FPV Racing Mini Quadcopters Advanced Course

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James JAB

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Hi All,

Such a fun day. A small West Devon FPV meet was organised by the guys from BBRC. The location was perfectly suited to this sport with different sections to the garden with mixes of nice long runs, woodland and obstacles.

I have not flown with many other people FPV let alone racing them but I thought this sounded a fun challenge. So I packed the car with all my flying gear and made my way to Bideford to meet the guys.
We managed to get 4 mini quads in the air for a race at one point but other commitments made a few people leave as it was a nice day so that just left 3 of us to have some fun.

I was having major problems on the day with my FPV cam, the lens had become loose in a hard crash from another day and had about .1mm of play which translated to a very blurred and vibrating image which was intermittent but did not stop the day.

This was all for fun and to meet new FPV pilots in the area, it was so nice to meet such a friendly and skilled bunch on the day. I managed to get well over 30Gb of footage to make some video's so my next video will be of the whole days events.

Big thank you to all that I met who made it an excellent day. I am racing the very talented JamesB72 in this video.

Thank you to the spotter and provider of the course Frequency9, he makes a mean cuppa too ;)

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I watched this on earlier YouTube today. Quad racing seems cool. What would happen if you put a pull prop on the front horizontally? Would it increase the speed or create problems leading to crashes?
 
GJH105775 said:
I watched this on earlier YouTube today. Quad racing seems cool. What would happen if you put a pull prop on the front horizontally? Would it increase the speed or create problems leading to crashes?
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I would definitely cause stability issues with a 5th axis adding input, also you would have to have it very small and on some kind of gimbal otherwise it would be pulling or pushing you into the ground on heavy acceleration, unless you angled the motors forward by 15degrees, then at full speed the frame should be level and the thrust would work... probably not worth the hassel ;) skill should win over speed in this type of course
 
I could see how going too fast would cause it to be come too hard to manoeuvre in a course. Thank for answering that question that I have hade for a few weeks.
 
Hi guys great video cant wait to see more , Have you guys seen the Xhover racing quad , as it has carbon tubes for arm they tilt the motors , if you use the nase board you can tell the board the motors are tilted by how ever many degs you want so on take off its level but this also mean when racing hard the quad is level so less frontage hitting the air and you looking where your going not at the ground , cheaper than a stingray quad too
 
holtneil said:
Hi guys great video cant wait to see more , Have you guys seen the Xhover racing quad , as it has carbon tubes for arm they tilt the motors , if you use the nase board you can tell the board the motors are tilted by how ever many degs you want so on take off its level but this also mean when racing hard the quad is level so less frontage hitting the air and you looking where your going not at the ground , cheaper than a stingray quad too
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I just watched a couple of videos on it, and it is beast! It moves like lightening, looks like a good quad for racing or even sandbox fun.
 
Apparently the tilt does increase the speed.
I am no expert tho, lol.
I am sure someone will have a better explanation on here.
 
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