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 This website is here to help others who are interested video piloting in the newly growing and exciting Hobby of First Person View (FPV or RPV) that has become popular with Radio Controlled airplanes, R/C helicopters, cars and boats.  

  What is First Person View? also known as FPV, it's an intelligent term given to video-piloting by one of the pioneers of this kind of flight (cyber-flyer*) describing the use of video camera(s) to pilot a RC heli/plane by sending the video back to the user by a wireless transmitter/ receiver so the user will see what the plane sees.  So in short this puts you in the pilot seat of your RC airplane. For a lot of people this makes flying RC even more fun and gives the user a real sense of controlling their aircraft/vehicle.  Most people who enjoy piloting by video and do well with it are typically persons who like video simulation games like flight simulators. Among others are Full-size aircraft pilots, they seem to pick it up quite easily.

The uses of FPV are vast for all kinds of fun projects. So be safe, have fun and follow all local, state and national laws.

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The Mission

This site is here to cover projects, and answer some questions  relating to FPV wireless camera equipment, GPS, On-Screen Displays, Head-Trackers, etc...and how to use them with your R/C aircraft.  It does not cover aircraft set ups or motors. There are plenty of Hobby Shops and Websites that have great information already on these subjects. 

 It 's believe that First Person View piloting will be a big part of the future of radio controlled hobbies and this site is here to help others understand what is needed to get involved. Since FPV piloting is fairly new idea to the RC hobbyist,  it can seem difficult  to get started and with it being a new way to pilot RC this can make most hobbyist confused when researching for it.  So we saw a need to help the newbie who is looking for the fun part of this hobby and not wanting to spend hours or days deciphering all the forum info relating to FPV, you can easily get lost in all the "jibber jabber" and different equipment being used and developed for it. We hope to make it easier to understand so you may better enjoy this exciting part of the hobby. In no way do we think we'll be able to answer all of your questions but hope this site will help you with the basics. If you have questions that haven't been answered here please  check out RCGroups.com FPV forum where there's a lot of helpful hobbyist that will try to answer it for you.

 

PIP with GPS data overlaid with OSD

Custom canopy made from plywood and bondo. Photo: capn

FPV R/C Truck can be a blast around the house

Video Goggles

   Multiplex TwinStar II with extended wings. This plane handles larger payloads like 2 cameras, OSD, GPS etc...  

High resolution CCD camera from I.F.

If your a FPV pilot and would like to share what you know, pictures and video so others may learn from it, Please send us an email. If we feel that it will be helpful info, we will post it.

Thank You for you support.

Camp Mojave FPV Fly-by

 Pan n Tilt inside Cap cockpit. Photo vrflyer

 FPV Twin Star II formation flying. Pilots Crash9 & AirTrucker

Glamis, Ca. Sand Drags fly over. Photo Crash9

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