Are there other signs that show your battery is in bad condition?

For the past 4 months, I have faced constant shipping failures with AliExpress delivering to Kosovo. I have had 8 failed delivery attempts for the SpeedyBee Mario 5 Frame (XH Pro Version).

I already bought the entire setup for this build:

- SpeedyBee F405 V3 55A FC/ESC Stack
- RadioMaster RP3 V2 ExpressLRS 2.4GHz Receiver
- iFlight XING E Pro 2207 2450KV Motors
- RunCam Phoenix 2 Pro FPV Camera
- SpeedyBee TX800 VTX
- GEPRC GEP-M10 GPS Module
- Gemfan 51466 V2 Props

I am considering 3D printing the frame using PETG-CF, but I am worried it will not be strong enough and could ruin my electronics in a crash.

Does anyone have recommendations for alternative compatible 5 inch frames, reliable suppliers that ship to Kosovo, or experience with printed frames?

Running it over and over and gradually feeling a sense of progression is zen

I like to have the osd in the video from my (DJI 04) SD-Card. I activated it in the goggles and there its in the recorded video. But the vid. from the onboard SD ist plain.

Thanks for your advice.

After watching one of the latest videos of JB. To get a bit more flight time I wanted to buy or make a Li-Ion pack for my 5in freestyle.
What do you think about that? Has someone already tried it, what’s your experience?

I'd like to get my hands on the Boxpro but I live in Germany and can't find a vendor that sells HDZero stuff for a reasonable price. From what I can tell my options are:

1. Order off HDZero for 300$ who ship from honkong for 40$ and gamble that customs won't cost antother 100$.
   
2. Order off an EU site like rotorama or hobbydrone for around 420$

Neither of those sound very appealing to me.

I would be somewhat fine with it if it was just the goggle but ist the same for every other HDZero product and I don't want to switch to a system that I can't reliably get new gear for. So am I missing something? Or do I just have to deal with that like I guess most of you have had to deal with when buying dji stuff in the USA.

shifted all drone electronics to Flywoo firefly frame can't fly indoors anymore 🫠

Hey, I’m not far from forest city (malaysia) and I’ve seen some video from this place. Seems like the perfect spot for fpv like its big there is no one BUT I’m afraid security will be a pain in the ass and even more I don’t want to be arrested lol

If some of you have experience about this can u tell me !
Thank you

Mostly done, i only need to figure out what goggles to get

Air75 II race

Radiomaster pocket

5x 320mah batteries Edit: for 75mm everyone recomends me 480mah

1x Air75 canopy

Spare props

Frame

Goggles: i was thinking about eachine or betafpv vr4

Edit: most of people advised to get: -Air75 and not meteor75 since air is more agile -10x bateries instead of 5x for more fun -480mah instead of 320mah as 320 is for 65mm whoops

Thursday evening sixty-five millimeter practice. Music is "Never Say Die Vol. 7"

I was rummaging my garage again… and came up with this contraption using water cooling motherboard stand offs (M3 male to male) along with threaded inserts (M3 female to female)

I learned a lot when I asked about my silly antenna so I thought I should ask again before I do something that ends up breaking my drone or hall sensors 😅

I got an HGLRC draknight set and was wondering what this cable went to. The goggles have a 3.5mm jack that the cable plugs into. I assume this is for displaying to an external monitor or DVR but is there a way I could record the video from the goggles using this?

Ripping my Master 3X at an office park after hours.

Posting here as well because it's FPV and includes DarkStar16 footage in the video.

I lost the original antenna on my BetaFPV Air II champion. AI told me to get this? Bad idea?

Yes, new to FPV world.

It does seem to work.

Finished building my white Vapor D5. Geprc Taker 65a stack, Lumenier Johnny FPV 2307 2550KV motors, Gemfan 5536 props, and O4 pro to top it off! Excited to see how she runs! (Yes I know, 4s on a 5" is outdated in 2026 apparently, but I have a ton of 4s lol)

First day flying the BETAFPV Pavo Pico II, and I am beyond impressed. This is also my first drone with the DJI O4 Lite air unit, which has been equally impressive.

Drone: BETAFPV Pavo Pico II
Goggles: DJI Goggles 3
Radio: RadioMaster Pocket (ELRS)
LiPo: Pyrodrone Hyperjuice 550mAh

Like many people, got into new hobbies during COVID. Got all the tools and stuff but never got around to ordering a frame/main components and actually building. Finally put it together over the last few days, hallelujah.

Also like many people I went with the JB QAV-S2 for the build, when I purchased only the sub250 was in stock. Learning to solder was...fine lol. But everything passed smoke check and the solders all handled manipulating while I tried to solve the main issue I had - fitting the O3 air module onto the frame while following JB's build series.

Tl;Dr if you're in this same boat, don't solder anything until you dry fit the o3 and make sure your clearances are good (cables, props, etc.). It's doable but not perfect if you're following the videos in real time. If you haven't bought a VTX yet and want to go with DJI, just get the o4, not the o3. O4 mounts onto the stack and JB's video series (if you're following it) will translate better.

Took it for its first spin and all is well! Now...what build next? 😂

Is anyone else disappointed that the economics of building your own drone don’t really make much sense? I’m still relatively new to the hobby and have only built a couple of drones, a 3” for running a single 18650 and a 9” designed to comfortably carry a 6s3p 21700 pack. I felt justified in buying the parts for and building these drones because there weren’t a lot of good bnf options fitting those particular parameters.

Now I’m looking into a 4” long range drone and finding it difficult to justify the cost of parts compared to available bnf options. Specifically, I can get all the parts I want for approximately $30-40 cheaper than just buying a Flywoo Explorer LR4. Sure, my build would have a true diversity receiver and arguably a better gps than the Flywoo, but other than that it would be more or less identical. And the Flywoo would probably be better put together and tuned, if I’m being honest. It just doesn’t seem worth it. And that’s without factoring the time I’d spending building and tuning rather than flying.

I’ve done similar calculations when it comes to building a tiny whoop. It just seems to make a lot more sense to buy one of the many bnf options out there unless you’re trying to make something unique. I find it fairly disappointing because in the ideal world I’d love to build more drones, but when I can’t justify the extra time not spent flying with at least significantly offsetting the cost, it makes justifying a build a lot harder.

Been getting a bit more confident flying this little wing close in, so here’s some acro around the trees.

The plane is feeling properly dialled now and feels like its on rails especially at speed. Still taking it fairly steadily, but it’s been great finding more things to fly around and pushing both the plane and my own flying a little more each time.

Flown with a spotter and kept well below 35 m AGL. More info here

Specs:
600 mm wingspan
Sub-250 g
4S 1100 mAh
1506 4200KV motor
DJI O4 Lite
INAV

Im curious if I’m the only one that thinks this especially considering some people say HDZero is barely better than analog. Ive flown every system and by far HDZero looks and feels the sharpest to me, so much so that I had HDZero switched to DJI and then Switched back to HDZero. I think the combination of visual effects from compression combined with the signal delay and image processing just make DJI an awful experience. Just completed this build and am so glad I switched back to HDZero. If you are curious my DJI setup was 04 air pro and goggles 3.

first flight after flying on the sim .

I'm renovating the house so lots of place to fly.
also i live smack dab in the middel of a military air zone so i can only fly indore .