Flips in a Field with FalcoX

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"Quick" philosophical rant: I believe the FPV community has a bad habit of gatekeeping, it may not be intentional but, it happens. There are many things that are more difficult than they should be for the sake of... who knows why. Flight software is one of those, luckily there are many many helpful Youtubers and bloggers who do a wonderful job of translating and decoding the confusing litany of settings thrown at us. Betaflight has seemingly been getting harder and harder to setup. With an increasing amount of settings that you need to magically know about and then in turn tune. Previously in older versions, namely 3.5.7, you could flash the quad, do a quick standard PID tune and you were off to the races (or freestyles). Now it seems there are a dozen new features and settings that you need to know about every version. Now this is wonderful for the person who likes to tinker and tweak, I guess that is why its called BETAflight. But me personally, I've done enough building and mucking around with software. I just wanna fly darn it!

So, I tried FalcoX running on an old RevoltOSD that Nick Willard aka Wild Willy had given me back in 2019. I've got to say, the setup process, where a wizard in the OSD helps you along setting up the quad was a huge huge jump in general ease of use compared to what I was used to with the newer Betaflights, wading through pages of github patch notes and youtube videos and facebook posts.

Anyways, I could ramble all day. But moral of the story, I just wanna fly, I wanna build a quad, flash it, do a quick tweak here and there, and just fly. I don't wanna chase filter gremlins and PID gremlins. Also, if I recommend a build to someone who is brand new to building quads, I want the process to be as pain free for that newbie. FalcoX made the process pain free for someone new to FalcoX, I don't think I could say the same thing if I was brand new to BF.

Those are my honest thoughts about flight software, I'm very happy with how this quad flies on completely default FalcoX settings. Will I switch everything over? Probably not at this time, as BF is really good at handling odd builds, as its made to cover a large range of quad builds. But for the standard 5" race/freestyle quad. Maybe...?

Build:
Project399 Super Steez Prototype
Hobbywing 60A G3 ESC
Flightone RevoltOSD FC
Hobbywing 2306 1750kv Motors
Thunderpower 6s 1300mah
Azure Power SFP 5148 Props
Team Blacksheep Crossfire RX
Runcam Nano Racer
Team Blacksheep Unify Pro HV
TrueRC Matchstick Antenna
Spektrum iX12 Radio with a TBS Crossfire Module
Gopro Hero 7 2.7k Superview 30fps

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