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First time flying FPV yesterday
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So after spending a week obsessively modifying and fussing over my wizard yesterday was my first time out flying FPV. My Wife and I met my brother in law and couple of buddies out at a massive field that was perfect for flying. After sort of casually mentioning to the wife that I was nervous, she told me I was being ridiculous and that it was only an object. But it was more then that, it was the month of researching youtube videos, reading forums, and the countless hours of fpv freerider all culminating into this first glorious flight!

So in goes the 3s battery that came with the wizard, goggles are power up, and flick on the arm switch. I decided it would be best to do a quick little hover around to the get the feel before going full out with the goggles. The quick little test flight went well and learned that air mode makes your quad do a sweet bouncy move when trying to land. Now I will add the area we were flying was a massive grass area at an elementary school, to the right of us was the chainlink  enclosure they have on baseball fields to stop errant balls from flying backwards, and behind that was compressed clay running track and then asphault, so I knew if I saw the baseball enclosure I was out of where I wanted to be flying. So I pulled on my goggles, informed the wife to watch the quad just incase I crash it far out, and decide to go straight into acro. I had flown acro for many many hours in the simulator, so I got this right?

I take off and holy crap its weird viewing the world through these goggles as I am flying. But hey I am flying it in acro and doing quite well. One of the guys out with us asks if I'm in manual mode and mentions how well I'm doing. This must have distracted me as the next thing I know I am flying past the baseball enclosure and flying straight into  the land of asphault! I am going to crash into a hard surface! Although in hindsight I was flying perfectly fine I could have just turned it around.

Well to be fair turning it around is what I did, only I turned it around so quickly that I flew that poor quad straight down in the compressed clay track! The kicker here was it hit the track then bounced like 10 ft back in to the air and crashed a second time, which looked hilarious in the goggles everyone else went quiet. I did the walk of shame to retrieve my quad and to my surprise everything was intact! Got a way with just a cracked prop or so I thought...

I was feeling pretty excited finding out that if I infact crash my quad isn't as fragile as I first though. So i changed out the plugged the battery in and start taking off only to find my video now looks really wiggly I guess you could say. Turns out the crash had bent one of my motors... Flying with goggles was out as it made me feel sick with all the shaking. Now at this point I maybe have gone through half a battery and I have 3 more in my backpack I am going to keep flying! So I ended up just flying LOS. This worked really well and was really excited to try the quad with the 4s batteries I had. I plugged one in and was immediately impressed by the punch out I did, that thing was a rocket! I turn to my wife and tell her to to watch this as I performed another punch out... This want amazing after about half a second of punching it there was a loud clanging noise as two of the props disintegrated. It was a hilarious "hold my beer" moment.

The best part was while I was just flying around LOS my wife asked if she could try, I figure hell I've already crashed the hell out of it she cant do much worst. I popped it into angle mode and she had a blast. Which is awesome because when we got home she was really interested in all the parts I was ordering and didn't complain about the money I was spending in the least.

At the end of the day I ended up with:
5 broken props
1 bent motor shaft
5 frame bolts missing
1 frame post gone
1 fpv camera lense scratched

But I couldn't be more excited about my next outing! Got 5 racerstar 2205 motors on the way along with all the necesary hardware and a bunch of props. Even better got the wife practicing on the micro quad in the house. So maybe a full size quad is in the future for her.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings!
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#2
hhehehhee Nice Smile

also get locktite Smile lower amount of missing boltsSmile
All the best
Grzesiek (Grisha/ Greg)

Curently flyable: Nox 5, Minimalist 112
Bench / in progres: fixing Nox 3,  Scrap
thinking about building: 450


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#3
Sounds just like a typical day out for me hahaha. Very cool that you have your wife interested in the hobby
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#4
"...watch this..." Two words you should never mutter when flying quads. Big Grin
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#5
Yea loctite is definitely in the works, I imagine the blue compound would be fine? Its weird how disorienting it can be when you are flying with the goggles on, I imagine its something you just get used to?

I should definitely known better then saying watch this, that same statement has resulted in a few broken bones over the years jumping bikes. I did however get some sweet barrel rolls down while flying LOS.

Looking forward to getting the new motors installed so I can get back out there this sunday.
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#6
Here in Canada, we say "hold my beer and watch this" Never turns out very well.........
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#7
LOL! Great story! Thanks for sharing.
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#8
Thanks! Can't wait to get back out flying. Hopefully the next time is less dramatic in terms of replacing parts. But I guess this all apart of learning.
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#9
blue loctite is the correct one...

try to practice LOS as well, lookup Painless360 movie on how to fly

very good material to start with Smile

at some point fpv will fail... any you might have a chance to save the quad...
All the best
Grzesiek (Grisha/ Greg)

Curently flyable: Nox 5, Minimalist 112
Bench / in progres: fixing Nox 3,  Scrap
thinking about building: 450


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#10
Thanks for the video grish I watched it a while ago and practiced the moves with my micro quad. I think the biggest thing for me that I wasn't expecting was how strange it was to fly with the goggles on. I guess I need to just get used to that.
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#11
Before my first fpv quad flight, i thought it was best to test the fpv gear on an rc foam plane. Gear worked fine, but the thing with planes is, well, they fly forward all the time. Even though i thought i knew the area we were in, from high above everything looked so different... Well i found the way back, but since then, before 1st flight in a new spot, i always try to find a well recognizable landmark and think of how i was gonna approach the landing zone in advance... Smile

EDIT: But to get your wife interested in it... priceless Big GrinThumbs Up
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