LOS Pilot via. FPV - Something I've always wanted to try!

[DaveyLC]

I've talk about doing this with my friend Charlie (who came to the meet) as he loves to try out crazy things.

The basic principal:

You follow a plane that is being flown LOS then the person flying LOS must watch your passenger screen/goggles and fly his plane using the FPV video feed as you follow it around!

[Gundummy]

Ok... i'm confused! I that like standing in front of 2 mirrors that are facing each other  :laugh:

[Randall]

I will do it (your plane though) ;-) with a stable plane it should be fairly easy (he says) its if the fpv'er looses the los plane then you could run into trouble. I might even have a donor plane to try this with one day if your game

[DaveyLC]

That's a good point, we could use my plane.. just hit ACM or RTL if it goes a bit squiffy.

[Randall]

As long as we record it for giggles im all game, we have to arrange the cheddar soon !

[Ynot6]

makes perfect sense to me. it's like being the passenger in a car, and driving another car by RC and the driver you're with follows where you drive the remote car. simples. sounds fun.

[DaveyLC]

I've still not tried this :D ill see if ratty will let me do it via his video :)

[3DJIM]

FB wanted to try this when I first met him!, I knew from that day forward he was mad as a hatter :D!!

Jim.

[FPVSteve]

I think this would work - you'd probably have to agree beforehand that the pilot of the FRONT plane is the one who will do the corrections in flight to keep it on screen - otherwise you'd essentially both oscillate during corrections. one turns left, one turns right .. oh shit, other way.. aagh, no you stay still .. ahh RTH! lol

[Loopdreams]

A sort of similar but incredibly stupid idea I had was full size RC cars.  Basically find a big, preferably slidey, car park, set up the camera somewhere overlooking, then sit in the car with the goggles on and try and drive around looking at yourself but from the outside.  What could possibly go wrong?

[FPVSteve]

Now that sounds like brilliant fun lol .. we can use your car though heh

[Loopdreams]

No chance, I'll borrow my wife's.

[DaveyLC]

Well this weekend I managed to fulfil my dream :laugh:

At the Mad Dogs meet I successfully flew my plane via Ratty's video feed for about 30 seconds but it felt like an eternity :D  :laugh:

Maddogs 3.5 FPV Meet 14/9/13

[Brucey]

This was hilarious to watch on the ground

[krikey]

Myself and CurryKitten did this the other day, and I flew for a couple of minutes plus a full landing all through CKs FPV footage.

http://youtu.be/6zy4X7RXaaY


Krikey