SETUP GUIDES
These are guides that I have written myself to document my own setup procedures.
Please feel free to make use of them when setting up your own drone.
SOFTWARE / FIRMWARE
BetaFlight 4.4 Setup Guide
My standard setup process for a new quad with Betaflight 4.4 flight controller firmware. This guide is just a data dump of my personal setup notes. Also note that it is written for use with the earlier Betaflight Configurator 10.7. Later versions of the configurator have some functions moved to different tabs.
BetaFlight 4.2 Setup Guide
This guide is now obsolete. Just keeping it here in case it’s of interest to anyone.
A quick guide to configuring BetaFlight 4.2 settings on your new scratch build. Although 4.2 is very much outdated now, I’m keeping this here for posterity and as a reference in case it may be useful to someone.
You can use the dropdowns to see a more detailed explanation and instructional videos.
There’s also a checklist for to make sure you don’t skip anything in the setup process.
BLHeli32 Bit Settings for BetaFlight 4.2
This guide is now obsolete. Just keeping it here in case it’s of interest to anyone.
My preferred BetaFlight settings for 32 bit BLHeli ESC setup.
Note that this guide is for older versions of Betaflight (Example BF 4.2).
Procedure for the ESC settings when setting up a new quad which has BLHeli_32 ESC Firmware, or for when ESCs with BLHeliS firmware have been upgraded to 32 bit Firmware.
SETUP TIPS
My process for finalising setup on Cinematic drones. In this section we look at causes and solutions to jello, altitude hold and tracking.