I’ve been wanting write entry for my fpv learning progress, since I haven’t really written about it since last year when I just started it.
Shots from EMAX Freestyle 2
Shots from Mobula 6
Legality
Since I started, I’ve became more paranoidly concerned about drone laws in Canada. I think this isn’t something one could enforce easily, but still I wish to always stay out of trouble. Some of the major ones in my case are: - away 30m from bystanders (reasonable and easy to follow) - below 122m (noted) - Need a pilot drone license to fly drones > 250 g. - I only fly microquads so i’m fine. But this is why I hold back on buying bigger quads like Nazgul5 and DJI FPV which I’ve been eyeing on for some time - where I see it at all times - this makes no sense for FPV where we use goggles. Considering the size of the drone, it’ll be impossible to even see it a few metres away with line-of-sight flying. Some reddit threads mention having a spotter (someone other than the pilot to be on site to see the surroundings). I don’t have anyone with me at this time (covid). So I’ll try to stay low and not fly for too long or in places where people would walk by.
Fixing drones
This hobby has roughly been 50% flying and 50% fixing hardware problems. They say if you don’t crash, you’re not trying/learning hard enough. - I’ve probably broke > 5 motors. - I’ve cut myself while testing the motors (learned my lesson to always take propellers out when testing). - I got my Mobula 6 stuck on my hair twice while flying. - One afternoon, I landed on a puddle and I could clearly see smoke coming out from the flight controller board. I had them replaced (the board cost ~$70), had to re-solder everything. I painted silicone conformal coating on the new board to hopefully water-proof it and not make that same mistake. - I’ve also lost the drone couple of times (crash and battery fell out), which on average would took me about an hour to find around the field.
