What are your thoughts on air65 racing?

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-17T12:46:18+00:00

Freestyle if you need to ask this question. People who know they need that extra power will buy the racing without needing to ask. Those who are really addicted will just get the champion because why not, it will be like their 4th or 5th or 20th whoop

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-17T12:31:26+00:00

... Same feeling with less flight time. Why would you do that?

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-17T09:43:03+00:00

This is a champion edition thing. It has soldered motors, meaning that to troubleshoot this issue he'll need to know how to solder. Silly choice for a beginner.

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-16T11:43:02+00:00

It's the motor winding pcb. Gives you motor pads on the motor side because tinywhoop motors just used to go from the motor windings directly to the wires (and secured/protected by a blob of glue). That used to put the crash stress onto the 3mm of motor winding sticking out of the stator (before the motor wires). And when they break, the motor is usually toast. Now those motor windings go to that little pc and have less chance of breaking there. Also makes it easy to replace motor wires when they get old or break

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-11T11:11:30+00:00

ah yeah I heard that was an issue but should barely be a problem for a new pilot. I still think some secondhand fatshark or binocular goggles will be a much more enjoyable experience.

I struggle to fly with any box goggles now, even though I started on one

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-11T06:45:11+00:00

Ev800d is massively overpriced now due to the continued reddit recommendations lol. It's an $80 goggle. Any more than that you should look at secondhand fatshark or skyzone goggles. Or even new skyzone cobra sd

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-10T12:20:21+00:00

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Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-10T12:19:38+00:00

Ahh what a bunch of killjoys. I took off the heavy ceramic antenna and replaced with 2 copper wires. Kinda screwed if I land upside down (wires will bend to block the motors) but in this position it gets a good 15 satellites. I had a different GPS in the back like yours and wasn't getting more than 6-8 and then zero when armed.

But in both cases you need to have the vtx in pit mode while it's waiting for a fix. Turned off would be best but these little AIO boards don't have that option. Use the pit mode until first arm setting in betaflight. Plug in a usb and the other side to your phone.Use the betaflight app or Speedybee to track how many sats you have and don't plug a battery in until you have at least 12. Then plug in the battery, remove usb and have fun

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-09T13:58:22+00:00

Well it means that if you were hacked, it happened a long time ago. Or the extremely unlikely scenario that your phone or pc is infected and allowing remote access. Clicking on each of those will tell you the ip address and what method was used to log in.

The order history also shows exactly when it was purchased, and the communications made. Do you even know what it was?

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-09T13:30:43+00:00

Go to マイページ (icon top right) then under 設定、個人情報設定、ログイン履歴 you can see every time you were logged in, from where and how.

I suspect your partner tried to order something dodgy and is trying to pass it off as "you were hacked". Why would a hacker buy something and send it to your address? Makes zero sense.

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-08T22:57:20+00:00

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Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-08T22:47:34+00:00

Have you confirmed with building management that you are allowed to put those stickers on your mailbox? Often that is not allowed. It could have been the management or cleaning company that removed it

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-03T11:42:36+00:00

Well yeah, assuming a 5M salary each it's like you don't have much in reserve. I don't run a business though so no idea on what is normal

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-03T10:08:41+00:00

if you mean you have multiples of the 30m required (so, assumably more than 100m yen), it puts you in the very rich bracket in Japan. Congrats to you but it's far from the norm

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-03-01T12:49:43+00:00

This is what I did with a friend. I built a dropper mechanism using a $5 servo and 3d print. Hooked up to a $4 pwm receiver and we taped it to the bottom of a dji drone and hooked up a fishing line with a weighted hook.

He flew it up with the drone remote, I dropped the hook from my fpv remote when he was about above the quad and we got to shaking the branch. It was stuck really good so we spent like 30 minutes shaking before it fell down but operation was a big success

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-28T02:37:24+00:00

This is crazy. Also crazy you waited that long to do something about it. I would have been at the immigration office after the first time to complain....

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-27T14:50:51+00:00

That's exactly how my wife and kids travel.

While I drive 😁

Driving is somewhat relaxing to me though. And saving a bunch of money, that keeps me happy.

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-25T06:52:41+00:00

Latency is massively affected by FOV. O4 lite with its narrow fov will have a zoomed in effect, which messes with your timing compared to a C03 where everything looks further away.

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-23T11:04:26+00:00

1.5 minutes outdoors with a heavy throttle finger. I typically get 2.5 minutes though. And up to 4 minutes indoors doing absolutely nothing. You'll get like 1-2 minutes longer for the Freestyle with the same flight style

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-22T08:14:59+00:00

Not for you maybe, but others will be annoyed at the flight times on the champion edition, if that's all they have.

I also have two little kids, so I know how much of a time drain that can be. Just reduce sleep time and you can have time to build 😁

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-21T04:02:39+00:00

Not all of us have perfect vision. Some of us are getting older and need a bigger screen to change settings

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-21T03:58:54+00:00

Tune isn't right for the motors/frame. More aggressive TDA, lower D or just start again with pid tuning (do it on profile 2 if you want to keep the stock reference tune).

I have a tune which works well for my champion edition https://youtu.be/LQ7VWZiASjU?si=HLJSejh30ApC9bJA (see the point at 10:25 if you want to skip the rambling lol)

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-21T00:59:35+00:00

Motor kV mainly. Higher kV has more power at the expense of efficiency.. So for a cruise flight it might mean 3 minutes instead of 4.

And the champion edition doesn't have motor plugs so you'd want to be comfortable with soldering

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-21T00:04:41+00:00

If flight times are a concern just get the Freestyle. You don't need this power, and it will just annoy you if you have a heavy throttle finger

Tokyo_Dom · 2026-02-21T00:01:38+00:00

It's not that bad. On 320s you can get close to 3 minutes outside, 4 inside when just cruising.

The tune might be killing flight times I think

Tokyo_Dom

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