09-Apr-2024, 10:18 PM (This post was last modified: 09-Apr-2024, 10:20 PM by SeismicCWave.)
Ok, I will follow the trend and introduce myself. Since that is the socially acceptable thing to do.
I live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I fly in my own 1 acre backyard. Yes I belong to a flying club that I help started back in 1986. However the field needs a lot of maintenance and is 15 plus miles away. It rains a lot over here (we are about the rainiest city with a population of over 25,000 people). A lot of times by the time I get to the field it is raining. Where as if I fly at home I can dash out and put up a flight in between rain storm.
I am actually looking into getting a DarwinFPV Hulk to fly in the rain.
I started flying RC when I was 13 years old back in 1968. I flew 60 size pattern planes and even dabbled in some competition. I also did 10 years of aerial photography for local realtors. First with an RC helicopter (electric) then I started to dabble in multi copters when the flight controllers became a bit more available. Yes I used to run down to the local store to buy up all those Nitendo Wii conrtrollers and Nunchuks so I can harvest the gyros and accelerometers. However the MultiWii controllers had what I called the "wobble of death". Then there were other flight controllers available like Hoverfly, KK, AutoQuad and Open Pilot. I finally settled on the Pixhawk for a long time.
I never did FPV. I was flying the multi copters line of sight. However I did have an FPV camera on board for the camera operator. That became a bit cumbersome.
Now that I no long fly for money because of the FAA regulations I just fly for fun.
My new year resolution is to start to learn to fly FPV in earnest. So I started playing with the flight sim on the computer. Then bought my first whoop (Mobula 8) back in February 8th. I was backing up into trees a lot. Then finally I got the hang of it and my collection exploded. Now I am up to 8 quads and wanting to collect more.
My focus is still on sub 250 grams and fly in my backyard. I like to create quiet machines so I don't bother my neighbors early in the morning or late at night.
Analog is still a lot more fun for me than digital. I have a lot of hardware to collect and test in analog which gives me purpose.
So I will be sharing some of my experience with these hardware I tested and I read everything I can to learn about different things involving FPV.
I am glad the flight controllers for the multi copters are getting so good nowadays. They are inexpensive and even if I don't bother (which I don't) to do any PID tune the flight controllers just flies. No more wobble of death.
Plus ExpressLRS really opened the door to more reliable radio protocol. I also have something like 12 different transmitters. A lot of them were FrSky only because they were the first to provide PPM connection to the flight controller with one single cable before Futaba came out with sBus. However I think I have lost more airplanes and multi copters because of FrSky so I am weaning myself off from them.
I live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I fly in my own 1 acre backyard. Yes I belong to a flying club that I help started back in 1986. However the field needs a lot of maintenance and is 15 plus miles away. It rains a lot over here (we are about the rainiest city with a population of over 25,000 people). A lot of times by the time I get to the field it is raining. Where as if I fly at home I can dash out and put up a flight in between rain storm.
I am actually looking into getting a DarwinFPV Hulk to fly in the rain.
I started flying RC when I was 13 years old back in 1968. I flew 60 size pattern planes and even dabbled in some competition. I also did 10 years of aerial photography for local realtors. First with an RC helicopter (electric) then I started to dabble in multi copters when the flight controllers became a bit more available. Yes I used to run down to the local store to buy up all those Nitendo Wii conrtrollers and Nunchuks so I can harvest the gyros and accelerometers. However the MultiWii controllers had what I called the "wobble of death". Then there were other flight controllers available like Hoverfly, KK, AutoQuad and Open Pilot. I finally settled on the Pixhawk for a long time.
I never did FPV. I was flying the multi copters line of sight. However I did have an FPV camera on board for the camera operator. That became a bit cumbersome.
Now that I no long fly for money because of the FAA regulations I just fly for fun.
My new year resolution is to start to learn to fly FPV in earnest. So I started playing with the flight sim on the computer. Then bought my first whoop (Mobula 8) back in February 8th. I was backing up into trees a lot. Then finally I got the hang of it and my collection exploded. Now I am up to 8 quads and wanting to collect more.
My focus is still on sub 250 grams and fly in my backyard. I like to create quiet machines so I don't bother my neighbors early in the morning or late at night.
Analog is still a lot more fun for me than digital. I have a lot of hardware to collect and test in analog which gives me purpose.
So I will be sharing some of my experience with these hardware I tested and I read everything I can to learn about different things involving FPV.
I am glad the flight controllers for the multi copters are getting so good nowadays. They are inexpensive and even if I don't bother (which I don't) to do any PID tune the flight controllers just flies. No more wobble of death.
Plus ExpressLRS really opened the door to more reliable radio protocol. I also have something like 12 different transmitters. A lot of them were FrSky only because they were the first to provide PPM connection to the flight controller with one single cable before Futaba came out with sBus. However I think I have lost more airplanes and multi copters because of FrSky so I am weaning myself off from them.