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Beginner racing drone12/6/2023 ![]() But with the AOS5 BnF, you don’t have to, because Chris Rosser delivers the BnF with his perfect PID tune. The AOS5 frame is designed to have the best possible resonance characteristics, which means you can PID tune them to the limit. Put them together, and you’ve got something truly special. Chris Rosser makes some of the best frames. IFlight makes some of the best bind-n-fly quadcopters. Unless you want something REALLY specific out of a 5” bind-n-fly, the Nazgul is actually the one that’ll give the best value for money to the most people. You can buy something more expensive, and it’ll only be a little bit better. You can get something a little bit cheaper, but it’ll be a LOT worse. Because the Nazgul offers all the performance and durability that iFlight is known for, at one of the lowest prices available today. And then iFlight released a new version of the Nazgul: the v3! It’s not dead! It’s alive!!!!Įven if you don’t have the same attachment to Nazgul’s design as I do, you should be excited too. I’d browse stores every now and then to see when the last Nazgul would go out of stock. ![]() And the light-pipes in the arms of the Evoque make them a bit less durable than the arms of the Nazgul.Īs good as the Evoque is, some part of me resented the “consumer-ification” of the FPV hobby that I love. ![]() The Nazgul has a 30mm-sized FC and ESC, which I think are more durable than the 20mm size in the Evoque. The Evoque is polished and shiny, with molded plastic parts and LEDs. When they later released the Evoque, I was a little bit sad. The Nazgul was one of iFlight’s first 5” bind-n-fly freestyle quads. It’s just a great, all-round five-inch freestyle quad. It doesn’t have the high-strung responsiveness of the AOS5, or the consumer-focused refinement of the Evoque. Of all the bind-n-fly 5” freestyle quads on this list, the GEPRC Mark5 might be the truest to the pure 5” freestyle experience that comes from building your own quad. The best part is that the GEPRC Mark5 is available with almost any video system you prefer analog, DJI O3, DJI v2, and even Walksnail! The analog version has a powerful 1.6W video transmitter, for maximum range. Their SPAN F722-BT-HD V2 even has built-in Bluetooth so you can configure it wirelessly from your phone. GEPRC hasn’t skimped on the flight controller either. But GEPRC ships with legitimate Ethix S5 props – some of the best you can get. Some manufacturers would cut corners on the props by shipping with a self-made copy of somebody else’s design. But this slightly narrower, slightly taller motor actually performs amazingly! And durability was great in my (admittedly limited) testing. GEPRC’s choice of motor surprised me at first: 2107.5 dimensions feel like numbers picked out of a hat for marketing purposes. The metal front end also has a dedicated section so you don’t have to disassemble the whole top plate to add or remove an action camera. 7075 aluminum front end protects the camera and doesn’t flinch at hard crashes. The “squashed-X” geometry keeps propellers out of your FPV camera view without compromising balanced freestyle handling. The frame balances light weight and durability perfectly and looks great too. GEPRC might be best known for its Cinewhoops, but the Mark5 deserves way more attention than it seems to get. This is especially good if you’re using the O3 camera to record footage, and not just to see where you’re flying. The D geometry pushes the front motors out and back a little bit so that they’re not visible in the FPV camera. For pure freestyle goodness, we recommend the X geometry. The Evoque comes in either X geometry or D geometry. The analog vTX has a whopping 1.6W of output power, so you’ll get plenty of range compared to competitors with weaker vTX. The Evoque is available with either the DJI O3 video transmitter or an analog vTX and camera. The light pipes going down the center of the arms make the Evoque a tiny bit less durable than some comparable frames. Some would say that the light-up side plates are just in the way, or another part to break. The whole thing is carefully put together in exactly a certain way, and it’s kind of resistant to being any other way than iFlight made it. The downside of the Evoque’s refinement is that it’s a little harder to repair and maintain. They’re thinking about problems that pilots face and trying to solve them. Little touches like an anti-spark device on the battery plug show that iFlight isn’t just building another “hobby-grade” quadcopter. They make it feel like a Real Product, with molded plastic walls and LED lights built into the body. iFlight isn’t content to just make a fast, agile, and durable quadcopter. The Nazgul Evoque is one of the most refined 5” freestyle quads you can buy.
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