Hi everybody, I must have been good this year cos I was lucky enough to get one of these for Christmas!!!!!
A bit of background info on me and a bit of advice to new pilots in my extremely limited experience of flying quadcopters is that I started off with a second hand Hubsan X4 H107 and got to learn the basics with that. I'd advise anyone that's wanting to get one to do this cos if you can master the X4 then the FC40 is LOADS easier to fly than the X4 in GPS mode (I've tried any other mode yet!).
I've got a few questions that I'd really like answers to though please by all the pro's on this site and I'm sorry if they sound stupid or obvious! [emoji4]
The first one is this!
Am I right in thinking that it will ascend at 6 metres a second?
I've sent it up a few times really high but have still had a link up FPV to the camera so even though it's just a small dot in the sky then according to the FPV range it can't have been more than 100 metres? I timed it to 20 seconds whilst holding the left stick all the way up which would put it at 120 metres approx if the 6 metres per second thing is correct but I could still see the live footage? My transmitter beeps twice when I switch it on which according to the manual says that the range is 500 metres so in theory could I time it to approx 1 minute 20 seconds and still have control of the quadcopter to bring it back down safely?
The second is If I program & set the S2 switch to manual mode will it behave like the X4 did as I've heard that it's not recommended to select the manual setting?
The last question (for now [emoji6] !) is can I program the S2 switch to activate failsafe and is it reliable as I don't date fly it too far out at the moment incase it disappears! Ps, I always wait for a full GPS luck before I take off.
There will probably be loads more questions as I progress and get more experienced/confident in flying it!
Many thanks in advance,
Ben
A bit of background info on me and a bit of advice to new pilots in my extremely limited experience of flying quadcopters is that I started off with a second hand Hubsan X4 H107 and got to learn the basics with that. I'd advise anyone that's wanting to get one to do this cos if you can master the X4 then the FC40 is LOADS easier to fly than the X4 in GPS mode (I've tried any other mode yet!).
I've got a few questions that I'd really like answers to though please by all the pro's on this site and I'm sorry if they sound stupid or obvious! [emoji4]
The first one is this!
Am I right in thinking that it will ascend at 6 metres a second?
I've sent it up a few times really high but have still had a link up FPV to the camera so even though it's just a small dot in the sky then according to the FPV range it can't have been more than 100 metres? I timed it to 20 seconds whilst holding the left stick all the way up which would put it at 120 metres approx if the 6 metres per second thing is correct but I could still see the live footage? My transmitter beeps twice when I switch it on which according to the manual says that the range is 500 metres so in theory could I time it to approx 1 minute 20 seconds and still have control of the quadcopter to bring it back down safely?
The second is If I program & set the S2 switch to manual mode will it behave like the X4 did as I've heard that it's not recommended to select the manual setting?
The last question (for now [emoji6] !) is can I program the S2 switch to activate failsafe and is it reliable as I don't date fly it too far out at the moment incase it disappears! Ps, I always wait for a full GPS luck before I take off.
There will probably be loads more questions as I progress and get more experienced/confident in flying it!
Many thanks in advance,
Ben