My first FPV Experience

[KnifeEdge]

I had my first FPV flying experience this morning......all I can say is WOW....fooking WOW.

Ben Mayhew (HeliBen) kindly tested the range of my IBcrazy Antenna's out...and we can confirm the range exceeds Futata 2.4ghz lol. We completely lost sight of quad. Thank god for the Failsafe RTH function on the NazaM-v2. I thought it was a gonna, then about 4 mins later, we heard something flying above us, and there is was coming into land.

My first flight went well, except I completely lost where the field was, (easy done if you are not careful), again, failsafe was a god send. Currently uploading my first FPV vid (taking ages though). Will post when its finished.

Cant wait to have another go, GoPro recording quality is superb, the gimbal holds the shot really stable, and the FPV goggle are really clear. Fantastic morning

[Sarge]

Very interested to see your setup, this is something I'd like to have a tinker with

[KnifeEdge]

I have the following setup:

DJI F450
Naza-M v2
Zenmuse H3-2D Gimbal
10" 1038 DJI Props
JR RG831B Rx
Fatshark Attitude SD v2 FPV goggles & Rx
IBcrazy Mad Mushroom Tx 5.8ghz
IBcrazy 3 Turn Helical Rx 5.8Ghz
TP G8 3S 2700mah
GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition

I will post a pic later

[dillwhacker]

Fun, isn't it?

Look forward to the vid.

[bigpops]

I'm hoping someone at the field gets into this soon so I can have a go.

We're almost there. There's a guy with a Phantom, gopro, gimbal, and 5Ghz video Tx on it, but he flies line of sight with a monitor that he can glance at to check what his camera is seeing.

[KnifeEdge]

Onscreen display will be my next purchase, only £50 but gives you:

Voltage, Distance from home, Height, Control mode, FS Mode, Pitch & Roll Attitude, Flight velocity, # GPS Sats, aircraft nose direction (has a dot towards home), vertical velocity, artificial horizon, and compass error indicator.

[Nick B]

Nice one James,i like it too but i get the reception playing up a lot which spooks me.

[KnifeEdge]

Ben found signal not too good with some other Antenna, but with the IBcrazy ones he still had video signal even though his tx was out of range. I have these;

VAS IBCrazy 5.8Ghz 3 Turn Helical Antenna VAS-1004

VAS IBCrazy 5.8Ghz Mad Mushroom Antenna VAS-1009

[milly0812]

Wtf is going on ? I thought me flying a scale heli was a touch leftfield lol but James (three counties) flying FPV is just bonkers lol

[Varelco]

FPV Is definitely getting popular, how far do you think you travelled before you lost control of it?

[r4nd0m]

any idea in regards of distance? the helical antennas are usually very good but still interested how you would measure that you still had VTX connection though the radio TX has already locked out - as it stop and return home once the TX locks out - VTX could lock out any second after that ...also interested in hight and VTX/VRX you are using ...

[KnifeEdge]

Wtf is going on ? I thought me flying a scale heli was a touch leftfield lol but James (three counties) flying FPV is just bonkers lol

PMSL lol

FPV Is definitely getting popular, how far do you think you travelled before you lost control of it?

Ben reckons it was approx 2.1km ish. I was spotting him, it got pretty small (F550), heard him say I have lost signal and its gone to FS. I looked away and then could not see it until I heard a buzzing sound above me. He had video feed all the way. Gutted he didn't film it though.

any idea in regards of distance? the helical antennas are usually very good but still interested how you would measure that you still had VTX connection though the radio TX has already locked out - as it stop and return home once the TX locks out - VTX could lock out any second after that ...also interested in heght ...

He could tell as his FPV goes through the GoPro and he has positioned the LED status light on the F550 on the front arm which is in view of the GoPro.

We are both getting on screen displays ASAP!!

[Disc]

FPV is great fun

But an OSD is rather useful

[iceuk]

Nice one on the fpv,

[KnifeEdge]

Here you go.... (set res to HD if you can)