Beach fun fly

Another beautiful day at the beach, the tide is low, the wind was breezy and our glider glide slow and easy over the sunset. It looks beautiful against the blue and orange like sunset horizon as it flew above the sea from line of sight view. I also view it from my FPV equipment just to make sure my flight is above the coastal line.  Never felt so relaxed after hard working days. Tagging along are some of my friends flying their gliders and helicopters too zooming around and entertain some beach goer too.  Tomorrow is monday....bummer.

Beautiful birds view in HD

I just got my lightweight HD 808 #16 keychain and place it under my slow HK TRISTANIA @ TECHONE SPIRIT EPP foam plane. Flew FPV above our local area and too beautiful view of the surroundings.  The birds eye view on HD  looks beautiful.  Flying on FPV with HD recording make me appreciate more about the scenic beauty and surrounding where we live.    Life is now always need to be confined on ground level.  Its nice to be like a bird once.

Flying tips: Turn it dark

Here is the best solution for those R/C pilot who have visibility problem when flying 'line of sight' (L.O.S) at high altitude on white cloudy sky.  Just paint/spray almost 50-70% your plain plane with black or other darker paint against sky color and you will able to see your plane clearly against the blue,white or dusky sky because your plane wings or other parts looks contrast/visible.  But do not spary the whole plane with same color make sure you make a differentiation of colors on every surface of the plane so you could recognized which parts is up, down, left or right orientation.  Thus you will never loose, confused orientation or lost sight of your plane again.  Cheers.

FPV #5 - WL V911 micro FPV heli project

Out of curiosity and desire to fly indoor through first person view i've gather some material and built my very own micro FPV machine.  5.8Ghz Nano VTX, 90 degree POV 520TVL nano 1g nano cam with built in mic and an FP micro 100 size heli that run on 1S lipo battery which fly much better than my old crap Align 100s.  Its 50x better.   Stock heli flown at 6 minutes 30 seconds but after putting FPV load its around 4 minutes max due to sensitive weight.  Since both heli and FPV hardware share the same 1 cell lipo battery its kinda a glitchy  but i get random good and bad videos unless i'm putting two battery configuration.  Overall it flew well with short duration but atleast was a successful implementation for my first micro attempt to fly around inside my house.  I think it would awesome platform if i could use this for fly around inside a haunted house without risking self encounter with paranormal stuff.  Fun stuff but i think i need to research more how to extend its runtime.

FPV low flight scene around the forest

Nothing much but i think its interesting to show some cool low level FPV flight that we did on weekends on our new flying spot nearby remote forest,  flying tandem with other flyer including cool view of plane taxi our small runway.

FPV #4: CEN MINI MADNESS ground FPV

Once again out of curiosity and itchy to test new experience into ground FPV exploration i bought myself 1/16 mini monster truck: "CEN MINI MADNESS" from my friend who let go at bargained price.  Then got myself bunch of micro scale FPV hardwares which could fit into this small scale models but mostly basic setup, simple OSD module, miniature wide angle CMOS cam at 520TVL with 120 degree POV lense, pan-tlit head tracking system, 5.8ghz vtx, standard antenna and powered with 1 cell lipo.  Took just a day to built and simple test it on the ground without hassle. 
After some test run at our local field and beating around dirt, gravel bushes and etc where this little moster truck can go it seem ground FPV was not exciting as what i could have expected.  Even after setup my cam view high above the truck platform my 270 degree point of view over the landscape seem to be limited and unable to identify further horizon over at leat 60m distance.  It was a boring and dull FPV experience because i expect to be able to see more stuff from the ground.  Probably the truck isn't high enough to view over the obstacles as what i see people did same ground FPV on Youtube website.  However it still a fun way to drive via cockpit view and able to see lots of activity surrounding near by object and people wirelessly.  For people that walk passby this little machine they seems to be amused by what they think was a small robotic UAV truck watching over them. 
For conclusion if want you to go ground FPV get a bigger and taller off-road truck to be able to view higher above the terrains or bushes.  My CEN MINI MADNESS truck ended back into the cupboard after running over one week.  I prefer flying than driving, more fun, more things to see, efficient, cheaper and more adventurous.