so ive been flying a self build 5inch for about two years now and finally caved and grabbed one of the iFlight prebuilts mostly because i just dont have the time to solder and tune from scratch anymore. went with the nazgul evoque f5 v2 HD with the vista unit. figured id share some impressions since i couldnt find a ton of recent real world feedback when i was researching.

out of the box the tune is honestly not bad. like its not going to win any freestyle comps but it tracks well, props out fine on fast rolls, and the motors arent screaming at hover which was my main concern with a prebuilt. the xing2 2306 motors feel solid, no complaints there. i did reflash betaflight immediately just because i always do and tweaked the filtering a bit ? stock filter settings felt a little heavy for my taste but nothing crazy.

the DJI vista integration is clean, no weird latency issues or anything like that. frame feels sturdy. i did have one arm screw that was basically finger tight from the factory which is a little annoying but whatever, checked all of them and torqued everything down properly.

main thing i want to know is if anyone else has messed with the rates on this thing because stock rates feel sluggish to me. i fly around 800 degrees/sec on my other quads and i just havent found the sweet spot yet on this one.

yeah the stock rates on pretty much any iFlight prebuilt are tuned for like a beginner-intermediate pilot i think. they probably do that on purpose. i had the older evoque and bumped RC rate up to around 1.4 with expo at 0.58 and it felt way more responsive without being twitchy. just mess around, youre probably going to end up somewhere similar to what you already run on your other build honestly.

also check your motor temps after a pack or two, mine ran a little warm until i bumped the idle up slightly. nothing alarming but worth keeping an eye on.

i looked at this exact quad for like two months before buying a geprc mark5 instead lol. not saying you made the wrong call, just went a different direction. the mark5 hd has been great for me, tune out of the box was surprisingly good. kind of curious how the evoque compares in terms of propwash because that was my main gripe with the last iFlight i flew. seemed to get a bit floaty in fast dives.