Fesfly

Over confident, flew up hit the ceiling and my first instinct was to kill the throttle, came down like a rock...broke the top stick off a motor mount clean under a main rotor, new ones are on the way. I have ordered several parts in case my reflexes don't catch up with my ambition. What is a good stock of parts to have on hand? More motor mounts, main gears...? I am working on a set of landing gear that I hope will minimize the damage to the motor mounts and cushion some of the impacts of my uhhg graceful landings.

Fesfly

Ok, this may look very crude but it is version 1, it takes the impact weight and distributes it across the frame instead of the motor mount. I hope that this will protect the motors and mounts a bit better than nothing. Here are a couple of images, one with the camera installed (I have only performed 2 foot hovers with the camera and it has potential for sure), the second image is a close up of one of the landing gear and hurried/poor workmanship. I will streamline the design to make them a bit lighter by drilling some holes in them, I have some time until my parts arrive...

From my reading of this forum I understand I will half the motor life with all this weight (approx 4.3 oz = camera+landing gear) but I hope to increase flight time by not repairing mounts. When I am well rehearsed the landing gear can go.

Blackdragan

Festusflyer,

How are you triggering the camera during flight? Do you have any pictures taken during flight you can post? Thanks.

Sky High

I assume that the landing gear is not in the frame of the camera? Have you checked that yet?

Fesfly

Hi Blackdragan,

I use a Pico switch connected to the 6 channel and operate the camera by turning the flap knob. The camera has two leads directly soldered to the camera switch, I lost the two phase push by using the pico switch but the camera auto focuses regardless. Manually the camera works as it should. I haven't flown it outside yet and only managed to capture some video from indoor practice -when in video mode you activate the flap switch once to turn on and again to turn off.

Fesfly

The front landing gear does get in the frame so I have to turn the camera a bit as shown in the picture above so that it just misses - I would have like to shoot straight ahead, heck I'll be happy just to be able to fly with it.