Well weather was good enough for a quick flight tonight just before dusk, so it's a Matek F405Wing flight controller inside a bashed up ARWing, I updated inav to v2, loaded up the default wing profile, threw in an Frsky XM+ and basically followed the recommendations from Matek as to GPS etc. UART location.
Pretty much everything was new, I'd never used an FRSky receiver, and obviously not the Matek, last time I tried to build an inav drone it destroyed itself in a tree when testing position hold hence the move to FRSky, I still have the FlySky receiver from the quad, but don't trust it, and all my LemonRX's are otherwise occupied.
Assigning all the switches on my Jumper remote was the most time consuming bit, I also didn't run any camera equipment inside or out (as recommended by Painless360 on YT for maiden flights), and had to swap the mixer assignment around, but other than that it was a breeze to setup, just take things slowly, and check three times, everything stock other than increasing the max angle in angle mode, I also manually adjusted the allerons to be perfectly aligned so as to avoid trimming on the remote (something you are not supposed to do with inav).
First launch and the thing nose dives into the ground, I'm like you piece of s**t, then looked at the remote and realised I'd knocked it into altitude hold mode while the wing was on the ground lol, second attempt it went straight up (didn't use autolaunch) and I went five mistakes high, trotted about s bit, then stuck it into trim learning mode, landed and did all the bits for that, checked it back up then proceeded to check stuff, altitude hold worked fine (as I already knew lol) and teenager mode (sorry nav position hold) worked too, although it scarred the crap out of me when it turned right and proceeded to fly towards the houses behind me, but it did turn in the end, I then briefly checked return to home and that seemed to work too, then the light was getting too dark so I called it a night.
I must admit it was pretty cool to just flick a switch and watch it do circles, that's gonna be seriously useful when people walk up to me and start asking questions (happens a lot) as I will actually be able to look at them, tomorrow I will check the failsafe, it's the only thing left, then add some camera equipment.
So don't worry too much, out the box this Matek F405 is simply awesome, I might get the F411 and throw it in the Long-EZ sometime in the future (still waiting to maiden that).
Pretty much everything was new, I'd never used an FRSky receiver, and obviously not the Matek, last time I tried to build an inav drone it destroyed itself in a tree when testing position hold hence the move to FRSky, I still have the FlySky receiver from the quad, but don't trust it, and all my LemonRX's are otherwise occupied.
Assigning all the switches on my Jumper remote was the most time consuming bit, I also didn't run any camera equipment inside or out (as recommended by Painless360 on YT for maiden flights), and had to swap the mixer assignment around, but other than that it was a breeze to setup, just take things slowly, and check three times, everything stock other than increasing the max angle in angle mode, I also manually adjusted the allerons to be perfectly aligned so as to avoid trimming on the remote (something you are not supposed to do with inav).
First launch and the thing nose dives into the ground, I'm like you piece of s**t, then looked at the remote and realised I'd knocked it into altitude hold mode while the wing was on the ground lol, second attempt it went straight up (didn't use autolaunch) and I went five mistakes high, trotted about s bit, then stuck it into trim learning mode, landed and did all the bits for that, checked it back up then proceeded to check stuff, altitude hold worked fine (as I already knew lol) and teenager mode (sorry nav position hold) worked too, although it scarred the crap out of me when it turned right and proceeded to fly towards the houses behind me, but it did turn in the end, I then briefly checked return to home and that seemed to work too, then the light was getting too dark so I called it a night.
I must admit it was pretty cool to just flick a switch and watch it do circles, that's gonna be seriously useful when people walk up to me and start asking questions (happens a lot) as I will actually be able to look at them, tomorrow I will check the failsafe, it's the only thing left, then add some camera equipment.
So don't worry too much, out the box this Matek F405 is simply awesome, I might get the F411 and throw it in the Long-EZ sometime in the future (still waiting to maiden that).
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