luciens
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In my opinion, it's quite a bit easier and hugely more useful. Line of sight flying involves learning the responses to all the different orientations and severely limits how well you can frame a shot, much less even tell what the aircraft is doing. Even small distances away, a P4P or smaller machine becomes a tiny little dot in the sky and it quickly becomes in danger of completely losing sight of it.
Flying FPV with a tablet or smart phone is also basically futile, especially in the middle of the day. Tablets and phones are completely invisible in all but the darkest conditions (dawn/late afternoon/dusk) and the little bitty tiny, crappy, jerkey telemetry screen in the rare conditions you can even see it at all, makes it very difficult to see the video downlink and what's going on.
With the goggles, you get a huge FOV completely shaded from the sun. It's pretty much the best view available for any FPV flying because of the gigantic FOV. Also, as I said above, FPV is significantly simpler to learn, since you only have to learn one set of control responses unlike the many orientations of LOS flying. If you have any manned-aircraft time that will help you come up to speed on FPV too.
In other words, the goggles and getting good at FPV are well worth the extra money if you really want to do any serious flying or work with a drone. You do have to get some strong reading glasses to see them well, especially if you're farsighted, but in the end it makes your drone a much more useful and powerful tool. |
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