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Thanks! This poor thing has been fixed so many times, the whole thing was flexing under any side loading. I've moved the parts over to a new profile SBach airframe by Red Eagle. It's different, but similar. I'll post a vid as soon as weather warms up!

I do this for my friends and I, so I don't care 🍻

@@TheLostSquadron zero friends now. Do some fly bys with sound and get some friends.

@@meazy451Put some vids on your channel and let me know when to watch

Sailplane people wear white New Balances, suspenders and tuck their shirts into their pants. Definitely people I don't want around. 🤣

You are right, I should have been more careful. I suppose in my defense I could say I was messing with it a little off camera. Still could have got bit, that would have made a bad day real bad 😬

I've only had mine a few weeks, it's a great plane I think you're going to love it!

Thank you very much! 🍻

So much truth!

Not a bad idea. I'll have to save up for the white New Balances and black socks that go up over my knees. 😂

No damage, fortunately chase drone has prop guards!

Thanks! Still flying it, has been crunched and repaired at least 4 times. Very fun plane!

I never loved the video of the Thumb, but it works for the Ape because it's so light. I'll check out the Hawkeye V4! Thanks!

Hey Jon, I think I did show the repair guy my receipt because he had to request the parts from Peavey. It has been quite a few years so my memory is getting foggy! I may have taped the receipt to the inside of the cabinet, I will let you know what the part was if that's the case. He was an old tube amp guy and not thrilled to be working on solid state stuff!

Thanks! This is the first season I've flown indoors. Still can't wait for spring, but it's pretty fun!

That is the black mount that comes with the camera. The clear one is too fragile. Using it with 450 3s batteries and it has been fine through hundreds of flights. Merry Christmas!

Thank you! I have purchased two of these, and the second one had a motor that was bad right out of the box. Great Planes support asked for a video and had a replacement out in a few days. I don't fly these super hard, usually just throttle to altitude then gliding around. If I had one of these die in flight, I'd probably look for an equivalent Sunny Sky. I don't think the stock motors are very high quality!

@@TheLostSquadron I had never heard of Sunny Sky until now. That is the solution for getting another motor should I need it. Thank you!

@@baerster No problem. They seem to be a tier above the stuff included in a lot of kits. If I bend motor shafts or anything on kits from Dancing Wings or other cheapies, I get the Sunny Sky motors for them. Good luck!

Thank you for the vote of confidence, I'll take it! 😄🍺 I don't want to place blame on the plastic wing clips though. I did notice a trait in the Ascent for the low throttle stall in tight turns. It was lazy flying on my part, if you keep it at 1/4 throttle this won't happen. I got in a bad habit of chopping the throttle from flying gliders with very light wing loading.

That was as close as I can figure, since main clue was the Star. Looks like it's not a T-tail so must have been a later model. May try to get it down this winter, even though everything in it has to be shot by now.🍻

@@TheLostSquadron Wow a lost Mig from the Cold War era: Cool find! It’s worth the effort but don’t kill yourself getting it down!

I wish, mine disappeared forever!

Definitely do both! They're totally different experiences that compliment each other!

He's better left unknown, he'd probably be unbearable 🤣🍻

Very easy! Remove existing receiver, solder the ELRS receiver in its place (I flash bind them via WiFi before ever connecting them), and set your protocol to CRSF in Betaflight. The hardest part for someone new is probably soldering the tiny pads on receiver and flight controller. Make sure you have a hot iron and small tip!

Thanks! How many solder points were there as in not too good with soldering lol Also is this what you picked up? geprc.com/product/geprc-elrs-nano-receiver/

@@nickshanks4 Hey, I'm using HappyModel receivers. I don't even thing GEP was selling them when I converted the Crocodile. There will be 4 solder points on the receiver and 4 on the Croc flight controller. I guess the main "gotcha" to worry about is that you have to cross the Rx and Tx pads... Rx from the Receiver to Tx on the flight controller and vice-versa. They're opposite because one talks and the other listens! Good luck!

@@TheLostSquadron got it, cheers. Out of interest what controller you using and have you done any other mods to the crocodile?

@@nickshanks4 I'm using a Radiomaster TX16s with the Happymodel Pro ELRS transmitter in the JR bay. I think the only thing I've done to it since this video is adding a Runcam Thumb. I have hundreds of hours of flight time on this thing, let me know how you do with yours!

I'm at work right now, I think it's pretty close to what the manual suggested. It does build a little bit tail heavy. I decided to use a 1500 3s battery pushed clear to the front of the battery bay. I also ditched the landing gear, even on smooth landings it will flex down and let your prop hit the ground!

Oh, I forgot to mention the ESC that came with the kit was bad. That problem with cutting out happened any time I went to high throttle quickly. I didn't realize it on this flight, but if I cut throttle and added it back slowly, it'd work. Totally went away with a new one.

@@TheLostSquadron Thanks for the reply... Good to know about the landing gear flex. I bought exactly the Motor, ESC and Servos that the Instruction Manual suggested. I'm even using a slightly heavier 2200 mAh Battery and I still need an extra 25 grams of lead weight at the nose to get the CG at 85mm.... Strange.

@@TheLostSquadron Yeah I've seen that same behaviour with some cheap Chinese ESCs...

I don't have a buzzer/beeper installed, but if you look at the flight controller instructions it says that its located on the back left of the board by where the LEDs are wired.

I wish a net would have caught it before it hit the dirt the first time! 😄🍻

Thanks for suggestions. I had never received a temp warning, this was the hottest day of the Summer. The quad did have to sit a long time to acquire sats. I was able to get the RTH working successfully the following week. Not sure if the distance hand anything to do with it or not, but I was able to ascend and RTH from roughly the same spot. I'm almost ready to move this over to DJI, but want to make sure it's 100% reliable first.

Thank you! 🍻

Both mounts were included in the kit.

It didn't have a mark on it, didn't realize why until I watched the DVR footage, it did a perfect belly flop! I want this to be a long range cruiser with a DJI setup on it, but it does a lot of weird stuff!