Syrphid 2

By EngineerMonkey on Dec 14, 2019

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Well, Syrphid 1 was pretty much destroyed. Rebuilt it with some new parts and tuning. This one flies much better with airmode being on a switch, just too much power I think for the thickness of the arms until its moving. Punching from a stand still on the ground with airmode engaged causes some crazy shaking and attempted flyaways, even with the drastically reduced rates and pids.

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fovea   Mar 13, 2022  

can you share the design of that nice canopy please?

Jodie Froster   Dec 15, 2019  

Well thought out canopy. What version of BF are you running?

EngineerMonkey   Dec 15, 2019 

Havent gone 4 yet, this still has Betaflight 3.5.7 on it.

gruss   Dec 15, 2019 

You might find that it flys much better on 4.x.
It might fix the airmode runaway issues?

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