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Ultimate FPV

Discussion in 'General Talk Forum' started by kram242, Sep 17, 2011.

  1. kram242

    kram242 Administrator Staff Member

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    First person flying taken to the extreme!

    Love it! :banger:
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Sep 17, 2011
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    I wish my father was still in the hobby so he could enjoy the new Technology. He was allways doing cool things to his models. Whether it was Brakes for the Fun Fly or a Retractable holding string for the pylon racer and my Fav. "Just for fun" his SIG Kadet Senior had the Pilot move his head with the rudder. Servos were to big then so it was Mechanically done. He still loves when I do crazy stuff with my Planes.


    Cheers
    E-T
     
    Evil-Tunes, Sep 18, 2011
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    The full immersion type like that is cool. It's too bad that guy was not flying it fpv though.
     
    3DMON, Sep 18, 2011
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    I hear you ET the older Boyz knew their stuff and really paved the way for us to be able to do what we can do now! Thanks Boyz :good:


    Shaun in his video description it says he is flying FPV. I really like the head tracker part of the helmetcam :doubleup:

     
    kram242, Sep 18, 2011
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    He also says that he is the founder of fpv lol. :D

    I only said that because the 1:22 and the 2:00 and 4:14 marks where he is standing and looking at the plane with the transmitter in his hand. His flights were really close in too.

    Cool stuff though for sure.
     
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    I got a kick out of that one too! :D
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    The way he was looking into the turns makes be think that he may have had FPV
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Sep 18, 2011
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    dhc8guru, Sep 27, 2011
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  8. 3DMON

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    You don't need the hud to know where your at when flying fpv but it helps if your not familiar with the area or when flying long distances. Hopefully, sometime soon I will get around to posting some of my FPV adventures. All I can say is it's so much fun.

    Oh and your youtube vids aren't linking properly. It's not taking me to the vids.
     
    3DMON, Sep 27, 2011
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    I think my video links are fixed now.

    I have seen people fly around in small areas without a HUD but in comparioson, something about his video seems a little more like it's being flown not through an FPV camera.
     
    dhc8guru, Sep 28, 2011
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    I found this cool video as well by the same guy vrflyer
    [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/453849[/vimeo]
    Here is an rcgroups thread with more information on the build http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1111348
    I think the for the FPV he has the screen mounted to the transmitter
    Cool stuff!
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Sep 30, 2011
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    A screen mounted on the transmitter definitely makes sense. Explains a bit of the fluidity.
     
    dhc8guru, Oct 2, 2011
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    VRFlyer uses video goggles, and a head-tracking gyro to control the in-cockpit camera. To my knowledge, he always flies FPV. I've been following his videos for the last 5 years. He pretty much pioneered the FPV hobby. Most of his videos record directly from the airplane camera feed, but sometimes he uses a separate camera on the plane to record the video, for a higher-resolution video, and minus the movement of the cockpit camera.
     
    oracle58, Oct 5, 2011
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