so ive been flying a self built 5inch with analog for about two years now and honestly im getting a bit tired of the goggles fog and the grainy feed when theres any kind of interference. been looking at prebuilts mostly because i just dont have the time to faff around with builds anymore between work and everything else.

the two im seriously looking at are the iFlight Nazgul Evoque F5 with O3 and the Diatone Taycan MX-C, though im not totally sure the Taycan is even worth considering at that price point. the jump to O3 digital is obviously the big thing here but its like 150 extra minimum and i already have a decent analog setup that works fine when conditions are good.

anyone actually daily drive one of these prebuilts and had to do real tuning on them out of the box? curious if the stock PIDs are usable or if youre basically reflashing and starting from scratch anyway

had the Evoque F5D for about 8 months, the O3 version. honestly the stock tune isnt terrible but its not great either, theres some propwash on hard snap rolls that annoyed me until i tightened up the D term a bit and dropped master multiplier slightly. nothing crazy, took like an hour of test flying and betaflight tweaking to get it where i wanted. the HD feed genuinely changes how you fly though, you start picking lines you wouldnt have attempted on analog because you can actually see whats a gap and whats a shadow.

the O3 tax is real but if youre already comfortable tuning its not like youre paying for a finished product, youre paying for the video link and the motors and frame doing most of the heavy lifting. whether thats worth it really just depends on how much the analog frustration is actually affecting your sessions

i went Taycan route and kinda regret it tbh, the build quality is fine but support when i had an ESC issue was basically nonexistent and finding replacement parts locally was a nightmare. iFlight at least has a wider ecosystem. probably not helpful but yeah, factor in parts availability when youre comparing prebuilts because eventually something breaks