Compilation of my first 3,5 flight hours or 21 flights (=Greenhorn)

I'm preparing my Thunder Tiger Mini Titan E325 helicopter for FPV in summer :D

For insane FPV videos from professionals go to "Gabriel2584" and "nastycop420" (=Trappy =Team BlackSheep)!!!!!


FPV= abbreviation for "First Person View"
RPV= "Remote Piloted Vehicle"
UAV= "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle"

"FAIL SAFE" on the screen= no control of the plane (loss of RC signal)

Costs:
FPV gear: approx. 600 Euro
Plane ready to fly: approx. 600 Euro
Costs altogether, with RC flight simulator, RC transmitter, charger, batteries, FPV recording device,....... : approx. 2000 Euro
Money you need at the beginning: 3000 Euro (crashes, loss of plane included)
But you need much time to be able to handle the technology.........

Powering the FPV gear with the flight battery.

Range in high altitude (more than 100m):
RC approx. 1,5km (cheap RC receiver, no DS= double superheterodyne= double conversion)
FPV approx. 3km
Half the range in big cities because of jammers!

Recording with Canon MVX200i Mini DV PAL Camcorder
Deinterlacing with "Alparysoft Deinterlace" with "Cedocida DV Codec" and Virtual Dub
Editing with Ulead Videostudio 11
Compressing with Xvid, Single Pass, Quantizer 2, MP3 256 kps CBR
This is the best possible quality in my opinion (with this camera, transmitter setup)

min. Transmitter voltage: 9,7 V, below that picture loss (happens at full throttle with an almost empty or weak and cold battery)


Setup:
Modified Multiplex Easystar:
Ailerons, Brushless motor
Trimmed wings (1145 mm) and fins
IMPORTANT: Center of gravity approx. 70mm from leading edge (approx. 8mm moved to the front)
Reinforced wings with adhesive tape on the wing underside
Velcro tape on the wing ends in the fuselage and on the canopy for more safety

Turnigy C2409 1600 KV, current draw approx. 27A
ESC NoName or Turnigy, 30A
Prop 7x6
2x Multiplex Tiny S
2x GWS Mini
LiPo battery: 11,1V 3s 21002600 maH, 188202 g, (Kokam, Thunder Power Prolite V2, ACE RC)
Thunder Tiger ACE TG6000 Gyro on elevator
Graupner/JR MX16s 40 Mhz with Sanyo Eneloop battery pack
Graupner/JR SMC16 Scan PCM receiver: 3,500m antenna (Wavelength/2*0,95)
Detrum 9g Pan servo

FPV setup:
Fat Shark goggles
CCD Killer camera 5V, powered with the linear mode BEC of the ESC
Lawmate 1,2 GHz TX and RX, 1000 mW from fpvsystems,com
Stock 3dBi antennas on receiver and transmitter
1,2 or 1,3 GHz transmitters are legal in Austria with Radio (Ham) License between 1240 and 1300 MHz up to 200W
I'm using channel 8 (1280 MHz)
Black Stork OSD
3s Lipo for video Rx

AUW: 950 960g
Weight FPV gear: approx.135g
Thrust: approx. 700 g
Flight time: 530 min. depending on throttle and thermal lift
Stall speed: 2025 km/h
Max. horizontal speed: 95 km/h (airspeed)

If I would have to rebuild the plane I would use only PicoServos (9g class, like the Hitec HS65HB), no decals and painting to reduce the weight and a 500 800mW video transmitter (1000mW is too powerful :D, too hot and heavy)