Diatone GT2 2017 review and setup - part 1

The Diatone GT2-200 Crusader is a hard act to follow. It set a new standard for almost ready to fly mini quads when it appeared in 2016. It went through a couple of minor versions but was generally very fast, agile, but had a few niggles and issues, not least the habit of bricking ESCs with Betaflight and Blheli firmware updates.

You can find the detailed setup in part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWOPFgk8SyE

Intro 1:00
Unboxing 1:50
First impressions: 3:00
Detailed comparison: 11:45
Maiden flight: 28:30
Conclusions: 31:09

Diatone have addressed this in the new 2017 model by changing to a Fury F3 flight controller and SunnySky ESCs and motors.

But is it worth upgrading to the new model if you already have the original one?

In this review I'll do a detailed comparison between the two and checkout how the stretch version of the GT2017 model performs. The maiden flight was pretty twitchy so in part 2 I'll cover what I change to get it sorted, fit a receiver and a buzzer.

This wasn't helped by the massive high frequency vibration I thought I was seeing. This turned out to be the lens on the HS117 was loose and just moving around - a new one on me.

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