Official FlightLine OV-10 Bronco Discussion Thread

[rhys_greycat]

Hopefully some of you guys are still watching this thread! I recently got one of these second hand from a friend... doing some of the 3D printed add ons... flare dispenser, Radar warning antennas, etc... and noticed that the guy never installed some of the stock antennas and he doesn't have any idea what happened to them. Since I don't want to pay as much for shipping as for the parts themselves and there isn't anything I need from Motion at the moment, I'm wondering if someone would mind to get me some dimensions off yours?? I need the little blades on top of the verticals, the angled antenna on the back edge of the canopy, and the bottom blades on the bottom of the rear area of the booms. Also the counterbalance or whatever it is in the middle of the elevator. Whatever dimensions you can get me would be helpful. I think I can tinker them up and print them close enough once I have some idea of size. I am trying to measure the slots in the foam for a starting point but whatever you can confirm for me would be great. TNX in advance.

I took this pic before I installed mine over the winter, but haven't drawn them up. (I did it mainly to print another antenna for the back of my second canopy that I have a FPV setup on )

[a_earls@cox.net]

Can somebody please post a pic of their nose gear, servo mechanical connection.

[Evan D]

Answered on the other forum

[skirmishcampaigns]

Hi guys

I am just finishing up my new OV10 and want to remove some of the decals - do any of you know how to get these waterslide decals off without damage to the foam?

Cheers!

[maniok]

Mine just crashed the second time - at least once I had also a problem with the left ESC. I recently replaced them with a 40A ESC. For the latest crash it was either a failure of the left engine or a problem with the transmitter...

But I absolutely love this plane - it flies amazing.

[a_earls@cox.net]

Has anybody had to replace the middle wing

[jsallade]

Hopefully some of you guys are still watching this thread! I recently got one of these second hand from a friend... doing some of the 3D printed add ons... flare dispenser, Radar warning antennas, etc... and noticed that the guy never installed some of the stock antennas and he doesn't have any idea what happened to them. Since I don't want to pay as much for shipping as for the parts themselves and there isn't anything I need from Motion at the moment, I'm wondering if someone would mind to get me some dimensions off yours?? I need the little blades on top of the verticals, the angled antenna on the back edge of the canopy, and the bottom blades on the bottom of the rear area of the booms. Also the counterbalance or whatever it is in the middle of the elevator. Whatever dimensions you can get me would be helpful. I think I can tinker them up and print them close enough once I have some idea of size. I am trying to measure the slots in the foam for a starting point but whatever you can confirm for me would be great. TNX in advance.

[Cobra1365]

After a break to get my kid off to college, and also because it was too damned hot, I finally got back to my Cal Fire Bronco.

Graphics by Callie, and some waterslides I made myself.








Civilian pilot and observer are a mash up of a figure from Thingiverse and another couple from CGTrader. Insignia and patches are waterslide decals printed on a laser printer and cut to size by a cricut vinyl cutter.



Horizontal stab with graphics from Callie and sealed with gloss polyurethane


The wing is ready for for Callie
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And finally the fuselage is getting its stripes. I'm doing one at a time to keep the masking simple. Second stripe and black pin stripes tomorrow.

Next up will be the booms


I'm looking forward to when the canopy is back in stock so I can finish her up.

Can I ask how you did your pin stripes?

[TomCSM]

Two questions from a newbie. One - Where is the receiver mounted in order to set up gyro? Two - Is it possible to use a y servo cable to connect the flaps and allow for a bind plug also - for a six channel receiver. This would eliminate unplugging the flap connection in order to bind the receiver. Appreciate any helpful answers. Thanks

[skirmishcampaigns]

Guys - I just got an OV10 and want to it up in Vietnam VMO-2 colors. Can anyone tell me when the white top wing markings were put on? I have seen one model with them from 1971.

anyone know when the marking was switched from most of the top wing to painting the whole wing white?

[Angryflyer]

A body of mine says that there are problems with the Left ESC going bad?

Motor left motor is not running and I'll get a new ESC (I'M assuming there's nothing wrong with the motor) but my question is: is it a calibration issue or bad hardware?

Thx

[Fin1207]

I did some messing and I’ve managed to get the flaps to move on the monitoring page but IRL they still just twitch

[Fin1207]

I also don’t have any throttle my DX6e just beeps at me when I move my throttle even when throttle cut is off.

[Fin1207]

No I can’t see it moving on the monitor but it is moving IRL.

[Evan D]

Do you have throws on that channel, can you see the cursor move on the monitor screen?

[Fin1207]

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help with the TX setup. I’ve managed to get everything working but flaps. They just seem to keep twitching and even though they’re assigned to my Aux and there is a switch assigned nothing?

[Evan D]

-130 was to kill a IC engine. Use -100 for electrics.

[rlcamden]

I realized early on with spektrum equipment, if you try to calibrate/arm with the throttle cut on (-130 throw), the ESC will not initialize or calibrate. I have made it a habit when first setting up a plane to make sure the throttle trim is zero'd out, bind, do the throttle calibration, then set up the throttle cut.

[Grossman56]

I had the very same problem and solution with my OV10

I have had that problem too, it's always with a Spektrum receiver, I use a lot of Lemon receivers and haven't had to lower my throttle trim. Something about Spektrum.

Grossman56

[Arkx400]

No one responded to my post about my issue but I figured out the problem. So in the event someone else has an issue with the ESC not arming and or the motor not running, make sure you lower the throttle trim all the way down. As soon as I did that, my ESC's armed and both motors started right up.

I had the very same problem and solution with my OV10