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This is my Bike Packing setup for some days out camping when the better weather comes, this was just to see what gear I could load up without it being overloaded .
With the tent and two side bags I can comfortably carry around 10kg, 2kg of water and another 2 kg with the front bar bags .
Still probably too much weight on the back ?
Two close calls and a crash.
Reception of the analog 5.8GHz FPV feed has been my main limitation. Vegetation and humidity seem to affect it greatly. I've tried to learn the areas where reception is good enough to fly and remain within those bounds but it's not always consistent and orientation of the drone plays a role as well. On two occasions this past month I lost reception completely.
In the first case I dived hoping that at a lower altitude reception would return. When a noisy image from the drone tumbling came back I switched to "angle" mode and recovered.
In the second the sun had yet to rise, the sky was clear and reception seemed excellent. I wandered a bit too far to a bad transmission area and lost the signal, dived and again switched to "angle" mode. I seemed to have recovered and thought I had put the drone back into "acro" but it was in "horizon" mode. I drifted to an area above trees and slightly behind myself again losing completely signal. I descended in "angle" mode and just as I was entering the trees I regained reception and pulled up. I was lucky to recover.
Unfortunately the last flight did not end that well. This time it was not the VTX reception. I was descending, no more than 40 feet up and maybe 40 feet almost directly infront of myself with virtually no obstructions when the 2.4GHz FrSky XM+ receiver on the drone lost reception and triggered an unexplainable "failsafe". Motors stopped and the drone dropped onto the asfalt infront of me. The camera lense popped off. There were multiple cracks in the frame and the LiPo was damaged. I was able to find and reattach the lense. The camera, VTX, receiver, flight controller and motors all seem to work. Parts to rebuild are on the way.
Looking to the southeast at sunrise through the eye of the Caddx Vista's DJI camera.
Visible atop the Palisades to the left of the Sun is the Armstrong Tower. To the right first the two suspension towers of the George Washington Bridge followed by the new Fort Lee luxury apartments and the unrecognizable skyline of Manhattan.
A cropped image from the frame of a video from a higher definition camera could have done this view the justice it deserved.
another bit of post sunrise drone footage in a more cloudy and hazy sky captured by the Caddx Turtle FPV camera with on-board HD DVR
Here is another sunrise captured by the CADDX Turtle on an FPV cinewhoop. I have been removing audio and trimming videos using FFMPEG. In this clip I tried to remove some of the "fisheye" using the FFMPEG's lens correction video filter using the following: -vf "lenscorrection=k2=0.006:k1=-0.18". I still need to find the best values for these parameters.
A collection of sunrises from the end of July to mid August captured by the Caddx Turtle on an FPV whoop.
Now with the new DJI system the general public will become far more familiar with FPV. I can only imagine the far more spetacular dynamic footage to come. Even if I could afford it the DJI system is far too heavy and power hungry to be toted on the kind of small drone (less than 100 grams) I feel comfortable flying in the neighborhood.
Testing out the DJI FPV system. Unfortunately had to wait months for parts from China to complete the build and my morning "flying window" is now closing.
This footage at sunrise, being transmitted by the Caddx Vista, is captured on the ground by the DVR of the goggles .
a little flight footage at sunrise illustrating the video captured by the Caddx Turtle FPV camera with HD DVR on board
A moon later and the whoop porting the Caddx Turtle FPV camera is flying again. Here is a screen capture from a lens corrected video looking out to the West over the low lying fog in the cemetery.
While putting together a new frame I also installed a RHCP antenna that I matched with RHCP pagoda and RHCP patch on the EV100 goggles. Reception seemed less noisy but more testing is needed to see if it was worth it.
Rebuilding the frame and mounting the components was straightforward but the VTX seemed to fail at any vibration eventually not broadcasting at all. Before shelling out more money and waiting for a replacement for an already "outdated" system with limited applications I tried the "toaster oven method" to re-flow the solder and it worked, at least for now.