![]() When you have 4-8 ESCs and 4-8 motors and 4-8 propellers and all the electronics it takes to manage all these motors, you can have a lot of technical problems that are difficult to diagnose. Quadcopters are fun but have higher maintenance and and a lot of wear points. They can do some amazing things and are easier to fly FPV than they are by sight. Flying slow has it's advantages and doesn't need as much gear or expense. You also need to consider your skill level, how much money you want to spend and how fast and far you want to fly. Wings do better at higher speeds in higher wind. I s it best to start with slow flyers or flying wings? That all depends on what you want to do and what kind of wind and weather you will be flying in. There is not usually an additional battery in the plane. The video transmitter in the plane plugs into the balance plug of your flight battery for its power. There is a battery that plugs into the goggles to power the receiver and screen in your goggles. In your plane there is a video/audio transmitter that is transmitting video and sound back to your goggles or a video screen so you have signals going both directions. When flying FPV the radio transmitter in your hand controls the throttle and servos in your plane. You see video from your plane in real time letting you fly the plane like you were in the plane. What is FPV? FPV is "First Person Video". ![]() We will also make some suggestions of simple options for FPV gear. We have the right planes for you low hour flyers to learn to fly. These people need an easy to fly plane with a plug and play FPV system. Many of the people who want to do FPV have little or no flying experience and little or no understanding of electronics. You need to be able to fly an RC plane to fly an FPV plane. This was done with the plane shown above in the pictures and the video of flying with the Scouts. The plane easily could carry twice the battery for longer flights. My OSD on this plane has a return to home (RTH) function that was set up so the plane would turn itself around and come back to me if it got more than 1050 feet away from me keeping it in radio range of the 2.4 ghz radio. The display continued recording after the plane landed and shows 48:10 minutes in the photo. My Albatross is so stable that I really enjoyed the flight. I landed with 10.7 volts still showing in my batteries at rest. My plane could hold altitude at 2.5 amps and only needed 12.2 amps on take off. There was a breeze but my plane handled it well. Flying speeds were from 15 to 36 mph with an average speed of 24 mph. Max distance away from camera was 949 feet. This flight covered 16.3 miles total distance. You can see the GPS coordinates at the top. See the on screen display above to the right. Yesterday I flew a 46.5 minute flight with my Albatross with one 2650 mA 3S battery and a basic 2.4 ghz Spektrum radio. Do you want to fly FPV but don't know where to start?
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