In love with helicopters: August 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Oculus Rift for FPV

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

Oculus Rift is an ideal match for FPV with pan-tilt camera!

Friday, August 24, 2012

Antennas: Polarization, Diversity, Gain Patterns

Antennas 101 - Polarization, Diversity & Gain Patterns from Andy Lawson - www.JoopMedia.tv

Link to the video was found in the document How to be successful in FPV.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

rc-fever is not publishing bad reviews?

Some time ago I bought Upper Blade Motor replacement for my UDU U806. The motor I received doesn't really match one in the heli. I wrote a review:

It was send for approval to webmaster:

But it has never been published!

http://www.rc-fever.com/helicopter-spare-parts/by-brand-t-z/udi-helicopter-parts/udi-u806-parts/udi-u806-16-upper-blade-motor.html

UPD: my feedback was finally published but it took a long time...

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Walkera Mini CP vs Blade mCP X

It looks like "Walkera Mini CP" is a little bit better then "Blade mCP X"...

Friday, August 17, 2012

http://www.helifanatics.com/ - "We are helifanatics and our favorite type of RC helicopter is a RC scale fuselage helicopter because it looks like real helicopter and they flies like real helicopter. We love flying them, we love owning them, we love collecting them and we especially love the sexy technology that goes into making them fly."

Agree! I also have the same passion! But another big thing is FPV. I think FPV can give you the feeling, that you are flying!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

DIY FPV backpack - the theory and design

DIY: FPV backpack Part 1 (the theory and design)

DIY: FPV backpack Part 2 (antennas)

DIY: FPV backpack Part 3 (camera)

http://rcmodelreviews.com/ - a lot of RC reviews and some videos, how to make your own video transmitter/receiver!

EagleEyes FPV Station

Components:

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

AeroSIM^RC

It has only one helicopter model - Heli 30, but it has FPV!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

SkyShutter AeriCam

SkyShutter AeriCam is an innovative, lightweight 3-axis camera mount coupled with a customized Industry Radio Control Helicopter. The SkyShutter AeriCam offers a cost effective approach for photographers, filmmakers and hobby enthusiasts to create grand and mesmerizing bird’s-eye view perspectives. What was once out of reach is now within the realm of possibility with the SkyShutter AeriCam. By providing the tools that allow you to capture your dream perspective, we give you the edge to freely explore the sky and leave all competition behind.

http://skyshutter.com/aericam.html

Mi-14 at Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT)

Here you can find a lot of photos from RIAT-2012 (by Сергей Кузнецов).

The next RIAT is in 2013:

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Flight Simulators

According to http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/rc-flight-simulator.html, it would be useful to train pilot skills on flight simulator. There are two mentioned there:

RealFlight

http://www.v-nix.nl/real-flight-6-r-c-flight-simulator

Quite expansive ( > 200 EUR ), and it also includes Inter Link Elite Controller (by Futaba).

Phoenix

http://www.heli4u.nl/phoenix-simulator-usb-rc-flight-simulator-p-1093.html

Not so expansive ( < 100 EUR ), and it has Custom Plug and Play USB interface, which probably allows to use any Controller with it. (Am I right? And it has E-Flite Blade MCPX model. )

From UDI U806, to...

Coaxial, 3CH, gyro, micro heli. At the beginning I was crashing it a lot. As the result, I had to buy Upper Blade Motor replacement at www.rc-fever.com (which is not really matching one in this heli. But I managed to put it in).

Then, I was reading http://www.rchelicopterfun.com, and come up with requirements to my next heli. So, it should be:

Single Rotor - it is more wind resistant then Coaxial, and can be flown outside
4CH / Collective Pitch - more challenging but more fun
Flybarless - lighter rotor, uses less energy, close to real helis
Mini - that I can fly it at home

Heli matching this requirements is Blade mCP X/2. But probably there are newer models.

And the ultimate goal is to have: Mini, Scale, Flybarless, FPV (telemetry / goggles) heli.

РТФ 450-ка для начинающих от Алигн за вменяемые деньги

http://forum.rcdesign.ru/blogs/58996/blog14198.html

Align наносит удар... то ли по клонам, то ли по ефлайту! Но удар знатный. Знакомьтесь - РТФ 450-ка для начинающих от Алигн за вменяемые деньги!!!

Очень интересный вариант сегодня увидел на 711. Алайн окончательно задавленный клонами, решил сделать "старт-ап" дешево и сердито

Т.е. повторяется прошлогодний опыт с 500-кой, только сейчас - 450-й.

Итак знакомьтесь - РТФ-сет!!! комплект Алайн 450 (удешевленный спорт), с передатчиком Футаба 6 каналов, батарейками в пульт и в вертолет, простенькая зарядка.