BEGINNER FPV RACER (PART 1) – My Nightmare – Eachine Falcon 250
For the year 2017 I though I’d add FPV Racer Drone pilot to my list of hobby accomplishments. Apparently the years spent flying camera drones has given me bad habits. FPV Racer Drones have no Return to Home Button, No hover ability when you release the sticks, No braking when you release the sticks, No automatic height in forward flight and no GPS positioning. This makes me a terrible FPV Race Pilot!
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Another great video
I have been flying FPV quads and plans for years and thus I find this hilarious
lmao
fpv flying in winter is horrible
snow blows out cameras easily
Hey Captain. Great video. I’m also just getting into FPV racers. I have been getting familiar with flying in acro mode using a simulator and it has helped tremendously. The repetition using my transmitter is helping me develop some muscle memory and delicate control. I have a micro racer on the way so I’ll be heading outside to practice. FPV Freerider is a great simulator…I highly recommend.
OK from watching this video your FPV racing drone flying is not impressive. Impress me and make a FPV racing drone into a mavic camera drone. LOL
Braver man then me, I’ve tried to like FPV, but I just cannot get into it.
Nice video friend, cool, I liked!
Camera drone snobbery lol!! How funny is that 😀 . There’s an awful lot of folk out there who will consider your camera drones as pieces of shit for people who don’t know how to fly, who are a safety liability because of where they fly (to get their byootiful photography) and their lack of skill in acute situations
Keep learning mate, we’ll all be safer for it. Also – snow and bare electronics don’t mix, duh. Also also – the Falcon is not a well-regarded kit, you chose wrong, do better research.
EDIT: The Falcon 250 is a better regarded one, I was thinking of the 210. My mistake, apologies.
Very entertaining video Steve, I really enjoyed it! Ya you made all the mistakes but that’s how a lot of us learned too haha. Stick with it, FPV is sooo worth it when everything is working properly and you have a well tuned quad. You feel like a superhero! I also highly recommend a simulator, it will give your fingers the muscle memory you need so you can focus on other things while you’re flying, like not hitting objects haha.
One more little tip to give you while you’re flying FPV, and every beginner does this so don’t worry, but basically you should NEVER be looking in a different direction than the one your quad is flying. What I mean by this is if you’re travelling straight and you want to turn, FORCE the quad into the new direction by pitching down and adding power. If you just turn but don’t pitch down or add power to reinforce the turn then the quad is still going to be travelling in it’s original direction but now you’re looking sideways and not seeing where you’re going. Again a simulator will help with this.
I’m a camera drone snob, spoiled by all the advanced control systems on my DJI Phantom3 Pro. I found your video very informative. Thanks for doing this! Watching FPV experts fly their stuff makes it all look easy, when it’s obviously not. It’s much more educational watching your struggles. Have you been in touch with these guys? They regularly fly at that field.
May be do water proof first as you fly over snow. Plastic dip, liquid tape or silicon con-formal coating.
Oh you are new to FPV racers? Who flies all those FPV quads behind you? I see many FPV goggles too. Check out Orleans Multirotor Group on Facebook. Lots of FPV pilots who do meetups to practice FPV at Millenium Park (although not sure if they will this year now due to new laws). I’m also a Falcon 250 owner, and FPV noob. It’s like building a PC vs buying a MAC (FPV quad vs AP drone)
You can trim back to stop fwd flight with motor protectors in use, or use librepilot on flightcontroller to calibrate for -10 degrees to compensate.
Haha 🙂 Amazing video! Just got a racer myself. I found the best way to learn to fly is defiantly a tiny woop like your indutrix but also download a simulator. Most are free and many controllers are just plug and play. A good one I recommend is DRL simulator. You can download it for free and spend some hours (when its raining or snowing) and crash in as many fence posts as you want. Bonus is that there are no consequences. Another helpful tip is to get something that isn’t already assembled, as you seen you will be replacing parts. It can be a daunting task to know where everything goes but there is a huge community who will answer questions and are willing to help. Building it yourself is fun and you learn what can go wrong. Keep the great content coming!