r/fpv Dec 06 '25

Zero Tolerance for Military/War Content

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This community exists for FPV as a hobby, sport and technology, not for war or conflict.

We have a zero tolerance policy:

  • No posts or comments about war
  • No weaponized drones
  • No advice, questions or builds related to military or conflict use

This includes:

  • Asking how to build war drones
  • Discussing battlefield footage
  • Military strategies or conflicts
  • Weapon attachments or modifications
  • Hardcore simulators or games that include weapons, killing, combat, or violent gameplay and offer "real life targets" (this excludes games like Firehawk)

Any user posting or commenting about war or military use will be permanently banned. No warnings.

We do not mind general politics in natural discussion, but this subreddit must stay clean.

If you see a post or comment that was not properly filtered by automod, please report it so we can remove it.

r/fpv is for discussing our hobby, helping each other and having fun.


r/fpv Jun 19 '24

Read This Before Posting: FAQ and WIKI

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With summer in full swing and a recent up tick of new members, we would like to remind you of our FAQ and WIKI pages. Read them before making a post. There is a link to them on the right side of the page. If your question relates to FAQ and WIKI, please refrain from making a new post. Repetitive posts will be taken down.

Some of the common questions:

Most of the questions/problems can be answered/solved by just searching this subreddit or reading through the FAQ and WIKI.

We are working on updating FAQ and WIKI as well.

Please leave us a comment if there is a certain FAQ that we should add to our sidebar.


r/fpv 4h ago

New to fpv

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85 Upvotes

I found this drone on Instagram and figured it looked fun. So what's the best way to start with FPV drones? Do I buy one new or build one myself? Are there any specific models I should look for? This one in the picture looks cool; it's not that big either.


r/fpv 8h ago

Does this arrow on my antenna mean it is RHCP?

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24 Upvotes

Bought this antenna a long time ago and when i had no clue about RHCP and LHCP. There isn't any text with the polarization direction. There is this arrow below the logo but I'm not sure if that indicates the polarization.


r/fpv 13h ago

CRASH! Why did my drone crash?

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62 Upvotes

Randomly lost control of the drone and it fell down. I don't understand what was the problem because after the crash drone still works fine, haven't had the same problem again.

Frame: Rotorama Dito Pro 5"

FC: GEPRC Taker F405 (ICM42688-P)

ESC: GEPRC 60A BLS V2

Motors: iFlight XING2 2506 1850KV

VTX: HDZero Freestyle V2 1W

Camera: Runcam HDZero Nano 90

RX: Radiomaster RP3 V2 Nano Dual ELRS 2.4GHz


r/fpv 9h ago

This car was fun to chase!

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24 Upvotes

r/fpv 4h ago

Air75 II freestyle o4 lite

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Today I built a drone using the frame and motors from an Air 75 II Freestyle with a VTX O4 Lite. I also have 580 batteries, giving me a flight time of at least 4 to 6 minutes.I'm surprised how well this works. I don't have any jello. I'm in love with this little thing 😍


r/fpv 5h ago

Micro Quad Retro ripping !

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10 Upvotes

Hey folks ! Thought I'd show one of my rare flights outdoor !

I fly an Eachine QX95s with first gen EV800 and Flysky i6 lol

Had those for 11 years now, only flew rarely as I was a total noob, and ofc, I was flying in stab...because I wasn't confident in acro lol

Only recently, I got back in FPV and brought back those from the attic, adapted my quad for tiny whoops lipos, changed my EV800 battery for a 18650 and started training flying in acro !

Recently got a RM pocket for training on simulator and just got an ImmersionRC Vortex 150 to tinker with

If you guys have any advices, feel free to !


r/fpv 4h ago

Help! What is happening and How do i fix it??

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So my meteor75 o4 was good for almost 2 weeks but yesterday i started hearing a weird sound and now 1 motor is doing this… I don’t know it the sound is coming form this motor but it’s the only one working weird. The sound was present even without the tape (it’s a momentary thing for test). I could still fly but I’m pretty worried…


r/fpv 1h ago

Question? Has anyone ordered VR04 goggle from AliExpress?

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If you have, please let me know your experience and if you could, the store you bought it from.


r/fpv 1h ago

Question? Fpv Stores in USA

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What are some online fpv stores in the USA that are not Pyrodrone, Get fpv or race day quads


r/fpv 2h ago

OSD won’t show on DJI O4 Pro, and motors spin exponentially when some throttle is applied after arming.

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Hey, so I unpacked my new goku f722 pro v2 stack yesterday and soldered everything together, but I have two issues…

Here is a list of my material :

\- Frame : JeNo 5’1
\- Motors : T-motor Velox V2306 v2.0 (2400 kv)
\- Stack : Goku F722 Pro V2
\- Receiver : Radiomaster RP1
\- Radio : Radiomaster Pocket
\- VTX : DJI O4 Pro
\- Goggles : DJI N3

Problem 1 :

Basically, I had a SpeedyBee f404 and I flew a bit with it, successfully binding it to my goggles and showing the OSD with no trouble. But now that I changed this stack with the new goku, no matter the UART I am choosing, my goggles won’t show the OSD but only the native parameters it usually shows and the camera. I tried every UART there is, without changing the bound rate or nothing, and I did activate the VTX (MSP + DisplayPort) option on Betaflight every single time accordingly to the UART I activated.

Problem 2 :

As soon as I apply a little tiny bit of throttle, my motors decide to turn uncontrollably… The last time it happened on my SpeedyBee f404, I deactivated the Airmode and everything worked perfectly, but it didn’t work on this FC… I didn’t change any BLHELI settings, just configured on Betaflight for now. However the weird part is that when I control my motors from Betaflight, they act completely docile and follow the cursor perfectly… They only show an erratic behavior when controlled from my Radiomaster pocket which responds perfectly in Betaflight.

I’m kind of stuck so any help would be useful at this point 🙏 thx a lot.


r/fpv 50m ago

BetaFPV VR04 alternatives?

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Since the beta vr04 are out of stock im looking for an alternative in same price range, im not sure if i should get the vr03 for 86 usd.

This is going to be my first goggles and im planning to use them with an air 75 ii racing.

I saw Nils Van video about latency, and saw that the ev800d are worst in that aspect, and more expensive.

Do you recommend a better alternative??


r/fpv 1h ago

sub 250 Long Range kit recommendation / options needed

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I am looking to move away from DJI drones but would still like to use my DJI n3 goggles. I have a license and can go over 250grams when I am in the correct airspace.

Right now I am looking at the Flywoo Explorer LR 4 V2 O4 Wide.

I have zero issues with soldering and have a 3D printer capable of printing LW-ASA and TPU.

Am I looking at the right drone? or should i be looking at something else?


r/fpv 9h ago

Nanawing, an FPV fixed-wing flight simulator in your browser

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No download, no launcher, no account: open the tab and you’re flying a flying-wing over an island. It’s built on Babylon.js v7.


r/fpv 2h ago

Video I did a trench run

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r/fpv 3h ago

Betaflight is not sure about arm state

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Today while flying quad disarmed for no reason. I don't even know how to describe what showed in blackbox, so here is screenshot. These short ARM OFF-ON (the quad didn't actually disarm during them) are for the whole flight, but one every 20 second, except for end and 20 seconds before real disarm. In the next flight after changing battery, issue was gone (so no short ARM OFF-ON). Can someone explain why did that happen?
(sorry for bad english)


r/fpv 15h ago

Video Custom research drone downed during tornado flythrough

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18 Upvotes

Clip is from the OTUS Project on Instagram, their work is super cool!
Apparently they designed and 3D printed these with bambu printers specifically for flying through storms


r/fpv 3h ago

Camera Mount Holder for Crux3 NLR

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2 Upvotes

Is anyone aware where can I get those or something similar enough for my crux 3 nlr?


r/fpv 4h ago

Multicopter Freestyle Tips

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I need Tipps to get better at freestyling. Also Tipps on basic flying would be appreciated.

While flying I'm feeling like I'm not in control. It's like I'm reacting not lining up. Also I can't think of tricks to combo while flying.

Video is one of the best freestyle flights of mine.

15h flight time in sim

Around 3h in real flights

Setup 5 inch 4s analog i build from used part's.

Radio-master pocket

Hdzero box pro

Thanks in advance and be as harsh as u can be with Tips


r/fpv 1d ago

Video a lot of fun (beginner)

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157 Upvotes

i’m relatively new to fpv (about 3 months), my first drone was the avata 2, learned flying manual on it, recently got the pavo20 pro ii sbus version because i wasn’t sure if i wanted to go real deep but now that i see what a “real” drone can do i’m already planning on my first build (perhaps next year)…anyway i made a video and had fun, hope you guys like it i’m learning something new every day, especially from this community and i love it ..


r/fpv 6h ago

Question? No gps satalites

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I was wondering if someone could help me get some satalites, i am aware that the gps should be away from carbon fiber frame, so i mounted it on top of the frame where therr are gaps in the frame. Also i have used thick doible sided tape in between thr gps and the frame.

Edit: i have managed to get 4-5 satalites but on the osd the satalite thing is flashing and not just on. Clause says this is because it still doesnt have a good 3d lock although in betaflight it is showing my location pretty accurate like 4 houses from where i actually live


r/fpv 35m ago

Custom telemetry from iNav via Mavlink

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r/fpv 6h ago

Looking to build a deadcat 5"

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Been eyeballing the GEPRC Mark5 DC and was wondering what everyone thinks of it. If you own it what do you like and not like? I was debating on this or a deepspace seeker 5 DC


r/fpv 42m ago

First Drone. Meteor 75, Fried within 15mins.

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Got it setup, was on second pack having a blast and crashed on the bed. Wanted to see if turtle mode could get me free. Didn't know that if a prop was being stopped and try turtle mode that it could fry the ESC. Couldn't get it flipped over so I went and picked it up. Brought it downstairs and when I went to relaunch one motor wasn't working. I swapped the plugs with another motor and the issue travelled to that motor and then in betaflight manually tested the motor function, that motor still not spinning. Seems like I fried the ESC and thus effectively fried the entire AIO.

Extremely disappointed and to be honest a bit angry. Why the fuck is this shit so fragile? They can't make it a little harder to burn out the fucking thing?