Within the last two months or so, I have gotten back into RC airplanes via FPV (first person view). This is a method of flying via an onboard camera that gives you the perspective as if you were actually in the airplane flying.

Here is my FPV setup:

• Air station (the airplane)
  • Easy Star 2, stock RR equipment
  • DragonLink V2 UHF RX
  • EagleTree OSD with DataLogger v4, GPS and Guardian Stabilizer. I have the Airspeed
    indicator which I find very valuable, but due to lack of room on the Easy Star right
    now, it is not installed.
  • ReadyMadeRC 700PRO camera
  • CircularWireless Skew Planar TX antenna
  • ReadyMadeRC 1.3 GHz 800mw TX
• Ground Station:
  • Futaba 8FG Super RC TX connected via the trainer port to the DragonLink UHF TX
  • CircularWireless Skew Planar RX antenna
  • IBCrazy PepperBox RX antenna
  • Sometimes an IBCrazy 3-turn Helical RX antenna
  • 2x ReadyMadeRC 900-1.3 GHz RX w/SAW filter upgrades
  • EagleTree EagleEyes (diversity, telemetry logging and video splitting)
  • ReadyMadeRC DVR1000 - digital video recorder
  • ReadyMadeRC 8” LCD mounted on an old camera tripod
  • The rest of the ground station (fixed equipment) is mounted on a camera lighting
    tripod that extends to 12’
  • Peak 900 Jump-Starter (ground station power)

You can see a few videos of my FPV flying:

• My first FPV flight
• My first FPV crash, into a tree
• Morning FPV flight - October 10th
• New FPV distance PR (personal record), 18,900’ (LOS) which is 3.6mi, or 5.8km.

Various pictures of my setup: