It Flies!

It has been months since I've had a fly, but today I had a go.

I charged my 6 x 3S batteries, and my 2 x 4S batteries last night and packed it all into the boot ready for a lunchtime venture during work.

I headed out with a mate to the local oval in my lunch break.  It had been raining this morning (which my work mates joked always happened when I used to put my RC Car in the boot on Wednesdays and they said it transferred to any remote vehicle I intended to use.) but the sun broke through for a few hours, drying the grass and enabling some flight time.

It was my first flight in ages.  It was my first flight with the EV-100 goggles, the RunCam3 mounted, and the first flight with the 2.1 Runcam lens instead of the 2.3 I bought it with.  A quick LOS flight and it seemed to be working so let's don the new goggles and get started.

I used one battery doing some swapping between the EV-100 and my old VR-D2 box goggles.  I took some DVR footage on my old Eachine VRD2 as the DVR module for the EV-100 hasn't arrived yet.  (I ordered it last week).  I can notice the black circles in the EV-100 with the default foam.  I've ordered some Fatshark replacement foam for the EV-100 as they do look better when i squish them on my head.  Monty's EV-100 goggles arrived a week or 2 ago and I noticed they came with a very soft foam on them.  This may negate the need to have the thinner foam.

It was also interesting that I really noticed the light leakage around the nose area of the VRD2 when I put them back on after flying with the EV-100.

There were a few times where the EV-100 just gave me a half second black screen shortly after I started flying, and the interference seemed to be accentuated more on the EV-100.  I had a pagoda antenna on the Wizard, and a pagoda on the EV-100.  Maybe tomorrow I'll have a play with the EV-100 and test the standard antenna it came with, 2 standard antennas, 1 pagoda, 2 pagodas, 1 clover, 2 clovers and then a combinations to see if it makes any difference.

I gave the VRD2 to my mate so he could see the FPV vision.  It was only later that I remembered I had the MicroUSB tuner I could have given him.

All in all I was happy with my flying.  I took it easy, just burning through 2 x 3S packs.  I'll have another fly tomorrow and put a 4S in now that I know that the thing flies.  Overall I was happy with the setup.  The drone was a little sluggish with the Runcam3 on it, but it was still flyable and I managed a barrel roll in there.  I've uploaded some video of today's flying.