ARKBIRD Autopilot 2.0 Lite is een zeer nauwkeurige automatische piloot ontworpen voor vaste vleugels

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Product not sophisticated

Apr 13, 2019

This flight controller seems to be not sophisticated as the yaw axis/rudder can’t be set up correctly to work in all modes as it should. In contrary to roll and pitch axis the yaw axis ‘reverse’ function in the OSD menu also reverses the TX stick input. It is impossible to get a correct rudder deflection in manual and stabilized mode together with an appropriate compensation motion of the rudder.
Tech support is not helpful at all as they only keep giving you the same useless advices on and on.

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Be Great with more support

Sep 27, 2017

This was my first autopilot, installed in a "My Twin Dream". Wiring was fairly simple. A Lot to absorb in the instructions. The instructions are written fairly well (I have dealt with much worse) but I found they do miss details in places. Tech support is painful at best so pretty much bet your on your own. Away from that, first flight in balance mode was ugly, the gain was set too high on rudder. Further attempts were much better, "Balance Mode" seems to be more like a cruise, almost can't change course (I believe i have much more tuning todo). RTH actually works fairly well (I was so happy and impressed to watch a fixed wing come back). The OSD in my opinion has pretty much all you need too know and does not over crowd the video. Sensors work well, my current sensor offset is capped out at 200% but its really close. I have not been able to update firmware, or get serial off board to register it for updates (kind of a pain, need to plug into computer, attain serial number somehow, register online, wait for acknowledgement with firmware updates). The launch assist seems like a great idea, but still can't get that too work.
All in all, I think its a decent product, a lot of features and things you can do with it. The lack of tech support is almost a deal breaker. If you know what your doing with one I would recommend it. If your new (like me) your in for a lot of head scratching and without support its probably not the best one to start with. Will post more as I learn.