Retired F-16 pilot here and I gotta tell you…WOW!! VERY VERY COOL!! Sitting here with a huge smile on my face as I watch this. 👍🏼😊 Edit: I’m also seeing the advantage of having something like this for JTACs on the battlefield. They could provide their own mini-CAS.
Glad to win the approval of a Viper driver😁! I honestly believe this is a very cost effective training platform for anyone that want to get realistic training in basic combat maneuvers and formation flying. Not for system simulation like DCS can provide, but intuitive stick and rudder competency. A fun pastime that trains essential skills. I have fitted reflector sight in the cockpit before, and with munitions could as you said provide mini-CAS. Maybe even something fun for cadets to do: ruclips.net/video/G5nRet-r62s/видео.html Ps. It’s also possible to have onscreen display of critical air data and attitude ladder like on F-16 HUD.
@@jimj2683 True. 5G coverage usually coincides with high population density. So this would mean flying over people. Extra precaution and legal consideration must be taken for such endeavors or would put this hobby at risk for public scrutiny. At location like this, there’s practically no cell phone coverage.
This was my childhood dream and imagination, also applies to airliners, sail ship cannon battles, artificial star wars environment and off roading R/Cs, glad to witness someone finally made at least one of 'em into reality!
Me, too. It’s a dream shared by many. Hundreds will be following soon! As I make it a mission to to provide conversion kits so other RC hobbyists can easily do the same! fpvdogfight.com
Litterally all of those are vr games and what hes doing i do in vr in DCS. f16s f18s mirages mig 21s helicopters, XPLANE 11 VR, VRC SIMULATOR AND STAR WARS HAS AN INSANE VR GAME.
This dropped a little tear on my eye. I think when we had remote control model plane technology, this has always been the goal. Look how far it has come and what it has allowed us to achieve!
I started on "control line" planes as a kid. That's where you stand and spin in place as your model plane with a gas engine and no throttle control flies in circles around you. All you do is control the elevator via two strings and hope the plane runs out of gas before you do. We could have never imagined something like FPV could ever exist! So cool.
As a flight simulator user this has been my dream for years... A universe opens: using a joystick, throttle and pedals (seat is optional, seat with gimball is a plus). Hud with scaled values (altitude, speed, g's and feedback)... the list is unlimited!
As a both an rc pilot and real life pilot, this js just dope. The view from the headtracker is almost very realistic. Especially the takeoff and landing, the pov reminded me of flying a little cessna back then. Sweet setup you got there
Thanks! I am a low time GA pilot, too. The rental rates in CA are getting outrageous. This is my way of getting some realistic stick and rudder training without breaking the bank😉
It's been nearly 15 years, when I first saw someone puttig a - back then shitty - cam coupled with an "headtracker" on an RC Easyjet creating one of the first videos about immersion-flight. It's great to see, how far we've come. This experience made me become an RC pilot. :-) Thank you for your incredibly beautiful video, which inspired me again.
@@premkamandir the plane isn't really the point, but it's listed in the video description. The head-tracking POV system is somewhat DIY, and separate from the plane. What he used is also in the video description.
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen! I hope this becomes widespread in the rc community. The amount of opportunities is unlimited with this technology!
I guess I wanna be ur sleazy manager then. I imagine small teams of aerobatic rc planes & pilots putting on airshows for corporate events, graduations, birthday parties, weddings, etc... And getting paid!
This is SICK. I love the possibilities this presents and I can't wait what we will come up in a few years. Also, crashing in this must be terrifying lol
Okay, so I watch a lot of these videos and vicariously live my dream piloting missions through them. But this, this is above and beyond and I will watch it more than once. Holy cow everything about this video is perfect! Kudos man let's see another....
I've always loved RC fliers but never got into it because if I wanted to fly I wanted to see from this POV. Maybe soon I'll be able to buy one like this. Amazing.
@@davidbennett1357 the head-tracker FPV system is around $1000. Plane cost vary widely depending on model. This one is $650. RC system, charger and batteries would cost another $1000, but can be used for different planes.
@@motionsic thank you for the info…..I would LOVE to own a 1/4 scale F20 tigershark with that sort of setup. I did just watch a video a serbian fellar who was showing off a $75,000 RC jet…..it was quite impressive.
@@davidbennett1357 for those kind of models, they would use a different class of systems then I quoted obviously. And yes the Turbine models are very impressive indeed! Good taste in the F-20 by the way!
As a kid I controlled my plane with a pair wires. Around and around, and that was it. And now I see the new technology available. All I can say is my mind is blown officially 🤯.
It is amazing how far RC tech has advanced. Nowadays, people routinely fly using flight controllers that posses computing power that would have cost millions back when first fly-by-wire fighter came on line in 1980’s.
I feel like fpv content is so rare. I’ve seen people with very expensive RC planes and always wondered why they wouldn’t put fpv in them unless they are just completely unaware of it.
FPV is a different way of flying RC planes. It’s a equalizer, so to speak. It does not matter how big or expensive the RC plane is, once flying from the cockpit, the view is largely the same. And most RC flyers prefer looking at the planes from outside. And I do both fly cockpit view and line of sight view. Both are very satisfying. I love getting two uses from the same plane!
Wow the tech on these R.C.s are getting so cool. They have come a long way from the model planes with the string controls that we had when I was a kid that only flew in circles and went up and down only. I remember flying them and getting so dizzy. For those who have never seen this type of plane this was in the 1970s 😂
Very impressive POV resolution and telemetry reception. It certainly would be very interesting for you to post a dedicated video of your POV setup. (edit) Never mind. I see you did one. Very nice 👍😎
I'm in total awe. This is by far one of the coolest RC sets of all time. I can only imagine what the military has, hahaha. Very good flying. I'm absolutely blow away.
It would be so cool to have First Person Passenger View. To see what it feels like looking around live as if you were in the plane but not flying it. FPPV.
I do give out head-tracking FPV rides for passengers as I fly line of sight, it’s an eye opening experience for them. And many non-FPV RC flyers converted to FPV flying after the rides.
This is amazing. Technology continues to blow my mind. I’m sure this kind of setup isn’t cheap.. but I imagine eventually it will be much more accessible and cheaper. I would love to have this one day.
Actually, funny thing, its thanks to mems technology and cell phones that sensors like accelerometers and radio technology has become so cost effective and readily available. Most of the time the hard part is writing the code to operate the system (though you can usually piece together most of it with git hub code). The sensors and radio link stuff is (for the most part) all plug and play with mostly standardized connectors. I remember when stepper motors and servos were like $20 a pop. Accelerometer ICs were massive, and expensive, if you could find a place that would sell them to a random civilian. This was also back when if you updated your GPS location faster than once every 10 seconds it was assumed you were designing an backyard ICBM.... But yeah man, thanks to the tech explosion of the oughts and teens, I can get a hand full of sensors and motors for what a cheap crappy motor cost me when I was a kid! Of course antennas still seem to be a bit on the pricey side for the fancier designs. But considering the R&D and precision that goes into high frequency high bandwidth antennas and LNAs I suppose it makes sense....
I'm a pilot and I was blown away by the reality of it. This is a new cost effective way to train fighter pilots that represents middle ground between pure simulation and actual flying. Its a way to safely develop skill but without eliminating all of the risk since the pilot is actually flying an aircraft and can actually crash the vehicle which costs money, but without the risk of physical injury to the pilot. Excellent demo; I am really impressed.
You get the point exactly! With real world consequence for crash and not just a reset button in a sim. Pilots would fly more realistically without taking reckless chances. It is more thrilling to fly and sense of accomplishment enhanced knowing one has flown a physical plane instead of just digital bits.
Hi Domingo, we are now producing the head-trackers ourselves. Should be ready to ship within the week. Check it out: fpvdogfight.com/products/tally-ho-head-tracker
I started flying rc planes in 1956 in Michigan. I was at the field when they started experimenting with a stick operated proportional control box Tx. Before that we only had buttons to push. A five channel control tx had 10 buttons that came out in the late 50's , early 60's. When I first learned to fly my 3 ch Buzzard with a 12 pound tx that sat on the ground with a 15' antenna, I wished I could come up with an idea to fly the plane using an onboard camera like this. It's finally been done. Absolutely incredible. The weird thing is my name is also Cliff. Down River Radio Control Club.
Glad to hear from an RC modeling pioneer Cliff! I started flying RC in 1990 in Texas. A few years later was fortunate to be exposed to full scale flying. The dream started then for me to imitate the full scale flying experience in RC planes. I just had to wait for video transmission tech to advance and miniaturize. The amazing thing is the execution of this concept is now simpler then everyone thinks. The goggles and camera system are from an aerial photography drone company. The head-tracking function actually uses the buddy-box function that has been common in RC for decades. Instead of assigning student transmitter flight controls, the master transmitter assigns gimbal channels control to the head-tracker, as simple as that. RC hobby equipment has gotten more affordable, capable, smaller as the years go by. It’s a great time to fly RC, both conventionally and in this new way. Cheers! - Robert
@@motionsic Thx for your reply, Robert. Another interesting thing that really caught my eye with this head tracking setup u have, is that I worked on the original concepts of military head tracking helmets with iris tracking back in the early 80's. This was science fiction back then and extremely expensive. I'm not going to say what flight vehicle it was, but it was cancelled and rebooted 3 times to try and get the cost down. Now it is finally up and running by advancements in tech we didn't have back then. So when I see how simple this rc setup is and how inexpensive it is, it is absolutely amazing.
@@ginginthing Wow, iris tracking is now finally implemented on F-35 pilot's $400k helmets after 40 years. And 360 camera on the nose allows the pilots to look around without a gimbal moving. Something for next generation RC pilots to look forward to.
Thanks man! That’s why I try to perfect landings whenever I fly a new plane before progressing to other maneuvers. ruclips.net/video/iw46md5Cco4/видео.html
Some additional picture in picture footage from the ground, synced up, would be awesome with this. This is a a first time for me seeing anything from your channel, I think. This is amazing. Love it!!
Don't get your expectations up this dude's set up is over $1000 ez. Have you flown fixed wings? These rc guys really make it look ez but they have many years experience and crashes. Flying fpv with a fixed camera is still fun you don't need head tracking (altho supper cool). Cheapest way to start is going to coast around $200 depending how you go. First do you want to fly fixed wing or a quad? Both are fun. I suggest the aeroscout from horizon. They make a big and small one depending on how much you want to spend. Then pick up a fpv head set from Amazon around 50~100 eachine makes decent ones for a good price. They make all in one fpv cameras but I find they burn up ez. For just a few more dollars they sell the camera and module. Just thinking about it his set up is probably closer to $2000.
I did something similar in my B-25 model, some 15 or more years ago, but without the head turning feature (not available then). Gave me a pilot's view while in light! Made it SO much easier to control in flight without having to remember to reverse my perception when it flew towards me.
I’ve made a few FPV planes in my time, but this is actually what we all wanted from the beginning: Great video feed and the ability to look around as of we were really there. That’s great!
Thanks for your video. It is amazing and absolutely stunning. As soon as I saw it, I got goosebumps because it seems like the Surrogates film, starring Bruce Willis: people to purchase remote-controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society. It’s interesting and seems to be the turning point of RC. Not only jet planes, but also high-wing planes such as RC Sessna will allow me to enjoy flying while looking at the scenery. :) wanna get this soon and install my plane.
Glad you are inspired to take action. Here’s the list if you are interested: DJI Digital FPV Goggles: www.getfpv.com/dji-fpv-goggles-v2.html DJI Digital FPV Air unit fpvdogfight.com/products/dji-digital-fpv-air-unit-by-caddxfpv Motionsic BAG - BadAss Gimbal fpvdogfight.com/products/motionsic-b-a-g-badass-gimbal Head-tracker fpvdogfight.com/products/tally-ho-head-tracker
looks super cool! and so awesome how you can control these flying machines, and play around with them, doing barrel rolls, pulling up at super high speeds, etc. it's so great especially considering how usually chaotic the world and especially physics seems, and particularly aerodynamics
@@cate01a Propeller effect, torq, slip stream, asymmetric thrust due to different sides of prop disc at different angles of attack, requiring rudder application during takeoff or climb to keep straight.
I’m only 20 sec in and already love it! Now make a helmet around it and a pilot in the seat/around and you’re killing it! Never understood the fun of rc flying , with this it does!
I know y'all heard it a lot but it's literally my childhood dream come true, just that I was imagining with a F22 Raptor back then, since it's impossible for me to get a real one lol. but this fantasy seems kinda hard to achieve too when I got older and came to my senses. So can y'all possibly imagine my excitement of seeing THIS work of god.
Learn to fly RC planes and then work your way up to fly the Raptor like this: www.motionrc.com/products/freewing-f-22-raptor-ultra-performance-8s-90mm-edf-jet-pnp-fj31321p Then install the head-tracking FPV system. It will take some time and money, but definitely achievable. Or do DCS on PC. Either one is good.
This is EXACTLY what we need in the DJi FPV Drone 2. Camera and Googles head tracking and also i think the Googles need to be their own thing that you can adapt to ANY DJi drone.
A great time to get back in. Flying electric EDF jets alone is worth taking the plunge. And flying head-tracking FPV adds another exciting perspective/dimension to fly the plane. Making each one dual use...
It is nice to have the entire field to yourself! EDIT: Also, FPV/VR has a learning curve for our bodies. Vertigo or nausea is not uncommon. It gets better with time, but slowly. Dramamine helps. Short sessions at first helps. Do not try to "push through" the feelings of nausea. It will get worse. The first onset of feeling nausea, stop and take a break. Then go back. Don't try to ignore it, just take a break. It will help in the long run.
When I started using VR goggles, I fiddled around in "safe", low speed environments for a week, before flying in VR. By that time, either I was fully adjusted, or I'm just more resilient. I then offered the chance of a VR flight to two people who were uninitiated, and they both felt nauseous. (I'm not talking about FPV/VR, but computer simulator VR). So either people respond differently, or our brains need the adjustment. It definitely helps to have a high framerate on the goggles themselves. Having seen this video, I'm pretty sure I want to progress from VR sim flying through the actual pilot license I'm working on now to VR FPV!
@@tomash9116 glad you are inspired to become a real pilot! And this is certainly a great tool to gain flying experience fast and inexpensively. By the way, VR denotes virtual reality. I think this should be more closely identified as augmented reality, meaning real world with added information.
@@motionsic It's just First Person View, it's not really VR or AR. If it were AR it would have a 3D model of a cat or a vase or something that interacted with your environment on screen. But Tomas H, it does depend on the individual. I would think age has something to do with it. Younger people adapt, older adults who have never experienced visual motion stimuli without the corresponding inner ear signals, it can be rough! Our brains expect a certain input and when they don't get it, they throw out error messages. "Just make him feel sick or something" sounds about like my brain's error message. The first time I ever played Quest 2, with no other VR at any point prior, I kept playing and got thoroughly nauseated so much I threw up on two separate occasions until I realized it was the game. That advice of "don't try to ignore the nausea and push through it, take a break at the first sign" was a hard earned lesson for me, for free :) EDIT: Another thing you can do is when you feel that first little twinge of nausea, is to close your eyes. It's the visual input that's not matching up with inner ear signals, if you cut the visual feed for a second your brain can readjust and most of the times you will be fine. But if you keep pushing, taking a little closed eyes break won't work you'll get sicker the second you open them again if you go too far.
This is a great Idea, I thought of trying this idea a long time ago. But seeing someone actually doing it makes me proud that this is possible now. Been waiting for someone or myself to try something like this and this is revolutionary for the RC Community. ~ if this actually helps you in the future... Continue making this and then make it a Sport, You'll make a lot of money and using this idea will hopefully bring you good fortune. God bless.
It’s so incredible to me that we live in a time where you can essentially do what feels like shape shifting into a little small controllable plane using the power of virtual reality headsets
Cockpit POV is awesome. More rc pilots should use a cockpit camera even if it's a static camera and then edit footage between the ground and air. Thanks for the ride mr.
Very cool! Been following a local guy in my area that posts FPV from a few of his drones. I didn't realize RC planes can do what his drones show. 1st time seeing this on a RC jet very cool thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! This opens up options to fly with other planes in formation and dogfights which are not safe to do flying from ground LOS perspective due to collision risk.
Is this the next level of RC flying ? It def seems like ! Formation flying should be a breeze ... Id love to see you try a carrier type landing ... If possible 😬 Safe flying !
I think it is! We can practice techniques used for full scale flying. And formation flying like you said is easier than conventional LOS flying. I will leave the carrier landing to others😉. I prefer Air Force style landings - greasy😁
I quit doing R/C aircraft because I would always loose track of the orientation of my aircraft when trying to fly it. Lucky for me, while trying to learn I would fly with an experienced R/C pilot next to me that could take over if I got disoriented. With a first person view, it seems to me, it would be quite a bit easier for newer RC pilots to keep track of their aircraft's orientation relative to the ground (as long as the telemetry is working).
You are right about easier to keep orientation. No confusing the roll input when coming vs going. Flying from cockpit perspective is straight forward, pun intended🙂
This looks incredible. As someone getting into VR for flight sims and hopefully some RC flying soon, I'd love to try to get something like this working some day (gotta start off small and simple on the RC side until I'm more comfortable though lol). Great video!
Caras isto ficou perfeito voce tem exatamente a visão de um piloto de caça além de a qualidade da imagem ser excelente melhor que a de muitos drones caros existente no mercado parabéns.
I gave up piloting light aircraft when i got married and had children due to it being high risk. This could give me the feeling if being back in the air! Amazing.
Haha, thanks for the undeserved praise - I am flattered. Yes! finally Coronel Donat, glad you are finally converting to HD. Given you do the real thing, I was wondering what took you so long😉
Retired F-16 pilot here and I gotta tell you…WOW!! VERY VERY COOL!! Sitting here with a huge smile on my face as I watch this. 👍🏼😊
Edit: I’m also seeing the advantage of having something like this for JTACs on the battlefield. They could provide their own mini-CAS.
Glad to win the approval of a Viper driver😁! I honestly believe this is a very cost effective training platform for anyone that want to get realistic training in basic combat maneuvers and formation flying. Not for system simulation like DCS can provide, but intuitive stick and rudder competency. A fun pastime that trains essential skills. I have fitted reflector sight in the cockpit before, and with munitions could as you said provide mini-CAS. Maybe even something fun for cadets to do: ruclips.net/video/G5nRet-r62s/видео.html
Ps. It’s also possible to have onscreen display of critical air data and attitude ladder like on F-16 HUD.
Me too.. I am not a Pilot, but this is what i'm looking for. 👍🇵🇭
Imagine flying like this with 5G or starlink. Endless range.
@@jimj2683 True. 5G coverage usually coincides with high population density. So this would mean flying over people. Extra precaution and legal consideration must be taken for such endeavors or would put this hobby at risk for public scrutiny. At location like this, there’s practically no cell phone coverage.
@@motionsic Or a hot air balloon base station with a directed antenna that points directly at the aircraft.
This was my childhood dream and imagination, also applies to airliners, sail ship cannon battles, artificial star wars environment and off roading R/Cs, glad to witness someone finally made at least one of 'em into reality!
Me, too. It’s a dream shared by many. Hundreds will be following soon! As I make it a mission to to provide conversion kits so other RC hobbyists can easily do the same! fpvdogfight.com
Litterally all of those are vr games and what hes doing i do in vr in DCS. f16s f18s mirages mig 21s helicopters, XPLANE 11 VR, VRC SIMULATOR AND STAR WARS HAS AN INSANE VR GAME.
I had the same dream and imagination.
Where can I buy the same plane?
Its everyone's 80s- 90s dream as a kid
This dropped a little tear on my eye. I think when we had remote control model plane technology, this has always been the goal. Look how far it has come and what it has allowed us to achieve!
Hear, hear! “Somebody thought of that, someone believed it. Look what it’s done so far…”. ruclips.net/video/jS5fTzMP_mg/видео.html
I started on "control line" planes as a kid. That's where you stand and spin in place as your model plane with a gas engine and no throttle control flies in circles around you. All you do is control the elevator via two strings and hope the plane runs out of gas before you do. We could have never imagined something like FPV could ever exist! So cool.
I remember RC planes on a string ~1975
Yep. 2 gimbal 5 channel transmitter...not to mention hand/eye coordination just went out the window. This is the future of R/C.
@@JoinUsInVR God I remember those! I haven't heard that phrase in a long time!
The video clarity is phenomenal! No lag or buffering, no noise. I'm never going to get out of debt with all this kewl stuff coming out!
Indeed! Flying digital FPV is life changing and addictive😉!
Invent a laser gun. Then you’ll have the money.
Amazing. Now imagine layering a virtual HUD to fight other vehicles with virtual weapons and other overlays. The future is bright!
Augmented Reality dogfight! I dig it!
Nice Idea... may be in some years it will become Agumented Reality Game
one could do this with a game engine like unreal or unity - if you had access to the telemetry data
@@WOLFPACKED surely
@@WOLFPACKED I agree. There is no technical reason this could not be done with todays hardware and software. Someone's just gotta do it =)
As a flight simulator user this has been my dream for years... A universe opens: using a joystick, throttle and pedals (seat is optional, seat with gimball is a plus). Hud with scaled values (altitude, speed, g's and feedback)... the list is unlimited!
A functioning HUD would be wild. But OSD (on screen display) can be just as useful.
As a both an rc pilot and real life pilot, this js just dope. The view from the headtracker is almost very realistic. Especially the takeoff and landing, the pov reminded me of flying a little cessna back then. Sweet setup you got there
Thanks! I am a low time GA pilot, too. The rental rates in CA are getting outrageous. This is my way of getting some realistic stick and rudder training without breaking the bank😉
Same here...BadASS !! 😎
Where can I buy the same plane?
“Almost very.”
@Vick's Just All the information is in the description under the video!
Hi: this is very good. And thank you god for no ruining it with music. The native sound is preferred over things that ruin it. Hi: I like yoru vid
Thanks! Glad you like it!
Even the crows agreed at 05:36 that was a great approach.
@@edh2246 Haha. Good one! They are a talkative bunch, smart too!
Aviation person are ya, awesome💯
Yeah 100% agree. Raw audio is the best in those type of videos!
It's been nearly 15 years, when I first saw someone puttig a - back then shitty - cam coupled with an "headtracker" on an RC Easyjet creating one of the first videos about immersion-flight. It's great to see, how far we've come. This experience made me become an RC pilot. :-) Thank you for your incredibly beautiful video, which inspired me again.
A great time to get back in! Choice abound in Digital FPV systems as well as great advances in performance in EDF jets!
Imagine training new pilots with a little large versions of these.
This is so awesome.
My thoughts exactly! I fly this way instead of renting full size planes. It's much more affordable.
Where can I buy the same plane?
@@premkamandir the plane isn't really the point, but it's listed in the video description. The head-tracking POV system is somewhat DIY, and separate from the plane. What he used is also in the video description.
@@robwoodring9437 thks 😊👍
Not really since the aerodynamics don't scale very well.
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen! I hope this becomes widespread in the rc community. The amount of opportunities is unlimited with this technology!
Thanks! I hope so, too!
@@motionsic yeah it would be pretty cool for little car racing on hot wheels tracks ...
But the military application of this could be scary
@@allmight8127 The military is likely two decades ahead of this technology…
@@allmight8127 You think the military who invest billions doesn’t already have something 50 time more advanced than a 90$ head tracker ?
@@allmight8127military has had this since I was in. I retired 2012.
You pilot this model perfectly, the landing is simply wonderful! Thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
Best thing I ever seen on an RC. Closest thing to actually flying in the plane your self. Loved this big time. Thank you for sharing.
This is the way it should have always been for this hobby. Im glad technology has finally caught up.
FPV instead of standing for “first person view” should have been “fighter pilot view” to get faster/wider acceptance among RC hobbyists.
This is so cool. Imagine you and your friends form an aerobatic team with them. Air show at your own backyard.
You got it: ruclips.net/video/K86T7vknueQ/видео.html
I guess I wanna be ur sleazy manager then. I imagine small teams of aerobatic rc planes & pilots putting on airshows for corporate events, graduations, birthday parties, weddings, etc... And getting paid!
This is SICK. I love the possibilities this presents and I can't wait what we will come up in a few years. Also, crashing in this must be terrifying lol
Crashing should always be terrifying.
@@Sir_Gugharde_Wuglis it is unless you are trying to cash, and even then its still
You actually think: "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Okay, so I watch a lot of these videos and vicariously live my dream piloting missions through them. But this, this is above and beyond and I will watch it more than once. Holy cow everything about this video is perfect! Kudos man let's see another....
Try this one with a little mock strafing and dogfight with reflector sight: ruclips.net/video/ErcxIl8HE_Q/видео.html
I've always loved RC fliers but never got into it because if I wanted to fly I wanted to see from this POV. Maybe soon I'll be able to buy one like this. Amazing.
In RC circles this type of flying is called FPV- first person view flying. I prefer to call it “Fighter Pilot View”😁
@@motionsic may I ask how much such a setup costs? I have had a long simmering interest in this sort of thing….
@@davidbennett1357 the head-tracker FPV system is around $1000. Plane cost vary widely depending on model. This one is $650. RC system, charger and batteries would cost another $1000, but can be used for different planes.
@@motionsic thank you for the info…..I would LOVE to own a 1/4 scale F20 tigershark with that sort of setup. I did just watch a video a serbian fellar who was showing off a $75,000 RC jet…..it was quite impressive.
@@davidbennett1357 for those kind of models, they would use a different class of systems then I quoted obviously. And yes the Turbine models are very impressive indeed! Good taste in the F-20 by the way!
As a kid I controlled my plane with a pair wires. Around and around, and that was it. And now I see the new technology available. All I can say is my mind is blown officially 🤯.
It is amazing how far RC tech has advanced. Nowadays, people routinely fly using flight controllers that posses computing power that would have cost millions back when first fly-by-wire fighter came on line in 1980’s.
I feel like fpv content is so rare. I’ve seen people with very expensive RC planes and always wondered why they wouldn’t put fpv in them unless they are just completely unaware of it.
FPV is a different way of flying RC planes. It’s a equalizer, so to speak. It does not matter how big or expensive the RC plane is, once flying from the cockpit, the view is largely the same. And most RC flyers prefer looking at the planes from outside. And I do both fly cockpit view and line of sight view. Both are very satisfying. I love getting two uses from the same plane!
This flying session with the sunset in the background was really beautiful.
Wow the tech on these R.C.s are getting so cool. They have come a long way from the model planes with the string controls that we had when I was a kid that only flew in circles and went up and down only. I remember flying them and getting so dizzy. For those who have never seen this type of plane this was in the 1970s 😂
Very impressive POV resolution and telemetry reception. It certainly would be very interesting for you to post a dedicated video of your POV setup. (edit) Never mind. I see you did one. Very nice 👍😎
I'm retired now flying a civil airline, but I've been flying an F-16 for 15 years. Watching this video reminds me of the past. thanks!
Perhaps you can still fly a RC F-16 from the cockpit as a hobby using head-tracking FPV like we do.
ruclips.net/video/ijQPZSZrWfQ/видео.html
I'm in total awe. This is by far one of the coolest RC sets of all time.
I can only imagine what the military has, hahaha. Very good flying. I'm absolutely blow away.
Thanks for the encouragement! Yeah, the military must be decades ahead…
It would be so cool to have First Person Passenger View. To see what it feels like looking around live as if you were in the plane but not flying it. FPPV.
I do give out head-tracking FPV rides for passengers as I fly line of sight, it’s an eye opening experience for them. And many non-FPV RC flyers converted to FPV flying after the rides.
How fascinating! I wish these were available back in the 80/90's!
Never too late, live in the present, no regrets!
This is amazing. Technology continues to blow my mind. I’m sure this kind of setup isn’t cheap.. but I imagine eventually it will be much more accessible and cheaper. I would love to have this one day.
Actually, funny thing, its thanks to mems technology and cell phones that sensors like accelerometers and radio technology has become so cost effective and readily available. Most of the time the hard part is writing the code to operate the system (though you can usually piece together most of it with git hub code). The sensors and radio link stuff is (for the most part) all plug and play with mostly standardized connectors.
I remember when stepper motors and servos were like $20 a pop. Accelerometer ICs were massive, and expensive, if you could find a place that would sell them to a random civilian. This was also back when if you updated your GPS location faster than once every 10 seconds it was assumed you were designing an backyard ICBM....
But yeah man, thanks to the tech explosion of the oughts and teens, I can get a hand full of sensors and motors for what a cheap crappy motor cost me when I was a kid! Of course antennas still seem to be a bit on the pricey side for the fancier designs. But considering the R&D and precision that goes into high frequency high bandwidth antennas and LNAs I suppose it makes sense....
That is so awesome! It's amazing how far stuff has come.
Thanks, cheers!
I'm a pilot and I was blown away by the reality of it. This is a new cost effective way to train fighter pilots that represents middle ground between pure simulation and actual flying. Its a way to safely develop skill but without eliminating all of the risk since the pilot is actually flying an aircraft and can actually crash the vehicle which costs money, but without the risk of physical injury to the pilot. Excellent demo; I am really impressed.
You get the point exactly! With real world consequence for crash and not just a reset button in a sim. Pilots would fly more realistically without taking reckless chances. It is more thrilling to fly and sense of accomplishment enhanced knowing one has flown a physical plane instead of just digital bits.
Awesome, the head tracker, the videos, can't wait to get my hands on one of them.
Hi Domingo, we are now producing the head-trackers ourselves. Should be ready to ship within the week. Check it out: fpvdogfight.com/products/tally-ho-head-tracker
@@motionsic Nice! Count me in!
I started flying rc planes in 1956 in Michigan. I was at the field when they started experimenting with a stick operated proportional control box Tx. Before that we only had buttons to push. A five channel control tx had 10 buttons that came out in the late 50's , early 60's. When I first learned to fly my 3 ch Buzzard with a 12 pound tx that sat on the ground with a 15' antenna, I wished I could come up with an idea to fly the plane using an onboard camera like this. It's finally been done. Absolutely incredible. The weird thing is my name is also Cliff. Down River Radio Control Club.
Correction. Indian City Radio Control Club.
Glad to hear from an RC modeling pioneer Cliff! I started flying RC in 1990 in Texas. A few years later was fortunate to be exposed to full scale flying. The dream started then for me to imitate the full scale flying experience in RC planes. I just had to wait for video transmission tech to advance and miniaturize. The amazing thing is the execution of this concept is now simpler then everyone thinks. The goggles and camera system are from an aerial photography drone company. The head-tracking function actually uses the buddy-box function that has been common in RC for decades. Instead of assigning student transmitter flight controls, the master transmitter assigns gimbal channels control to the head-tracker, as simple as that.
RC hobby equipment has gotten more affordable, capable, smaller as the years go by. It’s a great time to fly RC, both conventionally and in this new way. Cheers!
- Robert
@@motionsic Thx for your reply, Robert. Another interesting thing that really caught my eye with this head tracking setup u have, is that I worked on the original concepts of military head tracking helmets with iris tracking back in the early 80's. This was science fiction back then and extremely expensive. I'm not going to say what flight vehicle it was, but it was cancelled and rebooted 3 times to try and get the cost down. Now it is finally up and running by advancements in tech we didn't have back then. So when I see how simple this rc setup is and how inexpensive it is, it is absolutely amazing.
@@ginginthing Wow, iris tracking is now finally implemented on F-35 pilot's $400k helmets after 40 years. And 360 camera on the nose allows the pilots to look around without a gimbal moving. Something for next generation RC pilots to look forward to.
That is soooooooo cool! Takes talent to even fly and land those things too! Man I love it
Thanks man! That’s why I try to perfect landings whenever I fly a new plane before progressing to other maneuvers.
ruclips.net/video/iw46md5Cco4/видео.html
Some additional picture in picture footage from the ground, synced up, would be awesome with this. This is a a first time for me seeing anything from your channel, I think. This is amazing. Love it!!
Thanks Craig! Check out this video of me flying a Spitfire from cockpit with ground view synced. Enjoy:
ruclips.net/video/t8K-vPgW2HE/видео.html
This is by far the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life
That was the best on board rc footage ever that seemed so realistic well done pioneer credit to you 👍👊💯
This is going to change the FPV game for sure. I've never really wanted to do FPV until now. Cool!
Glad you are inspired to give it a try. It is as close to flying full scale as can be, at least visually.
Don't get your expectations up this dude's set up is over $1000 ez. Have you flown fixed wings? These rc guys really make it look ez but they have many years experience and crashes.
Flying fpv with a fixed camera is still fun you don't need head tracking (altho supper cool).
Cheapest way to start is going to coast around $200 depending how you go.
First do you want to fly fixed wing or a quad? Both are fun.
I suggest the aeroscout from horizon. They make a big and small one depending on how much you want to spend.
Then pick up a fpv head set from Amazon around 50~100 eachine makes decent ones for a good price.
They make all in one fpv cameras but I find they burn up ez. For just a few more dollars they sell the camera and module.
Just thinking about it his set up is probably closer to $2000.
I'm glad to live in a world when This exact thing exists !!! wonderful.
These guys make the best pan and tilt mechanism on the market in fact I just bought my second one
Thank you Bob for your continued support and endorsement! Much appreciated!
I can't even begin to describe how much I love this. Awesome vid...awesome landing too.
The potential of this thing is endless! So many applications, so many models....
Yep! Dual use for every RC model beyond a minimum size. Possibilities are endless!
This would be the only way I would want to operate any RC!!! Incredible footage!
The cool thing is, each plane can be flown both ways, this and conventionally. No compromise😎
Its the dynamite hidden in the headset that adds to the realism and thrill of landing 😂
i could watch hours of this to fall asleep to this is relaxing af
Haha, who knew FPV flying can trigger ASMR, nice!
I did something similar in my B-25 model, some 15 or more years ago, but without the head turning feature (not available then). Gave me a pilot's view while in light! Made it SO much easier to control in flight without having to remember to reverse my perception when it flew towards me.
Indeed. Now imagine adding high definition visuals and the freedom to look around intuitively as you would driving your car…
I’ve made a few FPV planes in my time, but this is actually what we all wanted from the beginning: Great video feed and the ability to look around as of we were really there. That’s great!
Thanks! It is intuitive to use. Feels quite natural to “be”in the the cockpit.
Boy this is so amazing, i would get these things for sure when i am out of college and earning myself
Thanks for your video. It is amazing and absolutely stunning. As soon as I saw it, I got goosebumps because it seems like the Surrogates film, starring Bruce Willis: people to purchase remote-controlled humanoid robots through which they interact with society. It’s interesting and seems to be the turning point of RC. Not only jet planes, but also high-wing planes such as RC Sessna will allow me to enjoy flying while looking at the scenery. :) wanna get this soon and install my plane.
Glad you are inspired to take action. Here’s the list if you are interested:
DJI Digital FPV Goggles:
www.getfpv.com/dji-fpv-goggles-v2.html
DJI Digital FPV Air unit
fpvdogfight.com/products/dji-digital-fpv-air-unit-by-caddxfpv
Motionsic BAG - BadAss Gimbal
fpvdogfight.com/products/motionsic-b-a-g-badass-gimbal
Head-tracker
fpvdogfight.com/products/tally-ho-head-tracker
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time
My first plane was a control line gas powered job from Toys R us...yeah...dated myself there. And now we have this !! Amazing.
Yep. Great time to be in the hobby. And until recently, things got cheaper over the years, too.
looks super cool! and so awesome how you can control these flying machines, and play around with them, doing barrel rolls, pulling up at super high speeds, etc. it's so great especially considering how usually chaotic the world and especially physics seems, and particularly aerodynamics
Jets are easy to fly. Prop planes are not as easy.
@@motionsic because they're lighter thus get pushed around in the air easier? and/or modern air correction controls? anything else?
@@cate01a Propeller effect, torq, slip stream, asymmetric thrust due to different sides of prop disc at different angles of attack, requiring rudder application during takeoff or climb to keep straight.
I’m only 20 sec in and already love it! Now make a helmet around it and a pilot in the seat/around and you’re killing it!
Never understood the fun of rc flying , with this it does!
the view and the maneuvers giving me butterfly
This was awesome. Video is so crisp and smooth. Nice work. Flying this jet FPV from cockpit view is the way to go. 👍
So freaking cool man !!! Never thought I'd see the day when this was possible
Thanks man! Great time to be alive. Lots of fun!
I like the eagle eye view, and sunset. BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks, glad you like it!
I know y'all heard it a lot but it's literally my childhood dream come true, just that I was imagining with a F22 Raptor back then, since it's impossible for me to get a real one lol. but this fantasy seems kinda hard to achieve too when I got older and came to my senses. So can y'all possibly imagine my excitement of seeing THIS work of god.
Learn to fly RC planes and then work your way up to fly the Raptor like this: www.motionrc.com/products/freewing-f-22-raptor-ultra-performance-8s-90mm-edf-jet-pnp-fj31321p
Then install the head-tracking FPV system. It will take some time and money, but definitely achievable. Or do DCS on PC. Either one is good.
I had this idea circulating in my head a while back.
First I see people did it with a drone (which was really cool), and now this! Even cooler :)
That there is what remote control planes needed to get to. Fantastic.
This is EXACTLY what we need in the DJi FPV Drone 2.
Camera and Googles head tracking and also i think the Googles need to be their own thing that you can adapt to ANY DJi drone.
didn't have anything like this when I flew rc 25years ago!
almost makes me want to get back into it!
A great time to get back in. Flying electric EDF jets alone is worth taking the plunge. And flying head-tracking FPV adds another exciting perspective/dimension to fly the plane. Making each one dual use...
Wow the cameras connection very stable, clear image and awesome view😊
Thanks to the digital FPV from DJI. It's life changing compared to analog video.
It is nice to have the entire field to yourself! EDIT: Also, FPV/VR has a learning curve for our bodies. Vertigo or nausea is not uncommon. It gets better with time, but slowly. Dramamine helps. Short sessions at first helps. Do not try to "push through" the feelings of nausea. It will get worse. The first onset of feeling nausea, stop and take a break. Then go back. Don't try to ignore it, just take a break. It will help in the long run.
So true and great advice! Sounds like a professional opinion. Thank you!
When I started using VR goggles, I fiddled around in "safe", low speed environments for a week, before flying in VR. By that time, either I was fully adjusted, or I'm just more resilient. I then offered the chance of a VR flight to two people who were uninitiated, and they both felt nauseous. (I'm not talking about FPV/VR, but computer simulator VR). So either people respond differently, or our brains need the adjustment. It definitely helps to have a high framerate on the goggles themselves.
Having seen this video, I'm pretty sure I want to progress from VR sim flying through the actual pilot license I'm working on now to VR FPV!
@@tomash9116 glad you are inspired to become a real pilot! And this is certainly a great tool to gain flying experience fast and inexpensively. By the way, VR denotes virtual reality. I think this should be more closely identified as augmented reality, meaning real world with added information.
@@motionsic It's just First Person View, it's not really VR or AR. If it were AR it would have a 3D model of a cat or a vase or something that interacted with your environment on screen. But Tomas H, it does depend on the individual. I would think age has something to do with it. Younger people adapt, older adults who have never experienced visual motion stimuli without the corresponding inner ear signals, it can be rough! Our brains expect a certain input and when they don't get it, they throw out error messages. "Just make him feel sick or something" sounds about like my brain's error message. The first time I ever played Quest 2, with no other VR at any point prior, I kept playing and got thoroughly nauseated so much I threw up on two separate occasions until I realized it was the game. That advice of "don't try to ignore the nausea and push through it, take a break at the first sign" was a hard earned lesson for me, for free :) EDIT: Another thing you can do is when you feel that first little twinge of nausea, is to close your eyes. It's the visual input that's not matching up with inner ear signals, if you cut the visual feed for a second your brain can readjust and most of the times you will be fine. But if you keep pushing, taking a little closed eyes break won't work you'll get sicker the second you open them again if you go too far.
@@adcraziness1501 great advice! About AR, no doubt 3D model qualifies. But doesn’t OSD info like altitude, speed, heading, etc also count as well?
This is just awesome, if you have the head set on it feels like your flying a real plane
Indeed! That’s the idea🙂
holy moly that's cool. The movement of the cameramount is very smooth
Thanks. Indeed it is smooth since we use special high resolution servos with wide range of motion.
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This is a great Idea, I thought of trying this idea a long time ago. But seeing someone actually doing it makes me proud that this is possible now. Been waiting for someone or myself to try something like this and this is revolutionary for the RC Community. ~ if this actually helps you in the future... Continue making this and then make it a Sport, You'll make a lot of money and using this idea will hopefully bring you good fortune. God bless.
Wow great flying and the fpv was amazing especially the way you have it rigged up to respond to head movements. Truly amazing
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
3,000,000 views congrats buddy!!!!
Thanks man! Says something about how everyone wants FPV to feel like, naturally with head-tracking. That’s what FPV was meant to be.
Now this will finally make the RC pilots fly much further and do much more
Amazing!!! I loved watching this!!! You stuck that landing. This reminds me of flying RF with a camera position being at the front of the aircraft.
I like the narrative with background sounds only.......and no music copyright for you to worry about!
Thanks Kevin! I will try more informative narrative going forward.
Incredible technology.
Now you need a super detailed cockpit for the Win!
Working on it!😁
i absolutly loved this. great flying man and the camera was so amazing.
It’s so incredible to me that we live in a time where you can essentially do what feels like shape shifting into a little small controllable plane using the power of virtual reality headsets
Indeed! Almost fly like in the movies Top Gun or Avatar!
Wicked cool! First time I've seen an FPV setup like this
Thanks! 👍
Cockpit POV is awesome. More rc pilots should use a cockpit camera even if it's a static camera and then edit footage between the ground and air. Thanks for the ride mr.
Hear, hear! Honestly, though, if they already spend the big bucks on a good FPV system, adding the head-tracking part is easy now since we make it so.
this is remarkable
Thanks, cheers!
Very cool! Been following a local guy in my area that posts FPV from a few of his drones. I didn't realize RC planes can do what his drones show. 1st time seeing this on a RC jet very cool thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! This opens up options to fly with other planes in formation and dogfights which are not safe to do flying from ground LOS perspective due to collision risk.
That is so cool. I so wish I could afford one of these! Awesome video, my friend.
Technology has unlocked our dreams.❤
Indeed!
I have been thinking of how cool this idea would be for months. This is an absolutely phenomenal video!
Glad you like it. I also make the kits that make head-tracking easy to implement. Check it out at fpvdogfight.com/
Is this the next level of RC flying ?
It def seems like !
Formation flying should be a breeze ...
Id love to see you try a carrier type landing ... If possible 😬
Safe flying !
I think it is! We can practice techniques used for full scale flying. And formation flying like you said is easier than conventional LOS flying. I will leave the carrier landing to others😉. I prefer Air Force style landings - greasy😁
no, next level of attack drone
I quit doing R/C aircraft because I would always loose track of the orientation of my aircraft when trying to fly it. Lucky for me, while trying to learn I would fly with an experienced R/C pilot next to me that could take over if I got disoriented. With a first person view, it seems to me, it would be quite a bit easier for newer RC pilots to keep track of their aircraft's orientation relative to the ground (as long as the telemetry is working).
You are right about easier to keep orientation. No confusing the roll input when coming vs going. Flying from cockpit perspective is straight forward, pun intended🙂
wow so thats how the world of any jet pilots like, thank you for sharing this, truly the world of fpv is a sight to behold. amazing!
This looks incredible. As someone getting into VR for flight sims and hopefully some RC flying soon, I'd love to try to get something like this working some day (gotta start off small and simple on the RC side until I'm more comfortable though lol). Great video!
Good approach to start slow and safe!
It's beautiful, amazing set up and smooth skills.
Thank you Calvin!
Retired dream pilot 🧑✈️ here very happy to see this.
Do you mean Dreamliner pilot? Not sure what you mean by dream pilot. Glad to earn your approval🙂
Sick plane and setup. I’m blown away! Love the airfield you are at too.
Thanks! Always good to earn approval of full scale pilot. Cheers!
Fine display of flying skills.
Thank you! Cheers🙂
Caras isto ficou perfeito voce tem exatamente a visão de um piloto de caça além de a qualidade da imagem ser excelente melhor que a de muitos drones caros existente no mercado parabéns.
Glad you see my vision! It’s a relatively inexpensive way for people to realize their fighter pilot dream.
Wow that is just pure amazing
Thanks, cheers!
RUclips needs to have a heart button.
Thumbs up isn’t enough.
Thanks for sharing this experience!
Thanks man! Agree😁
Need to attach a laser system to the front with a mjni HUD? and have dogfights.
I hear you. Like this? ruclips.net/video/ErcxIl8HE_Q/видео.html
A slightly larger one would be cool for airsoft.
I think so, too!
I gave up piloting light aircraft when i got married and had children due to it being high risk. This could give me the feeling if being back in the air! Amazing.
And much more affordable, too. You will get 90% of the joy of piloting light aircraft this way, just no g forces. You should really give it a try🙂
The best FPV pilot I saw ever! Thanks for your videos. (I'm going to change my analog video system to HD, once for all 😉)
Haha, thanks for the undeserved praise - I am flattered. Yes! finally Coronel Donat, glad you are finally converting to HD. Given you do the real thing, I was wondering what took you so long😉
YES
@@motionsic deseved and inspiring man, that’s really close as he said
Do you see that clear and stable on the google? Full hd on hud?
su 57 with this option is already in the series, as well as in the unmanned version.
The coolest thing I've seen all year! I know what my next project is
Glad you are taking action!
That is beyond awesome 😎 I had no idea this could be done. Thank you for posting!!
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!