Flying a quad or multi-rotor is a lot of fun. Flying isn’t really the proper term though. Like a helicopter, they don’t ‘fly’ traditionally. They simply beat the air into submission.
Collective pitch helicopters are hard, multi-rotors when tuned well are not. But getting this proper tune and balance is hard.
Doing acrobatic maneuvers isn’t simple. By design, multi-rotors have a flight controller that’s working really hard to keep the thing level and they often limit your ability to Roll or Pitch too far. You have to turn that stuff off if you want to get jiggly with it.
An upside down multi rotor that’s no longer fighting gravity, and is instead assisting it, usually ends up badly as it plummets into the ground and breaks things. It also can be really easy to lose your orientation. If you’re upside down and your right is your left and/or your forward is aft. Well, that’s generally not good. The results usually suck.
We had a break in the weather and I finally got to spend some time really tossing my Armattan qaud around. This thing is awesome.
Chris really makes an outstanding product.
My CNC 355 is using the Afro Acro Naze32 flight controller. This is just a quad for quad’s sake. No GPS, No compass, no other smarts other than accelerometer and gyro stabilization which can be turned off and/or tuned. And fine tuning we will do.
It’s tough as nails. I’ve crashed it multiple times, usually only losing props, which are cheap. I’ve bent arms, and you just bend them back. Might need to take them off to really straighten them but you can just bend them back as you’ll see at the end of the video.
If you have a Blade or a Phantom and you want more performance and don’t want to stop buying plastic parts. Buy an Armattan Quad. You won’t regret it.
Building flight skills apparently just takes time. There is no magic pill. I think, or at least hope I’m over the hump cause crashing sucks, and crashing you will do when you start doing stuff like this. Also, trees are still the enemy.
Not even 24 hours later and we have snow again.
But I just had to test the PID and Rate changes I made after yesterday’s fight above.
Freshly balanced props too. Wow, so much more responsive, pretty easy to flip and roll without losing altitude.
