First FPV Flight

Flew my first FPV flight today. Well, it probably wasn't really FPV, since the goggles battery supply died about 3 minutes after turning them on. I had to just fly it visually, but I did do some by watching the video camera display. This was without the elogger and OSD, just to make sure everything was working ok. I am getting some interferance, and it really panics me when I'm flying remote watching the first person view and it wacks out. I have no idea where the plane is (invariably, it was always higher than I expected trying to find it in the sky). Wow, it can get a long way away quick just flying via the video feed. I may have to take it out away from the city and see if that helps the reception. I have some torrid coils coming to wrap some of the electric feeds for the ESC and the video.

The camera pan/tilt seems to work well. It is very nice looking down at the nose and tilting over to look at the wings. I think a little more tilt down will be good on the 3-pos switch. I'll try to get the OSD and logger hooked in tomorrow and try it again. The motor batteries were super warm and puffy (again!!!????) after the flight. I think 610mAh for the video camera and tx is pretty good, and should give me almost 30-45 minutes, on full charge. But I may try to get some 800mAh as well. Also need to get all up weight (AUW) on this (it use to be 26oz before the FPV stuff).





First FPV Flight from Jeff McClain on Vimeo.


Here is the local video: First FPV Video [183MB]