Posts: 12 Threads: 2 Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts Likes Given: 0 Joined: Feb 2016 Reputation: 0 Hi all, I used to fly helis years ago and bought and built my first quad just before christmas. My daughter showed me a couple of FPV videos and I just felt I had to try this so I bought a cheap Quanum kit from Hobbyking and quad to put it on. Now, I feel reasonably familiar with flying a quad and have tried using the fpv kit twice before. The problem is that I cannot get any feel for where I am! Today I lost a quad over a large field and spent 10 minutes trying to find it after a crash. Wish the buzzer I ordered had arrived I need some help learning how to fly using the FPV kit. For now I am using a Quanum kit (basically a 5" screen set in a polystyrene diving mask). Do any of you have an tips and tricks for a beginner? Or do I need to buy a better kit with a wider angle of view? I feel that this is as close to flying an X-wing destroying the Death Star as I can come until my dying days so I want to learn how to fly looking like a complete moron with a diving mask on my face BR, Henrik • Posts: 918 Threads: 83 Likes Received: 533 in 271 posts Likes Given: 498 Joined: Jan 2016 Reputation: 30 (13-Feb-2016, 11:34 PM)bofh2012 Wrote: Hi all, I used to fly helis years ago and bought and built my first quad just before christmas. My daughter showed me a couple of FPV videos and I just felt I had to try this so I bought a cheap Quanum kit from Hobbyking and quad to put it on. Now, I feel reasonably familiar with flying a quad and have tried using the fpv kit twice before. The problem is that I cannot get any feel for where I am! Today I lost a quad over a large field and spent 10 minutes trying to find it after a crash. Wish the buzzer I ordered had arrived I need some help learning how to fly using the FPV kit. For now I am using a Quanum kit (basically a 5" screen set in a polystyrene diving mask). Do any of you have an tips and tricks for a beginner? Or do I need to buy a better kit with a wider angle of view? I feel that this is as close to flying an X-wing destroying the Death Star as I can come until my dying days so I want to learn how to fly looking like a complete moron with a diving mask on my face BR, Henrik Hi Henrik, First off, lets put something to bed once and for all. It is Mandatory to look like a complete Moron while fpv flying :-) FPV cam lens choice is important as well, I use a 2.8mm lens as for me gives me the best Field of View (more realistic..not too much fisheye). I personally don't think a wider screen helps all that much in determining where you are. What you need to do is fly a little way from you, hover and then Yaw around and check your surroundings, get a bead on where you are in the Real world. Keep practicing short trips around a open area within say 20 to 30 meters from you, pick reference points like a certain tree, post, park bench..whatever, You will really quickly pick up where you are. Not all that much to help you with as most of it comes from knowing your surroundings, and just keep practicing, nothing beats it. And yes, get a piezo buzzer and set it up as a lost model alarm. Stick at it Henrik, and do not let anyone tell you you look like a complete moron whilst wearing a huge diving mask with antennas on it. They are just jealous they can't pull off "the Moron look" as good. :-) • Posts: 190 Threads: 26 Likes Received: 21 in 15 posts Likes Given: 7 Joined: Feb 2016 Reputation: 6 Hi there, i'm still fairly new to this hobby myself however i feel that by using a simulator i am able to improve my skills and also learn new tricks from just sitting at my computer. I think you should look at getting lift off which could really benefit you in the long run and then when you feel a little more confident head back out with the goggles. Hope this helps. • Posts: 76 Threads: 13 Likes Received: 2 in 2 posts Likes Given: 0 Joined: Jan 2016 Reputation: 3 I started the same. i learned to fly on the edge of some woods. You need some reference to fly along. Never go over the top of trees if you don't know where you are. Don't be afraid to go between trees. And keep some forward momentum. It really helped when i tilted my cam slightly (10°) upwards cause when you always have momentum when the horizon is level, so you don't drift back. Nowadays i have the same problem again when i'm upside down and doing flips and shit like this ^^ Sky is where the fun begins! Flying: Armattan F1-6 / Cobra 1960kv / KISS / 1800mAh nano's / SPR3 / Betaflight 2kHz Building: FPV49v4 modified • Posts: 12 Threads: 2 Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts Likes Given: 0 Joined: Feb 2016 Reputation: 0 (13-Feb-2016, 11:50 PM)BigglesFPV Wrote: (13-Feb-2016, 11:34 PM)bofh2012 Wrote: Hi all, I used to fly helis years ago and bought and built my first quad just before christmas. My daughter showed me a couple of FPV videos and I just felt I had to try this so I bought a cheap Quanum kit from Hobbyking and quad to put it on. Now, I feel reasonably familiar with flying a quad and have tried using the fpv kit twice before. The problem is that I cannot get any feel for where I am! Today I lost a quad over a large field and spent 10 minutes trying to find it after a crash. Wish the buzzer I ordered had arrived I need some help learning how to fly using the FPV kit. For now I am using a Quanum kit (basically a 5" screen set in a polystyrene diving mask). Do any of you have an tips and tricks for a beginner? Or do I need to buy a better kit with a wider angle of view? I feel that this is as close to flying an X-wing destroying the Death Star as I can come until my dying days so I want to learn how to fly looking like a complete moron with a diving mask on my face BR, Henrik Hi Henrik, First off, lets put something to bed once and for all. It is Mandatory to look like a complete Moron while fpv flying :-) FPV cam lens choice is important as well, I use a 2.8mm lens as for me gives me the best Field of View (more realistic..not too much fisheye). I personally don't think a wider screen helps all that much in determining where you are. What you need to do is fly a little way from you, hover and then Yaw around and check your surroundings, get a bead on where you are in the Real world. Keep practicing short trips around a open area within say 20 to 30 meters from you, pick reference points like a certain tree, post, park bench..whatever, You will really quickly pick up where you are. Not all that much to help you with as most of it comes from knowing your surroundings, and just keep practicing, nothing beats it. And yes, get a piezo buzzer and set it up as a lost model alarm. Stick at it Henrik, and do not let anyone tell you you look like a complete moron whilst wearing a huge diving mask with antennas on it. They are just jealous they can't pull off "the Moron look" as good. :-) The worst part of it is that my daughter tells me "it looks good on me" Ok, I should try with a field that has more determining features so I can have more visual references. The three times I've tried has been on an open field and I find that I quickly get too far away from my starting position without feeling the distance. I live in Stockholm which is one big no-fly zone so I usually only get to fly when I visit my dad in the country. Big open fields and no reference points anywhere I'll try to sneak in some practice in the schoolyard by my house no-fly zone or not Swings, climbers and nightlights - lots of references and and evening lights. I'll keep at it until I get it but tips and tricks are welcome. BR, Henrik • Posts: 5,314 Threads: 672 Likes Received: 3,155 in 1,743 posts Likes Given: 2,027 Joined: Jan 2016 Reputation: 139 first of all, get a lost model buzzer secondly about finding where you are - familiarise yourself with the place you are flying. I normally walk around the place if I was new there, find something you can refer to like trees or rocks or something... memorise where they are and how they look like... if you have no idea where you are, I would quickly slow down, raise altitude and look around if you really have no idea, then land ASAP and do not risk going further just in case you completely lost signal • Posts: 14 Threads: 4 Likes Received: 7 in 3 posts Likes Given: 0 Joined: Feb 2016 Reputation: 2 When i started out, I had the exact same problem as you. I didnt think I was ever going to get the hang of it, unlike you I was using a 7" screen. My issue was that I kept looking up. It wasnt until my 10-12 flight that I got the hang of it. initially i started out with a CMOS 3.6mm lens, when that broke, I decided to go wider and with CCD. I went with 2.1mm and the FOV was much wider than before, but it was also more distorted than before. like others have said before, make note of your surroundings, fly out, not too far and get a good look of landmarks close to you, do this a few times to get different vantage points, get it engrained in your brain, and go slow. I think this along with knowing your quad's altitude at any given time was my biggest issues. Only with practice did i start getting better. • |