Latest FPV!!!

Had my best two FPV experiences to date late yesterday. Fixed the issues with the video I was having and sounds like it is a problem with the hardware and ground loop with the pan servos. Weather was beautiful and there were big puffy low clouds all around. My elevator servo has been slowly striping out, and I was getting worried it was really bad, but it was giving me about 15% of movement (grin) and I wanted to fly. Got two separate flights in on two 2600mAh lipos. Was running full out most of the time, trying to get up over 3000 ft. Also tested out my new plan for fail safes and RTH testing on a single switch (it all worked GREAT). Need to get my head tracker from China when they get back in stock, but the pan/tilt worked great on my analog sliders on the raido. I took some time on the 5 minute glide down to just look around and stuff. That was cool.

Unfortunately, my computer is dead right now, and can’t download video from my Sony mini-DV camera, and my wife's computer doesn't seem to recognize the firewire connection under Vista Home Premium (there are a million threads that complain about this) so hopefully can get that this weekend (I'm going to try to install a version of Ubuntu Linux from a bootable CD and see if that works.

There is SO MUCH going on during FPV flight, I think I need to start having a check list and a flight plan. I don’t have time to see everything, and I’m not sure what my max distance was or how high. So, I’m eager to review the video. Will get it posted up here soon.

Meanwhile, here is video from last weekend with all the video problems...