Official FlightLine OV-10 Bronco Discussion Thread

[t01ga]

Fantastic job on weathering.

Many thanks 👍🏼

[Dwalkerp47]

Fantastic job on weathering.

[t01ga]

Here are some photos as well!

[t01ga]

FLIGHTLINE OV-10 BRONCO
Customised and weathered; scale pilots, rounded air wheels, front strut brace, custom scratch built cockpit, rivets all around. Absolutely loved every minute and learned quite a lot on the way.
It is rather a long video so please bear with me 😊

https://youtu.be/DPNcjrrgafQ

[t01ga]

Tolga, I always enjoy your posts, please keep them coming! Great work!
Michael

Thanks Michael, will do mate. I am going to put out a walkaround video of the Bronco once it is completed..

[Ron1950]

short vid of the maiden of my ov10 just a fly by
January 4, 2021 - YouTube

[pb12]

Tolga, I always enjoy your posts, please keep them coming! Great work!
Michael

[t01ga]

Started on weathering the OV10 and I am half way through. The fluorescent lighting is not doing justice but when I am finished I will be doing a walkaround video outside under daylight.

[Evan D]

So why did you post it here?


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[Patrnflyr]

Good point adios

[Bassfisher]

Finally finished mine, Callie Graphics all around

[SanExup]

I have seen some of the Spektrum videos and they are worth the time.

[SanExup]

Ah ok, yeah, you have me convinced to admire your setup but that it might be a bit much for me to try, right out of the gates. Though I do think the 6s pack sounds worth the while. Now that you have it, the telemetry data is probably worth the trouble you went through. I probably have enough channels with a 9ch Tx. But some pages back people talk about motor and prop upgrades that sound worthy. I think that may be more my speed to start out with. I know I'll have to upgrade the esc's as well, but I should try a telemetry setup on a single motor plane first. I know once I start putting the Ov10 together I will want to get it in the air as soon as possible. Thanks for sharing! It's good to hear someone else that is happy with their bronco! A few guys have said it's their favorite plane to fly, that's what made me want one!

[pb12]

Thanks for the info! And congratulations! To respond, I am curious about how you set it up and any complexity. It seems like a great idea to have telemetry for this plane. It's good to hear flight reports with different packs. This thread has been quiet for a while. I have some other projects going but I have the bronco in a box waiting for me. So I am eager to hear what other setups people are using.

‘thank you for the kind words, much appreciated!

as for the “Smart” setup, it took some trial and error, as this was my first attempt at it from scratch, and it being a twin, only complicated matters. The long and the short of it, is that Spektrum is incapable of displaying data from two ESC’S simultaneously. Or two of any identical data sources for that matter! It is also nearly damned impossible for it to display voltage data from two batteries simultaneously. I only know that it is possible because Spektrum has a picture of it being done in their marketing material. After 5 or 6 hours of trying to get that to work, including a back and forth with RCG’s resident Spektrum expert, who was also unable to describe the process, I gave up. I only know that they are not the exact same source of data. So, what I ended up with is being able to see data from one esc and one battery. This gave me the feeling that it was actually safer to use a single 6S batter instead of two 4s batteries if I was going to rely on the voltage telemetry to determine flying time. I made a parallel esc/single battery adapter cable, including the data wire using ic5 connectors. To be able to see data from the single esc, you can not use a “Y” cable for the pair of ESC’S, each esc has to have its own channel. Make sure to remove the power wire from one of the ESC’S. To be able to do this I needed a receiver with more than 6 channels, hence the 8360T instead of a 610T or 637T.

This was also my first attempt at programing AS3X from scratch using the iX20. There is NO WAY I would have been able to do this had it not been for the absolutely excellent YouTube series Spektrum put together that walks you through every step of the process.

In the end, this was a project based more on “want” than “need” for sure. But, it was a fun challenge, even if it was a bit frustrating at times.

hope that helps. Ask away if I missed anything, I’ll try and help if I can!
Michael

[SanExup]

Thanks for the info! And congratulations! To respond, I am curious about how you set it up and any complexity. It seems like a great idea to have telemetry for this plane. It's good to hear flight reports with different packs. This thread has been quiet for a while. I have some other projects going but I have the bronco in a box waiting for me. So I am eager to hear what other setups people are using.

[pb12]

Hello folks! I received this wonderful plane as a Christmas gift and was able to fly the maiden today in beautiful 32 degree Oregon weather. Well....at least it wasn’t raining, which it is expected to do for the next week straight. It is my first plane from Motion RC, and I have to say I am very impressed with it! From big things like how great it looks, and how well it flys (it’s like a fast cub! So forgiving!) to little things, like the wing servos being mounted with screws(!) instead of double sided tape!

I did want to mention that there were a lot of questions in this thread regarding flying it on one 6S battery, with not much in the way of answers. Well, I think I can actually contribute something here. I replaced the stock ESC’S with two Spektrum Avian 45A’s so that I could receive telemetry when using a Spektrum 8360T, Smart batteries along with my iX20. (If anyone wants info on how that went, I’m happy to go into detail. It was a bit of trial and error, that took some doing to get it all to work). On the maiden I flew it with two 3200 4s smart batteries, and it flew great, but could have used a little more nose weight. On the second and third flights I flew it on a single 5000 6S. It flew beautifully! I was watching the esc temps, and they never got above about 130 degrees F. Amp draw on full power was 53Amps, but I limited that to very short periods to keep it within the Avian specs of 60A burst capability, 45A continuous. At 3/4 throttle it draws about 32A, and flys about as fast, perhaps slightly quicker than when it was on the two 3200 4s batteries.

I hope that helps someone out. I absolutely love the plane, and can’t wait to get more flights in when the weather improves.
Thank you to everyone who came before me, and all that was contributed. It really helped me get this thing in the air, and flying well right away.
Michael

[sam51401]

Well not much of a heart beat left here but i took my new plane and new radio a further step to a second and a third flight with the S6R stabilization programmed. I retrimmed and then went to stabilize and it settled down just fine. Granted there wasnt as much wind as on my first flight but with it off, it was much smoother than the first. Flying this as its meant and keeping it smooth with and without the help, really made a nice flight with multiple comments from the pit area. Liking this each time i take it up and im still using stock motors/ecs on 4000ma and getting 11mins. Now to move back onto the Nexus Bronco to finish up the bigger brother.

[boomer108]

boomer108 Now I understand your profile name. I bet it was the most appreciated job in the air force too. Probably feeding a lot of hungry desperate birds.Thank you for your service!

Thank you! Yes those hungry birds loved seeing us especially over the ocean. I used to say where else could an enlisted guy in the Air Force get three officers to fly me to work every day.

[MikeT]

Yes the combo does comes with landing gear and retracts for 2000$. And nice I like a good P-40 there great warbirds. I’m going to hold off for a little longer and pray MRC gets in a new shipment of Black Horses in.

I think they might be coming up with a combo deal on 30cc gas motors also but there's nothing on that yet. Not sure if they will do a combo price on electrics but ya never know.

Mike

[MountainRC]

I have a Bates P-40B on the bench for my next build and I expect that to be a pricey build so I understand just how easy it is to pour money into a project. I remember dumping a grand easy in a 60 size warbird years ago. It's all good. I did check on Fastserve ( Horizon's Dealer site) and it looks like they will have combo deal like they did on some of their other big birds.

Mike

Yes the combo does comes with landing gear and retracts for 2000$. And nice I like a good P-40 there great warbirds. I’m going to hold off for a little longer and pray MRC gets in a new shipment of Black Horses in.