Escape? Healing? Sense of control? Sense of community? Fixit/tinker satiation? Life saving?

It certainly helps my mental health- when I’m soldering or flying I have to focus 100% on what I’m doing. It quiets my brain, and doesn’t allow me to focus on stress, anxiety, or depression.

There’s a Facebook group called FPV Therapy that Ciotti started. It’s not a super active group.

I think for people with ASD/ADHD it is a really good activity. The things I do to de-stress and avoid meltdowns are generally adrenaline junkie level. I have a motorbike that I ride like a lunatic. I also now fly my drone. Both of these do chill me out a fair bit.

For me it's the learning new stuff. The soldering annoys the hell out of me. But the flying is where it's at. Most people in my family don't get it though. My nephew has ASD as well, hence why i am trying to teach him to fly. I think it will suit him well.

I have panic/anxiety disorder, and ADHD - In the almost 2 years since I started FPV I have been able to reduce my daily medications by more than half, and my family has told me many times that 'I need to go fly' when things start getting overwhelming - It definitely helps my mental health!

the methodology behind calls biofeedback, its something we do everyday somehow.
fpv let us focus our interaction, our inputs and the outputs - its not just about health, its about selfregulation in anyway, getting more focused, getting better - fpv helps me in many ways
(-: yess it should be paid by schools and by health insurancy :-)

As long as everything works, this hobby is therapy. But what if things are not working? Imagine how frustrating when you can't figure out why the quad flips on takeoff. Haha.

that feel when you have no idea how to settup or solve something xD but than voodoo to the rescue ;-) and that feel changes to the opposide :-)
i still progress, my passion still grows with all the chellenges :-)

the question i ask myself, what if i couldnt fly anymore, whats after a hard fpv addiction xD
im running to the bench, will build something after such horrible thoughts to calm down;

(25-Apr-2023, 01:22 AM)voodoo614 Wrote: As long as everything works, this hobby is therapy. But what if things are not working? Imagine how frustrating when you can't figure out why the quad flips on takeoff. Haha.

When I run into a problem, while frustrating, I’ll then just as intently focus on searching until I find the solution- which also gives me the satisfaction of overcoming the issue.

There are times where I’m too frustrated- nothing goes right. Those are the nights where I’ll step away from the build for the night and focus on other hobbies.

Thankfully, I’ve pretty much always got multiple quad builds going on at any given time, as well as various audio related builds, rebuilds, or repairs, and whatnot.

(25-Apr-2023, 01:22 AM)voodoo614 Wrote: As long as everything works, this hobby is therapy. But what if things are not working? Imagine how frustrating when you can't figure out why the quad flips on takeoff. Haha.

That would be my original CineFlea build.  So I didn't really know what i was doing and i flashed Bluejay but set the motors to bidirectional by accident, so it was essentially set to 3D.  So everytime I armed it flipped over.  I spent hours trying to fix it and in the end it got thrown in a drawer for 3 months.  In that three months I watched many videos, read many threads, answered many questions and then i went back and worked out in about 5 mins what was wrong.  But 3 months before that i was ready to throw it in the bin.  This hobby has a steep learning curve.  Once you understand the basics, like props in/out, escs, fc's, Betaflight basics, ELRS mayhem and maybe D8, then it gets a lot easier.  Also it majorly helps if you build something, even if it's a crappy 75mm whoop.  The things you learn by building and configuring are just as useful as watching all those videos and reading all those threads.

Now if only i could work out how to do these trippy spins. One hour in Liftoff, tutorial vids by Headmazta and the guy from Infinty Loops and I still can't get it to spin. :/  Tricks are main agro for me, but mainly the technical ones.  Things like loops, rolls and spins are fairly easy.  But orbits and related tricks are bloody hard, not to mention those rewinds that I got everyone learning.

Wth is a trippy spin?

I’m assuming it’s not spinning around on mushrooms.

Edit- thanks, Pathfinder, for making me aware of rewinds. It’s taken countless batteries and multiple broken bits to learn, but dude, it is so damn cool.

I've given up for the night. Although i did while messing around manage to do a decent orbit around the water tower on the golf course map on Liftoff for a good 20 secs. But I only managed to get maybe 2 decent trippy spins in one hour of attempts. Once I get this new whoop built I might try it for real and see if it's easier.

Ah, okay, thank you.

I’m pretty sure that physics says that I need to run a much higher camera angle to achieve that- I think I need to have a high enough cam angle so that even though my camera is pointing towards the center of the pole/tree/object, my quad is actually doing this: “/“ around it?

Maybe I’m wrong there, and just getting enough centrifugal force is enough.

Edit- yeah, the tricks kinda take away from the therapy of flying and start verging on just frustrating. Until I master them, and then I feel good about myself.

I'm using 30 degrees, because that's what most whoops use, but it's still infuriating.

(25-Apr-2023, 01:44 AM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: Now if only i could work out how to do these trippy spins. One hour in Liftoff, tutorial vids by Headmazta and the guy from Infinty Loops and I still can't get it to spin. :/ 

I can do them perfectly in Liftoff (After over a week of daily practice), but as soon as I get out in real life and try the same motions that work in the sim, I end up eating dirt - The sim does not translate well in the real world for trippy spins LOL - I have managed to pull off a few half-assed ones, and found having a really high cam angle helps a lot (I run 45+ angle when practicing trippy spins)

The sim *does* translate to the real world for trippy spins. I do them at 15-20 degrees.