FPV Tutorials

We take a look at what makes a FPV drone and answer the most commonly asked questions about FPV.

Water is the arch-nemesis of all FPV drones. If you crash your drone in a lake, it’ll sink to the bottom and almost be impossible to find. If your drone gets wet, it can short-circuit and stop working, burn your electronics, or just rust. I’ve flown over water a lot (and crashed in it!), and …

Flying FPV drones is a super fun hobby, but a very expensive hobby! When I started building and flying FPV drones five years ago, I made the mistake of buying the cheapest parts possible. It can be really tempting to get the cheapest parts possible, but you can easily end up with extremely outdated and …

When I’m flying my drone high in the sky and having a great time, the last thing I want to do is run out of battery and have to land.  In fact, everybody drone owner wants their drone battery to last longer! Understanding what actually impacts how long a drone battery lasts will help you …

I crashed my drone somewhere in the middle of a woods, on the opposite side of a lake, almost a mile away and I actually found it.  Here’s why my drone crashed, what I did to handle the situation (and yes, I made a big mistake), and the tactics I used that you can as …

Every FPV pilot has experienced something along these lines – having a great time flying or getting close to learning a new trick, and then BOOM! You hit a tree, crash into the ground and break something. It gets worse from there as well, since you have to order a new part and wait for …

Before you take your first FPV flight, you need to learn how to use Betaflight. Betaflight is the most common software for FPV drones and chances are your first FPV drone will be running it. Betaflight can seem complicated to new users, so to make it simple we’ve made guides to show you how to …

Being able to successfully connect to Betaflight is essential for all FPV pilots. Betaflight is the most popular software by far that 99% of FPV drones use, so you’re going to need to use it to change some settings eventually. If you followed the steps in our first article you should already have Betaflight installed …

ELRS is a fast, long-range, and low latency control link for your FPV drone. More and more people are switching to ELRS even from trusted control links such as Crossfire. This new control link is so great because ELRS is an open-source project. It’s developed and maintained by people in the FPV community, which allows …

How far can a drone fly? If you’ve just got a drone, this is probably one of the questions you’re asking, and the question that you’re going to hear more than anything else! Every drone pilot needs to know how far a drone can fly to keep them from losing their drone, and it’s also …