These days, the market is saturated with a range of Ready to Fly (RTF) solutions.

Flying a remote-controlled aircraft, particularly a multicopter, is a great deal of fun.

Regardless of whether you're planning to build a multicopter or buying one off the shelf, you will need most of the tools outlined below.

Many hobbyists have been down this path before focusing too much on the multicopter and technology and not enough on the key objective.

Flying a multicopter is a lot of fun and building one provides a great sense of achievement!

Written by Thomas

Here are some tips that will help you to get off the ground while minimizing the chances of your model coming home in pieces!

Introduction:

In the previous articles we’ve covered what iNav is and what it can do for a fixed wing pilot and we’ve also covered how to wire everything up. Adding iNavflight to your fixed wing model can provide you will excellent stabilisation and cheap, effective OSD setup but it can also provide GPS flight modes and allow you to even fly missions autonomously.

The last few years have seen an explosion of the multirotor part of the hobby and driven a huge amount of innovation in the flight controllers and the software and firmware that runs them.

I had the great opportunity to volunteer for Stone Blue Airlines Flying Circus FPV Festival in Covington, Va this year.

Written by ShawnOSullivan

By now you have seen it either on Youtube or on the news, competitors are flying little radio-controlled “drones", being piloted through video goggles that put the pilot “in” the cockpit. It looks like something you would see in 'Star Wars'; these little craft flying at break-neck speeds through the forest,