GPS Enabled ! FlyWing FW450L-V3 'SMART' RC Helicopter | For Beginner and Expert Pilots

GPS Enabled ! FlyWing FW450L-V3 'SMART' RC Helicopter | For Beginner and Expert Pilots
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Jason flies the FW450 for the first time...and on a less than ideal day...which was no bad thing because we show how this GPS enabled RC helicopter uses GPS to assist new RC helicopter pilots.

Out of the box the FW450 is super easy to assemble. Click the boom\tail into the main body\fuselage ensuring the latch clicks, then screw on the blades ensuring they are graphic on top. You will need to remove the flight battery from the nose. This is done by pushing down on the latch and sliding it out on its tray. Leave it attached to the tray and charge it up with the provided charger. Put 4 AA batteries in the transmitter and then you are ready to go.

Switch on the transmitter (hold down both power buttons). Ensure switches are at STOP and GPS. All other switches should be in the up position. Plug the battery into the flight controller on the helicopter and close the nose hatch. Stand a safe distance back from the heli. Click on the UNLOCK icon on the transmitter for 2 or more seconds until the icon changes. Flick the switch on the transmitter to START and the tail and main rotors should start spinning. Wait until the rotor speed has stabilised and then gently push up on the left stick to take off !

The transmitter left throttle stick is self centred rather than ratcheted and this takes an experienced pilot like Jason a while to familiarise with. In GPS mode this is ideal for a beginner as you are not directly controlling blade pitch like on a regular RC heli but just the up an down movement of the heli. We will explore return to home, inverted flight and the circle and figure eight flying patterns in the next video.

In 3D mode the aerobatic potential of this heli is unleashed. In GPS mode you cannot pitch or roll to inverted. In 3D mode you can pitch and roll over so you need to be familiar with inverted flight and the stick movements needed to maintain it.

Jason used GPS mode for landing and flicked the switch to STOP to spin down the blades.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Prior to flight we switched off 'low battery protection' because of the cold weather. Voltage detection does not work well on cold days and this heli will go into automatic return to home if it detects low voltage. For this heli it would climb to 10 metres as part of the return to home process. If you do this please ensure you time your flight to minimise chances of damaging the flight battery by taking cell voltages below 3.7 volts.

Filmed by Dom Mitchell for the 'Essential RC' YouTube channel using the Panasonic AG-UX180 4K camcorder.

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