1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:02,377 --> 00:00:04,704 For the most part, people don't understand drones. 3 00:00:04,754 --> 00:00:07,248 So when they do, they're comfortable with it. 4 00:00:07,298 --> 00:00:09,843 When they don't, they want to see it burn. 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:16,141 --> 00:00:17,092 Then when you go out 7 00:00:17,142 --> 00:00:20,353 and see it in real life, it's like, well, that's freaking cool is crap. 8 00:00:20,812 --> 00:00:22,963 You remember that scene in Star Wars with the Speeder Bikes? 9 00:00:23,023 --> 00:00:27,068 Everybody watched that scene and you wanted to be on the Speeder Bikes. 10 00:00:27,777 --> 00:00:30,947 Flying FPV, that's the closest analogy to what that's like. 11 00:00:31,114 --> 00:00:34,743 So you might have seen drone footage before, but you probably haven't 12 00:00:34,784 --> 00:00:36,202 seen drone footage like this. 13 00:00:36,244 --> 00:00:40,457 So if you're prone to motion sickness, you might want to grab a barf bag 14 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:42,709 because it's about to get wild. 15 00:01:07,192 --> 00:01:09,486 Since your little you dream of flying 16 00:01:09,861 --> 00:01:14,324 and you know, all the superheroes like, you know, Superman and Iron Man. 17 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:17,494 Basically, that's the feeling FPV gives you. 18 00:01:17,577 --> 00:01:19,746 Who hasn't looked up at the sky 19 00:01:19,829 --> 00:01:21,989 and thought, man, I wish I could be Superman and just. 20 00:01:25,126 --> 00:01:27,504 Go 100 miles an hour with a cinema camera 21 00:01:31,299 --> 00:01:34,427 So you've basically flying a little Lamborghini. 22 00:01:37,388 --> 00:01:39,265 It is all manual. 23 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:43,019 When we fly these things, every movement that you see is 24 00:01:43,353 --> 00:01:45,605 input or not input from the pilot. 25 00:01:46,648 --> 00:01:50,110 It's like freedom, you know, is like total freedom, separation of body and mind. 26 00:01:50,193 --> 00:01:53,738 Apart from flying a wingsuit FPV is as close 27 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:56,449 as real flying as it can get. 28 00:01:59,327 --> 00:02:01,579 You'll get shaky, your hands are shaking. 29 00:02:01,663 --> 00:02:03,039 Your heart is pounding. 30 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:05,083 This is an adrenaline rush. 31 00:02:05,166 --> 00:02:08,837 Get ready for like the ride of your life. 32 00:02:31,401 --> 00:02:33,486 Whether it's diving down the side of a mountain, 33 00:02:33,778 --> 00:02:37,407 skimming along the top of the water, you know, 100 miles an hour. 34 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:46,916 There's no other feeling like it. 35 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,005 There's no other way to get that rush that you get when you're flying FPV. 36 00:03:07,937 --> 00:03:09,022 So flying FPV, 37 00:03:09,105 --> 00:03:12,609 you're always looking for like this dope spot to fly if you've ever skated. 38 00:03:12,692 --> 00:03:14,634 Most people are like, they're looking at stair sets 39 00:03:14,694 --> 00:03:17,697 and handrails rather than, you know, maybe an architecture of a building. 40 00:03:17,780 --> 00:03:19,365 Where with FPV we look at these things 41 00:03:19,449 --> 00:03:22,243 so differently now because you can fly in three dimensional space. 42 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:27,916 With FPV technology it's just up to your skills how crazy and good the shot gets. 43 00:03:42,972 --> 00:03:45,850 Having that headroom on the power lets 44 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:48,853 you do a lot of the crazy stuff that we're able to pull off, pulling out 45 00:03:48,937 --> 00:03:53,066 at a gap at the very bottom of a building dive to go underneath this tree. 46 00:03:59,572 --> 00:04:01,366 The adrenaline is always there. 47 00:04:01,449 --> 00:04:03,534 No matter how long you've been flying. 48 00:04:03,826 --> 00:04:05,995 You feel the power, you feel the speed. 49 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,205 The sensation 50 00:04:07,288 --> 00:04:10,416 that you get or the adrenaline rush comes from directly comes from speed. 51 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:16,506 Even now I get shaky hands, I get almost dizzy about it. 52 00:04:16,673 --> 00:04:17,864 You don't notice in the goggles. 53 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:20,033 It's only when you come back, you're like, oh, my hands are shaking. 54 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:21,075 Why are my hands shaking? 55 00:04:21,135 --> 00:04:24,013 Because you just drove, you know, 100 feet through a tiny little gap, 56 00:04:24,138 --> 00:04:25,890 with your drone that you really like. 57 00:04:30,061 --> 00:04:31,688 The first time I saw FPV 58 00:04:31,771 --> 00:04:35,775 I thought to myself, I'm never playing another video game again. 59 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:40,238 Your environments are mountains, rivers, lakes, 60 00:04:40,363 --> 00:04:43,866 marshes, beaches, whatever you want your environment to be 61 00:04:52,292 --> 00:04:56,421 it is the closest thing that you can get to flying a fighter jet. 62 00:04:56,546 --> 00:04:59,257 Without actually flying a fighter jet. 63 00:05:00,466 --> 00:05:01,718 You don't strap into the jet. 64 00:05:01,801 --> 00:05:04,012 You strap the jet onto you. 65 00:05:04,095 --> 00:05:07,298 When you put on the goggles, you are completely immersed 66 00:05:07,348 --> 00:05:10,435 and you don't feel like you're sitting there flying a drone. 67 00:05:10,518 --> 00:05:12,687 You feel like you're actually flying. 68 00:05:14,731 --> 00:05:16,899 The adrenaline that goes through your veins 69 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:20,486 is extremely similar to actually flying a fighter jet. 70 00:05:27,660 --> 00:05:30,204 This is something that you can only do 71 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:33,291 with these highly specialized quadcopters. 72 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,810 And you land and you can take the goggles off, 73 00:05:52,894 --> 00:05:54,377 and there you are in the park and you're like, 74 00:05:54,437 --> 00:05:58,649 what? It feels like my life and a million dollars is on the line. 75 00:06:17,168 --> 00:06:19,754 Hi, I'm James Christianson and I'm a documentarian. 76 00:06:19,962 --> 00:06:25,176 I'm also an FPV drone pilot since 2018 and I have been 77 00:06:25,343 --> 00:06:29,263 watching many of the influencers and top drone pilots, 78 00:06:29,430 --> 00:06:32,600 these are very skilled pilots around the world, 79 00:06:33,184 --> 00:06:35,061 most of them posting on YouTube 80 00:06:37,855 --> 00:06:39,515 I have come out from L.A. 81 00:06:39,565 --> 00:06:44,362 to within a short drive of Atlanta, Georgia, Knoxville to Florida, 82 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:48,449 New York, and also interviewed pilots from other countries as well. 83 00:06:48,658 --> 00:06:53,788 2020 is going to be a pivotal year for the history of drones. 84 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,124 And when I say drones, I mean quadcopters. 85 00:06:56,541 --> 00:07:01,546 And it's not limited to toy drones or larger professional drones, 86 00:07:01,671 --> 00:07:04,966 camera drones, FPV, drones, delivery drones, 87 00:07:05,425 --> 00:07:09,512 drones in general are going to have a very pivotal year 88 00:07:09,637 --> 00:07:14,475 in what is decided with the regulations coming from the FAA. 89 00:07:14,684 --> 00:07:18,729 We have the protest coming up at the end of the month, February 2020 90 00:07:18,855 --> 00:07:21,816 in Washington, DC at the FAA building. 91 00:07:21,899 --> 00:07:24,902 And these pilots will come out and they're going to protest the fact 92 00:07:24,986 --> 00:07:28,448 that they need to be able to save their hobby and for many of them, 93 00:07:28,573 --> 00:07:30,241 it's a profession as well. 94 00:07:30,408 --> 00:07:34,078 So come on this journey with me into the amazing, 95 00:07:34,203 --> 00:07:39,083 fascinating adrenaline rush of FPV culture worldwide. 96 00:07:40,877 --> 00:07:43,421 FPV, first person view. 97 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:47,467 First Persion View is you are not looking at the aircraft from the outside 98 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:51,220 you are inside the aircraft, virtually looking out. 99 00:07:54,765 --> 00:07:57,560 Back in 2008 I started putting cameras 100 00:07:57,643 --> 00:08:02,482 on just remote control airplanes, no FPV yet, and basically just trying 101 00:08:02,565 --> 00:08:07,820 to do some HD footage of my surrounding neighborhood, just out of my backyard. 102 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:11,324 I could launch a plane and fly in the most beautiful scenery. 103 00:08:11,407 --> 00:08:14,577 Back in the day, there were no drones. 104 00:08:14,911 --> 00:08:17,246 It was only model aircraft. 105 00:08:17,330 --> 00:08:21,918 You had to buy cameras from like baby monitors, 106 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:23,544 like hack the equipment out of it 107 00:08:23,628 --> 00:08:27,298 and then just tape it on to not even purpose built airplanes. 108 00:08:27,381 --> 00:08:31,010 Just airplanes that you would buy in an old rusty model shop, 109 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:35,348 and basically we used old ski goggles. 110 00:08:35,431 --> 00:08:38,718 And then we cut out the front and taped 111 00:08:38,768 --> 00:08:41,846 in some old personal video goggles. 112 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:45,358 And so we hacked up a receiver and taped that to our face. 113 00:08:46,025 --> 00:08:49,195 We bought Wi-Fi range extender antennas 114 00:08:49,487 --> 00:08:52,198 to get more range out of our equipment. 115 00:08:52,281 --> 00:08:55,409 So this was kind of the early days of hacking together equipment 116 00:08:55,493 --> 00:08:57,119 that really wasn't made for FPV 117 00:09:03,751 --> 00:09:05,419 we had to make them back in the days 118 00:09:05,503 --> 00:09:09,382 because there was just no purpose built FPV equipment. 119 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:12,593 So that's what we designed and then started to sell 120 00:09:12,677 --> 00:09:15,596 and then it turned into a business. 121 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:19,976 I started flying RC helicopters with the age of 12 or 13. 122 00:09:20,059 --> 00:09:22,979 So I'm in this RC hobby for a very long time. 123 00:09:23,062 --> 00:09:24,814 For over 28 years. 124 00:09:24,897 --> 00:09:28,943 All of us started with airplanes and helicopters and then move to drones, 125 00:09:29,110 --> 00:09:31,946 and that's where a lot of experience comes from. 126 00:09:32,613 --> 00:09:35,199 I actually started out with RC planes, fixed 127 00:09:35,283 --> 00:09:38,286 wing planes before I got into multi rotors and mini quads. 128 00:09:38,578 --> 00:09:42,123 That was some of the first aircraft that I built were fixed wing planes. 129 00:09:42,206 --> 00:09:44,041 So really what inspired me to get into 130 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:47,878 FPV was a Team Black Sheep video, which was Trappy flying. 131 00:09:47,962 --> 00:09:51,924 They were flying wings and diving down the sides of mountains with them. 132 00:09:52,008 --> 00:09:54,260 And that kind of really set it off for me. 133 00:09:54,844 --> 00:09:58,389 I always wanted to skydive and fly so this was just something where 134 00:09:58,472 --> 00:10:00,349 I didn't have to put my body in harm's way. 135 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:02,893 FPV actually started for me with Trappy. 136 00:10:02,977 --> 00:10:05,730 He was actually a huge inspiration with his TBS discovery 137 00:10:11,944 --> 00:10:14,280 it wasn't until I went in the forums that I learned, okay, 138 00:10:14,363 --> 00:10:15,429 how do you put one of these together? 139 00:10:15,489 --> 00:10:18,409 Like, oh shoot, I got to pick up a soldering iron, but I didn't care. 140 00:10:18,492 --> 00:10:20,077 I was like, I want to figure this out. 141 00:10:20,161 --> 00:10:22,622 Figure it out MacGyver style. Like you 142 00:10:22,705 --> 00:10:26,208 were just on the internet forums for hours on end looking for answers 143 00:10:26,334 --> 00:10:30,796 and so people would just buy stuff and just plug it in and cross 144 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,031 your fingers that the magic smoke wouldn't come out because you just never knew. 145 00:10:34,091 --> 00:10:36,260 In the beginning it was really janky. 146 00:10:36,344 --> 00:10:40,556 People were using these Wii nunchucks and pulling the gyros and accelerometers 147 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,720 out of that and putting them into these multi rotors 148 00:10:42,975 --> 00:10:45,895 in order to be the sensors to get these things to fly. 149 00:10:46,103 --> 00:10:50,483 So it's very hacked together, and we slowly started to get more things 150 00:10:50,566 --> 00:10:54,862 that were built specifically for the purpose of flying FPV. 151 00:10:54,945 --> 00:10:57,907 The very first FPV drones had 152 00:10:58,949 --> 00:11:03,204 scavenged surveillance cameras in them. 153 00:11:03,287 --> 00:11:06,916 Bare bones like basic literal security cameras. 154 00:11:08,084 --> 00:11:10,711 Most people are familiar with drones they see in 155 00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:13,130 Best Buy, like DJI Phantoms or Mavericks. 156 00:11:14,006 --> 00:11:19,053 I think a camera drone is best thought of as a like a tripod in the sky. 157 00:11:19,136 --> 00:11:20,596 It's going to have larger props. 158 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:21,889 It's going to have a gimbal 159 00:11:21,972 --> 00:11:25,142 so the camera can tilt while the drone is sort of hovering in place. 160 00:11:25,476 --> 00:11:27,061 A freestyle or racing drone. 161 00:11:27,144 --> 00:11:31,190 It's goal is to give the pilot the experience of flight. 162 00:11:31,273 --> 00:11:32,608 It's got a fixed angle 163 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:36,028 and that means that the camera on it is actually up tilted a little bit 164 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,865 so the pilot can be looking ahead while the quad pitches forward. 165 00:11:39,949 --> 00:11:43,327 It was kind of a byproduct of being super lightweight 166 00:11:43,411 --> 00:11:46,455 to just mount or strap a GoPro to your quad. 167 00:11:46,831 --> 00:11:50,960 But it's also something that was intentionally done to 168 00:11:52,002 --> 00:11:54,547 provide the flying experience to the viewer. 169 00:11:54,714 --> 00:11:58,175 And so every tilt, every piece of movement that you see, 170 00:11:58,426 --> 00:12:02,763 that's what the drone is doing and that's what makes FPV so unique 171 00:12:02,847 --> 00:12:06,475 is that the flying is more inherently 172 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,895 the subject of the video. 173 00:12:15,776 --> 00:12:16,569 For the most part, 174 00:12:16,652 --> 00:12:20,156 people that fly FPV are used to very crappy video signals 175 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:23,951 and just the most terrible image you could ever expect someone 176 00:12:24,034 --> 00:12:25,953 to be able to fly an aircraft with. 177 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,500 This signal is super weak. 178 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:33,002 It's super scratchy. 179 00:12:33,085 --> 00:12:34,378 They're static all the time. 180 00:12:34,462 --> 00:12:38,090 So many people think that what we see in the goggles is like 181 00:12:38,174 --> 00:12:39,467 what a GoPro shows you, 182 00:12:39,550 --> 00:12:42,159 because that's what we show you guys when we upload this stuff to YouTube. 183 00:12:42,219 --> 00:12:45,222 But now we have these new systems, these new digital systems, which are 184 00:12:45,264 --> 00:12:46,056 high definition. 185 00:12:50,311 --> 00:12:53,606 So, 2015 Drone Nationals was, 186 00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:56,984 I think in my opinion, and I think I speak for a lot of people 187 00:12:57,067 --> 00:13:00,946 here, it was probably one of the best FPV events ever, probably because 188 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:05,242 It was the first time where people from like all around the world came together 189 00:13:05,534 --> 00:13:09,205 and it was really the first time, you know, people were starting to put 190 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:10,498 names to faces. 191 00:13:10,581 --> 00:13:14,919 Because up until now our entire relationship with the community 192 00:13:15,002 --> 00:13:17,797 just existed on forums and messages. 193 00:13:22,134 --> 00:13:24,762 So not long after the Drone Nationals, 194 00:13:25,012 --> 00:13:28,015 Dubai comes out with the World Drone 195 00:13:28,432 --> 00:13:30,518 Prix of 2016 196 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:41,237 and that was an absolutely huge deal. Because first of all I got to go to Dubai. 197 00:13:41,445 --> 00:13:44,365 And you know Dubai, it's big grand and large. 198 00:13:44,448 --> 00:13:48,702 I remember showing up and they showed like the racetrack lit up at night. 199 00:13:49,119 --> 00:13:51,372 So not only did it look crazy beautiful 200 00:13:51,455 --> 00:13:55,417 but the frickin track like articulated like it breathed and moved. 201 00:14:10,808 --> 00:14:12,935 But the kicker, $1,000,000 purse! 202 00:14:13,018 --> 00:14:16,188 I never heard of before and I feel like that just straight 203 00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:18,566 legitimized drone racing. 204 00:14:25,781 --> 00:14:29,285 And then the the kid that I tried to strangle with 205 00:14:29,368 --> 00:14:32,663 my arm is Nick Bannister, known as Benny UK 206 00:14:32,997 --> 00:14:35,875 who won the Dubai World Drone big race. 207 00:14:36,125 --> 00:14:39,461 And as you can see in the photo this is the hat Mr. 208 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:42,214 Steele gave me to avoid the sunburst 209 00:14:42,506 --> 00:14:45,509 on my almost bald head. 210 00:15:06,947 --> 00:15:11,243 A lot of people who are in FPV think of some of the early 211 00:15:11,327 --> 00:15:15,456 like Charpu videos, the early Rotor Riot episodes. 212 00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:17,583 He's a taxi driver from Mexico City. 213 00:15:17,666 --> 00:15:18,607 That's where we got him. 214 00:15:18,667 --> 00:15:20,127 We picked him up. 215 00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:21,485 He's now a professional quad pilot. 216 00:15:21,545 --> 00:15:24,154 But, you know, there's going to be a point where people are going to be 217 00:15:24,214 --> 00:15:26,414 shooting down drones because they're everywhere, right? 218 00:15:26,675 --> 00:15:30,304 So that's kind of like a way of like testing it, seeing it, 219 00:15:30,429 --> 00:15:32,681 you know, seeing if we can actually 220 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:35,351 shoot down one of these little drones that we usually fly. 221 00:15:35,476 --> 00:15:37,102 The odds are very slim. 222 00:15:37,186 --> 00:15:37,918 You want to put bets on it? 223 00:15:37,978 --> 00:15:39,897 I think it'll be a lucky shot. Anybody? 224 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:41,815 Yeah, lucky shot and be really hard. 225 00:15:41,899 --> 00:15:43,233 But I kind of want it to happen. 226 00:15:43,317 --> 00:15:47,529 If you want to know about nearly anything you just go search it on YouTube. 227 00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:48,637 At least that's what I do. 228 00:15:48,697 --> 00:15:50,950 And I think a lot of people, 229 00:15:51,033 --> 00:15:55,037 maybe they discover the hobby by watching FPV pilots on YouTube. 230 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,914 Someone shares a clip with them. 231 00:15:56,997 --> 00:15:59,458 I would say like 2014 is really when it started. 232 00:15:59,541 --> 00:16:02,753 And then it's kind of exponentially grown since then. 233 00:16:03,003 --> 00:16:06,840 But yeah, putting security systems and remotely flying aircraft via 234 00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:10,010 goggles is just something that's been around for a while. 235 00:16:10,094 --> 00:16:12,388 We've just refined it a lot in the last six years. 236 00:16:21,689 --> 00:16:23,023 Being able to fly is 237 00:16:23,107 --> 00:16:27,069 such an amazing experience, and my goal is to help 238 00:16:27,152 --> 00:16:30,781 everybody who wants that amazing, transcendent experience 239 00:16:31,198 --> 00:16:36,370 be able to get through the obstacle course and be able to enjoy the hobby. 240 00:16:36,620 --> 00:16:38,580 People send me things occasionally. 241 00:16:38,664 --> 00:16:41,458 This is a sign that a local guy made for me with my slogan on it. 242 00:16:41,542 --> 00:16:42,960 That's kind of cool. 243 00:16:43,085 --> 00:16:45,796 I'm Joshua Bardwell and you're going to learn something today. 244 00:16:47,923 --> 00:16:51,343 So my brand is FPV Know It All. 245 00:16:51,427 --> 00:16:53,907 It's a little bit tongue in cheek. At least that's the intent. 246 00:16:54,346 --> 00:16:56,098 I don't literally know everything. 247 00:16:56,181 --> 00:16:58,934 He answers everybody. That guy never stops. 248 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:02,252 Like when we're shooting together he's just in the back seat on the way 249 00:17:02,312 --> 00:17:06,150 to the spot, just nonstop on the phone, answering every question. 250 00:17:06,233 --> 00:17:08,485 The patience, of that man. 251 00:17:08,610 --> 00:17:10,487 A lot of my content is for beginners 252 00:17:10,571 --> 00:17:14,283 because much of my content is driven by the questions that I get. 253 00:17:14,491 --> 00:17:19,246 I let my email inbox every morning write my editorial calendar for me. 254 00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:21,540 If I start getting a question 255 00:17:21,623 --> 00:17:24,626 five, six, seven times, I just say I got to make a video about it. 256 00:17:24,918 --> 00:17:28,297 The antennas that come with the goggles have this shoulder here 257 00:17:28,630 --> 00:17:32,593 to prevent you from twisting off the internal SMA connector. 258 00:17:33,010 --> 00:17:34,344 It kind of cinches it down. 259 00:17:34,428 --> 00:17:37,097 So I have a degree in computer science from Georgia Tech. 260 00:17:37,181 --> 00:17:41,143 So I've got this background in computers and familiarity with computers 261 00:17:41,477 --> 00:17:43,312 and maybe even a little bit of programing. 262 00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:46,440 When I was a kid, my dad was into electronics. 263 00:17:46,523 --> 00:17:47,608 He taught me to solder. 264 00:17:47,691 --> 00:17:50,152 So I've got this background with electronics. 265 00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:53,637 Another piece of my background that I think really makes a difference 266 00:17:53,697 --> 00:17:58,077 is that I spent about ten years as an instructor, and courseware 267 00:17:58,327 --> 00:18:01,872 designer doing classroom instruction, not like academic, but corporate. 268 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:05,417 I spent a lot of time figuring out how to break 269 00:18:05,501 --> 00:18:08,796 complex topics down into an understandable way 270 00:18:08,879 --> 00:18:12,883 and then communicate them to people in a way that people could get. 271 00:18:13,133 --> 00:18:15,576 I think that's what I'm most proud of, is the people out there 272 00:18:15,636 --> 00:18:19,556 who say I wouldn't be in the air if it weren't for Bardwell's videos. 273 00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:25,687 I got into FPV fairly quickly, 274 00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:27,606 mainly just because of my background 275 00:18:27,689 --> 00:18:32,027 with electronics engineering and being around my father as a DIY 276 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:34,696 self-employed electronics engineer at home. 277 00:18:35,656 --> 00:18:38,117 This workshop behind me is where I put together 278 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,120 all the drones and whatever projects I'm working on. 279 00:18:42,371 --> 00:18:44,164 Hey, guys, this is my drone wall. 280 00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:47,960 This is where I keep all of my older drones that I don't really fly anymore. 281 00:18:48,043 --> 00:18:50,504 It's just kind of a decorative way to store these things. 282 00:18:51,046 --> 00:18:53,674 You know, I built this thing for a race in Dubai and ended up 283 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:57,636 kind of making it into some long range drone where I don't necessarily always fly 284 00:18:57,719 --> 00:18:59,828 far away, but this thing will fly for like 12 minutes. 285 00:18:59,888 --> 00:19:01,807 Opposed to my normal three to five. 286 00:19:02,266 --> 00:19:06,019 So this is like my very first drone ever it's a mini quad 287 00:19:06,103 --> 00:19:07,938 made by a company called Black Out. 288 00:19:08,021 --> 00:19:09,690 This particular quad 289 00:19:09,773 --> 00:19:13,861 got run over by a trophy truck on my very first commercial gig ever. 290 00:19:13,944 --> 00:19:17,030 And this thing Fail-Safed, which means it lost RC connection 291 00:19:17,114 --> 00:19:20,117 fell out of the sky onto the racetrack, and got run over. 292 00:19:20,617 --> 00:19:23,203 So this drone right here is like the combination 293 00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:27,082 of six years of R&D and testing and trial and error. 294 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:31,170 Every time I go out, this is exactly every video I've ever made 295 00:19:31,253 --> 00:19:35,591 has been flown with something either similar to this or this exact unit itself. 296 00:19:36,758 --> 00:19:39,052 So like anything, skateboarding, 297 00:19:39,469 --> 00:19:42,109 working on cars, you got to have the right tool for the right job. 298 00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:45,058 And so this is a typical two millimeter driver 299 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:47,102 that we would use to work on drones. 300 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:49,271 In the last few years the technology has become 301 00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:53,567 a little bit more accessible and obviously these drones are becoming easier 302 00:19:53,650 --> 00:19:56,486 and easier to build, and so that's drawing in more and more people. 303 00:19:57,404 --> 00:20:00,616 The FPV community mainly takes place on the Internet. 304 00:20:00,782 --> 00:20:02,659 We're spread across the globe 305 00:20:02,743 --> 00:20:06,788 and most interactions with each other, all done on Facebook groups. 306 00:20:08,081 --> 00:20:12,211 FPV is basically this one giant tribe from all around the world. 307 00:20:12,294 --> 00:20:14,630 When I go live on any social media platform, 308 00:20:14,713 --> 00:20:17,799 there are people from all over the world that will comment in 309 00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:21,929 But also because in a lot of places there just aren't any other FPV pilots. 310 00:20:22,346 --> 00:20:24,556 You could be like the only one in your small town 311 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,892 and you just kind of got to do it yourself. 312 00:20:26,975 --> 00:20:30,437 Social media has enabled us to find each other and congregate 313 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,688 in these bigger groups. 314 00:20:31,772 --> 00:20:36,026 Like I have thousands of people that I interact with online on social media. 315 00:20:36,485 --> 00:20:40,447 So when you get a chance to go to an event and meet other FPV pilots in person, 316 00:20:40,781 --> 00:20:43,575 I think it's really special, it's really important, and 317 00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:45,726 gets the keyboard out of the way 318 00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:47,746 and gets you face to face. 319 00:20:51,833 --> 00:20:54,461 The community in general is just so helpful. 320 00:20:54,544 --> 00:20:55,360 You know, it's a place 321 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:59,466 where everyone just contributes ideas and goes to find inspiration. 322 00:21:00,008 --> 00:21:02,970 I learned myself from the community, you know, I go back and learn 323 00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:05,847 and trying to find and find new things that I hadn't known about. 324 00:21:06,098 --> 00:21:07,456 See what other people are working on. 325 00:21:07,516 --> 00:21:09,226 It's this place where everyone learns. 326 00:21:09,309 --> 00:21:11,561 And I think that's just so amazing to have. 327 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:15,065 We kind of joke that when you become a pilot, 328 00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:18,151 the first thing you do is make a logo 329 00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:22,406 pick a pilot name, then you build your drone and learn to fly. 330 00:21:22,489 --> 00:21:24,283 What is it with pilots in their brands? 331 00:21:24,366 --> 00:21:26,201 I don't know the answer to this question. 332 00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:29,204 As soon as they get into the hobby they want to hire somebody 333 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:32,457 to make them a logo, but I cannot explain it to you. 334 00:21:32,874 --> 00:21:36,586 I guess it probably has something to do with social media culture. 335 00:21:39,589 --> 00:21:40,841 It's how you rep your brand. 336 00:21:40,924 --> 00:21:43,867 That's how you like give your buddies a sticker, you know, like the sticker 337 00:21:43,927 --> 00:21:47,848 just indicates like, I knew this guy or you met this person In person. 338 00:21:47,931 --> 00:21:49,725 FPV becomes your identity. 339 00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:52,144 So why would you not, you know, want to buy the URL, 340 00:21:52,227 --> 00:21:54,962 get some stickers made of your name, let everybody know what your pilot name is. 341 00:21:55,022 --> 00:21:56,606 It's a way to reinvent yourself. 342 00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:58,692 Everybody has stickers, everybody has stickers. 343 00:21:58,775 --> 00:22:00,277 Please stop sending me stickers 344 00:22:00,444 --> 00:22:01,244 no I'm just kidding. 345 00:22:13,123 --> 00:22:15,292 Surfers are really protective of their spots, 346 00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:17,419 because like there's only so many waves, right? 347 00:22:17,502 --> 00:22:18,879 If there's a really good spot 348 00:22:18,962 --> 00:22:21,321 and somebody else gets your wave, you're not going to get it. 349 00:22:21,381 --> 00:22:24,259 And it feels like FPV pilots are a little bit like that, too. 350 00:22:25,135 --> 00:22:27,054 Or they could piss off the security guard. 351 00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:30,265 Cops called on you, maybe you're not quite supposed to be there, 352 00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:32,916 but if you're cool about it, then you won't get any trouble. 353 00:22:32,976 --> 00:22:35,479 We've had police ride up on us and not know 354 00:22:35,562 --> 00:22:39,274 what we're doing alone in a parking lot and making all this noise. 355 00:22:39,733 --> 00:22:43,278 These kind police officers want to go for a quick ride. 356 00:22:49,993 --> 00:22:53,038 But you put the goggles on them, and take them for a ride. 357 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,564 They think it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. 358 00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:58,335 And we get away with getting a stay at a lot of spots that way. 359 00:22:58,502 --> 00:23:00,629 The only other thing that like how I recognize 360 00:23:00,796 --> 00:23:03,840 FPV drone pilots is massive backpacks at airports. 361 00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:08,845 So like you can pick out a drone pilot from a thousand people easily 362 00:23:08,929 --> 00:23:12,974 because they have a backpack full of stuff and they always get checked at security. 363 00:23:13,225 --> 00:23:16,812 The king of carrying extras is definitely Corey. 364 00:23:16,937 --> 00:23:21,566 Like today, his bag was like fifty pounds and mine was maybe 20. 365 00:23:27,447 --> 00:23:28,607 You never fly your last pack. 366 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:32,577 So the minute you say, this is my last pack that I'm going 367 00:23:32,744 --> 00:23:35,497 home, you're going to lose your quad, it's going to explode. 368 00:23:36,373 --> 00:23:41,545 Some people keep a charged pack and that is their quote unquote last pack. 369 00:23:41,795 --> 00:23:43,880 And they just leave it. I'm not making this up. 370 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:47,592 They superstitiously just leave their last pack in their backpack. 371 00:23:48,552 --> 00:23:51,471 But the quad gods know that's not really your last pack. 372 00:23:51,888 --> 00:23:53,682 You can't fool them that simply. 373 00:24:01,523 --> 00:24:03,650 A lot of people who used to skateboard 374 00:24:04,109 --> 00:24:08,071 and now they're like they're middle aged and they're tired of breaking their bones 375 00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:12,284 end up as FPV pilots because it's like the same kind of thrill 376 00:24:12,367 --> 00:24:15,287 and challenge to do a new trick. 377 00:24:15,495 --> 00:24:16,353 So with skateboarding, 378 00:24:16,413 --> 00:24:18,999 you typically show up to a spot and then you kind of explore it 379 00:24:19,082 --> 00:24:21,293 and find out what you can use or what you can't use. 380 00:24:21,376 --> 00:24:24,254 Maybe a handrail, skate, stair sets or ledges. 381 00:24:24,337 --> 00:24:26,590 With FPV you really do the same thing. 382 00:24:26,673 --> 00:24:29,050 So you show up and you're like, wow, there's a gap there. 383 00:24:29,134 --> 00:24:30,302 There's this hole here. 384 00:24:30,385 --> 00:24:34,181 There may be some, you know, some kind of weird thing that I can slide on. 385 00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:48,260 You know, you're looking for cool spots, but instead of handrails, 386 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,946 you're looking for dive gaps. 387 00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:59,080 If you have a flat parking lot, 388 00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:01,231 there's probably nothing interesting to skate there. 389 00:25:01,291 --> 00:25:04,044 Once you have elevation changes and you have stairs, there's 390 00:25:04,127 --> 00:25:05,277 something good to skate there. 391 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:07,214 The same thing applies with FPV. 392 00:25:09,090 --> 00:25:10,782 It really does feel like skateboarding in the air. 393 00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:12,886 My friends that don't fly ask me what it's like. 394 00:25:12,969 --> 00:25:14,930 I say it's like skateboarding in the air. 395 00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:19,059 And I also have a a large background 396 00:25:19,142 --> 00:25:22,479 or a long history of skateboarding, which I think also carried over. 397 00:25:23,563 --> 00:25:26,608 And it makes sense that a lot of pilots come from these worlds. 398 00:25:26,733 --> 00:25:30,320 That was like the new normal, it was to break things. 399 00:25:30,403 --> 00:25:34,366 With flying FPV, I can chase that same itch, I can try to push myself 400 00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:37,911 without risking more titanium rods in my body. 401 00:25:54,886 --> 00:25:56,137 You're like, Okay, here we go. 402 00:25:56,221 --> 00:25:56,972 Oh, no, I crashed. 403 00:25:57,055 --> 00:26:00,976 Oh, no, I screwed it up and pack after pack after pack after pack after pack. 404 00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:03,228 Until sometimes you break through. 405 00:26:03,311 --> 00:26:06,022 I thrash my drones. I don't give a sh♪t what my drones look like. 406 00:26:06,106 --> 00:26:08,340 I don't care. As long as they fly, I'm throwing it through that gap. 407 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,800 You know, it's going to slam into a wall and still take off, 408 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:12,219 the props are bent, Whatever. 409 00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:13,446 Just keep flying. 410 00:26:16,449 --> 00:26:19,077 If I were still skating, I would be injured all the time. 411 00:26:19,911 --> 00:26:23,873 So, yeah, you can either break your legs or your wrists 412 00:26:23,957 --> 00:26:27,377 or you can just break your pocketbook and fly FPV. 413 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:31,172 Somewhere out there there's somebody who's like, that's the whole point brah, 414 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:33,633 is that there's something on the line. 415 00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:36,636 But you reach a point in your life where you're tired 416 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,598 of going to the hospital with broken bones and sprained... 417 00:26:39,806 --> 00:26:42,225 and your just like, I'm done with that. 418 00:26:44,978 --> 00:26:47,564 So you get everything together for a nice day out 419 00:26:47,647 --> 00:26:50,900 with your friends, plug in, you get your tones, 420 00:26:52,485 --> 00:26:53,570 put your goggles on... 421 00:26:53,653 --> 00:26:54,863 no video. 422 00:26:55,238 --> 00:26:58,742 This is why FPV is like such a pain the ass sometimes. 423 00:26:58,992 --> 00:27:01,101 Or then you left something at home. And then you left something at home. 424 00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:02,894 That's a mean one. Or you didn't charge your GoPro. 425 00:27:02,954 --> 00:27:05,313 Or you didn't charge your GoPro. Or you didn't charge your radio. 426 00:27:05,373 --> 00:27:06,791 Oh, that's the best. 427 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,335 So what's the solution? 428 00:27:08,418 --> 00:27:10,295 Just bring four or five quads. 429 00:27:11,087 --> 00:27:12,779 You never have to worry about four or five quads. 430 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:14,049 Three or four GoPros. 431 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:18,219 I don't go as hard as Corey does, so I don't do as much damage 432 00:27:18,303 --> 00:27:20,597 to my equipment as Corey does. How about that? 433 00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:22,766 I remember my first time breaking something. 434 00:27:22,849 --> 00:27:25,185 I was like, Oh my God, I broke a prop. 435 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:27,562 And people were like, Oh, that's nothing. 436 00:27:27,687 --> 00:27:31,441 If you spend your whole time being terrified that you're going to crash, 437 00:27:31,941 --> 00:27:33,193 then you'll never get better. 438 00:27:33,234 --> 00:27:36,696 That's really the only way that you're going to really learn and excel as a pilot. 439 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:38,805 Like you just got to be willing to break something. 440 00:27:38,865 --> 00:27:41,284 And let's face it, that's kind of like half the fun, right? 441 00:27:41,368 --> 00:27:44,204 You egg each other on, you're like, Hey, I bet you can't hit that. 442 00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:52,170 Oh, there's a branch up there. 443 00:27:52,253 --> 00:27:55,632 Trees grab you, trees will pull you right out of the air. 444 00:27:55,965 --> 00:27:58,968 Trees will gobble you up and not let you fall 445 00:27:59,052 --> 00:28:00,887 to the ground. 446 00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:09,062 And heaven forbid you get into a palm tree because that's like the end all. 447 00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:11,648 Once you get on top of the palm tree, you're done. 448 00:28:17,987 --> 00:28:20,699 First pack with my freestyle quad. 449 00:28:20,824 --> 00:28:21,991 I'm a racer. 450 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:23,451 Check this out. 451 00:28:23,743 --> 00:28:26,746 Where skateboarding sometimes takes, you know, 100 tries and you can fall 452 00:28:26,830 --> 00:28:28,123 down, hurt yourself really bad. 453 00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:30,834 And that's going to affect your next line, FPV is just a drone. 454 00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:32,919 Get a new drone, fix the motor, whatever it is. 455 00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:36,589 And you continue to hit that crazy gap or do that crazy line until you do it. 456 00:28:51,646 --> 00:28:54,941 And the movement can just seem really random, 457 00:28:55,483 --> 00:28:58,111 but it's actually very practiced. 458 00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:02,449 We actually have a whole set of defined tricks. 459 00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:05,452 Going to start with the split-S. Everybody's first trick is to split-S, 460 00:29:13,376 --> 00:29:16,129 and some of the most common ones are like a power loop 461 00:29:16,212 --> 00:29:20,967 where you go under something and power and it loop around 462 00:29:21,050 --> 00:29:22,927 and come back under it. 463 00:29:28,641 --> 00:29:30,518 Every trick in FPV 464 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:33,563 really boils down to a combination 465 00:29:33,646 --> 00:29:35,815 of three basic moves: the roll, 466 00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:41,696 the pitch, which is a flip, or yah. 467 00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:48,892 And the first time you go to a place 468 00:29:48,953 --> 00:29:51,164 there's like this magic to it because you don't know 469 00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:53,898 where all the lines are, you don't know everywhere that you can flow. 470 00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:55,919 So it's a little bit exploratory. 471 00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:19,776 It might be your second pack or it might be your 20th pack. 472 00:30:19,859 --> 00:30:21,110 You just don't know. 473 00:30:21,236 --> 00:30:22,779 But there's always that 474 00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:26,950 one pack that you know you're going to get the best clips from. 475 00:30:27,033 --> 00:30:28,451 There's that one. 476 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:47,136 So, I feel like that FPV is definitely a transition 477 00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:51,099 from BMX or any type of skateboarding, BMX snowboarding, 478 00:30:51,307 --> 00:30:54,769 because that thing of flow, like just the flow of cruising down a mountain 479 00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:58,356 or hitting that grind that you want is pretty much identical 480 00:30:58,606 --> 00:31:02,443 to hitting the gap or hitting this bando that you wanted to fly. 481 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:04,988 I mean, you just don't have to get hurt. It's beautiful. 482 00:31:08,157 --> 00:31:09,367 Carbon, 483 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:11,703 carbon. 484 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,295 I may never make it into Tony Hawk's pro skater, 485 00:31:20,378 --> 00:31:24,632 but I did make it into a drone simulator and I'll count that as a win. 486 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:27,468 Good morning. 487 00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:32,265 We are now in Orlando, Florida, where we are going to visit today with Rotor Riot. 488 00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:34,207 Just got off the phone with Drew. 489 00:31:34,267 --> 00:31:38,229 We're going to go meet up at the warehouse and we're going to find a Bando, 490 00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:41,524 which is an abandoned lot or abandoned structure 491 00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:42,483 of some kind. 492 00:31:50,491 --> 00:31:52,619 We're in Orlando, Florida, at the Rotor Riot 493 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:56,247 headquarters, where we've got our offices, our studio and our warehouse. 494 00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:00,960 Rotor Riot was founded by Chad Kapper. 495 00:32:01,044 --> 00:32:04,672 It's his second RC YouTube venture after flight test. 496 00:32:08,343 --> 00:32:09,677 It was founded 497 00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:14,349 with the idea of being at the center of FPV culture, 498 00:32:14,432 --> 00:32:17,852 and it really evolved to be at the center of FPV freestyle culture 499 00:32:18,102 --> 00:32:19,103 specifically. 500 00:32:19,187 --> 00:32:23,608 The idea was get top pilots and personalities, put them together on a show. 501 00:32:27,403 --> 00:32:29,238 And have them challenge each other, 502 00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:32,492 go on adventures and take the audience along with them. 503 00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:34,619 The episodes we make 504 00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:38,623 are supposed to be educational, teach a little bit about how to do this 505 00:32:38,706 --> 00:32:42,710 whole FPV thing, and more importantly, it's supposed to be inspirational. 506 00:32:43,002 --> 00:32:46,631 We're really lucky to have a team that in their own way wants to inspire 507 00:32:46,714 --> 00:32:49,968 people to fly and help them get into this hobby. 508 00:32:51,678 --> 00:32:52,845 Be sure to like subscribe. 509 00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:54,430 We'll catch up the next one! 510 00:32:58,977 --> 00:33:01,270 So this would be like our go to build. 511 00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:06,067 That's the HD1, and it's based on the original CL1 one frame. 512 00:33:06,150 --> 00:33:09,946 We modified it to accommodate the DJI system just by making it 513 00:33:10,029 --> 00:33:11,114 a little bit longer. 514 00:33:11,197 --> 00:33:14,117 It's probably our cheapest frame, but it's still very durable 515 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,535 with like five millimeter arms. 516 00:33:15,618 --> 00:33:17,620 It can take a pretty good beating. 517 00:33:17,745 --> 00:33:19,205 This is something new we're doing 518 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:20,873 it's the Digi-whoop. 519 00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,251 So it's kind of reminiscent of the tiny whoop. 520 00:33:23,626 --> 00:33:24,692 So it's a little bit bigger. 521 00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:27,121 It's I think a two inch prop rather than true 522 00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:30,758 tiny whoops are like one inch prop, but it's actually digital, right? 523 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:32,510 So it's using the Caddix Vista. 524 00:33:32,593 --> 00:33:34,762 So it's compatible with the DJI system. 525 00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:36,389 So to be able to fly something 526 00:33:36,472 --> 00:33:40,059 this small where you can really fly it, I mean, this is more than enough space. 527 00:33:40,143 --> 00:33:43,271 You could fly this around your house and have digital HD is pretty fun. 528 00:33:43,813 --> 00:33:45,481 What is a bando? 529 00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:47,525 A bando is an abandoned building. 530 00:34:06,794 --> 00:34:08,337 Abandoned buildings. 531 00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:10,882 That's another thing where it really became popular 532 00:34:10,965 --> 00:34:15,219 because people were exploring abandoned buildings and factories, 533 00:34:15,303 --> 00:34:19,390 flying into windows, exploring old facilities. 534 00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:41,370 Bando's are golden, just because of the layout. 535 00:34:41,454 --> 00:34:45,374 There's so many the way it looks on film, the way it feels to fly the structures 536 00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:46,524 of it, there's holes everywhere. 537 00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:47,794 There's cool things. 538 00:34:47,877 --> 00:34:49,837 Number one you have structures. 539 00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:53,007 Number two, typically don't have windows or glass in the windows. 540 00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:57,261 So all of those openings are openings that you can fly through. 541 00:35:14,362 --> 00:35:16,114 Elevator shafts, windows. 542 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,450 There's so many different variations of what you can do in a bando. 543 00:35:24,747 --> 00:35:25,623 So today 544 00:35:25,748 --> 00:35:28,960 we are doing a Rotor Riot shoot on location. 545 00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:32,296 There are some local pilots that I saw flying this 546 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,842 really cool looking Bando and I reached out to them. 547 00:35:36,259 --> 00:35:39,846 Actually, one of them was my buddy Edwin, AKA Erodyo. 548 00:35:40,096 --> 00:35:43,391 When I started flying, I lived in Detroit and I lived there for the first 549 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:47,812 three years I was flying and we had Bando's everywhere. 550 00:35:48,271 --> 00:35:51,190 There's little areas in Detroit where you've got 551 00:35:51,357 --> 00:35:54,652 five world class spots all within 10 minutes of each other. 552 00:35:54,777 --> 00:35:56,821 Some of them you can literally fly the other 553 00:35:56,881 --> 00:35:58,781 spot while you're standing at one spot. 554 00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:01,576 Bando's are usually always going to be concrete, metal, 555 00:36:02,326 --> 00:36:05,663 rusty, gritty when you crash It's pretty brutal. 556 00:36:06,289 --> 00:36:08,166 I do love flying tree spots, too. 557 00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:10,877 It's a great place to train, but when you get to a bando, 558 00:36:12,044 --> 00:36:14,297 that's like that's the best FPV experience I think. 559 00:36:15,756 --> 00:36:17,925 Bro, this is amazing. Wow. 560 00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:21,053 So are you kidding me? 561 00:36:28,394 --> 00:36:30,813 Just flying in an open space is boring. 562 00:36:30,897 --> 00:36:34,358 So you're looking for obstacles and a Bando is like it's 563 00:36:34,442 --> 00:36:37,278 a holy grail of obstacles because you can crash into anything. 564 00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:38,946 Nobody is going to complain. 565 00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:40,429 There's not going to be any people there. 566 00:36:40,489 --> 00:36:41,824 So it's perfectly safe. 567 00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:45,745 It's just the ultimate playground for FPV pilots. 568 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:49,790 Freestyle is about pushing the limits of the drone, 569 00:36:49,874 --> 00:36:54,003 being fast and agile, but also creating a beautiful shot. 570 00:36:54,462 --> 00:36:57,757 The subject of that shot is the movement of the drone itself. 571 00:36:57,924 --> 00:37:04,764 It's highlighting the drone capability and the piloting skill in an artful way. 572 00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:16,048 While I'm rolling out of it sideways. 573 00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:19,028 So you got to think on your feet and turn that to the next thing and just 574 00:37:19,153 --> 00:37:20,071 keep the line going. 575 00:37:28,579 --> 00:37:31,272 There are holes in walls that are blown out that you can fly through. 576 00:37:31,332 --> 00:37:36,921 You've got shafts, you can dive down all sorts of ways that you can push yourself 577 00:37:37,046 --> 00:37:41,217 and what the drone is doing and with a really high risk factor. 578 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:45,096 Because this is all concrete metal when you crash, it's not like you're 579 00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:46,597 crashing the branches of a tree. 580 00:37:46,681 --> 00:37:48,516 It's a nice little cushion for you to go on. 581 00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:50,268 You're probably going to break something. 582 00:38:01,237 --> 00:38:02,655 A Bando is a great dynamic spot 583 00:38:02,738 --> 00:38:05,950 for FPV because you get all of these different diverse types of elements. 584 00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:06,993 I mean, you can 585 00:38:07,076 --> 00:38:09,756 fly inside the actual buildings themselves where you're just trying 586 00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:10,955 to not hit anything. 587 00:38:11,038 --> 00:38:12,730 Or you can fly on the outside of the buildings 588 00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:16,419 and kind of dive along the side or do these wall rides along the side. 589 00:38:26,804 --> 00:38:28,047 Inside the building itself. 590 00:38:28,097 --> 00:38:31,642 I saw these two, this pair of cylinders, and so I was trying to do a big power loop 591 00:38:31,809 --> 00:38:34,449 around those, and I finally ended up getting it, which is awesome. 592 00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:43,052 We're out there and we're watching each other fly 593 00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:45,054 and all we want to do is see the other people improve 594 00:38:45,114 --> 00:38:47,234 and push other people to the best of their abilities. 595 00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:48,557 There's nothing more fun than that. 596 00:38:48,617 --> 00:38:52,496 We really push each other when we watch each other fly, especially in person, 597 00:38:52,788 --> 00:38:56,751 to see them pull off something like, Okay, I got to do, I got to one up that. 598 00:38:56,959 --> 00:38:59,045 I've got to take that trick and make it even better. 599 00:39:29,658 --> 00:39:31,911 Sometimes you will smack right into a metal beam. 600 00:39:31,994 --> 00:39:33,227 But these drones are pretty tough 601 00:39:33,287 --> 00:39:36,874 and a lot of times you'll be able to bend the props back and fly again. 602 00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:37,898 And if you're really good, 603 00:39:37,958 --> 00:39:40,518 sometimes you'll be able to recover and fly away from the crash. 604 00:39:47,176 --> 00:39:49,220 For the past five years, I've been as engaged 605 00:39:49,303 --> 00:39:53,265 as I can be to help the FAA develop reasonable and appropriate policy. 606 00:39:53,766 --> 00:39:58,771 I was on the registration task force in 2015 then two other aviation 607 00:39:58,854 --> 00:40:02,775 rule-making committees for flight over people as well as remote identification. 608 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:06,695 And I've been on the Drone Advisory Committee for the past several years. 609 00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,114 As long as it's existed. 610 00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:12,576 The ARC provided an 80 page report to the FAA, which set out different ways 611 00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:15,788 to accomplish remote ID, but didn't recommend any single way to do it. 612 00:40:15,913 --> 00:40:19,041 And so what you had is these stakeholders agreeing 613 00:40:19,125 --> 00:40:21,877 that, look at the end of the day this remote I.D. 614 00:40:22,128 --> 00:40:23,796 requirement has to be reasonable, 615 00:40:23,879 --> 00:40:26,715 has to be low cost, low burden, has to respect privacy. 616 00:40:26,799 --> 00:40:30,594 And then you have the FAA two years later actually not listening 617 00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:32,388 to that part of the advice. 618 00:40:32,471 --> 00:40:35,891 I think what the FAA came out with is a proposal 619 00:40:35,975 --> 00:40:40,187 that is overly burdensome and overreaching. 620 00:40:40,646 --> 00:40:43,899 They want every aircraft over 250 grams, 621 00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:49,280 0.55 pounds, in the national airspace of the United States 622 00:40:49,363 --> 00:40:53,200 to continuously report its location 623 00:40:53,284 --> 00:40:57,288 and other information about itself back to a central database. 624 00:40:57,496 --> 00:41:01,542 It's an all of the above approach in which you have to provide remote ID 625 00:41:02,251 --> 00:41:07,423 information in more than one way and ways that are extremely costly. 626 00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:12,511 It would be very easy and very low impact 627 00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:16,515 to come up with a solution that's based on the RF we already use. 628 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:19,935 But instead they're coming up with very odd ideas 629 00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:23,272 about essentially building an iPhone into your drone. 630 00:41:25,065 --> 00:41:27,443 This hobby is really expensive. 631 00:41:27,526 --> 00:41:30,070 We put a lot of time, money and energy into it. 632 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:33,699 So I can't imagine paying a cell phone subscription 633 00:41:33,782 --> 00:41:35,284 for each of my drones. 634 00:41:49,590 --> 00:41:53,844 So, as far as a small business, a modular remote ID unit 635 00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:56,138 would be absolutely critical because we don't 636 00:41:56,514 --> 00:42:00,226 you know, the FPV market is kind of small and when you innovate, 637 00:42:00,309 --> 00:42:02,668 you're not going to sell a whole lot of units right off the bat. 638 00:42:02,728 --> 00:42:06,273 So something modular you can put into a custom build, you know, 639 00:42:06,398 --> 00:42:10,319 very simply it's going to be critical as far as allowing innovation to happen. 640 00:42:10,402 --> 00:42:14,114 So people building their own drones can add the remote 641 00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:16,784 ID component to it and comply with the rule. 642 00:42:17,243 --> 00:42:20,037 Otherwise you're going to have a remote ID solution 643 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,040 ultimately that fails and doesn't satisfy the government's needs. 644 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:27,878 Individual hobbyists, innovators, STEM programs, small companies 645 00:42:28,504 --> 00:42:32,174 all are just going to not be able to exist. 646 00:42:32,508 --> 00:42:36,095 If this is not possible to build your custom drone or to innovate 647 00:42:36,178 --> 00:42:39,181 and maybe tinker a bit and change something here and there, you would 648 00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:44,144 basically take away those shots and the possibility 649 00:42:44,270 --> 00:42:47,940 of doing things in the future that we maybe even kind of think of today. 650 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,068 At DJI, we don't just advocate for what's good for us. 651 00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:54,071 We really are advocating for what's good for the entire drone community. 652 00:42:54,321 --> 00:42:55,573 So one of the things we did 653 00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:59,493 is we proactively developed a remote I.D. solution called drone to phone 654 00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:03,706 that shows the FAA and other regulators that a broadcast solution works. 655 00:43:03,789 --> 00:43:05,416 It works in an urban environment 656 00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:08,210 and it would be free because it would involve software changes 657 00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:11,964 to many drones and a phone app that people could download and use for free. 658 00:43:12,047 --> 00:43:14,383 And you would not need any of that network infrastructure. 659 00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:18,095 The service providers that are expected to charge monthly fees 660 00:43:18,304 --> 00:43:21,390 and network connectivity, which comes with its own costs and complexities. 661 00:43:22,558 --> 00:43:23,809 Products that are 662 00:43:23,892 --> 00:43:26,979 sold will have to comply and then at some point, products 663 00:43:27,062 --> 00:43:31,191 that you have that can't do remote ID would have to stop being used. 664 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,194 The worst thing is I've got 15 to 20 drones 665 00:43:34,278 --> 00:43:38,490 that are going to be pretty much worthless if that doesn't get changed. 666 00:43:38,574 --> 00:43:42,036 And and a lot of people are in the same boat I'm in. 667 00:43:42,286 --> 00:43:44,997 These proposed regulations are trying to blanket kill 668 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,584 an entire industry when in reality what we're doing is just for fun. 669 00:43:48,667 --> 00:43:51,253 We're not trying to spy on people or deliver packages. 670 00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:54,381 We just want we want the ground we want like 20 feet. 671 00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:55,072 That's about it. 672 00:43:55,132 --> 00:43:58,075 You know most freestyle or racing drones we're not going super high in the air. 673 00:43:58,135 --> 00:43:59,261 If we had to go to fly 674 00:43:59,345 --> 00:44:02,389 in just little areas and little parks, I mean, it would just take away 675 00:44:02,473 --> 00:44:06,518 all the creativity and just what makes FPV what it actually is. 676 00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:08,020 Like the real core of it. 677 00:44:08,604 --> 00:44:11,523 Who wants to be stuck at the same designated park 678 00:44:11,607 --> 00:44:15,694 with probably zero features along with the 50,000 679 00:44:15,778 --> 00:44:17,636 other people that are all trying to do the same thing? 680 00:44:17,696 --> 00:44:20,699 It's kind of sad because we think what we're doing is pretty safe. 681 00:44:20,783 --> 00:44:21,742 It's pretty awesome. 682 00:44:21,825 --> 00:44:26,914 It's a really interesting and multifaceted hobby that kind of gets pushed into 683 00:44:26,997 --> 00:44:28,374 into an illegal space. 684 00:44:30,876 --> 00:44:33,170 Where FPV fits into the current rule that's proposed 685 00:44:33,253 --> 00:44:36,924 and the industry that's trying to be created by companies 686 00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:41,595 like Amazon and Google is that, in my opinion, it really doesn't, 687 00:44:42,096 --> 00:44:46,308 and that's pretty much exactly what the rule tells us. 688 00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:48,102 There is no place for you here. 689 00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:50,396 You will not fly. 690 00:44:50,771 --> 00:44:52,981 It's just shooting ourselves in the foot. 691 00:44:53,065 --> 00:44:56,151 Other countries are going to take off and run with this technology 692 00:44:56,568 --> 00:44:58,987 and American innovation is going to die. 693 00:44:59,863 --> 00:45:03,283 The entire drone industry grew out of hobbyists. 694 00:45:03,492 --> 00:45:07,162 There has to be a way to to balance both sides where you can keep things safe 695 00:45:07,454 --> 00:45:11,041 but still have the freedom to fly anywhere. 696 00:45:11,291 --> 00:45:12,793 Definitely worth saving. 697 00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:14,962 It's worth protecting and defending. 698 00:45:15,671 --> 00:45:19,633 At this point in 2020 there was just kind of a period of being in the dark. 699 00:45:19,758 --> 00:45:23,429 You know, the FAA is not usually receiving more than, say, 700 00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:26,724 5000 comments in a comment period. 701 00:45:26,932 --> 00:45:30,185 They received 53,000 comments from the community 702 00:45:30,269 --> 00:45:33,439 not only to mention that an actual protest happened 703 00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:36,650 at the FAA building and nothing like this had ever happened before. 704 00:45:36,817 --> 00:45:40,112 At this point the pilots and the community 705 00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:42,698 really thought at large there was 706 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,576 there was no way this was going to change. 707 00:45:45,784 --> 00:45:48,996 Are we going to lose our hobby as we know it? 708 00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:57,129 This is something I believe is going to be very significant 709 00:45:57,671 --> 00:46:03,093 no matter what the outcome is of the NPRM, this notice of proposed rulemaking. 710 00:46:03,844 --> 00:46:05,304 I've got to capture it. 711 00:46:05,387 --> 00:46:07,806 We've got to capture what happens here in 2020. 712 00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:09,308 I bought a plane ticket, 713 00:46:09,391 --> 00:46:13,103 I'm packing up my camera and my gear and I'm going to fly to Washington D.C. 714 00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:16,106 meet up with some of these influencers that I've met with 715 00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:20,360 and capture this day of protest, because this is history in the making. 716 00:46:20,569 --> 00:46:23,989 But in the back of my mind I'm thinking, how is this going to make an impact 717 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,409 if people don't really know what FPV drones are 718 00:46:27,701 --> 00:46:29,286 and this amazing community. 719 00:46:35,709 --> 00:46:37,544 My expectations for today, 720 00:46:37,628 --> 00:46:42,049 I think it's mostly important there just is a presence here. 721 00:46:42,925 --> 00:46:46,970 I think that the actual communication with the FAA is going to 722 00:46:47,095 --> 00:46:50,307 happen in more sort of private meetings and committees. 723 00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:52,040 I mean, I think one of the biggest problems is 724 00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:54,853 that they don't really even know we exist. 725 00:46:55,771 --> 00:46:58,482 I know that the organizers have a bunch of stuff planned. 726 00:46:58,565 --> 00:46:59,775 There's going to be picketing. 727 00:47:00,025 --> 00:47:04,363 I'm mostly just looking forward to seeing who comes and 728 00:47:05,656 --> 00:47:07,908 showing the people in our community 729 00:47:08,325 --> 00:47:10,577 that we are going to be out here fighting for them. 730 00:47:10,994 --> 00:47:12,663 Is Rotor Riot going to riot here? 731 00:47:12,746 --> 00:47:14,164 No, we are not. 732 00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:17,835 This is not a place for that, this is a place to peacefully protest 733 00:47:18,293 --> 00:47:20,045 and to have our voices heard. 734 00:47:29,972 --> 00:47:31,974 I'm a little nervous 735 00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:34,726 that it's not going to be a huge turnout 736 00:47:35,894 --> 00:47:40,065 because we're so spread out and it feels like we have such 737 00:47:40,148 --> 00:47:44,987 a large community, but it's just like this membrane spread across the world. 738 00:47:45,070 --> 00:47:47,221 If it was ever going to matter, if it was ever going to be worth 739 00:47:47,281 --> 00:47:49,032 taking time off work and getting on a plane 740 00:47:49,116 --> 00:47:52,870 and doing something expensive and obtrusive and inconvenient, 741 00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:56,248 it's kind of kind of now, if you actually care about this stuff. 742 00:47:56,415 --> 00:47:59,167 There's a lot of power in coming together physically, 743 00:48:00,127 --> 00:48:02,629 especially for a community that is so spread out 744 00:48:02,713 --> 00:48:05,883 and does most of its communication and interaction electronically. 745 00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:09,284 Regardless of how you do it, why you do it, what you're doing it for. 746 00:48:09,344 --> 00:48:14,141 We all love this weird hobby and it's under threat 747 00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:16,018 and we got to do something about it. 748 00:48:31,783 --> 00:48:32,868 The FAA released 749 00:48:32,951 --> 00:48:35,954 its notice of proposed rulemaking that's called NPRM 750 00:48:36,788 --> 00:48:39,791 just after Christmas 2019, 751 00:48:40,584 --> 00:48:42,711 which then started a 60 day comment period 752 00:48:47,424 --> 00:48:52,554 The protest was held in February on the last day to submit comments 753 00:48:52,846 --> 00:48:57,267 kind of as a way to raise awareness with all the live streams and everything 754 00:48:57,351 --> 00:49:00,228 that happened, all the pictures posted to Instagram and social media. 755 00:49:08,612 --> 00:49:10,230 Enok FPV, 756 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,618 had taken the initiative to plan a day of protest. 757 00:49:14,826 --> 00:49:18,789 People from all over the country coming here to save their access to hobby flight. 758 00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:23,669 And together this community has now really created a bunch of momentum. 759 00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:26,755 And this momentum is going to move forward in a way 760 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,840 that I don't think the FAA was expecting. 761 00:49:36,306 --> 00:49:37,849 It was just a really profound 762 00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:41,853 statement that I don't think a lot of people in the FAA 763 00:49:42,229 --> 00:49:46,566 had truly grasped until we showed up on their door. 764 00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:48,860 We do need things like remote I.D. 765 00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:51,196 and registration but we need to do it in a way that 766 00:49:51,405 --> 00:49:54,825 is reasonable and fair to the community and to the technology. 767 00:49:54,950 --> 00:49:57,953 It's very understandable why this community would come out in protest 768 00:49:58,036 --> 00:50:00,998 on a cold day with picket signs in front of the FAA. 769 00:50:01,665 --> 00:50:05,377 Because I think they read a proposal that doesn't take into account 770 00:50:05,460 --> 00:50:09,548 their concerns and is not realistic for the kinds of technology they use. 771 00:50:11,842 --> 00:50:12,926 It was a great turnout. 772 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,429 I mean, it was a far bigger turnout than I had imagined. 773 00:50:15,637 --> 00:50:17,264 It was a really cold day. 774 00:50:17,431 --> 00:50:18,390 I marched. 775 00:50:19,141 --> 00:50:21,435 I held signs and I chanted. 776 00:50:21,852 --> 00:50:26,064 Mostly, I think what I did was I got to connect with other people who were there. 777 00:50:26,857 --> 00:50:27,816 We did our chants. 778 00:50:27,899 --> 00:50:31,778 We marched and we did actually, like, get people coming up to us on the street 779 00:50:31,945 --> 00:50:33,113 asking what this is about. 780 00:50:33,196 --> 00:50:36,825 We actually got news articles written about the movement. 781 00:50:36,908 --> 00:50:41,663 It's one piece of fighting for this hobby, 782 00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:44,750 and we'll go back to Washington as many times as it takes 783 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,587 to make sure that the world actually knows that, first off, we exist 784 00:50:49,004 --> 00:50:51,465 and that what we do is worth saving. 785 00:51:00,474 --> 00:51:02,642 We had about 250 people out there 786 00:51:02,726 --> 00:51:05,562 all taking time out of their day 787 00:51:05,645 --> 00:51:09,900 and ages, ranging out there from ten years old to 80 years old. 788 00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:12,861 We had kids there that were brought by their moms. 789 00:51:12,944 --> 00:51:14,905 There was a whole group of FPV moms 790 00:51:14,988 --> 00:51:17,824 with their 13 year old kids that were into this hobby. 791 00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:21,620 Because it's the youth who were also a part of this. 792 00:51:21,995 --> 00:51:24,122 Let's keep this STEM going. 793 00:51:25,207 --> 00:51:28,293 So I've been into FPV for about four years, and it's stuck 794 00:51:28,376 --> 00:51:33,590 with me more than anything else I've done before, and it's allowed me 795 00:51:34,382 --> 00:51:39,096 to learn just so much more than I would have ever expected when I started. 796 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,003 When I heard the FAA was trying to take away drones 797 00:51:48,063 --> 00:51:49,648 I went to my first protest ever. 798 00:51:49,731 --> 00:51:51,331 We went down there and people assembled. 799 00:51:51,399 --> 00:51:54,778 People are very passionate about FPV, and it was so awesome to see everybody. 800 00:51:55,237 --> 00:51:59,199 It's important for influencers to show up, to not only show that they care, 801 00:51:59,282 --> 00:52:01,451 but also to meet the people that they've influenced. 802 00:52:02,327 --> 00:52:04,830 And for me personally, I met a guy who said that 803 00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:09,376 he was from Alaska, and he drove here based on a video that I made a week ago. 804 00:52:11,670 --> 00:52:13,672 It was cool to be able to go there and show 805 00:52:13,839 --> 00:52:17,092 my support and hang out with people that are also supportive of, 806 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:20,470 you know, stopping extra drone regulation that is unnecessary. 807 00:52:21,721 --> 00:52:25,475 I see the need for regulation to make sure people stay safe, 808 00:52:25,725 --> 00:52:30,438 but overregulation is going to stifle any amount of innovation. 809 00:52:30,605 --> 00:52:33,650 We can stand and do everything that we need to do 810 00:52:33,859 --> 00:52:35,443 as a united body. 811 00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:42,075 At minimum, give us a way 812 00:52:42,492 --> 00:52:45,453 to put a module on our drones so that we can comply. 813 00:52:45,662 --> 00:52:48,039 It may not end today this may just be the beginning. 814 00:52:48,456 --> 00:52:50,500 There's going to be a lot of steps after this. 815 00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:53,712 We're not going to win just from having a protest in a park. 816 00:52:54,379 --> 00:52:57,966 But the protest in the park is giving us more power. 817 00:52:58,258 --> 00:53:01,928 We want to protect our access to the sky and we're going to do it 818 00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:04,514 together as one community. 819 00:53:26,870 --> 00:53:28,311 Basically, when I got started in FPV, 820 00:53:28,371 --> 00:53:31,708 I just had really got to flying with the goggles on 821 00:53:31,791 --> 00:53:36,087 and approximately a month after that, my daughter passed away. 822 00:53:36,171 --> 00:53:41,218 And so, in the midst of all that agony and pain I was going through, 823 00:53:41,301 --> 00:53:44,179 basically I could go to the park after work and 824 00:53:45,430 --> 00:53:49,142 fly my drones and I would get away from all that I was feeling. 825 00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:51,519 You know, all that was bothering me inside. 826 00:53:51,603 --> 00:53:52,812 For three minutes at a time 827 00:53:52,896 --> 00:53:56,566 I got it up in the air and fly and on occasion, you know, I actually even 828 00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:57,674 felt closer to my daughter. 829 00:53:57,734 --> 00:54:01,488 But that, that laid the foundation for me in FPV, and why 830 00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:03,531 I feel like I should give back so much. 831 00:54:08,453 --> 00:54:09,371 My local community 832 00:54:09,454 --> 00:54:12,499 needed somebody like me to help out, and I stepped up. 833 00:54:12,582 --> 00:54:15,794 And now we have great races and it's still a part of my life 834 00:54:15,877 --> 00:54:17,128 two and a half years later. 835 00:54:24,344 --> 00:54:25,845 All the pilots. 836 00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:28,006 Are you ready? Let me see your thumbs up. 837 00:54:28,056 --> 00:54:30,767 Two, three pilots are ready. 838 00:54:31,559 --> 00:54:34,187 Pilots arm your quads. 839 00:54:34,271 --> 00:54:36,481 On the tone, less than five. 840 00:54:39,192 --> 00:54:41,152 So one of the things that makes Multi GP 841 00:54:41,236 --> 00:54:45,198 so instrumental in the hobby is that it is near you. 842 00:54:45,490 --> 00:54:47,659 There are so many chapters around the world 843 00:54:48,827 --> 00:54:52,080 both local chapters, and then those local chapters 844 00:54:52,205 --> 00:54:53,957 will branch into a regional chapter. 845 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,626 So, for instance, we're filming here in South Carolina 846 00:54:57,043 --> 00:55:01,047 and not 20 minutes away there's a Multi GP chapter here in Greenville. 847 00:55:01,131 --> 00:55:03,300 It's very active races regularly. 848 00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:05,010 And so it's very important 849 00:55:05,093 --> 00:55:08,805 that if someone's looking to pick up FPV here in Greenville, for example, 850 00:55:09,014 --> 00:55:12,642 they can go out there and see what actually is. 851 00:55:20,025 --> 00:55:21,109 I am not a racer. 852 00:55:21,192 --> 00:55:23,361 I cannot compete on that level. 853 00:55:23,486 --> 00:55:24,821 Haha I've tried, 854 00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:29,367 it's just different skill sets and a different discipline. 855 00:55:29,534 --> 00:55:33,955 So racing, the level so high today, you need to do that 856 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,166 and that only if you want to be on the top. 857 00:55:47,927 --> 00:55:49,804 I'm 17 years old now 858 00:55:49,929 --> 00:55:52,969 and I started flying remote control airplanes with my dad at the age of six. 859 00:55:53,391 --> 00:55:57,437 I started getting into RC airplanes flying competitively at around the age of ten. 860 00:55:57,687 --> 00:55:59,921 My name is Kevin Turner and I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee. 861 00:55:59,981 --> 00:56:01,649 Right on. What's your position right now? 862 00:56:01,858 --> 00:56:03,943 Uh, you know, first or second, I'm not sure. 863 00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:06,613 So cool to go from flying these remote control airplanes. 864 00:56:06,905 --> 00:56:09,616 Third person to being able to sit inside of one. 865 00:56:09,699 --> 00:56:11,493 And that's really what drew me into it. 866 00:56:12,077 --> 00:56:13,703 Multi GP is very grassroots. 867 00:56:13,787 --> 00:56:15,497 Everyone is building their own drones. 868 00:56:15,580 --> 00:56:16,021 You can do 869 00:56:16,081 --> 00:56:19,024 whatever you like to these drones to make it fly to the best of your ability 870 00:56:19,084 --> 00:56:19,959 and preferences. 871 00:56:20,043 --> 00:56:23,088 So I was able to go to a local chapter and meet with a group of guys 872 00:56:23,171 --> 00:56:27,675 that were already sanctioned through Multi GP and get my racing journey started. 873 00:56:29,803 --> 00:56:34,391 There's just so much to FPV nowadays and it's gotten a lot better. 874 00:56:34,516 --> 00:56:38,853 But having someone there that's local, I can help you out 875 00:56:38,937 --> 00:56:42,065 through the building and purchasing process is super beneficial. 876 00:56:42,148 --> 00:56:43,066 It's the most fun 877 00:56:43,149 --> 00:56:46,736 racing for anyone and everyone, whether it's your first race or your 100th race. 878 00:56:46,945 --> 00:56:49,697 That's Multi GP's goal, is to grow the sport of drone racing 879 00:56:49,906 --> 00:56:52,992 and to make it as fun as possible for each and every one. 880 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,420 So for the world's best racers, in my opinion, 881 00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:08,550 the Multi GP National Championship is the pinnacle of the sport. 882 00:57:08,716 --> 00:57:13,721 They take FPV truly to a worldwide scale. 883 00:57:14,222 --> 00:57:17,559 If you go on to Multi GP, you will find a chapter in an area, 884 00:57:17,642 --> 00:57:20,979 you will find pilots that you can fly with, whether you want to race or not. 885 00:57:21,104 --> 00:57:25,984 With the Multi GP Drone Racing League, over 20,000 pilots from across 886 00:57:26,109 --> 00:57:30,155 the world use our platform for organizing 887 00:57:30,238 --> 00:57:33,283 and making drone racing most efficient. 888 00:57:33,533 --> 00:57:36,286 Right behind me on this awesome track here 889 00:57:36,369 --> 00:57:39,414 at Daytona Stadium in beautiful Daytona, Florida. 890 00:57:39,581 --> 00:57:41,749 We're battling it out for a DRL contract. 891 00:57:42,375 --> 00:57:47,005 Over $10,000 in cash prizes and bragging rights 892 00:57:52,051 --> 00:57:55,346 For the last two years we've been one of the primary sponsors 893 00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:57,932 of the Multi GP National Championship 894 00:58:01,394 --> 00:58:02,645 at multi GP events. 895 00:58:02,729 --> 00:58:05,773 You can just be in the stands as a spectator 896 00:58:05,899 --> 00:58:10,820 with your own goggles on your face and watching the pilots feed, live 897 00:58:12,864 --> 00:58:16,659 coming from my competitive background, I really just had a drive 898 00:58:16,784 --> 00:58:20,038 to want to not be the second best, not be the third best, but be the best. 899 00:58:20,163 --> 00:58:23,124 I saw And I got to meet all these guys and see the community behind it 900 00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:25,251 and see how bad everyone else wanted it. 901 00:58:25,335 --> 00:58:27,253 And I knew that I had to drive 902 00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:30,381 the will to want it more, if not the same amount as them. 903 00:58:31,090 --> 00:58:33,051 So I worked very, very hard. 904 00:58:33,176 --> 00:58:34,886 I came back in 2018 905 00:58:34,969 --> 00:58:38,473 and actually was able to win my first Multi GP national championship. 906 00:58:42,310 --> 00:58:44,354 We're pretty famous for being 907 00:58:44,646 --> 00:58:47,774 the main sponsor, at Multi GP every year. 908 00:58:48,274 --> 00:58:50,235 It's in Muncie, Indiana in August 909 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,154 and it's pretty much the biggest celebration of FPV. 910 00:58:53,238 --> 00:58:56,783 There's 400 - 500 pilots there every year and we all just get together 911 00:58:56,866 --> 00:58:57,784 and have a great time. 912 00:58:57,867 --> 00:59:00,537 You would think it would be specifically for racing, but because, 913 00:59:00,787 --> 00:59:02,288 you have people traveling 914 00:59:02,413 --> 00:59:05,124 to go to this race and they're from all over the world, 915 00:59:05,250 --> 00:59:09,170 you get this kind of like mixing melting pot of people that show up 916 00:59:09,379 --> 00:59:10,296 that don't even race. 917 00:59:10,380 --> 00:59:11,631 And they're just coming over 918 00:59:11,714 --> 00:59:14,554 because they know there are going to be a lot of top name pilots there. 919 00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:17,929 It's kind of transformed from just a race 920 00:59:18,054 --> 00:59:21,683 in the last few years to like almost this Tomorrowland-esk 921 00:59:21,975 --> 00:59:24,227 style event that happens for FPV. 922 00:59:24,561 --> 00:59:26,044 Like they have these tiny whoop races, 923 00:59:26,104 --> 00:59:28,231 where they light up hoops and fly through them. 924 00:59:28,314 --> 00:59:30,858 And it's a fun environment to be in. 925 00:59:35,071 --> 00:59:37,198 Initially there was a whole situation 926 00:59:37,282 --> 00:59:39,117 where if you plugged in on somebody else's 927 00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:43,830 channel, and that caused someone to crash, then like the marshals would come. 928 00:59:43,955 --> 00:59:47,542 If anybody powers up his quad above the allowed power level 929 00:59:47,625 --> 00:59:51,546 or during another person's race, he was going to hammer and smash the quad. 930 00:59:51,629 --> 00:59:54,173 That was like the rumor and nobody had 931 00:59:54,257 --> 00:59:55,883 that happen yet, it was all bluff. 932 00:59:55,967 --> 00:59:59,304 And then all of a sudden someone plugged in on a freestyle 933 00:59:59,554 --> 01:00:02,181 flight line and it caused someone in a race to crash. 934 01:00:02,265 --> 01:00:04,916 And all these people came over from the race and they were all upset. 935 01:00:04,976 --> 01:00:08,771 And the founder of Multi GP at the time, Chris Thomas, was over there 936 01:00:08,855 --> 01:00:10,106 with the hammer. 937 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:11,920 And then I was like, You won't do it. 938 01:00:11,983 --> 01:00:13,693 And eventually he got hammered. 939 01:00:13,818 --> 01:00:16,654 They literally just put the quad on this table and hammered it. 940 01:00:16,779 --> 01:00:20,241 And then I made a video about it and it became Hammer Gate. 941 01:00:20,575 --> 01:00:24,203 He ended up replacing it because he felt bad for the kid. 942 01:00:24,495 --> 01:00:26,122 That event is now known as Hammer Gate. 943 01:00:26,289 --> 01:00:28,189 Plugging in on someone is one of the worst things you can do. 944 01:00:28,249 --> 01:00:31,336 That's the biggest social faux pas, not to mention just being rude. 945 01:00:31,544 --> 01:00:34,153 If somebody is flying in the air, you want to find out what channel they're on. 946 01:00:34,213 --> 01:00:35,780 If you're on a close channel and you plug in 947 01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:37,717 you're going to block out their view 948 01:00:37,842 --> 01:00:38,992 they're going to see all static 949 01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:40,637 or see your drone on the ground. 950 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,805 Do not plug in on people. Don't be that person. 951 01:00:42,930 --> 01:00:45,642 You go out there and you're flyin, somebody powers up. 952 01:00:45,725 --> 01:00:48,061 You're like, Oh, who powered up? Who powered up? 953 01:00:49,187 --> 01:00:50,670 But you got to have a sense of humor about it 954 01:00:50,730 --> 01:00:53,733 because you're going to do it to somebody else too probably, eventually. 955 01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:10,041 Lately, I've been more focused on the cinematic 956 01:01:10,124 --> 01:01:13,127 side of FPV, and a lot of the designs are just motivated 957 01:01:13,211 --> 01:01:16,172 by a certain shot that someone might want to get. 958 01:01:16,255 --> 01:01:20,009 And the design is all driven by the needs of the pilots. 959 01:01:24,138 --> 01:01:26,808 One of the designs that really got popular of mine 960 01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:31,312 was The Squirt, which is a tiny little ducted drone 961 01:01:31,396 --> 01:01:33,564 that I originally designed for Robert McIntosh. 962 01:01:33,648 --> 01:01:36,067 So it's a little three inch ducted 963 01:01:36,275 --> 01:01:38,986 drone for carrying a GoPro Hero. 964 01:01:39,821 --> 01:01:41,864 So a little bit slower, a little more 965 01:01:42,281 --> 01:01:45,618 focused on the subject instead of on the piloting skills. 966 01:01:45,785 --> 01:01:49,914 I mean, especially Andy, he created the squirt that was technology 967 01:01:50,039 --> 01:01:54,419 that enabled people to do shots that were not possible before 968 01:01:54,544 --> 01:01:58,631 and that created a whole new style of shooting drone videos. 969 01:02:00,133 --> 01:02:01,092 It's just 970 01:02:01,217 --> 01:02:04,470 giving people a totally new perspective 971 01:02:04,721 --> 01:02:06,180 of our world. 972 01:02:19,736 --> 01:02:22,530 Flying a Cinewhoop is very different from flying any other rig. 973 01:02:22,947 --> 01:02:25,616 They bring a level of safety to this, which is pretty nice 974 01:02:25,700 --> 01:02:29,070 because now you can fly around people and just the general reaction 975 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,122 that we get from people is really positive. 976 01:02:38,796 --> 01:02:41,924 And then suddenly you have a machine that can fly 977 01:02:42,008 --> 01:02:45,386 and be touched by people and go through people. 978 01:02:45,887 --> 01:02:47,447 And that's what I really like about it. 979 01:02:47,513 --> 01:02:50,516 You can have this whole interaction of movement and 980 01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:54,353 then it becomes like kind of like a dance between 981 01:02:54,437 --> 01:02:57,440 you and the drone, that person. 982 01:02:57,565 --> 01:03:01,652 And you feel like you actually are with the person performing with them. 983 01:03:04,864 --> 01:03:07,191 So I did this video with Lotfi 984 01:03:07,241 --> 01:03:10,453 Le Mali, who is a professional long border, 985 01:03:10,870 --> 01:03:15,166 and we just went and did this awesome video, had a lot of fun. 986 01:03:15,374 --> 01:03:18,127 He did the single greatest Cinewhoop video ever. 987 01:03:18,252 --> 01:03:19,921 With the long border. 988 01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:25,092 He kept like 989 01:03:25,301 --> 01:03:28,513 catching it, throwing it, like going under the skateboard. 990 01:03:32,934 --> 01:03:36,145 You know, it was such a perfect video that he had a great location 991 01:03:36,395 --> 01:03:38,648 a great subject, great music, great editing. 992 01:03:38,731 --> 01:03:41,442 And yeah, it opened up like this whole genre 993 01:03:41,734 --> 01:03:44,529 of flying that's now like... 994 01:03:45,196 --> 01:03:47,949 I mean, it's almost 50% of what people fly, I'd say. 995 01:03:48,074 --> 01:03:52,245 And now it's kind of spawned a whole movement and a bunch of clones 996 01:03:52,328 --> 01:03:54,163 of the original design. 997 01:03:57,291 --> 01:03:59,126 FPV is not just one thing, it's 998 01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:02,630 a whole spectrum, and it's really both for me. 999 01:04:02,713 --> 01:04:06,050 Freestyle and cinematic go hand in hand. 1000 01:04:07,051 --> 01:04:11,514 You have to have the technicality, but you have to have the eye as well. 1001 01:04:11,681 --> 01:04:15,101 I have a lot of respect for those people that basically night and day 1002 01:04:15,351 --> 01:04:18,271 think about how can we do things differently 1003 01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:21,816 and how can we push innovation to create even cooler shots. 1004 01:04:22,024 --> 01:04:25,945 Tommy, "ummagawd" who came up with this you know, a little conversion 1005 01:04:26,028 --> 01:04:31,367 of the Cinewhoop where you basically de-case a GoPro and then put it on top. 1006 01:04:31,534 --> 01:04:34,120 And that became It became a standard now. 1007 01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:36,664 More often than not, you know, I have a director asking like, 1008 01:04:36,747 --> 01:04:38,747 oh, can you get like this close to the guy's face? 1009 01:04:38,833 --> 01:04:42,044 I want to make out his eyelash and, you know, fly through this tiny little gap. 1010 01:04:42,295 --> 01:04:46,841 And today we're at a point where we are literally just taking apart a GoPro down 1011 01:04:46,924 --> 01:04:52,013 to it's bare minimum so that I can fit onto a small little form factor like this. 1012 01:04:52,305 --> 01:04:53,472 I mean, look at this guy. 1013 01:04:53,598 --> 01:04:55,438 You can pretty much fly this through anything. 1014 01:04:59,061 --> 01:05:01,147 The third one I have is called the Thicc. 1015 01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:05,234 It's a seven inch - X eight, which is an octa copter. 1016 01:05:05,359 --> 01:05:07,445 So, instead of four motors there's eight. 1017 01:05:07,528 --> 01:05:12,617 So it can lift a bigger camera like a Blackmagic Pocket or the Red Komodo. 1018 01:05:12,783 --> 01:05:16,120 The center of mass of the drone is as centered as possible. 1019 01:05:16,370 --> 01:05:19,332 And it's quite timely that all these manufacturers are coming out 1020 01:05:19,457 --> 01:05:23,544 with kind of smaller form factor cameras that are worthy of feature films. 1021 01:05:23,669 --> 01:05:24,921 You know. 1022 01:05:46,734 --> 01:05:48,903 I've been on shoots with Gab and Nurk, 1023 01:05:48,986 --> 01:05:52,490 and they're like almost a computer programed robotic arm. 1024 01:05:52,907 --> 01:05:55,409 They can fly the same line again and again and again. 1025 01:05:55,910 --> 01:06:00,206 So for a director, it's almost like having this instant 1026 01:06:00,706 --> 01:06:02,875 camera that can go anywhere 1027 01:06:02,959 --> 01:06:05,920 because, you never know what the director will start throwing at you. 1028 01:06:06,003 --> 01:06:08,673 It is definitely skill based, 100%. 1029 01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:24,397 Snowboarding, wakeboarding. 1030 01:06:24,522 --> 01:06:27,358 I see a lot of wakeboarding content and it's just pretty wild 1031 01:06:27,441 --> 01:06:29,026 some of the stuff thats out there now. 1032 01:06:29,151 --> 01:06:31,028 Like snowboarding is cool. 1033 01:06:31,112 --> 01:06:33,864 You know, mountain biking is a perfect example. 1034 01:06:48,004 --> 01:06:50,047 Wingsuit pilots, 1035 01:06:50,172 --> 01:06:54,301 base jumpers, paragliders, all these kind of things that previously 1036 01:06:54,385 --> 01:06:59,682 you couldn't really film very safely are now possible because of FPV. 1037 01:06:59,765 --> 01:07:01,434 And because of mini quads. 1038 01:07:01,642 --> 01:07:04,854 With FPV we can get real close to someone 1039 01:07:04,937 --> 01:07:08,983 and you can move in a similar way to that person. 1040 01:08:09,376 --> 01:08:12,546 Mixing, drifting, and FPV is kind of 1041 01:08:13,005 --> 01:08:18,344 the best of what we've got right now in two different hobbies and art forms. 1042 01:08:18,469 --> 01:08:21,722 These two together, like these two troublemakers together, 1043 01:08:22,181 --> 01:08:24,433 just makes sense in the end I think. 1044 01:08:27,436 --> 01:08:31,190 So we are constantly hearing what the director says, and sometimes 1045 01:08:31,273 --> 01:08:34,527 when we're lucky, we get to see on the big screen over there. 1046 01:08:34,652 --> 01:08:38,197 This is also, by the way, live, 1047 01:08:39,031 --> 01:08:43,327 and hundreds of thousands of people are watching it across the world. 1048 01:08:43,410 --> 01:08:46,372 So you better not mess it up because if you do, everyone's 1049 01:08:46,455 --> 01:08:47,790 everyone's going to see it. 1050 01:08:47,873 --> 01:08:50,793 Live is a completely different animal. 1051 01:08:50,876 --> 01:08:51,794 But yeah, I love it 1052 01:08:51,877 --> 01:08:56,465 because you get to work with new technologies and try things out. 1053 01:08:56,549 --> 01:09:00,719 This thing that we did, no one did it before in that form 1054 01:09:00,845 --> 01:09:02,638 and we made those FPV drones 1055 01:09:03,639 --> 01:09:06,142 just so that they can fly 1056 01:09:07,101 --> 01:09:09,103 with that technology on. 1057 01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:17,111 I think we all are like adrenaline junkies in the hobby 1058 01:09:17,236 --> 01:09:18,946 because we're just looking for it. 1059 01:09:19,488 --> 01:09:22,825 With drifting, with cars drifting at 100 miles an hour, 1060 01:09:23,117 --> 01:09:26,412 and us flying about a meter away from them. 1061 01:09:50,769 --> 01:09:53,814 Especially when you see some of the shots that can be done with drift cars 1062 01:09:53,981 --> 01:09:56,442 you quickly realize there's no other way 1063 01:09:56,775 --> 01:09:58,903 to get a shot like this. 1064 01:10:18,589 --> 01:10:21,550 Drifting and FPV just is like the perfect match. 1065 01:10:21,884 --> 01:10:24,345 Drifting cars are not that super fast. 1066 01:10:24,637 --> 01:10:26,805 They always have the same speed. 1067 01:10:27,014 --> 01:10:31,393 It looks spectacular because you have smoke and tires bursting. 1068 01:10:33,979 --> 01:10:37,358 And it goes really well with each other just because the way a car drifts around 1069 01:10:37,483 --> 01:10:41,904 the corner is very similar to how a drone flies on a banked turn. 1070 01:10:41,987 --> 01:10:44,615 It is very much like a dance when you pair the two together. 1071 01:11:06,971 --> 01:11:08,704 Drifting, you know, it is kind of like an art. 1072 01:11:08,764 --> 01:11:10,623 You're out there, you know, the drivers are doing their things, 1073 01:11:10,683 --> 01:11:12,875 trying to hit those lines smooth, trying to get that time. 1074 01:11:12,935 --> 01:11:15,335 And the drone above it is also just trying to keep it's line 1075 01:11:15,396 --> 01:11:17,731 above the drift car, trying to get those smooth lines. 1076 01:11:17,815 --> 01:11:19,817 And they just complement each other so well. 1077 01:11:23,279 --> 01:11:26,031 Drifting is very much an art form. 1078 01:11:26,115 --> 01:11:27,366 Also, it's got this 1079 01:11:27,449 --> 01:11:31,954 like technological motorsports, kind of modification culture around it. 1080 01:11:32,079 --> 01:11:34,581 And that's like the same exact thing as FPV. 1081 01:12:27,843 --> 01:12:28,635 A lot of people 1082 01:12:28,761 --> 01:12:31,638 in the FPV community view Atlanta as the Mecca. 1083 01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:34,600 They want to go there. They want to fly these spots. 1084 01:12:34,725 --> 01:12:39,146 Just having the diversity of a growing, expanding city, all the foliage 1085 01:12:39,229 --> 01:12:42,024 and then the melting pot of people and culture that lives here, 1086 01:12:42,399 --> 01:12:46,111 it is ultimately became like this amazing FPV Mecca. 1087 01:12:46,236 --> 01:12:49,531 Early on in FPV, so many great FPV pilots 1088 01:12:49,615 --> 01:12:53,410 seem to come out of Atlanta and they formed this community together. 1089 01:12:53,494 --> 01:12:58,248 That was just this amazing birthing ground for great FPV skill. 1090 01:12:58,999 --> 01:13:01,335 I think they all made themselves better 1091 01:13:01,418 --> 01:13:05,172 as a result of all these great pilots being together in the same community. 1092 01:13:06,298 --> 01:13:09,676 They are like a really special breed of people. 1093 01:13:09,802 --> 01:13:12,971 Like they have very short attention span, but they are like 1094 01:13:13,305 --> 01:13:17,935 neurotically focused on details in other areas. Right? 1095 01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:21,230 So like the communication is - it's like herding cats, 1096 01:13:21,730 --> 01:13:26,193 but once they're on site and everything is ready to go, 1097 01:13:26,318 --> 01:13:28,654 like they make magic happen. 1098 01:13:38,497 --> 01:13:40,624 When you have a community 1099 01:13:40,874 --> 01:13:44,795 to inspire you, to challenge you, to show you things 1100 01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:48,132 that you would never have thought were possible, you become better. 1101 01:13:48,215 --> 01:13:51,260 Everyone becomes better as a result. 1102 01:13:56,723 --> 01:13:58,892 Atlanta specifically in 2016. 1103 01:13:59,017 --> 01:14:03,605 It was all about me, Steele, Skitzo and Wild Willie. 1104 01:14:05,023 --> 01:14:05,816 Nick Willard. 1105 01:14:05,899 --> 01:14:08,944 We always had this really ambitious, like wanting to push things 1106 01:14:09,027 --> 01:14:12,072 all the time and not necessarily trying to stay ahead of the curve. 1107 01:14:12,156 --> 01:14:13,889 It was just something that came natural to us. 1108 01:14:13,949 --> 01:14:16,326 Meeting up with Kevin and John and some other people. 1109 01:14:16,410 --> 01:14:17,703 I hear quads 1110 01:14:18,745 --> 01:14:20,330 and see what's going down. 1111 01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,040 And we always just pushed each other. 1112 01:14:22,124 --> 01:14:26,253 I would be flying around a spot trying to find lines and then I'd watch Kevin. 1113 01:14:26,378 --> 01:14:29,338 I would tap into his feed and be like, Oh, I didn't know we could do that. 1114 01:14:30,257 --> 01:14:34,303 The progression in that little group and that little area is just intense. 1115 01:14:34,386 --> 01:14:36,964 Like, you go there, you come back feeling like you really accomplished 1116 01:14:37,014 --> 01:14:37,973 something huge. 1117 01:14:38,098 --> 01:14:40,184 Every pilot down there is really killing it. 1118 01:14:42,519 --> 01:14:44,605 Guess who else moved to Atlanta? 1119 01:14:45,397 --> 01:14:46,677 Have you ever heard of this guy? 1120 01:14:46,857 --> 01:14:50,277 It's just a big melting pot of very extreme 1121 01:14:50,402 --> 01:14:52,488 and talented people. 1122 01:14:58,118 --> 01:15:01,663 So I just, I'm just looking forward to getting together 1123 01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:07,169 with a bunch of great pilots and a bunch of friends and flying for a day. 1124 01:15:07,377 --> 01:15:11,507 Kevin is like, he just has this innate, magical, 1125 01:15:12,049 --> 01:15:14,718 skill to find dope spots to fly at. 1126 01:15:15,010 --> 01:15:18,472 It was just really easy to go there and just on the daily 1127 01:15:18,597 --> 01:15:20,766 find a new spot that was really cool to rip that. 1128 01:15:20,891 --> 01:15:22,893 There's so many good spots in Atlanta 1129 01:15:23,018 --> 01:15:26,271 I don't know if it's just because I lived in Atlanta for a while, 1130 01:15:26,355 --> 01:15:29,650 because of the schools that are there, you know, Georgia Tech being one. 1131 01:15:29,858 --> 01:15:34,279 There's a lot of technically minded people that adopted FPV early on. 1132 01:15:34,404 --> 01:15:37,908 And so you have all of these amazing office parks that were able to fly. 1133 01:15:38,033 --> 01:15:41,870 It has more trees per square mile than any other metropolis in the US. 1134 01:15:52,130 --> 01:15:53,715 This is an amazing spot. 1135 01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,385 Office parks like this are so much fun. 1136 01:15:56,468 --> 01:15:59,471 There's so much cool architecture to interact with. 1137 01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:00,560 There will be carnage. 1138 01:16:00,639 --> 01:16:01,306 There will be 1139 01:16:01,390 --> 01:16:04,082 I mean, I won't be too broken because I'm running the Bot Grinder AFX frame 1140 01:16:04,142 --> 01:16:06,262 which is the strongest frame on the market right now. 1141 01:16:06,353 --> 01:16:07,878 But there will be some carnage for sure. 1142 01:16:07,938 --> 01:16:10,714 When we get together. It's like, you know, Hey, what have you been working on? 1143 01:16:10,774 --> 01:16:12,574 Or what's that? What's changed on your drone? 1144 01:16:12,651 --> 01:16:14,426 Because it's always like an ever changing process. 1145 01:16:14,486 --> 01:16:16,655 There's new technology, there's new equipment, 1146 01:16:16,738 --> 01:16:18,148 there might be new motors, new props. 1147 01:16:18,198 --> 01:16:21,159 All of this stuff like equates to how the drone flies. 1148 01:16:21,243 --> 01:16:24,246 And honestly, it's just fun to interact and kind of share 1149 01:16:24,329 --> 01:16:27,666 the knowledge of what you've done and see what other people have done. 1150 01:16:28,917 --> 01:16:29,441 Vista? 1151 01:16:29,501 --> 01:16:30,502 Naked Vista? 1152 01:16:30,711 --> 01:16:33,088 Oh, that's hot. 1153 01:16:33,505 --> 01:16:35,799 But what's your controller still X9D? 1154 01:16:36,508 --> 01:16:37,467 X9D Baby. 1155 01:16:40,679 --> 01:16:42,264 Again! 1156 01:16:43,932 --> 01:16:45,634 How many times? 1157 01:16:45,684 --> 01:16:48,562 I reside in Greenville, South Carolina at the moment. 1158 01:16:49,354 --> 01:16:51,315 I'm a part time FPV Pilot. 1159 01:16:51,648 --> 01:16:52,858 I work a lot. 1160 01:16:53,525 --> 01:16:56,612 Whenever I get a chance, I go out and fly empty parking lots. 1161 01:16:56,695 --> 01:16:59,114 I love it. Probably going to do it up to the day I die. 1162 01:16:59,323 --> 01:17:00,532 All right. I'm ready to rip. 1163 01:17:00,616 --> 01:17:01,366 Let's go fly. 1164 01:19:31,683 --> 01:19:35,353 Frequency Management, it was a lot easier with less people. 1165 01:19:35,979 --> 01:19:39,191 The bigger it gets, the more confusing it gets, the more tempers 1166 01:19:39,316 --> 01:19:42,402 start to come out because people plug in, and that causes someone to crash. 1167 01:19:42,527 --> 01:19:44,321 Can I power up now on race eight? 1168 01:19:47,491 --> 01:19:50,076 I'll walk over here, get away from y'all. 1169 01:19:51,745 --> 01:19:56,082 You can only have two to four guys up in the air at a time. 1170 01:19:56,208 --> 01:19:59,294 So I don't want to go to a flying spot and have 40 people there. 1171 01:19:59,544 --> 01:20:01,254 I want to have like half a dozen. 1172 01:20:01,338 --> 01:20:04,883 You have to, find this middle ground of making it a social event, 1173 01:20:05,175 --> 01:20:09,554 but not too big of a social event so that you can actually get some flying time in. 1174 01:20:10,096 --> 01:20:11,139 Who's on race eight? 1175 01:20:12,098 --> 01:20:13,141 I'm on race eight! 1176 01:20:13,225 --> 01:20:15,167 Because at that point, once there gets to be too much people 1177 01:20:15,227 --> 01:20:19,773 like you can't go as far or you can't, you know, because you have video issues. 1178 01:20:19,981 --> 01:20:21,942 All right, going up on eight. 1179 01:20:22,108 --> 01:20:24,110 Why are we all on race eight? 1180 01:20:24,236 --> 01:20:27,280 Basically, instead of swapping the whole motor, you can just put 1181 01:20:27,531 --> 01:20:31,618 this piece of motor on, screw it in. 1182 01:20:31,743 --> 01:20:32,577 We're done. 1183 01:20:38,291 --> 01:20:40,293 I just was doing some little wa-ha-ha. 1184 01:20:48,593 --> 01:20:50,679 I'm going to go between the pillars 1185 01:20:50,762 --> 01:20:53,723 around the thing, turn left and weave in 1186 01:20:53,807 --> 01:20:57,060 and then up through the gap and over the dome and down into the gap. 1187 01:20:57,143 --> 01:20:59,104 And then weave out and miss everything. 1188 01:20:59,187 --> 01:21:00,355 And it's going to be awesome. 1189 01:21:08,905 --> 01:21:11,491 Oh, son. 1190 01:21:18,248 --> 01:21:19,165 Oh, damn son! 1191 01:21:19,291 --> 01:21:20,375 Two in a row! 1192 01:21:20,542 --> 01:21:24,546 So we're trying to, you know, hit all of these certain clipping points 1193 01:21:24,629 --> 01:21:28,133 and then also be able to do it in a smooth fashion. 1194 01:21:28,717 --> 01:21:31,720 But once he did it, then, you know, I'm following right behind him and then 1195 01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:33,328 you got to take it to the next level. 1196 01:21:33,388 --> 01:21:38,393 And that is him chasing me or me chasing him getting that double footage, 1197 01:21:38,476 --> 01:21:40,520 the third person style footage. 1198 01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:40,872 Power cycle. Good as new. 1199 01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:43,124 Mostly. 1200 01:22:43,375 --> 01:22:46,127 I'm going to take the B+ 1201 01:22:46,252 --> 01:22:48,880 It ain't the A+ but it's the B. I'll take a B- 1202 01:22:54,010 --> 01:22:56,471 I was like, well, I can't be smoother than Skitzo, 1203 01:22:56,596 --> 01:23:00,141 I can't be more technical than Steele, so all I can do is like go bigger. 1204 01:23:00,266 --> 01:23:03,937 So I'm going to do sh♪t that people think is impossible and make it possible. 1205 01:23:04,229 --> 01:23:05,981 And that's kind of what I did 1206 01:23:41,933 --> 01:23:44,019 Just power looping, trying to chase each other 1207 01:23:44,144 --> 01:23:46,896 because it's always fun trying to follow quads. 1208 01:23:48,356 --> 01:23:49,172 Especially with analog. 1209 01:23:49,232 --> 01:23:50,984 Because you literally can't see anything. 1210 01:23:51,109 --> 01:23:51,860 Kevin! 1211 01:24:20,638 --> 01:24:22,247 You know, everybody started doing their own thing 1212 01:24:22,307 --> 01:24:24,707 and moved away, so it was really nice to come together again 1213 01:24:24,851 --> 01:24:27,669 and see everybody vibing off each other and trying to one up each other. 1214 01:24:27,729 --> 01:24:28,628 And flying and everything. 1215 01:24:28,688 --> 01:24:31,214 It really did feel like like those trips used to be back in the day. 1216 01:24:31,274 --> 01:24:33,675 I told Stingy that, you know, I was like, man, this feels like back in the day. 1217 01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:37,572 Being able to go out and fly with your friends is like going to a soccer game. 1218 01:24:37,655 --> 01:24:41,326 Or doing something that allows you to hang out with people that are like minded. 1219 01:24:41,451 --> 01:24:42,952 And I really enjoy being with them. 1220 01:24:43,036 --> 01:24:46,414 And I hope that, you know, regulation doesn't take away from that. 1221 01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:49,125 It's possible that this could be one of the last times 1222 01:24:49,250 --> 01:24:53,254 when this many people come together in one place and fly. 1223 01:24:53,505 --> 01:24:57,258 If remote it goes through, a lot of people are going to drop out. 1224 01:25:53,690 --> 01:25:56,484 The trippiest thing for me when I started 1225 01:25:56,776 --> 01:26:00,864 was to take off and circle myself 1226 01:26:01,030 --> 01:26:03,408 and see myself fly. 1227 01:26:08,746 --> 01:26:10,373 It actually does 1228 01:26:10,456 --> 01:26:13,501 provide this kind of spiritual experience. 1229 01:26:13,585 --> 01:26:16,296 I mean, you literally are having an out of body experience. 1230 01:26:16,379 --> 01:26:20,091 I think one of the first times you really bug out when you're flying 1231 01:26:20,175 --> 01:26:22,385 is the first time you are flying 1232 01:26:22,468 --> 01:26:26,264 and you see yourself, you're like, Oh, that's me not in my body. 1233 01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:31,936 You see like a GTA version of yourself with a remote controller. 1234 01:26:32,187 --> 01:26:34,314 And then see myself standing there 1235 01:26:34,689 --> 01:26:38,443 while I was clearly in this little machine in my head. 1236 01:26:38,735 --> 01:26:42,655 It was literally an out of body experience the first time. 1237 01:26:42,780 --> 01:26:44,649 It's 100 percent an out of body experience. 1238 01:26:44,699 --> 01:26:46,683 You know, I say all the time, like when I'm flying, 1239 01:26:46,743 --> 01:26:48,893 I'm like, Oh, drone me did this. Because that's what it is. At that point. 1240 01:26:48,953 --> 01:26:51,646 At that point, when you're flying in the goggles you're two separate beings, 1241 01:26:51,706 --> 01:26:55,026 you're human you that's controlling things and your drone you that's flying around. 1242 01:27:00,590 --> 01:27:03,176 I think what we're all looking for is that state of flow. 1243 01:27:03,468 --> 01:27:05,386 You are essentially one with the craft. 1244 01:27:05,470 --> 01:27:07,347 You're not fighting it. You're not 1245 01:27:07,430 --> 01:27:10,767 trying to overthink what you're doing and everything is just natural. 1246 01:27:10,850 --> 01:27:12,977 We're there resonating with the environment. 1247 01:27:28,743 --> 01:27:31,412 To really make very smooth movements, 1248 01:27:31,537 --> 01:27:34,540 you have to kind of anticipate where your drone is going to be 1249 01:27:34,749 --> 01:27:36,042 in the next 10 seconds. 1250 01:27:36,125 --> 01:27:40,421 And you have to make the movement transition into that state. 1251 01:27:41,714 --> 01:27:46,386 To just have that state of flow where you never appear to hesitate 1252 01:27:46,469 --> 01:27:49,389 and it always feels like you know where you're going next. 1253 01:27:49,889 --> 01:27:52,100 Just everything feels like it's going right. 1254 01:27:52,183 --> 01:27:55,937 You feel completely connected to the quad, all the tricks are leading 1255 01:27:56,020 --> 01:27:59,315 into each other and flowing between each other perfectly. 1256 01:27:59,649 --> 01:28:04,070 And you just get this amazing sense of bliss and accomplishment. 1257 01:28:23,256 --> 01:28:27,051 But I get this kind of release of endorphins by getting into the flowstate. 1258 01:28:27,135 --> 01:28:28,493 I'm being able to control the drone 1259 01:28:28,553 --> 01:28:30,680 in a way that I just don't even realize is happening. 1260 01:28:31,055 --> 01:28:34,892 I cannot describe it other than being in a state of flow. 1261 01:28:34,976 --> 01:28:36,769 And it's an addictive state to be in. 1262 01:28:46,029 --> 01:28:48,072 There's never a ceiling. 1263 01:28:48,239 --> 01:28:50,950 You've never figured out every trick, figured out every flow, 1264 01:28:51,034 --> 01:28:53,142 mastered every possible line, and if you think you have, 1265 01:28:53,202 --> 01:28:54,686 you're just not being creative enough. 1266 01:28:54,746 --> 01:28:57,957 You can't get this experience any other way. 1267 01:28:58,041 --> 01:29:00,793 It's beyond the capabilities of the human body. 1268 01:29:10,636 --> 01:29:12,805 Everything is like making noise at you. 1269 01:29:12,889 --> 01:29:17,018 And then you put on your goggles and for three to five minutes, it's 1270 01:29:17,101 --> 01:29:20,897 absolute silence and you're just focused on that screen right in front of you. 1271 01:29:20,980 --> 01:29:26,361 When you get to the point of entering that flowstate, it's ultimate happiness. 1272 01:29:26,444 --> 01:29:28,112 You're not worried about anything else. 1273 01:29:28,196 --> 01:29:29,530 There's nothing in the world. 1274 01:29:29,614 --> 01:29:30,782 There's no stress, 1275 01:29:30,865 --> 01:29:34,577 there's no anxiety, there's no depression, there's no hate, there's none of that. 1276 01:29:34,660 --> 01:29:37,538 It's just you and the quad. 1277 01:29:37,663 --> 01:29:40,583 When you're in that, you're no longer thinking about 1278 01:29:40,958 --> 01:29:44,295 anything other than the movement that's happening. 1279 01:29:53,054 --> 01:29:55,098 Everything else turns off 1280 01:29:55,473 --> 01:29:59,811 except for the one or two things in your brain that you need to fly. 1281 01:30:01,604 --> 01:30:04,732 I'd almost say that it becomes effortless at that point. 1282 01:30:04,816 --> 01:30:08,236 Once you get into this crazy Nirvana state. 1283 01:30:08,486 --> 01:30:11,656 When you hit that man, it's like there's nothing else like it. 1284 01:30:21,833 --> 01:30:25,586 We just go out of our bodies and suddenly you're limitless...