Flying FPV drones for a year, progress and results

[@tylerrusski7669]

Thanks, I started about a year ago and haven’t really flown much, I’d say around the 3rd battery I gained the courage to use my goggles and took me 5 minutes and then I was doing ok after a few crashes. Ive gotten way better with my 2.5 in tooth pick drone that has served me for nearly a year. I’ve just gotten my first 5 inch quad and I’m waiting for the remote to arrive, I can’t wait to test it out!

[@dronejourneys9534]

Nice progress m8, keep up the good work!

[@Martinkellydop]

Great stuff. Follow that Pigeon!

[@craig-tw7sp]

Done well here mate keep it up. Am looking to get my own vids up soon also. Have some great places to fly here is scotland. Look forward to seeing your next vid 👍

[@dingbatfpv]

Since I got the 3" I just wanna go to new cool places to fly 😅

[@wackywezfpv9335]

really cool that has inspired me to do a similar progress video it took me 2 months to trust my goggels and over a year to go acro as always flying on my own then i met my fly buddys and they changed me forever, thanks for sharing

[@dingbatfpv]

Yeah switching into goggles was a weird step, naturally I didn't have any before footage though. Thanks for watching 😊

[@smoothfire3557]

This is making me want a fpv drone even more

[@dingbatfpv]

It's really fun but not as easy as it looks in videos. Also there's tons of extra stuff you don't think of, you can end up buying a lot of tools 😅

[@unstoppable6047]

I like how it shows the horizontal leveling of the drone in the goggles. First time I've seen this. But I'm new to fpv drones. I flew 3d helis

[@dingbatfpv]

That's an option in the betaflight on screen display (OSD) It's called artificial horizon. I ignore it 90% of the time but when you want to fly slow with high cam tilt it's super useful.

[@unstoppable6047]

@Dingbat FPV awesome. Thx bro. I'm going to go set that up now. I'm still trying to get used to seeing through the goggles. And I think I'm level, but then I'm either traveling a little backward or forward. So that should help a lot.

[@andrewut7ya511]

Good work, keep it up. I have a memory card going back to my first flight, this makes me want to go back and see how sketchy i was lol.

[@dingbatfpv]

Always worth seeing where you came from :)

[@RCGemblung]

Very interesting.... and inspiring. Hope I can fly fpv drones like that soon hahahaha

[@dingbatfpv]

You just need to keep practising :)

[@DJMina23]

I am debating on posting my fist flights they are quite embarrassing lol good progress bro

[@dingbatfpv]

Haha yeah I like to see where I came from :D

[@MrSabram07]

And also the tall grass in those fields really scared the s*** out of me. One weird crash and you'll never find it

[@dingbatfpv]

I tend to try to fly right by the tractor lines, so it's easy to walk through, set up the beeper on a switch and you can usually find it. Also you can buy finders which I have since installed. They beep for a few hours when the drone loses battery. You can see two different ones in my newest vid 🙃

[@OverdriveTech]

Awesome video! Unfortunately I deleted my embarrassingly bad first clips.

[@dingbatfpv]

You gotta keep em to know where you came from 😆

[@Funcentric]

So currently are you still on beta flight 4.2 or did you end up going back to 3.5?

[@dingbatfpv]

3.5 on my 3" I find it way better and it's tuned nice so I won't touch it lol. I recently "invested" in a 5" and that's on emuflight but not flown yet 😬

[@guidobel4860]

nice video, did you start in air mode or in stability mode indoor?

[@dingbatfpv]

Yeah I started with line of sight stabilised until I got used to the controls and then just went straight to acro after about a week. I figured I was gonna have to learn it so better sooner 😅

[@madladdan]

Try orqa fpv skydive. Free program and it has a building in it which is perfect for flying around objects. Really good physics in it too

[@dingbatfpv]

I do like Orqa, the throttle just doesn't have a good feel to it and I can never get it right, I think it's the way expo is implemented on it.

[@madladdan]

@@dingbatfpv oh ok. yea it's the only sim I've used so maybe I should try others

[@johnmcananey]

tried velocidrone, found i couldnt get it, trying drl now before my batterys arrive but, thats what im basically trying to achieve at the moment just to be able to fly, the basics with a few tricks, thanks for that

[@dingbatfpv]

You'll get there with practice 💪

[@bentprops_]

Nice. You should progress to racing

[@Cbeuanr]

Where is that?

[@dingbatfpv]

Where is what? Mostly it's fields around Derbyshire. The power plant is Willington and it's quite easy to get in to fly.

[@MrSabram07]

You got much better than me much faster. I've been flying for about 2 months and I'm not that good. And for whatever reason I can't get any of my controllers to work on a simulator. Laptops desktops I can't get them to work

[@dingbatfpv]

Sorry to plug my stuff to you twice but one of my three videos is covering exactly that 😅

[@MrSabram07]

@@dingbatfpv okay I'll see if I can't find it and check it out

[@dronedelhi3700]

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[@dingbatfpv]

I Will probably do another bid at two years this summer 😄

[@hopefpv6396]

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