Paul Baxter from Ready To Fly Quads sent us a literal table-full of goodies.
We gave one of their Flip 1.5 boards to our friend Chris who slapped it onto an Anycopter Quad Kit. We were amazed at how well it flew without having to dial in any settings.
We also got the pleasure to play around with their models The Flip and The Flip FPV.
The Flip is designed to give you more air time and less build/repair time, and they got it right on the nose. It's super durable, already dialed, small, fast...everything that you could ask for.
The only set up you need to do is right on the packaging.
Here at Flite Test we take our quads like we take our baked potatos. LOADED! The Flip FPV doesn't disappoint.
If you want even more than what it comes with, there are 22 options to beef it up how ever you like.
FAST TIP: Flying in 0 degree weather is terrible. Fly from your truck if you can!
The screencaps don't do the footage justice, but here are a few.
We were extremely happy with the performance of this quad as well as The Flip.
Please check out Ready To Fly Quads if you want to learn more.
Thanks again to Paul Baxter for the wonderful quads and boards, and thanks to you for watching!
If you've had experience with RTF Quads let us know what you think! Chat it up in the forums!
Yet again another great little episode.... Braving the harsh winters weather just to bring another show... Well Dave on camera was.....
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Also a challenge between all three of you for endurance flying, who's quad can stay in the air the longest?
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And his prices are incredible! Check out his prices for ESCs! And his price included "Free reflashing if new firmware comes out", what other vendor does that? Paul is Awesome!!!
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Maybe you can look into using his MultiWii boards to fly some of your fixed wings.
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Did you experince any bad signal?
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I have the smaller Flip-360 and it is designed to be flown with the AV out from the GoPro as the primary flight camera view. I personally prefer a second camera to fly as they are better thqn the GoPro but I am still practicing with the GoPro AV/out for FPV to save weight and keep simple.
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Cheers Rob
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I have two flips I use for photography. One a simple Flip-FPV I use for vertical work and dangerous missions. Stripped down with a Flip 1.5 board it has proved remarkably durable. My other Flip is a dupe of the gimbal quad in this review except I use a Naza because I want the Return To Home GPS function. Even Better!, I just finished building a Flip-360 which is a smaller version of the standard Flip that has folding arms and fits in my camera bag when folded. It has the same power and capability of a larger Flip-FPV in a smaller, folding package. These quads are revolutionizing photography.
I maintain my sanity by having a Blade Nano QX on my desk and I fly it once or twice a day in my office and outside in the parking lot for a fix when needed. If you can't build one of these yourself, buy a Blade Nano QX and learn to fly it. Then have Paul at RTF Quads build you a quad that will do what you need done! It will take some time. They are very busy,, but it will be worth it.
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As per Pauls FAQ's on defective items, I have not opened any of the motors and contacted him right away. Twice through the contact form and once just sending an email directly. I even found a number for him that is a Google Voice number and no voice mail setup. To this date I still have not heard from him and I ended up contacting my credit card company and they are now handling this issue for me. I have determined that 3 of the 4 motors sent had bad bearings. The are a Suppo motor and I ended up ordering bearings for it from Altitude Hobbies. I suspect this will solve my issue. Paul does have some great prices without a doubt. I personally will not be ordering from him any time in the future due to my current issue and all the past issues I have read about. I realize he may be a 1 man band but if business is that good than hire some help to put orders together. It has to be cheaper than un-happy clients that no longer will buy. I am very new to Multirotors and I only went to RTFQ because of Flite Test. I do not blame Flite Test at all but as BackWoodsFlyer said, Flite Test should have done a better job on vetting this company.
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