Had a great day FPV racing at BBRC on 21/9/14, FPV racing is superb fun and great to get a group together !
If anyone is in Somerset UK, get in touch as I am trying to get some local FPV racing started – comment on practice video here:
FPV racing uses video goggles and onboard camera’s to fly as if you are sat in the pilots seat, these are very small 250mm quads weighing around 500g racing up to 40mph round a set course, they are cheap and easy to put together if you have RC experience with cars or planes.
We had great two lap races with 4 mini 250mm quads running, so edited this together from footage, I had enough good shots for ‘3 laps’ so its a mashap:
Jon with his custom frame MT1806, Naze32?
James (JAB1a) with spanky, ZMR motors, Naze32 FC
Matt with FPV250
and My FP250L, RCX 1804, KK2, Afro12 ESCs.
All running 5×3 props.
Thanks to everyone at BBRC for a great days FPV racing.
James (JAB1a) posted a superb video of the advanced course here
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Great action,evenly matched.
Just do it, hopefully someone will see yours and be inspired, I would take
it to an RC car club as that seems to be the best target market to get into
fpv racing, and you will all have a ton of fun !
Nice spot and video !
fpv race are a lot of fun :D
James thanks again for coming it was a great day … I will be there the
full day next time.
Looking forward to next time, whats great is the quads were all so closely
matched, pretty much whoever didn’t crash won, so am sure with practice we
will be racing lap by lap right up to the finish which will be amazing!!
I’ve ordered a bunch more props ready 😉
Awesome !
AWESOME STUFF DUDE , LUV THE CRASHES AT THE END , WELL DONE CHEERS STEVE
JAB1a posted his video of another flight, which looks great and even more
crashes at the end, James has loads of great video’s on his channel – well
worth subscribing !! FPV Racing Mini Quadcopters Advanced Course
Brilliant, would love to join you, subbed!
You’d be very welcome, if you keep an eye on the fpvhub forum thats where
dates get put up.
very nice!
just tried going through hula hoops in my garden ( ouch) , you guys
make it look easy , its not
Its just practice, I have a few hours of crashes before we get a video like
this, all part of the fun, just order more props 😉
Very cool
have a look at this james my first few laps
Looks like a great training course Jack, that hoop is tiny, so great job
getting through it ! Looks a great place to practice, look forward to
racing next season, looks like we are going to have a lot more competition
which is good.
Is this a club meet? I’m in Hampshire and would love to come to somethibg
like this – for an 250 + 450 fpv quad.
just an informal meetup, if you keep an eye on fpvhub forum thats where
dates get organised. Or you could start an fpv racing group in hampshire,
and we can come over to you, all you need is a big garden with some tree’s
and some pool noodles or plastic piping to make gates with.
Nice footage! We’ve shared your video with Dutch drone enthusiasts via
Thanks, looks like fpv racing is really going to take off next year
hopefully !
Hi, do these copters sold pre-assembled?
You can buy toy versions, but they won’t be as fast or robust and
replacement parts are then a hassle. These are very simple to bolt
together, depending on the motors/esc’s you can even avoid any soldering if
that’s an issue, anyone who has played with RC cars or planes would have
one built in a couple of evenings, and setup in 2 or 3 test flights. There
are shops and people who will build to order, but you still need to be able
to fix it yourself, so I’d recommend people build their own.
This is a hoot!
Not here in Aus they don’t but thank you anyway!!
I raced RC cars in the past and now fly large Quads. This looks like so
much fun! How are these little Quads setup?
What controller do you recommend?
Any 6ch RC gear is fine, I use spektrum DX6, but most people now are using
Taranis as its much more flexible and has integrated telemetry.
How hard is it to build one of these? This looks like so much fun!
Not difficult, you can bolt the bits together in a couple of evenings, best
if you can solder your own wiring but you can get harnesses to plug and
play if not, but they are a bit heavier and less tidy, if you have played
with RC cars or planes you’d have no issues. Setup can be tricky if you
have never flown before but if you find a local club or RC enthusiast to
help with that its very accessible.
+jamesb72 I have no experience at all with. Would you ever consider
recording a “how to” / step-by-step guide on building one of these FPV
quadcopter. I’ve never seen the head gear people wear either.
+Shane Henrikson There are loads of how to video’s on youtube and forums,
the video goggles are from fatshark – again loads of info on the web or
youtube, I use attitudes but there are a range depending on your budget
from teleporters cheapest to the new dominator HD which are new top of the
range with build in digital recorder etc.
Post a video where to buy and make one!
There are a ton of videos search ‘250 quadcopter build’, you can buy these
from loads of places online, depending on budget you can get a complete
Lumenier QAV250 kit with flight case down to buying individual
frame/motors/esc which is much cheaper but more involved, best advice is
find someone with RC experience to help with setup/test flight, and try to
copy someones working setup rather than experimenting with motor/esc/props
which can be frustrating.
Nice observatory!
imagine how much more advanced is darpa, if these guys already have such
toys.
Military gear must be 6 years at least ahead of what they make public,
google the Black Hornet PD-100 it weighs 16g, has 3 camera’s (forward/down
and IR), full FPV control with GPS and flight time of 20 minutes so can
only imagine how small and what flight duration they have now on the latest
still classified stuff.
i wanna see some dog fight with nano tech rockets.
Could you please post the quad build specs? Also what kind of FPV equipemt
are you using?
Another video from JAB1a – win/fails from the day FPV Racing Mini
Quadcopters Win/Fails
Very nice work
Hey James is there a site which lists all the components you need for
building your own quadcopter? and what you need to connect them to the
cameras and what frequencies etc.
there are quite a few build threads on forums, most of my other video’s
have list of my spec in description, but this isn’t latest stuff, mostly
people are moving up from 1804 to 1806 or even bigger motors, and KK2 is
out of favour now people use Naze32 acro controllers etc.
ok thank you for the quick reply
man this is do damn cool
Nice! No more phantom for you! I’m getting one one of those! Amazing video!
Very nice and fast minis.
Awesome!
What a blast! LEDs will make your craft more visible. Only a matter of time
before I try this!
I’ve fitted bangood 3 LED strip since this, having seen rear LEDs in other
vid’s they look great.
Impressive….