The Build

Falcon Multirotors & friends have done it again. This frame is great, it came together nicely, and was kinda "refreshing" to build (if that makes sense?). I built it with the included 20mm standoffs to give some of my chosen components extra breathing room. I'm trying out some slippery Butterflight on these 7" hq v1s triblades to see if we can avoid some of the 7" jello that seems to be going around. First build with Crossfire, why did I wait this long?, first build using Dshot1200. Used every UART on the board: Serial RX, GPS, MSP over crossfire (haven't gotten it to connect in the configurator yet though :sigh:), compass (i2c), camera control (S6 remapped), 32bit ESC telem, and smart audio. I've been a long time user of OSDs and I love all the new configuration/integration options that have been added recently via betaflight osd, pretty much only need to take my goggles off to change packs.

All weighed up (w/ session & battery) she comes in at a full-figured 704g. but gets off the ground at only 15% throttle, not bad considering.

Maiden Flights

Super happy with the way this flies, getting ~12 minutes on a CNHL 1500 (with ~300mAh still left in the pack) while doing some park cruising, low & slow, tree dodging, and the occasional trick tossed in.

i kept my rates way down on this build (stock rates) as the goal was cruising, and I really liked it, nice smooth inputs yeilded very nice smooth outputs inches off the feild. I was originally afraid of the camera position but I really liked having it low in the frame, it made trimming the grass real easy and the props were high enough in the view that they really didnt bother me as much as I thought they would.

It was pretty windy during my mainden, 14+mph gusts, but this build for its size handled it well, from the pilots seat you could tell it was gusty but it didnt require much corection/extra throttle. I'm excited to get this out more often

The Future

• Print and add the GPS/vTx antenna mount
• Do some more testing, burn in to build confidence in the gear then get out and do some progressively longer range cruising: keep it in the car, see something cool in the distance, stop, pull out the raggio, and fly to it!
• hope Diago's rescue mode gets merged into betaflight and maybe then into the butter