My Configs

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New-config wizard

Two tracks, no blank slate

Clicking this button opens a multi-step wizard — every new config goes through it. Track A (recommended): 4 steps, anchored on a scale reading of the student's current drone — the most accurate path. Track B (advanced): 3 steps for students designing without a physical drone yet, with a hardware-overhead estimate for receiver/camera/wiring/screws. Try it — the wizard is fully interactive in this mockup; you can click between steps to inspect each screen.
Build library

Saved configurations (7 / 20)

Each pilot keeps up to 20 configs. Cards show baseline → new weight for Track A configs (anchored on a real scale reading) or just an estimate for Track B (from-scratch). The weight number colors against the 300 g tech-inspection cap: gray when comfortable, amber > 270 g, red at the limit. Selecting a card drives every other panel.
Selected Config

Faster Striker

Baseline → Upgrade

Five slots, two columns each

Each row shows what's currently on the drone (left) versus the upgrade the student is testing (right). Quantities are real: motors ×4, props ×4, the rest ×1. The five baseline slots here were pre-filled by the wizard from the seeded Saker Bantam DS200 v2.0 OEM reference — students starting from a different drone may have OEM/Unknown baseline slots they have to identify or leave blank. A slot can be in three states: Upgraded (new part picked from catalog), Known Existing (current part identified — either from the seeded OEM data or a manual weight entry), or OEM/Unknown (untouched — its weight is absorbed into the scale reading from the wizard).
Track A · From current build (Saker Bantam DS200 v2.0) Baseline weight: 232g · scale reading includes RX, LED, screws, wiring (~8–14g)
3 days ago

Weight Math

Δ +28.4g
Slot Change Qty Δ Weight
Baseline Scale reading (whole drone) — 232.0g
Motor iFlight 1404 3800KV → BETAFPV 1404 4500KV ×4 +5.2g
Prop Gemfan 2520-3 → HQProp T2.5×2.5×3 ×4 +3.2g
ESC / AIO iFlight U19 AIO — Not changing ×1 0.0g
Battery Tattu R-Line 650mAh 95C → CNHL 720mAh 90C ×1 +20.0g
Frame iFlight 20cm CF Frame + Exoskeleton — Not changing ×1 0.0g
New estimated all-up weight 260.4g
Weight math · Track A

Why this math is accurate

The baseline (232g) was measured on a real scale, so it already includes everything — frame, motors, props, AIO, battery, plus the misc hardware not in the 5-category model: ELRS RX (~1–2g), LED ring (~2–4g), screws + standoffs + zip ties (~3–5g), wiring (~2–3g). Subtotal misc ≈ 8–14g, all absorbed into the scale reading. The delta math only touches the slots being swapped, multiplied by the right quantity (motors ×4, props ×4). Untouched slots contribute zero — their weight is already in the baseline. This is why Track A is the recommended path: no overhead estimation needed.

Performance & Insights

All-Up Weight

Weight bar

Baseline → new, on the way to the 300g wall

Linear 0–300g track. The grey marker is your baseline (the scale reading from the wizard — includes everything: motors, props, frame, RX, camera, wires, screws). The accent marker is the projected weight after the upgrade. A stock Saker Bantam DS200 v2.0 weighs in around ~232g per our component sum, well under the FAA sub-250g registration threshold the kit advertises — the upgrade above pushes it to 260g, still legal but tighter. The amber zone (270–300g) flags "close to the limit"; the white wall on the right is the hard 300 g tech-inspection cap.

Performance vs. Baseline

Top Speed ▲ +18%
Punch ▲ +12%
Flight Time ▼ −22%
Agility ▲ +5%
Weight Budget ▼ −28%

Right = better · Left = worse · Length = magnitude of change

Power bars · % delta

Right = better, left = worse

Six axes of change relative to the baseline (your current drone). Green bars grow right for improvements; red bars grow left for regressions. The label on the right is the exact percentage. We don't show absolute scores like "7.6 / 10" because the physics model isn't calibrated to that precision — but the direction and magnitude of change is reliable.

Insights & Warnings

  • Info: Main tradeoff: Speed ↔ Endurance
    You're gaining +18% Top Speed but losing 22% Flight Time.
  • Safe: ESC headroom acceptable
    Estimated peak draw is ~78% of the 20A AIO limit (up from 62% on baseline).
  • Warning: 87% of weight budget used
    New estimated weight is 260.4g of the 300g cap — 39.6g of headroom remaining.
Coaching

Auto-generated insights

Three flavors: info (the headline tradeoff this upgrade is making), safe (passing checks like ESC headroom or weight under cap), and warn (something to watch — close to weight cap, current draw climbing, prop tip-speed). All checks run against the upgrade build + the new estimated weight. Each line links to the underlying calculation so students can see why, not just what.