Greetings to everyone. I just started FPV.
More precisely, I have been in the simulation for 6 months. Now it is time for me to fly outside.
I'm thinking of 2.5 inches as a starting point. What would you suggest?
Could Lumenier QAV-PRO 2.5 be expensive to start with?
Or do you have a better suggestion? I will fly for real estate in 1 year. Thank you in advance

Budget?

(19-Apr-2024, 01:38 AM)worldFPVwide Wrote: Greetings to everyone. I just started FPV.

Welcome to a hobby that is super expensive and legislated to hell and back.

(19-Apr-2024, 01:38 AM)worldFPVwide Wrote: More precisely, I have been in the simulation for 6 months.

Cool, how are Neo and Trinity going. Still in love?

(19-Apr-2024, 01:38 AM)worldFPVwide Wrote: Now it is time for me to fly outside.
I'm thinking of 2.5 inches as a starting point.

Good choice, just enough power, but not too much. So Ideally 1202.5 or 1204, maybe 1303.5 in a 3-4S variant.

(19-Apr-2024, 01:38 AM)worldFPVwide Wrote: What would you suggest?

Something fairly powerful, but not enough that you will get yourself in a ton of trouble. A little trouble is fine.

(19-Apr-2024, 01:38 AM)worldFPVwide Wrote: Could Lumenier QAV-PRO 2.5 be expensive to start with?
Or do you have a better suggestion? I will fly for real estate in 1 year. Thank you in advance

Fly and build what you want. I would probably start with say a DarwinFPV BabyApe or TinyApe. 2-3S is not going to get you into much trouble, but will still be enough to blow your socks off. Just enjoy the flying.

So what you will realise pretty quickly is you have a lot of quads available to buy. If you want digital then you need to sell a kidney, but to buy analog, well, give up sweets for a week. So buy something analog and learn to fly properly. Sims are all good for learning muscle memory, but they are nothing like real life. Once you encounter wind, voltage sag due to cold weather and that annoying karen that comes up and starts bitching at you while you are ripping (and if you have good sense you tell to go away in any way you wish, but preferably using colourful language), then you will realise the poophole you decided to get yourself in, isn't like flying in Liftoff. It's better. You can't tell Karen's where to go in Liftoff.

(19-Apr-2024, 01:38 AM)worldFPVwide Wrote: Greetings to everyone. I just started FPV.
More precisely, I have been in the simulation for 6 months. Now it is time for me to fly outside.
I'm thinking of 2.5 inches as a starting point. What would you suggest?
Could Lumenier QAV-PRO 2.5 be expensive to start with?
Or do you have a better suggestion? I will fly for real estate in 1 year. Thank you in advance

I have flown real estates for 10 years before all the FAA regulations. It is not the flying that was the issue with me. I have been flying for over 40 years at that time. It was having to deal with realtors that was the issue. Now you have to deal with the realtors and the FAA and the Karens. Oh I did encounter Karens back in my days but Karen was not a term yet. I just called them bitchy old ladies. Well some old men wanted to shoot my quad (It was actually a Y6) down with his shotgun. So I started to carry a big machete to cut down vegetation but having it on my belt really stop the old men from approaching me.