wonder why they cover up the distance & attitude?

I think its not allowed to fly that high. Commercial planes don't like foamy's in their engines.

He is looking around several times.

NO RSSI?
ARE YOU KIDDING?
That's really an epic fail!

Originally Posted by RocketMouse

NO RSSI?
ARE YOU KIDDING?
That's really an epic fail!

Really ?
Where's the need for RSSI if you have RTH ?....

With RSSI:
RSSI get's low you manually turn around to fly home or adjust your TX position

With RTH and no RSSI
Signal strength gets weak, autopilot turns the plane around to fly home or you see it's gone to RTH and adjust your TX position

In most cases with my basic OSD/RTH (Nova OSD) if the plane loses signal it kicks into RTH, plane banks and picks up signal and I continue to fly, it all happens in a brief second or two

Then why do you need OSD at all?

You can use timer to know the battery discharge. You don't need altitude, because you can see it. You don't need arrow home, cos you can use a flare gun. You actually even don't need RTH, just fly around yourself.

I have conditions, when RTH is not acceptable. Flying low, or between the trees. Or whatever... Not everybody fly your style.

Hi, has anyone tested the fence mode? I'm wondering whether this makes the plane fairly 'safe' to hand to a beginner?

Originally Posted by RocketMouse

Then why do you need OSD at all?

Numerous reasons
Last known position in case of a crash
Pure interest (it is a hobby after all isn't it)
Staying level in the clouds (built in gyros and/or artificial horizon)
Home pointer, I get lost easily up there
Battery condition/useage information
Oh and of course built in RTH in case I lose radio signal strength

Bottom line is that I preer to fly my planes myself ratehr than have an autopilot run missions for me but I also wnat the built in safety features of a reliable RTH system and the information it can provide via OSD

Originally Posted by RocketMouse

You can use timer to know the battery discharge.

No you cannot, not accurately and on longer flights not even close

Originally Posted by RocketMouse

You don't need altitude, because you can see it. You don't need arrow home, cos you can use a flare gun. You actually even don't need RTH, just fly around yourself.

Now someone is just being silly aren't they

If you really really MUST have RSSI then go and buy a system that has that

Originally Posted by RocketMouse

I have conditions, when RTH is not acceptable. Flying low, or between the trees. Or whatever... Not everybody fly your style.

Seems to me that someone who prefers to fly tight amongst the trees and therefore doesn't need RTH or autopliot due to the obvious hazards is probably just in a thread about an autopilot system with rth to complain just for the sake of complaining

Someone in China using this on Heli!
http://bbs.5imx.com/bbs/forum.php?mo...CC%B6%A8%D2%ED

It is Simplifies Chinese site, sorry. with pictures. Maybe Google translate will help.....Just add more complications to this thread
But I will only use this on a fixed wing.

I was so boring waiting the postman to send my Arkbird. Searching the web for more info......not much on this thing, so go to Chinese site to learn more.

Ok, found this, the Arkbird designer share his thought on design & finetune of this system. Again it is Simplified Chinese site (Google translate is your friend)

http://bbs.mx3g.com/forum.php?mod=vi...uthorid=224318

I wouldn't go off topic, if linking Chinese site here is bad, let me know.....I will stop doing this.

Is it ok to put the gps antenna inside an epo plane?

Originally Posted by ukionz

Is it ok to put the gps antenna inside an epo plane?

It should work fine, it's radio waves remember so don't allow it to be blocked by metal, try to make sure there are no wires above it etc
I have one of mine inside the fuselage and it has no trouble at all (not an Arkbird mind you)

I have owned this product for several weeks, it's much easier to setup than eagletree. I put the gps antenna inside my epo plane, and it works very well. Here's my videos:
Gopro Hero3:

River, Mountain Surfing (9 min 25 sec)

On board camera with OSD information:

River, Mountain Surfing, On board camera with ArkbirdOSD. (0 min 0 sec)

Thanks for the replies. Mine still on test bench, video flickering when I plug in the fat shark camera. I hava try both pal and NTSC on arkbird with no luck. My set up are Fpv raptor with Turnigy plush 40a esc, orangerx 6 channel full failsave receiver (going to use orangerx lrs soon when I upgrade the firmware) for my ground station I have 7"LCD,immersionRc UNO video receiver, VCR comming soon. And fat shark predator rtf with camera. Going to try other camera that is 12v......any ideas welcome. Thanks

This thing has no ppm and no rssi?

Originally Posted by Hmerly

This thing has no ppm and no rssi?

Thats correct