The very silly thread about a chest rig for fpv made me want to ask what carrying systems people use for their gear. I'm particularly interested in rapid deployment and repacking of the gear so that one can arrive at a location, fly a pack, and be packed and gone asap. There are loads of reasons why this is convenient and smart, from pilots like fpvvegan who need to vacate an area before they get yelled at to just wanting to try lots of different spots without a cumbersome set-up and break-down period.
I have a backpack with everything in it and I keep pouches in. The pouches have fresh batteries in one and used batts in the other. If I know I'm just flying one pack I'll have the drone loaded with the pack so all I have to do is pull it out and plug it in.
What transport strategies/gear do you use for convenience, speed, and comfort?
Thanks for all thoughts!

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Introducing the FPV MAJOR

Features include:

- One button quick deployment

- Flip up parabolic patch / super omni multi-band antenna

- LED illuminated landing pad / wireless recharging dock
  with magnetic releasing lock for keeping drone in place


- High efficiency (>33%) impact resistant solar panels

- 2,000 mah internal lithium-titanium-phosphate 4610 cells

- Flip down visor OLED 4k goggles display




I'll bring my prototype to our next bando meet and you can test it out

If you are driving, use a van, sit inside it and leave the side door open. Take off from inside and land the same way. if you have a cord on the door you can close it without getting out and drive off.

TBH, my deployment time is about 1 min. To do it faster, you can treat it like 1 pack and have the pack strapped to the quad ready to go. Upon landing you either pull the power connector, or don't. I've landed, picked up, walked off and done everything elsewhere.

But then you watch Botgrinder going into the city, diving towers and generally not giving a fk. He's flying stuff you definitely aren't supposed to fly and he just smokes a fat one and says fk it.

I rarely do stealth missions now. But if I do, i usually do remote launch and retrieval, so fly from outside the location perimeter and land the same way. But carrying anything more than a rucksack is going to look mighty suspect and you will definitely get pulled. By rucksack i mean a proper hiking rucksack, not those Torvol rucksacks.

mstc, you're r&d department seems to be really knocking it out of the park. I think we can secure you a good contract with the military for a couple 1000 of these units

I would guess I'm at about 1 minute to deploy and 1 minute to pack up. I'd love to cut that in half. Maybe start clipping my drone to the outside of bag like some people do. My bag also has 2 seperate compartments which is nice, but slows me down opening and closing multiple zippers. Maybe I'll switch to one of my other bags that has everything in one spot.

My radio has always been the chonkiest part of my setup. I sometimes jump out for an hour at lunchtime and I'll have my goggles around my neck, a quad in one hand and a bag of batteries in the other. And then a TX16 stuffed under my arm - in it's polystyrene case. It's really unwieldy.

I'm thinking of picking up a Radiomaster Pocket to get a smaller one for quick flights, and to get my feet wet with ELRS without having to swap the module out of my big radio.

So my main quad uses D8 and i have a Radiomaster T8 Lite, which is about as minimalist a radio as it gets. About the same size as a Literadio.

This winter I want to create some gear for flying from my van. I'm thinking a Literadio 2 SE ELRS, a 75mm whoop and another set of VR03's or maybe an EV800D. I want to run an sma cable through the roof to an external antenna, for the vtx. Right now I tend to open the side door, sit on the floor and fly from there. It would be nicer if I could stay in the front, maybe fly out of the side window and basically stay in the warmth.

A car setup is something I've thought about as well. There is a free printable window mount for antenna on thingiverse, not sure if there is a more clever way to achieve the same thing. The creator stated that they weren't sure it made a big difference to mount the antenna outside the car vs just flying from inside. Cold weather's coming, and flying from inside the car is very discreet.

Thing is most vans are big faraday cages. Gaps allow signals through, but on a good van you can drop 3 bars of signal on a phone if you close the doors, but it wasn't until I put the insulation and the electrical system in that it totally killed the signal. I think a mix of EM interference and foil insulation was enough to do it.

Last year I thought about doing it, but mounting two antennas. One for video, on one side of the roof and one for the radio on the other side. I know a couple of places you could probably get away with flying a LR rig from on top of a hill and it looks even less suspect if you are sat inside instead of being stood outside. Also the deviant in me wants to fly while laid in bed.

Haha, I tried flying a tiny whoop while laying in bed, my brain couldn't do it.