FPV Helicopter!
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- We fly quadcopters FPV like it's second nature. But how would a first-person perspective work when flying a more traditional helicopter?
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I love helis. I love how much is involved. The challenge. The tuning. How much you actually need to know. The intimidation factor. The noises they make.....
FPV a drift RC car and try follow with a Tiny whoop.. LOL
I have already done that ( fpv drift car). Be blessed
FPV RC-Drift solo, Tandem and Train we done allready. Have to chase it with my TinyHawk next time. ;-)
I did that with my 5", so much fun!
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yeh do it! i got to follow some drift cars with a cinewhoop xD was blowing the guys all over the place.
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WANNA SEE DRIFTING RC CARS !!
Come take a look! Got some cool stuff..
Greetz # FGMADNESS !
Properly tuned 700 clas heli would fly just fine even in FPV. A lot more stable in the wind.
my old Trex600 did FPV just fine back in the early 2000s. i used a monitor at the time though so i could transition quickly from from FPV to LOS and take off and land easily.
On flymentor autopilot 500size heli, great experience with a head-tracking fpv cam..here’s the awesome view from its cockpit /watch?v=-CZlLvsEIpo
just not worth the hassle tuning a heli.
kind of not the same.......your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to put the goggles on and then try fly that 700.
and a lot more unstable in the pocket
It may seem bad in y’alls experience, but the first RC camera platforms for aerial video were huge massive RC Heli’s. And they were stable! Its probably all about tune in the end.
Tune has a lot to do with it, but it's also experience. The quads do SO much for you, weve gotten spoiled with all the tech. Helis had a gyro, often mechanical, and...that was it. If you can fly a helicopter, you can fly a quad but it's not necessarily the other way around. That said, you put a modern chipset on a heli and it becomes muuuuch easier to handle.
Heli's are inherently more stable. They are just much, much harder to control, especially the smaller you get. When you consider an unassisted quad/hex/octocopter vs an unassisted heli, then heli's much better.
I really wish you'd used a properly tuned and well flying cp heli for this. This clearly wasn't exactly ideal, even LoS...
Agreed, my beater 450 made from parts from 3 different helicopters flies much better.
I've been flying FPV for about 4 years . This is my t-rex 500x. It flies amazing . Thinking about doing a CZcams video soonfacebook.com/scotty.mccoy.351/videos/3980098942042771/
You guys should have invited Kyle Stacy, he can fly a heli fpv like nobody...dude is insane!!!
I have been flying my 450 FPV for a couple years and I have never had the issues you guys have. Tune much? C'mon guys, do it right.
Excited to see more 3D content on the channel- I wanna see Jeff FPV his larger setup and fly it 3D!
Challenge: FPV a DLG glider from takeoff to landing, staying in the goggles as it's getting thrown!
That's hot
Would be cool, but Vomit Emoji
Done it, slope soaring FPV is a religious experience.
Also done it, and also DLG throw powered wings that are launched discus style, quite disconcerting the first time! Flight and landing is no issue at all.
@@chasew3947 god yes. Sailing on thermals, long flight, you forget you exist back on the ground.
Team Echelon was doing this back when the kk2 board was still popular
but i appreciate you bringing it back to life and offering a different look at fpv for a change
I have fpv'd my old T-Rex 600 and it actually flew just fine and was really fun!
DaRoach5882 yeah I don’t understand what the big deal is. FPV has been around for ever. This isn’t new. Stick controls are identical. Whatever cool video regardless
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Lol ... For us old folks ,
F.P.V. is still pretty new , however OUR first remote , was a string connected to a cox fueled airplane.lol...
Back in the late 60's lol
( F.P.V. ,,, IS BASICALLY BRAND NEW ) to adults..lol
Richard Cerni 😑😑😑😑😑😑
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It’s been done successfully multiple times. A million times better than dribbles attempt in this vid. Move along.
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Thanks for these links. I've seen the first one before. Great achievement. Extra credit will go to the last video though. That guy did a bit more than just fly circuits. The others are simple circuits. Don't get me wrong - I'm a heli flyer. I congratulate you and those others who've done it. I'm not going to try it - I'm VLOS flyer. But when I hear something like, "it's all been done before, to me that implies most people have attempted it and the fad has passed. In fact, the fad never took off. That's why I made my initial comment when I did. Cheers, and fly well.
Richard Cerni we’re both saying the same thing. Haha 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I started with fpv on a helicopter more than 10 years ago on a modified 450 (Align trex). It's by far the best way to enjoy piloting of a real rc platform, even if back then many things were not as good or cheap as today. It's nice to see you guys catching up...
Quad pilot: Disarm via 2 switches & disconnect battery before touching. Heli pilot: just pick it up by the prop!
I mean when the heli props dont spin there is no danger. They need like 10seconds to spin up and these motors have like 0.01Nm of torque
Lol. sounds worse than it is. Helicopters have a throttle hold and the props don't go from 0 to 10k rpm in an second lol.
@@bearlaceration8971 it's all good man... I think he was just joking about the flight end procedures. I don't think anyone disagrees it takes a lot more skill to fly a heli.
I'd love to see you guys FPV a control line (U-control) model aircraft! Great video!
It would be funny to also have a motor spinning it around that is controlled by the throttle.
Coming from Helis I’ve wanted to do this since I flew my first kwad. It’s amazing how Helis are so mechanically based and proper physical set up is so key vs kwads being mostly electronic and all about FC set up.
Super awesome watching Drew fly this heli. Reminds me of when I try to fly a quad like Drew.
Seriously, I’ve been flying FPV with my 35 pound, 2.5 meter turbine XLV since 2005. I started out on my Schluter Champion back in 1985 FPV... You guys are so behind the times😜
had the fpv helicopter idea for ages, thank u Rotor Riot for awnsering my question by doing this video.
I have great respect for helicopter pilots, I used to fly one back in the old days and those things are as challenging as hell to master.
Greg Toews ikr? I bought one awhile back and couldn’t even get the thing to hover never mind actually fly... I just assumed it was defective in some way and gave up...
@@travispratt6327 My first five or so drones were helis - back before quads existed - and they flew really easily. Wasn't 3D - heck, most of them were only 2 channel - but they flew quite nicely.
Vousie V Well that’s not how a real helicopter pilot flies a helicopter... I was referring to collective pitch 6ch helis that are more like how a pilot has to fly, and I’m sure op was too. I’m not sure exactly how how hard they are to fly because I never got mine to fly right, it was always like trying to stand and balance on top of an exercise ball. I did have multiple regular 3ch helis though and they’re easy and simple, basically they’re flying for you with gyro stabilization, a collective pitch 6ch 3D heli is more like a quad in acro mode, center the sticks and it won’t hover, it will just keep flying wherever it was flying, but in my experience the quad is much more predictable and stable. You control the speed of rotation of pitch yaw and roll, then on top of that have to do throttle and blade pitch. It’s by far the most challenging rc experience I’ve had, and I fly 100mph+ rc planes and do real estate videos with a dji phantom gimbal drone.
@@travispratt6327 Yes, I know how 6ch helis fly. My point is that just because it's an RC helicopter doesn't mean it's always difficult to fly. You get different types of helis. Also, the helis I had didn't have actual gyros - this was back in 2006 when gyros were too expensive to put in toys. They literally just had a physical balance bar on the main rotor. By the way, if you can fly 100mph RC planes, then DJI Phantom is really just nothing. Those things are so overly controlled by computer algorithims that I sometimes wonder whether it even really counts as you "flying" them - it's more like the algorithm is flying it and you just give it a general direction you want it to go in.
Vousie V My dji can be controlled like that but that’s not how I use it, I simultaneously use throttle, yaw and gimbal to frame shots while I’m moving is one of the more challenging things with the dji. It’s easy to fly but it’s hard to manipulate to get desired results was my point with that.
As for toy grade copters, ya I know they can be easy but nobodies talking about those toy helicopters, they’re talking about 6ch helicopters that simulate a real helicopter, there’s no 2 or 3ch manned helicopters that I’m aware of, he said he’s respectful of helicopter pilots, I wouldn’t consider someone pushing up on a 2ch toy heli a helicopter pilot.
Wow😍 I love Helis. I always thought if it was possible but never had the balls to do that with any of mine...as you said: Too expensive and scary as hell. No space for mistakes. Great video guys! My heart was pumping watching this..
Please try fpv the collective pitch quad from flite test!!
lance vanvelzen that’s what I fly, and I’ve asked that so many times.
@@angelisfpv hopefully now they actually do it
What I’ve done was I put a full fpv set up on a trex 700. When I say full. I mean head tracking, diversity, OSD W/BARO&COMPASS, HD... IT WORKS VERY NICELY. I went ahead and turned it into a gunship for paintball. Mounted a tippman automatic paintball gun on it and it worked perfectly! It was a gorgeous thing to fly and it kicked ass! It was very smooth. What I see in this video is that the gains were off balance and it was only trying to over compensate.
Drew could chase it cause he had hd view from dji. Which makes it alot easier to see the heli.
FPV a rc boat!
Put crossfire and a pro32 1w vtx on it then take out on a lake or calm ocean
done that,, on sonic wake,,, and old k&b tunnel hull,,, water isn't to friendly to vtx ,, can keep it dry but gets hot and burns up,,, only used cheap vtx though ... put it old nitro savage 4x4 that was cool
English channel
water cool the VTX. not a big deal. just like water cooling an electric boat's esc.
Even tho the heli fly like crap fpv ! It’s all about the chasing of the helicopter 🚁 that part was dope as hell 👌🏻
That is EXACTLY the reason why I've started flying heli and I've stopped pretty much at the beginning. Also the reason why I've started this FPV thing with a FUTABA T7C (!). Basically, to fly heli, you'll pretty much lose sight of it if it is too small. So, you need that big, to be able to see what is doing, and where the tail is oriented. BUT, again, the bigger, the more expensive, and that is what happen when you crash: most of the times, almost all parts are gone, and you should not only buy everything again, wich sometimes isn't that expensive, but you cannot fly for weeks, trying to have some hour to fix it. I've left, with my TRex still in his box, and other 2 mini less than an hour of flight. Then, drones, or quad, and FPV began. Life changer! Of course it's a different thing, but at the end of the day is hard enough to be a lot interesting and fun, and way less expensive in terms of time and money.
Awesome flying Drew. But I'm like you so scared of them, mainly chopping myself up lol . Great video guys :)
That was awesome to watch!!! Y'all are always sharing entertaining content!!! ❤❤❤❤💯
Nice work, I never thought about FPV with Helis. I think even 450 size heli, the blades carry a lot of energy, good work guys. Stay safe!
Such a fun concept, loved the editing on this one :)
I've been doing this since early spring on a couple different platforms. So far my favorite has been the goblin fireball. I'm setting it up with crossfire right now 😎
Looks like great fun!
I've setup FPV on a few model trains before and that has always been fun.
Great video. So glad you tried flying a heli FPV. I have been flying my TRex 450 FPV for years. It is a nice challenge compare to flying quads, although it does not fly anywhere near as well as a quad does. You should definitely do more videos with helis.
I love how terrified drew is of the helicopter
When i was a little kid, more then 20 y ago i dreamed of flying fpv. Tech wasn't there yet. When i found out fpv drones my life has changed😍
Right? I fly 100% better FPV than I ever did LOS. I wanted to be a pilot, and FPV gives me the ability to kinda do so.
Also modern radios are SO much nicer than AM band radios... ugh, someone makes a hot pocket and my old plane would be going into the trees.
That was the most honest Blade 450 commercial ever!
I've seen fpv heli footage from before quads existed and it was fine, it was better than this.
Raz Taz exactly. Don’t know what their deal was. Poorly set up heli
Here is your problem....LOL, it's a fucking BLADE!
OMG, it's Drip's heli. Problem #2
@@jbw5485 Maybe just because it was a 450 size?
Nander0 true. Most of the really nice fpv stuff is with much larger helis.
Very interesting video really enjoyed it always like to see people Thinking outside the box
"wanna chase me ?" " ok sure"
Heli racing would be amazing I've been wanting to do this for ages love quads but I started with helis thansk guys loving the show
Very good! Congratulations my friend! From Brazil!
Love it! I want to try this , I will try this 🤓
I’m not a big swag person when it comes to FPV stuff but I’m Diggin that Propsicle shirt
Fun video . Good job !
Been waiting to see fpv on those!
That was rad.
Chasing the dragonfly! So awesome.
Flying RC Helicopters is not for everybody. It takes perseverance and patience. but when you get it it is very rewarding.
After reaching a high level of proficiency (piro-flip level). Flying anything else is super easy
FPV adds a different dynamic, it's fun
You could select cockpit view in the heli sims way back in the day before FPV and Quads even were a thing . I used to sim in FPV view a lot when flying helis and was one of the first things I did when 1.3 ghz VTXs and cameras got small . Scale flying is more suited for FPV helis though. Easy to fly quads were boring but lately have become more agile and entertaining with the racing and DJI HD capabilities . Still want to put a DJI Air unit in one of my scale Hughes 500s though :)
I tried this way back when Align 450SE V2 was new. Worked great, but I can't fly very well, crashes and trips to hobby shops were frequent lol. Did a bit of hovering around in the yard and basement, took the rig made for my EasyStar plane, stuck it on the 450SE.
That chase footy tho!!!!! 🔥🔥
Been waiting ages for this. DribbleCopter
Awesome video guys...what a bone shaking ride lol! I would like to see some FPV driving or cycling or skateboarding. Make an fpv helmet and go for it 😂😂 big like! 👍👍👍
This is hilarious guys i wish i could fly as good as you FPV drib but it cracks me up to see you so worried about rc heli ive been ripping those for years lol and after that fpv comes pretty easy for the most part . Love the video though keep it up
If I couldn't fly fpv helicopters I wouldn't fly at all. This is my 500x. I've been flying fpv for about 4 years.
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IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME
the Thumbnail of this video got me LOL
My first flying machine.. Blade EX. It was a little beast.
I just pushed the like button. It's been running through my mind to FPV a heli. I think you guys would have had better luck with the GooSky S2. I try inverted flight today with mine and it was all over the place.
did you FPV a heli yet?
@flat-earther haha.. no I haven't yet. That copter kept losing connections when I try hard pitch pumps and falls out of the sky.
Rockin the G9 I see. Most underrated camera from 2018 :D
You need to get a hold of the guys a Motion and do some chasing of the new helos they are carrying. The chase footage looks sick!
So true, i had an electric heli called the whisper about 20 odd years ago and it cost a fortune to repair all the time, sold it to a local hobby store after owning it for a year.
lol :) loved this ...
I'm pretty new to RC started last year and got straight into FPV with cheap whoops and a Mantis 2s, this year moved on to mobula, spedix 80 and built a tyro 109.
Can relate to the fun of this as ive been playing with a £26 rtf glider with a whoop cam and vtx on board .. was challenging and fun :) hmm do i now want a helli :) ?
Great video guys. I flew my 450 once fpv. Never tried it again. Didn't crash but it was horrifying to fly. No peripheral vision to help land and very easy to drift into obstacles as a helicopter isn't dynamically stable you have fly it just to keep it staying still
got fkn goosebumps when the follow clip came on x)
Good episode, keep it up Rotor Dudes.
yesterday was looking for exactly that, you guessed!
Great Content A+
Drews chace footage was amazing! was sure he was about to hit it!
Something the multirotor guys might not be aware of is that you have to balance the center of gravity planes and helicopters for them to fly well.
That horrible porpoising this thing had, in heli/plane world that is a really clear sign of being tail-heavy. When they took the battery off of the front and put it on the bottom, they were making the helicopter incredibly unstable; it's a miracle of modern engineering the flight controller could control that thing at all.
It is interesting to see that
I fpv a 600 raptor helicopter years ago. The hardest part is landing it really soft without cutting the tail boom off lol.
Just outorotate
FPV RC motorcycle. dragging knee would be gnarly AF!
I like your U-well mod!!
Dave's tri copter needs some love
That was awesome. Glad the hot glue held up. Hahaha. Thanks to Flite Test, I always carry hot glue.
Thanks Shawn for helping make this episode possible! Always a pleasure to have you on set!
-Drew
Thats why heli pilots are the best pilots.
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That music makes me think of Dr.Tom
I've been wanting to see someone FPV a nice 3D balsa like 3DHS Slick or something. However, need to be flying harriers, hovers, flat spins knife edge etc.
I've put a camera on a 3D plane and flew it around last year, just to see, if it would be possible. With a fixed camera, all you see most of the time, is the sky, because of the high alpha :D
But I'm experimenting with the head-tracker. Sadly, my first attempt (a Fokker D VII) grew too heavy with the FPV-gear.
I wish i had FPV when i was doing rc helies 15-20yrs ago! Would saved me alot of hussle
IS that Frostie the snow man DUDE WEARING EYE LINER? Hahahahaha
The wind was your only issue. That and lack of practice. I have an align 450 heli and wanted to do fpv on it, then I decided to get a quad copter and just keep the heli for line of sight.
I been talking about this since day 1. I don't have a chopter I'd have done it. Surprised I haven't seen it yet.
That propsicle t shirt is heat 🔥
Get Tareq Alsaadi as a guest. he is an insane heli pilot.
What's the best headset to pair with an fpv build? Any recommendations?
Looks like you guys need a Naza-H on there to smooth out the control inputs.
Maybe you should try FPV on a modded Syma S033G Co-Axial, with weight's under the nose and the tail rotor blade mod to give it proper forward penetration.
just thinking about it you would need to super balance everything. Brushless servos, and actual gyro installed. I bet that matchup will make it smooth.
I think it´s time for 3PV. Put up a few FPV cameras and VTX.s around Rotor Riot HQ, set them to different channels, put a pair of goggles on someone and give him or her some 3rd person view missions!
Pretty nice job, guys! 😂
But well... I do LOTS of FPV with rc cars... With crawlers. It's awesome! 😃
Cool vid how did you power the vtx and cam as going to give fpv my 450🤔
take one of the spry waterproof race quads and do hetic flying through, air snow water fog rain etc in same flight...bet would be cool vid!
There is nothing more exhilarating than flying an RC Heli the first time. Just hovering the first time is SUCH a rush. But like you said, that is why I moved to drones. One little blip in a heli means a 2 hours repair session.
I have several helicopters, ranging in size from 350 to 750, I use my Align 700 dominator as a long range, not easy I had to try all kinds of combinations and tests until I was finally satisfied, but im happy with the results...
I tried this years ago. It's pretty much the same control as a quad almost. The tail isn't locked in as much as a quad. It was sketchy and I didn't want to wreck my heli lol.
You can get 6 angle Flybarless units with GPS units that changes any RC helicopter into a drone that’s locked in that can fly themselves and can be programmed to autonomously fly a course. I love RC helicopters and that was a very minor crash that looked like maybe, maybe $20 for new landing skids if you can’t mend your broken skids and the boom support. The boom support saved your tail boom saving you the effort of replacing the boom. Main gear is roughly $5, servo gear kits for sub micro servos are roughly $15 from Horizon Hobby. That was a good crash. If your feather spindle is still true and main shaft is still true you’re all good but a good rule of thumb is to not chance it and replace the feather spindle and main shaft after every crash to give you some piece of mind. I’ve had many minor crashes and the heli just didn’t fly good till I replaced the main shaft and feather spindle. The slightest bend in either will give you issues. The same is true for the tail feather spindle. Helps are great and I really wish people wouldn’t down talk RC helis scaring people away. RC helicopters are far more rewarding to fly as they are extremely hard to fly. Drones are nothing like RC helicopters so please don’t even try to compare them. I am very passionate about my hobby and just want to see more people try helis out because they are a huge challenge. The thing is that any one can pick up a drone and fly it with ease, a helicopter is a skill that requires a lot of training and learning. If you really want a challenge come to helis. If you want to just play around buy a drone but don’t you dare put helis down.
I was waiting this moment dudee i said that blade heli !!!!
Yes freind did it 4 years ago with Blade Heil jellow was a big problem
I’ve done everything from racing 1/8th nitro buggies to 1/4 scale turbine powered jets. Never had the drive to get into the complex intricate helicopters.
You would have to have a love for helicopters, otherwise it would be a frustrating venture. But once you master a collective pitch heli, its like a diploma, or certificate to be proud of. I keep mine on display when I am not flying it, lol. But quite rewarding, trust me.
I think that Heli is a blade 450x. I flew one for years. The battery is supposed to be mounted up front. The battery mounted underneath like that would make the CG extremely tail heavy and probably while it flew like poop.
Nope. Just a Blade 450 3D. Flybarred. X was flybarless.
@@garrykennedy5484 I don't see a flybar
@@gregtoews7884 You're right. I don't know why I assumed that. Just how it was flying I guess. Very poorly tuned I suppose.