The first and the only build with GEP-KX5 frame on this site!

I was deciding between Rooster and Remix. Rooster had bottom base plate, Remix is too fancy and not practical. Both had replaceable arms, what turned me away from them. My very first racing quad was Eachine Falcon 210 Pro and since then i like the idea of unibody top-mounted baseplate. KX5 frame has perfect look of Chameleon/Rooster and practicality of Falcon 210. Frame also offers optional side panels, providing protection from side impact and green mist sprayed from propellers when (crash)landing in high and fresh grass.

Holybro Kakute F4 v1 FC is my flying test laboratory. I'm experimenting with my own filters on custom build of Betaflight, forked from 3.2 release. It was chosen because of soft-mounted 32khz gyro. FC is soft mounted itself too.

ESCs were purchased in very early days of BLHeli32. They had number of issues initially, solved later with new firmware releases. They are also quite noisy, so i had to add 470uF low-esr capacitor on each of them. Still they are very reliable. Couple of times my custom filter failed in flight, causing ESC and motors to get very hot. Those ESCs survived thru such a torture without any problem.

X6B receiver was used to allow this drone to fly with old Flysky TX, while my other quads are bound to Taranis Q7S. This way we can fly together with my son. Receiver mounting holes were 2mm in diameter, i've drilled them to 3mm to stack with FC.

Motors are RCX 2206V3 2400kv. They are just good. Not top performers, but quiet, well balanced and reliable. They had no issues spinning heavy Emax Avan props, but flying great with DAL T5046C too. Motors are soft-mounted via silicone pads.

Had no chance to fly it on the wild, will take it to Baylands park on the next weekend. Hovered a little on the backyard and it looks good. Motors and ESC are staying cool. I'm going to replace this old VTX once AKK/RDQ and Betaflight folks will figure out with SmartAudio support in 3.3.

Later will add Foxeer Box 4K as a payload, but it may require bigger motors. This drone is 565g AUW even without HD camera, 380g without battery. 10g lighter than Chameleon with Returner R3 2207 motors, which does not feels to be overpowered as well. Probably will give a try to Armattan Oomph Titan.