Official FlightLine OV-10 Bronco Discussion Thread

[AceMigKiller]

Just finished some ordnance for the OV-10. Hellfires, LAU-68's, and Snakeyes. Now I have to wait 3 months to maiden it!

That loadout is awesome!

[themudduck]

The wing panels are about 15.75" long (ea).

With the wings on, the wingspan is 55". With the wings off, the center section is 23 3/8 inches wide and about 57" long.

[hotcross.RCFlyer]

I'm considering buying this version of the OV-10 but have limited room for transporting it cross country. What is the width of the fuse assembly without the outer wings attached ? I saw something in an earlier post that indicated that the otter wings were 16" wide ?? That would be 55"-16"-16" = 23 inches wide - is this correct ?

[Chuck14532]

Just finished some ordnance for the OV-10. Hellfires, LAU-68's, and Snakeyes. Now I have to wait 3 months to maiden it!

Any chance I could buy those 3D files from you

[SanExup]

That looks so fun!

[Evan D]

Put a new camera system in the Bronco and got it out today. FS Shark Byte. I like the detail but the system is limited by the cameras that are available, only nano ones right now.

(1) Bronco HD 3Mar2021 2nd - YouTube

[Strong]

Finally got to fly my maiden flight of the OV-10 today and everything went just fine. Started with the takeoff flaps and she was up and flying very quickly. Did need some down trim to fly level and not climb at half throttle. Used about 1000Mah each from 2 4000Mah batteries in 5 minutes of flight. This plane fly’s so good it really don’t need flaps to take off or land it’s a really solid flyer. Should be able to get 10+ minutes of flight time easy. Only got 3 flights so far because of weather and wind but so far it fly’s just the way I like and looks scale to boot.

[Dirk.S]

Maidened mine this morning, and have the same problem with the rhs motor having the brake on. It didn't affect the flight characteristics at all, even at idle it had no problem gliding. Love the plane, it's great!

[G6Brovo58]

Ok, I will give that a try. Thank you

[G6Brovo58]

Ok, I'll give it a try. Thanks

[Evan D]

Calibrating does nothing for programing the brake. Look under the B-24 at Motion and you’ll find the ESC programming instructions.

[xviper]

^ Exactly what SanExip said. You know the 2 throttle leads are "Y'd" together. Find the "Y" and pull out the side that is working OK. Leave the side that you want to turn the brake OFF and go ahead and do it. If you're unhappy with the throttle calibration at this point, now is the time to do it. Do the calibration on the side you just corrected for the brake. Then plug in the other "good" side and unplug the one you just finished with and do the calibration for it. Plug everything back in and it should all be good to go.

[SanExup]

G6Brovo58 I believe the correct info is further back in this thread. But can you have one esc plugged into the y at a time and calibrate them individually that way?

[G6Brovo58]

Does anyone know how to turn off both the ESC brakes on a multi-motor plane? For some reason one of the ESC on the OV-10 Bronco has the brake on the right motor and when I try to turn it off the other ESC brake turns it on the other motor while I'm trying to calibrating it. I was told that I would have to calibrate each ESC independently. How do you that if both ESC is connected to a Y connector on a one lead to the receiver?

[herbert Stötter]

Hallo, woher bekomme ich die Jetpiloten für die Bronco.

Gruß Herbert

[Dwalkerp47]

I thought about that issue to but I decided to call the help desk and he knew immediately what the problem was. I didn't realize I had to zero the throttle trim and once I did it worked. Again, thank for your help.

Glad you got it working. I sure love my OV-10...

[Evan D]

Interesting since I center the throttle trim on all my airplanes...

[G6Brovo58]

I thought about that issue to but I decided to call the help desk and he knew immediately what the problem was. I didn't realize I had to zero the throttle trim and once I did it worked. Again, thank for your help.

[Dwalkerp47]

Yes, I've calibrated the esc but it still doesn't work.

Okay, I had a issue with the Throttle as well. I think the problem that I had was with the Throttle wire that plugs into the receiver. If I'm remembering this issue properly, the servo plug for the Throttle has 6 wires soldered inside the servo plug. I found that the Throttle wire coming out of the servo plug that runs to both ESC's was bad. I replace that cable & plug with a Y Harness connector. That solved my problem with powering up both ESC's. Let me know if that fixes your problem.

[G6Brovo58]

Yes, I've calibrated the esc but it still doesn't work.