How to get STARTED flying FPV DRONES! (For Beginners)

what's up everybody in today's video I'm gonna be talking about all the things that you need to get started in flying fpv drones and cine whoops now there's really three sometimes four main things that you need and I'm gonna go through kind of a basic overview of each one of these as well some of my recommendations and what I think you should pick up to get started [Music] now the first thing that you need to pick up is of course a drone itself now you could jump into a 3 or 5 inch racing drone right off the bat if you know you want to go into it but I would really suggest getting into a toy or hobby drone first especially if you're just starting out there's a couple reasons for this one it's gonna save you a ton of money if you find out that you don't like it these things only cost about a hundred bucks so it's a really easy way to get into it play around with it see if it's something that you actually want to spend the hundreds and thousands of dollars to invest in the other reason is they're meant for practicing their toy drones so you can crash these things they're super durable they're gonna get beat up as you can see mine has a broken frame here missing some propeller guards as well as like a cracked frame above the camera these things can just take a beating and they can still run super strong so the main thing I was looking for when I got my first toy drone or tiny whoop which is just a toy drone with a camera on it is obviously that it has a camera so I can fly that fpv I also wanted it to be super durable this allowed me to crash into things and really go through that learning curve of flying fpv and not have to worry about having to replace this thing so many times I also wanted to look at the accessories make sure the propellers batteries things like that were readily accessible so I can get them quick if I needed to replace them as well as just buying extra ones having extra batteries is always great I think I have like 14 batteries for this thing now just so I can go out and fly all day without having to worry about recharging another thing I was looking at when I was researching these toy and hobby drones is I wanted to get one that wasn't super expensive just in case I did happen to destroy it I crashed in some water and completely fried the board or it took off into the woods and I lost and I couldn't find it I didn't want to be out a ton of money and the last thing that I wanted this little toy drone to do was to be able to bind with my radio cuz I actually purchased my radio before I got my tiny drone because I was using it on the simulator which I'm going to talk a little bit about later on but the drone I ended up going with was the Emacs tiny Hawk because it really fits all of that criteria that I just mentioned it comes in at a pretty good cost at $89 it's super durable like I said I've busted up this frame and it's still flying super well and it's really cheap and easy to replace the parts and get accessories for it if I can go back now I probably would upgrade to the higher-end version which is the Emacs tiny Hawk s it's only about an extra $10 but it allows you to use two cell lipo batteries and that's going to give you some extra punch and it gives you a little bit more room to grow into the drone rather than being stuck at that one cell which is really designed for like indoor use also with the Emacs tiny Hawk s it comes with a four bladed propeller which allows you to do turtle mode so if you land upside down you can actually flip it back over without having to mod the tiny hawk which I'm gonna have to do swapping these propellers out for the four-bladed propellers it just comes standard with that if you do plan on going with the Emacs tiny Hawk s just be careful when you're putting in the lipo batteries make sure that the drone is set up for the correct lipo battery amount or the cell amount make sure that if you're flying One S it's set up for one s if you're flying two s or two cell batteries it's set up for two cell batteries you can fry the board if you sort of mix and match these next up you need something to actually control the drone and this is where the radio transmitter comes in there's a few different options out there from radio transmitters and they kind of fall into three different categories you have your cheap or low end ones which basically run for about $50 to $100 you have your mid range which is about a hundred to two hundred dollars and then your high-end ones which is basically two hundred dollars and above which is really more than most people are ever gonna need depending if you want to get into the three and five instrument to stick with these toy and hobby ones I would suggest staying away from that low-end so really try and look for that mid range radio transmitter because that's going to give you the most flexibility throughout your time as a pilot and flying fpv those lower end radio controllers are really only designed for the drones that they come with usually you'll buy them in a kit you also get some limited flexibility with those drones to add in all the different switches and controls and dials and stuff that you want to have when you're going into those five-inch or bigger quads now flying quads we're pretty lucky that we don't need to have a bunch of switches and knobs and sort of control areas unlike the fixed-wing and helicopter pilots those ones are going to need a lot more options for customizing it and allowing you to do different things and having those extra features I think for most people looking to fly fpv getting something in that mid range is really going to be all you need throughout the whole experience from flying toy and hobby drones going all the way up to the professional five or seven-inch racing drones and eventually doing cine whoops if that's what you want to get into I did a ton of research on Radio controllers before I ended up getting my first one and what I ended up going with was the fr sky terrain askew x7 and this comes in sort of on the low end of that middle range of radio controllers and that comes in at about a hundred and twenty-five dollars there are a few reasons why I decided to go with this one over some of the other options out there for one it allows me to bind with everything from hobby drones which like these small Emacs tiny Hawk ones all the way up to the higher-end five and seven inch so that was a huge thing for me so I didn't have to go and buy a bunch of different controllers throughout the process I knew I was gonna be coming in with these hobby drones and going to those racing drones and doing cine hoops so I wanted to get a controller that would last with me throughout the whole experience this radio controller can also hook up to my computer which allows me to fly the simulator this is super great because it can give me a lot of practice time especially now that the winners come I don't want to go outside and fly because it's just too cold I can still get some stick time in throughout the winter and then be able to fly a lot in the spring it's a 16 channel radio which gives me a ton of options for customizing these switches and dials and everything like that to get basically everything that I need for flying quads and fpv racing drones it allows me to turn on like beepers turn on LED lights flip it into turtle mode change my different flight modes everything like that on this one controller it also has a great reputation for reliability and durability meaning that it's going to last a long time and it's also going to be reliable while you're flying it's not going to power down randomly and cause your drone to take off and go flying away or crash into something and you know you're gonna be able to have control over it when you're flying because it's a more popular radio as well you're gonna have an easier time troubleshooting problems and finding out more information about it and getting support about it and I've been super happy with mine and have recommended it to all of my friends who are interested in getting into fpv drones so now that we have our drone and our radio controller the next thing we need to get is a pair of goggles or some way to monitor what the video feed is that's coming out of our drone now I decided to go with goggles you can also go with a monitor but for me it really takes you out of the fpv element of it when you're wearing the goggles you're just so immersed in what the drone is actually seeing rather than just looking at it on the screen when you're holding it above your controller out of these three things the drone the controller and the goggles the goggles is where you're gonna want to spend money and make sure that you get a high-quality pair of them now this is for a couple of reasons one it's gonna make the experience better because you're going to be actually more immersed into the fpv flying of the drone you want to have good visibility so that you're not crashing into everything because of poor pixelation and stuff like that and then you also want them to be comfortable and be able to fit on your head especially if you're wearing them for a long period of time you'd want them digging in you want to really enjoy the experience if you wear glasses you might have to look into a higher end of these types of goggles if you want to get that focused adjustment for your eyes or look into box goggles where you're gonna be able to wear your glasses underneath for me I went with the classic style the sort of Fatshark slim style and there's a couple other features that I wanted to have in my goggles which is why I ended up going with these ones so right away I wanted them to be small and portable this kind of gets rid of any of the box goggles they're much bigger they're harder to travel with harder to fit in your backpack these break down super small once you take off the antennas and they can really travel really easily and that's the main reason I got these over the Box style of goggles next thing was I wanted diversity this means that it has two antennas which allows me to put one on that's omnidirectional so basically getting everything around me and then a patch antenna which allows me to go longer range in one direction having that diversity and having the two antennas that are switching back and forth as you're flying allows you get the cleanest signal while you're up in the air the next thing that I didn't know I wanted it to have until I actually got these goggles was a fan these things fog up especially if you're out on a hot day they're gonna fog up really quickly and having a built-in fan allows it to get rid of all that air in that moisture so that you're not be fogging up while you're flying and lose sight if you're getting a pair of goggles I would definitely recommend that there's some sort of airflow in there whether it's a fan or just some vents that allow the air to get out so you don't fog up your lenses now the last thing that I wanted my goggles to have was a DVR now this is a digital video recording I think that's what it stands for but it allows you to record what you're actually seeing in your goggles there's a small micro SD card that fits in here and it can record the information that you're seeing now this is pretty good for two reasons one is allows you to play back what you just did so if you did some really cool move or you wanted to go back and review your footage you can do it right on the goggles and it also allows you to take that footage post it on social media if you wanted to post some of the DVR things which I've done on my Instagram and then finally which is probably the most important reason for it is it allows you to go back and review the footage if you crashed and you can't find your drone this way you can look for specific landmarks that you saw in your flight before you crashed and then you can go and try and locate it and get any closer area than just kind of randomly walking around trying to find it and that's personally helped me recover my drone more than once using that DVR to look back find where I crashed the pair that I found that have everything that I want and we're still sort of on the cheaper side obviously I didn't want to drop a thousand dollars to get a pair of these was the fat shark attitude v5 kit now this comes with a battery pack it comes with the patch antenna the clover leaf or omnidirectional antenna with the diversity has the DVR the fan basically everything that you need and it comes in that slim style of Fatshark goggles they're still not super cheap though they come in over $300 but if you go into fat trucks higher-end stuff you're looking at at least $600 and that doesn't even come with the receiver for the video feed so you're gonna have to get that and the antennas and everything separately so you're looking at close to seven hundred eight hundred dollars for a pair of goggles so that's basically everything you need to actually start flying fpv but there's one more thing that I would recommend getting before you even start with this extra stuff and that's getting a simulator this allows you to get on the computer get some flight time get some stick time under your belt and really understand how an fpv drone flies because it's totally different than some of the other automated ones out there like the DJI drones or some of those other companies that have a lot of automation in them and stabilization and safety things that are gonna stop them from crashing there's two main simulators out there that's gonna give you the most realistic flight controls and sort of flight characteristics the first one is liftoff which is a steam game I haven't personally used that one but I've heard that it's really good and it has some better graphics and the second one is velocity on which is more realistic but not as graphics heavy mr. steel did a great video which I'll link to down in the description below on how to set that up to get the best pig toon settings to make it really feel realistic to flying a five inch quad and like I said before it just gives you some really good practice and stick time before you go into the actual drones so you're not gonna be crashing it as much everything that I talked about today and my current fpv drone setup for beginners is gonna be over on my website greg farm comm back slash fpv gear that link will be in the description down below as well as links to all of this stuff if you wanted to get it I'm gonna be doing some more videos kind of covering all of these set up with this drone this controller and these goggles so if you want to get this exact same setup and have a step-by-step walkthrough of how to get it from zero to 100 check out the other videos also subscribe to the channel for more videos coming down the line on fpv drones filmmaking too coreos all that kid stuff and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Greg

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Id: ZDNZ5r6qL3w

Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 29 2019