7 FPV tips for absolute beginners 

Thanks for pushing my order out yesterday Bro.🤙🏾

Damn, you're one of the few whose ever broken a Vista. They are heavy duty!

The few…the proud…the in debt 💸 lol

I've had glass cannons too, but I've also got some absolute tanks that have taken a beating..

fix wing (bubble foam) and battery hit vista, chipped MIPI socket, another o3 the board top bended.... super expensive hobby @@KOrnhOliO1

Broken everything on my quads but never a vista and half of them are naked

A gps tracking self identifying remote license plate, the best kind.

Government bot 😮

It all depends on which system you bought! HDZero break all the time. It's not durable, and not reliable! A prominent reviewer kept breaking VTX's and finally stopped buying them because EVERYTHING BROKE. 🤷🙄 DJI rarely breaks, is practically bullet proof reliable and durable. That reviewer flies DJI now. So, it depends on what ya bought!

​@sco0trot0r18 not much of a choice if you're into whoops. Curious, how many vtx have you gone through?

Eh, no matter what system you have there will always be regular expenses - especially if youre pushing yourself. Damaged batteries, props, arms, cameras, lenses, motors, antennas, fried esc/fc. I think most newbies dont really understand that. At least I didn't.

@@ZippyFPV Yeah, but that's the BIG benefit of DJI. Shit just doesn't break! Hardly anyone ever had a Vista break at all. I've never had any break or stop working. That's one of the main benefits of going DJI digital is now you may still replace FC, ESC, props, motors, but your VTX is practically bullet proof! Cuts way down on costs to repair.

@@godzillacat1291 Nada, Zilch, Nada, None.

Totally agree on getting a BNF as your first quad. I don't get the mentality of people pushing to "build your own" when you don't know anything yet, it just makes the barrier to entry that much higher. Get flying as soon as possible so you understand why it's worth the effort, then learn to fix things as you progress.

​@@flipfpvyea for real I've never even used a soldering iron. It would be so awesome to ruin a brand new FC learning how to solder 😂

The biggest thing when new to the sim is to not burn yourself out. If you start to get annoyed just stop and take a break, or wait till the next day. The first night I was trying to do a figure 8 drill on DRL PC for 3 hours on an XB1 controller. The next night I hit it in 5 minutes and started to learn things much faster. For DRL specifically, I wouldn't recommend relying on just the training missions. Many of them have tons of restrictions and reset you if you stray off course without teaching recovery. My learning improved massively when I jumped into freestyle mode and followed Joshua Bardwell's learn to fly series. I just followed along as best as I could, even though he used Liftoff and I have DRL.

"skater days..." Right? It totally has the same feel of finding spots and dealing with everything that comes with that. I'm making the leap with just a controller and sim first and move up from there. Really informative and enthusiastic guy.

​​@@macofish1I was jus talking to my friend that got my into skating over 10 years ago about drones I was saying it's like skating cuz there's countless tricks and everything has a variation and every person has style. It's endless, challenging, and always unique 😊 I love things like that

awesome! welcome to fpv!

eyy thank you bro.

of course, thanks for carrying the grinderino!

good luck bro! you got this!

Oof your right!

@@BOTGRINDER it happens sometimes

Well, no worries, this video is biased. Biased to HDZero (ANALOG2) which has THE BEST latency for racing, but besides that, it has THE WORST penetration of trees, bushes, and all objects. The Worst range with clarity - Hell, your lucky to fly 100m and not get all of those irritating colored sparklies, that are bigger, colored, brighter and more obnoxious than old analog snow. Some say, in abundance with those LED screen being so bright, that they hurt their eyes. Wanna flying around a building or ANY SOLID OBJECT, " forget 'bout it". HDZero can't fly around virtually anything! 20 feet around the first corner of the solid object, like a building, and your signal is Gone! You're dead. The other digital formats, DJI & Wallsnail, can easily fly around objects with varying success. Walksnail might make it completely around the object, but if it's a huge building, no way. DJI can typically make it all the way around, and sometimes with no break up to the crystal clear image quality.... Yes, DJI has, by far, the best image quality and it's not close, especially with the 03 system. HDZero is way, WAY back from the other two in image quality, penetration is virtually non existent, reliability - one prominent reviewer said he doesn't review or do videos about HDZero because every single one of his VTX's (the part that mounts to the drone) had either broken or died and doesn't work. He used to keep buying more, but after a huge number dying, he won't but anymore. Terrible reliability and durability! DJI is on the other end of the spectrum. Pretty much everyone, with few exceptions, haven't had a single Vista or 03 fail on them! Ultra durable and reliable. Olus, pretty much every reviewer of FPV gear flies DJI - of course they do, it's the very best in everything, but racing... Where you fly 50m Max from yourself in an open field with gates set up. That's HDZero's forte, and it's good at it, and almost nothing else. Are you a racer, but HDZero. Wanna do anything else, buy something else! Bot mentioned the newest DJI goggles not doing analog, but most of us use the V2 goggles from DJI. They do analog superbly! And cheap too! V2 goggles are easily available used, often in brand new condition, for around $300, ( HALF the cost of HDZero goggles!) so DJI is also the least expensive way to get into digital FPV, and the VERY BEST. You can fly soooooo far and typically have no distortion to the image AT ALL! NONE OF THAT STUTTER bullshit Bot mentioned! Sure, if you get way, Way, WAY OUT THERE, sooooo far HDZero would completely drop out and lose signal 1/10 of that distance from you. Walksnail might make it half the way, maybe further, but that's where that stuttering can occur. When you're flying out to bum fuck Egypt! Lol That's when you are very far away or flying around a huge solid object that the other two systems can't even fly close to where you are flying. Bot is a great guy, but he gets given gear because he does reviews. He got given, FOR FREE, those HDZero goggles and no other company gave him digital goggles, so HE'S TOTALLY BIASED. PLUS! He a DJI hater. For No Valid reason either, because there are no valid reasons to hate the very best! They've done nothing to you. DJI INVENTED DIGITAL FPV! They just make by far the best in digital FPV and some just love to hate the very best. Also, because he didn't get free goggles from the them! 😉👍💯

You got the best! DJI. 💯👍 HDZero is fine if you're a racer, #1. But, for anything else, it's piss poor. Unless you like flying 100m away and having SHIT VIDEO. Flying around any solid object and losing signal 30 ft. past the first corner of the object... Building, large thick groves of trees, thick bushes, etc. It's very limiting where you can fly! DJI can fly pretty much anywhere and have crystal clear video 90% of the flight. Only way, WAY OUT THERE do you get any distortions.

@@KOrnhOliO1 Agreed - I couldn't be any happier with the video I get from my Mob8 with O3, and now that I've discovered Gyroflow... OMG! But I'm also happy I have a little quad with Analog for practicing ripping on a small scale and for my the amusement of my cats. I think my time with the Meteor75 proximity flying has upped my flying and confidence 100%. The analog EV800D DVR recordings are terrible, but flying it is a blast. I'm getting the Cobra X V2 with good antennas for hopefully better analog experience, but the EV800D's have worked pretty well and will keep it for backup / spectator.

@@KOrnhOliO1id rather have low fixed latency with hdzero then DJI with variable high latency also the fact you can’t have 1s whoops with DJI is crazy

@@patrickkelly7789 I'd rather be able to fly farther than 30m if I'm flying around trees, bushes, buildings, etc without having more colored sparklies than analog has snow! Sure, racing or flying in an open field and HDZero is great! The best! It's a one trick pony for sure... And that's fine. But flying around anything solid and it's simply not good. Plus, the reliability and durability of VTX's is terrible! Guys have quit using HDZero because they replaced, then replaced again, then replaced over and over and over again their broken VTX's so many times they gave up and went to DJI! They love DJI! Why? Because you can fly very, Very far with crystal clear video and way more sharpness, fly around trees and bushes, fly completely around a building and still be crystal clear for most buildings the entire time! HDZero can't even get around the first corner of a building and RAINBOW 🌈 screen of death appears and your done! Heck, you can get the rainbow screen flying around some trees! Then, it's not durable! DJI is ultra durable and super reliable. No defects, no breaking VTX's. HDZero is way, Way below everything DJI or even Walksnail can achieve. It's, quite frankly, not even remotely close! And, the VTX's break all the friggin time! 😩🤦

Yeah I'm realizing that now