos instead of 7 no SD card slot 3…

  • FrSky R9M and R9 Slim long range radio system review

    When FrSky R9M long range transmitter and FrSky R9 receiver series started to pop up some time ago, there was a lot of speculations “it is any good?” “is it a Team Black Sheep Crossfire killer” “cheap Crossfire alternative?”. In time, new firmware started to appear, new receivers and so on. And oh yes, EU…

  • Team BlackSheep tries to start a war against FrSky due to new FrSky antennas or what?

    FrSky makes radios. Good and very good. Dominates the market. Taranis, Horus and all of them TBS makes bloody good long range 868/915MHz long-range radio system called Crossfire that is commonly used by FrSky radio users FrSky tries to make its own 868/915MHz long-range system called R9 FrSky releases new R9 firmware called Flex, new…