So originally I was planning this video to be about this giant fpv drone it's a Cine lifter
so basically you could take something like a Red Komodo, Black Magic Pocket cinema camera,
Sony mirrorless camera and fly it super fast but i just plugged it in and i saw a bunch of smoke
coming out and uh now i have to contact customer service. But instead let's talk about our smallest
FPV drones the tiny FPVs might actually be my favorite because of the really cool shots you
can get i'm sure you've seen some on Instagram and we already made a few videos with Robert McIntosh
who is the OG of flying through small spaces but since then things have actually gone a whole lot
easier so now you can just buy it, turn it on, pair it, you're good to go it's also crazy to
see how powerful and acrobatic these little tiny FPV drones have become now so let's talk about
some of my favorites but i actually haven't flown in probably three or four months we've been super
busy ever since the move and we've been renovating the house and all so i literally have not
touched one of these in three or four months so hopefully i still know how to fly. let's find out
all right it's all coming back to me FPV is one of those things that you learn at once you kinda can
remember it's like learning how to ride a bicycle i'm sure there's some sort of opening in this tree
here let me see if i can hit that oh! all right so hey i'm still alive yeah you're probably sick of
looking at this crappy image quality so let me go ahead and throw a better camera on there you know
honestly i thought it was going to take me longer to warm back up but i feel like that wasn't so bad
i'm going to go ahead and attach this camera onto here so the footage you were watching was recorded
onto my goggles so it's actually what i personally see when i'm flying but by attaching the Go
2 right next to it you can end up with much better picture quality. here's my problem with FPV,
is that the more i think about it and the more worried and nervous i am the worse of a pilot i am
so the goal is to think "okay be careful" but at the same time don't be too nervous
it's really starting to remind me how much fun this really is i mean i got into
it so i could get those cool cinematic shots but now i just fly because it's
it's a lot of fun i could just do this all day the one i'm flying right now is called the GEPRC
Phantom HD and i love this thing because of how powerful and acrobatic it is but it's obviously
tiny it's also very quiet so if you're in a busy place this thing won't bother everybody and this
is also HD so it works with my DJI goggles this comes pretty much built and set up ready to go
you just gotta attach the propellers, bind it just to give you an idea of size this is the FPV drone
we built with Robert McIntosh it's a Cinewoop so remember there's more of the acrobatic FPV drones
like this one and then there's cinewoops which typically have these guard rails so you can fly
it closer to things without having to worry about scratching it so that is the one downside of this
GEPRC is if you clip a person it'll probably cut him and it's probably not going to be a good day
another thing that is nice about this phantom is that it does feel really lightweight like
you could tell that it's not a heavy gopro it honestly holds up pretty well in the wind too
that was a big fall a little bit of a problem i lost the camera on here this is actually a mount
for the original Insta360 Go definitely go with the Go 2 but it's slightly slightly bigger so i
cut it i just put some rubber bands around it and it worked till now. Dylan you want to go on this
treasure hunt with me? where are we going? it must have crashed somewhere up there so
right here! what you found it dude that was so fast where was it just right there yeah just
right there all right success Dylan you get a raise just kidding you're not all right let's
go ahead and step this up a little bit this is the Emax Baby Hawk which is powerful enough to
carry a GoPro this is the Hero 8 but just to shave a little bit of weight off i pulled out
the battery and i'm actually gonna power this off of the balance cable on the battery so let me go
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obviously much better for flying close to people but do not get it caught in somebody's hair Kari
will testify to that yes please don't fly near people's hair really hurt you know you would think
that if you get a caught in someone's hair you can just unwind it no Kari was very graceful when we
had to snip off some of her hair so this is the iFlightProTek 25 and i want to say this is my
favorite overall if you were to ask me which one's the fastest or the smallest or best in wind or
it's going to be a different answer for every one of those but i think iFlight did a really good job
giving us something that works really well just out of the box it's tuned pretty well and they
make it very clear on how to set it up so you just plug in a few things and it's up and running so i
love how easy iFlight makes it for people like me that don't know that much about FPV i mean every
time i have to hook up something to BetaFlight Configurator and do the pit tuning like i get
a headache so this is very good for people like me now there's a newer version of this it's the
ProTek 25 Pusher version and that would probably be the one i would get if i was buying one
right now so overall this thing is great because it's really easy to set up get up in the air start
flying and it can carry an Insta360 or GoPro it's just very flexible and just a
solid little drone but if we compare this to the cinewoop we built with Robert McIntosh it
is definitely a whole lot heavier it's also taller and it is a bit wider as well so if you're trying
to get through the tiniest of the tiny spaces then you definitely want to go with something
with a naked camera naked GoPro is basically a regular GoPro hacked apart with avoided
warranty you take out the battery all the heat dissipating material and stick it in this little
enclosure i still really like this thing and there is instructions on how to set this thing up but it
does require more troubleshooting i'll be flying and all of a sudden the camera will stop recording
and i'm not sure why or sometimes it just doesn't want to turn on when i expect it to so it's just
a little bit more of a headache but if you're trying to get through the tight tight spaces
every inch counts. there's also options like this made by Beta FPV and they had a collaboration with
Insta360 so they build the naked Insta 360 on here for you but i don't know if they're still
making them tricky thing about the FPV world is that every couple weeks there's something new out
or something gets discontinued for example i was digging around a little bit and saw that there was
something called a Firefly by Flywoo it looks absolutely tiny and looks pretty awesome so i
went ahead and ordered one Kari's going to kill me when she finds out i bought another drone but uh
please don't say anything but there are definitely downsides to going really small one the battery
life is probably not gonna last as long it's also not gonna be able to handle the wind nearly
as much so that is one thing i do like about the ProTek is that it's good at flying indoors through
tight spaces but also when you're outdoors and it gets a little bit windy you're more likely to be
able to counter the wind you can generally get an idea of difference in size you get an extra
inch of clearance on the smaller model but that really only matters if you're trying to really fly
through something really small i mean if you're trying to fly through a little window like this
this ProTek has plenty of clearance it can get tricky because as i'm approaching the van i feel
all this wind pressing it to the side but as soon as i get through the window then all that wind
cuts off so i have to stop countering the wind and as soon as i exit again then i'm faced with more
wind so i have to go back to countering so it can actually get pretty tricky going from somewhere
that's windy into a little pocket where there's no wind and then coming back out the other side
now to really pick out the best FPV drone for you you really need to know what camera
you want to throw on there so the Insta360 Go2 has been a pretty solid easy option it's simple
it's convenient you don't have to hack apart a camera to get it to work and i think the image
quality is actually pretty good now the reason i generally lean towards filming on GoPro when i can
is not so much for the image quality but it's for the stabilization now if you're just using
built-in image stabilization out of the camera they're both pretty decent but the advantage GoPro
has is that it's compatible with ReelSteady so how i usually shoot is completely unstabilized four
by three and then i take that footage process it through ReelSteady and that's how you get the best
stabilization a lot of people in the FPV community even call it cheating because it makes your flying
look so smooth now keep in mind that there's also a lot of options in FPV drones that i haven't even
talked about these are just the ones that i use and are my favorites and i typically only fly
digital FPV drones because i have the digital goggles and the controller and i think that just
makes the process easier you also get a much cleaner image out of your goggles opposed to
analog which analog will give you slightly less latency i guess but for me i don't even notice
the difference that's something that the pros talk about but typically i go for the hassle
free option that's why all these are bind and flys and all of the ones i've talked about
are pretty straightforward to set up and fly you just hook it up to your controller and goggles the
only one that does take a little bit extra work is the Emax Baby Hawk where you have to basically do
something called a CLI dump so you just have to connect it to BetaFlight it's an extra step it's
not that hard from there you just bind it to your controller and goggles and you're good to go i am
liking how FPV companies are making it easier and easier for us to get into the hobby without
that much of a barrier anymore now of course the DJI FPV did a really good job making it super
straightforward you can know nothing about FPV get into it and start flying it that way but the
reason why i'm not talking about in this video is that it is quite a bit bigger but it's also
a lot heavier if you're flying that thing fast and really close to objects and you make a mistake and
you smack into the side of the van or something it's going to cause some serious damage so
i don't really consider the DJI FPV to be a great drone for close proximity fine it still is a great
starter drone to get into the whole hobby but yeah don't fly near people ever not that one
do you get nervous when i fly the FPV close to your face i don't know i think i've just been
kind of numb through like years of knowing you so it doesn't hit me anymore that's not a good
thing is it you've become numb by knowing yeah i don't know yeah if it is good but it happened
right and we are also funding another project from the potato farm if you have a great concept
let us know link down there in the description and we may just fund it in one of the projects
but who are we funding today this is for Ben from Salt Lake City Utah so basically
Ben has done an interview with a child soldier from Uganda so it's a mini-documentary on that
a child soldier from Uganda yeah that's going to be intense i'd be very curious to see that
the type of documentaries i'm really interested in is just seeing how other people live you know
what i mean but congratulations Ben Dylan will be hitting you up and sending you some money so
you can make this film a reality is that it is there anything else that we need to talk about
you're gonna give me a raise right that's the one important thing we gotta talk about right bye