Great Scott!

So now that I'm more comfy operating a drone, I've started looking into ordering my first FPV Drone. I found a lot of sites and that sell parts, but they are all so far away from England to Australia to The US. Then out of nowhere I found http://www.nghobbies.com/ they had an awesome selection of parts, and the prices didn't seem too bad either. So I went to see where in the world they are located and to my shock they were just 5 minutes away from me! I dropped everything I was doing and drove over. I walked in and it was amazing inside, the store specializes in FPV products and had all kinds of goodies laying around I had to stay calm and collect myself before I ripped out my wallet and just threw my money at this place. In addition to all the FPV Drone goodness they have all these 3D printers printing custom drone stuff, that added +100 to the awesome of this store.

Outside of just looking awesome, it was nice to finally talk to someone about FPV Drones. Being new to this, it could be a little overwhelming figuring this all out. The gentlemen at New Generation Hobbies was great enough to talk to me about all the aspects of FPV Drone racing.

So now my first decision is what frame size I want to start with and go from there. I can start small with a 150 frame or big with a 250. I'm going to research the pros and cons before I choose my first frame.

I got my Drone back

Well the day after I summed up the courage to ask my neighbour who I've never met before "Hey I was flying a toy drone and crashed it in your backyard". I think it would have been a little less embarrassing if I wasn't a grown man lol. It had a broken arm and a lot of wear but nothing some tape or glue won't fix. January is almost here and I think I've watched and read enough about FPV Drones to start ordering parts for mine. I think I'll start with the frame first and go from there.

I lost my Drone

Well that didn't take long, I lost my first drone tonight. I don't usually take it out let alone at night but today my brother asked if I could show him the drone. So I said sure, no problem. After flying it around close to the ground he asked... How high can it go? Stupidly I said "let's find out" and that's the last I saw it, while about 20 feet in the air the wind blew it towards my neighbor's back yard across the street and no matter how hard I hit the throttle it dropped like a sack of potatoes bounced off the neighbours roof and into the back yard. It's too late now to knock and ask for it, even though I want to. I'm thinking if I feel this crappy losing a toy drone, how do people who build the crazy FPV drones and do stunts in and over buildings feel when they lose a drone?

New Paint Job & More Flying

So I've been flying my Holy Stone X300C everyday trying to get a hang of flying. It's not easy, mainly due to the fact that I don't have much space indoors so I can't really do much. Outdoors so far has been next to impossible, I live in Canada and right now it's not the coldest outside but it's windy as all hell. Here's a video of my last flight with the X300C, you might be able to see a violent movement every now and then. That's the wind throwing my little drone around. I record from the moment I start till the batteries run out, so each charge is getting me around 10 minutes. Sadly the video has been choppy for me. I've seen some people upload the videos they record and they seem much smoother than the videos I've been getting.

Outside of practicing controlling a drone, I wanted to give the drone a little more aggressive look than the one it came with. So I took the drone apart (taking pics every step so I can put it back together) then painted the body matte black and everything else gold. It lasted all of one flight till the paint started to chip but I'm ok with it. I also wanted to see what makes a drone seeing how my next steps are too build my own I thought it would be a good learning experience. I think I'm going to give it to till January before I order my first parts (I can't wait). My hope is when I build my own it will have a lot more control outdoors.