evranch
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I thought I'd see what it would be like to fly the Baron as an FPV plane. So I taped my SJCAM to the fuselage right in front of the wing. About the simplest video setup you'll ever see, but it worked out pretty well! I thought I'd share it so you guys can see my frozen wasteland. I think frost built up on the lens during the flight, as it started sharp and got blurrier even in the uncompressed 720P video.
The camera sticking up into the airstream threw off my trim, but not too badly. Pulled the nose up more than usual. Only my second BB flight with the rudder installed so forgive some crappy turns as I figure out how much rudder authority it has.
Lessons learned: Looking through the prop isn't all that bad, and holy crap can the BB pull some Gs. Maybe I don't actually want to fly a full aerobatic plane as my first FPV setup, as it's pretty disorienting looking at the result of a 1/2 second Immelmann turn from the cockpit. Too fast! The plane actually feels a lot faster in the video as well.
Also I flared too early and overshot the crest of my sloped runway, lol. Foam slides a long way downhill on snow.
The camera sticking up into the airstream threw off my trim, but not too badly. Pulled the nose up more than usual. Only my second BB flight with the rudder installed so forgive some crappy turns as I figure out how much rudder authority it has.
Lessons learned: Looking through the prop isn't all that bad, and holy crap can the BB pull some Gs. Maybe I don't actually want to fly a full aerobatic plane as my first FPV setup, as it's pretty disorienting looking at the result of a 1/2 second Immelmann turn from the cockpit. Too fast! The plane actually feels a lot faster in the video as well.
Also I flared too early and overshot the crest of my sloped runway, lol. Foam slides a long way downhill on snow.