Recent content by Mike Westwood

In case this info is useful to anyone, here's what happened... I ended up with two of these aircraft, one properly broken but with useable parts. On the "good" one I did the following 1) Dismantled and checked the mechanical components. Found nothing obviously wrong. 2) Replaced the motor...

Thank you for your responses, I will check it out. Once again, I'm new to quadcopters, but I am familiar with electronic hardware design, software development and to some degree control theory. What puzzles me is that I would expect that whatever problem exists in this case, eg, faulty rotor...

Fair enough and it's a very cheap unit, but its not possible to compensate using the stick, it doesnt have the range. With the stick pulled full back and right it still flies forward and left. If I let the stick centralize it flips over.

Hi Everyone, I'm very new to all of this, the truth is when I bought my nephew a Syma X13 for christmas I couldn't resist buying myself one as well (which I had to give him when I flew his off into the distance almost immediately, but fortunately it made it back) I'm finding it very difficult...