Well as winter is closing in here in the uk it means the indoor season is upon us, so I thought it was about time that I did something with my backup hk250gt yo save it sitting on the shelf feeling lonely , the plan was always to go fbl with it but I wasn't decided on which fbl unit to go for. When reading through the various forums I'd read a lot of good reports about the bigaole (and their various re-badged names) fbl units and decided to go for one one of those, but when I went looking to purchase them I came across the newest version that has the latest firmware and also supports satellite rx's and sbus, it was a little more expensive than the earlier versions were selling for but i with think the addition of satellite support meaning no need for a full rx makes the little extra worth it. I got mine from superior hobby here >> http://www.superior-hobby.com/preord...008-p-898.html and they were shipped (I bought 2, the other is already flying in my rappy e620) with a tracking number to me in the uk in only 8 days! So today I spent some time on the 250 conversion and it went very quickly. So here is where i started from, a stock (bar the f/s and the belt which are align) hk250gt

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and of course the reason for this little review, the bigaole v3 fbl unit, this is what comes in the package

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pretty much everything you'd expect to come with an fbl unit. As we all know going fbl is an easy swap nowadays, so it was simply a case of removing this lot

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and replacing it with this lot

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I simply mounted the fbl unit where I had the old gyro mounted, and I mounted it with the connectors facing into the frame cavity so to make future adjustments or changes to the gyro easy

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as you can see mounting it this way makes for an clean looking install on the 250. that's as far as I got today but I'll carry on with the setup and review of the v3 fbl tomorrow, but I know already from my e620 that the setup is very easy and the performance is awesome 

phil

yeah that's the toughest part on these 250's, there isn't much room for everything and wire routing is a pain, that's why i'm thankful that the bgl fbl with the v3 firmware you can use just a satellite rx instead of a full rx, that makes it a good bit easier imo 

well firstly for anyone watching this thread sorry for the delay in updates but i had to work away from home for a while, but i finally got home and back to finishing up the fbl HK250 build. so firstly here is what my final setup looks like, the list of parts i used were

a HK250GT kit
a HK 250 FBL head
3 x HKSCM9-6V on the cyclics
1 x D65HB on the tail
a Bigaole fbl unit with V3 firmware
a LemonRX dsm2 satellite with a self made 3.3v voltage regulator (you can buy these ready made from HK for less than i can make them, i just forgot to add one to my order lol) 
a CC PH25 esc
a CC CCBEC
Turnigy 2627-3800 with a 15T pinion
and a 3S 850 HK Nanotech

and how my final layout ended up, this setup has my CofG spot on with the canopy on with the 850 nanotech 

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when it came to setting up the bgl v3 it was exactly as expected, and i'f you've ever set up a microbeast with the v3 firmware everything will be as you expect, if you haven't set up a microbeast then you can download the instructions from the microbeast website or there are several good video series on youtube that show how to set up the microbeast, and those instructions are exactly the same for the bgl v3.

so with the setup done it was down to the local football pitch that is only 300m from my house to fly it and see how it behaves, so off i went along with some of my other small field fbl heli's 

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and what can i say, it works exactly like a microbeast which was a surprise, tbh i was expecting it to be good, but not quite as good as a proper microbeast due to the price of the bgl, but honestly if i did a back to back blind test with my bgl v3's and my microbeast's i know i wouldn't be able to tell which is which.

so in conclusion these bigaole v3 fbl units are awesome, they are identical in setup and operation to the beastx microbeast, but at a fraction of the price, what's not to like 

phil