N3 Goggles vs Goggles 3

[RcHawks]

Instead of spending money going on a trip and having a retirement party I spent my money on the drones I purchased. 7 total now and extra props and combo packs for all and 2 FPV Goggles and mc3’s and rc3. Don’t feel the least bit guilty I’ve been flying since I was 21 or 22 not drones of course but other toys as my wife called them!

 

[Christian]

I also started it many years ago, when the Spark and the Parrot Beebop came out. First just with cheap mini toy drones to practise. Then bought a Spark and colorful propellers to it.., later a 1st gen mini and Tellos. The Tello was VR goggles compatible, so I bought one. And a BT controller. That was the time, when my FPV mania started....

 

[RcHawks]

Yep. my first drone was a 1st generation mini. Looking back I can’t believe how nervous I was flying it starting out.

 

[Poverty Flyer]

11 years ago I started with this.
I still have it and it still works.
It's like a bowling ball to fly.
Weighs over 4 pounds, no stability, 720 camera.
I've had other drones none of which were worth having.

Then came the Neo.
My last effort at drones.
So glad I found it.
Better late then never I recon.
I'm hooked now!

Cheers,

 

[Christian]

Yep. my first drone was a 1st generation mini. Looking back I can’t believe how nervous I was flying it starting out.

I flew these two hundreds of kilometers with the dronemask... Sold them last year. Hacked the Spark into FCC mode, for the Mini bought parabola reflectors for better signal.

 

[Christian]

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11 years ago I started with this.
I still have it and it still works.
It's like a bowling ball to fly.
Weighs over 4 pounds, no stability, 720 camera.
I've had other drones none of which were worth having.

Then came the Neo.
My last effort at drones.
So glad I found it.
Better late then never I recon.
I'm hooked now!

Cheers,

This was actually not that bad. I had a similar, but it was a HolyStone drone.

 

[Poverty Flyer]

At 4 lbs it will be a wall hanger or ceiling fan as I don't have the proper licensing at this time if ever.
I'll keep it as a conversation piece because it cost nothing to feed.
It really was next to impossible to fly or get good video out of.
The other drones I had were a step up but still 100 steps behind the Neo.

 

[RcHawks]

It gives you a lot more freedom in how it’s used and I think the pictures and video looks fine. It’s a great little drone and quite capable. It really is a lot of fun to fly.

 

[Poverty Flyer]

Couldn't agree more.

I tested my new controller yesterday. Works fine and so different from the motion controller.
I should get the hang of it in 1 or 2 years.
It's on my bucket list.

 

[Christian]

At 4 lbs it will be a wall hanger or ceiling fan as I don't have the proper licensing at this time if ever.
I'll keep it as a conversation piece because it cost nothing to feed.
It really was next to impossible to fly or get good video out of.
The other drones I had were a step up but still 100 steps behind the Neo.

I had very cheap drones without any sensors. No altitude hold and no precise hovering. They were insanely hard to fly without crashing into anything. And it was on the box: for kids. For kids, right?!

 

[RcHawks]

I have a couple of those type of (toy) drones and I’m able to fly them but only at night. During the day with no heads up display you couldn’t keep up with the sense of direction. But at night with the different light colors I was able manage quite well. That must be what flying in manual mode is like because you have to be on the sticks in every direction at all times. GPS is something else and coming from the world of R.C., impressive. I think the vast majority of kids trying to fly that type of drone would get bored very quickly and give up or lose it which happened to a neighbor of mine who was a teenager. He had it fly away and it got lost in the woods he never got it back.

 

[Christian]

Non of my toydrones had any lights and flew them only indoors in my appartment. Some of them were good quality and were fun to fly, but there were 2, they were cheap crap quality. They started to drift very quickly in every possible direction, that I was unable trim them. Got rid of them after a few days and bought my first Tello. That drone is just an amazing piece of tech. In many ways similar to the Neo actually

 

[RcHawks]

I got in the game too late for the Holystone or Tello and missed out on the Spark as well. We used to housesit for a friend now and again back in the day and it was fun flying in a split level house with the mm. The cheap toy drones made me appreciate the ones with GPS that much more. I’ve still got to give the manual mode a try. Maybe today.

 

[Christian]

In the early days I didn´t have interest. The phantoms were too big, too noisy and too unreliable. I´m not interested in photography either. But I work a lot far away from home and travel on highways often. A few times I ran into traffic jam. I said, if I had a small drone, I could send it up in the air to see what´s goin´ on. And started to buy drones.... Here it´s very easy, this country is beautiful, people are rich, love drones, outdoors and there are at least 3 official dji retailers in the town. For me, it takes 15 minutes to buy a new Neo or any dji quad...

 

[jaja6009]

I got in the game too late for the Holystone or Tello and missed out on the Spark as well. We used to housesit for a friend now and again back in the day and it was fun flying in a split level house with the mm. The cheap toy drones made me appreciate the ones with GPS that much more. I’ve still got to give the manual mode a try. Maybe today.

If you have never tried manual mode, I would first try in a simulator like Liftoff.
If you insist on trying it without 5 to 10 hours in the simulator, don't do full ACRO. Keep the setting off for full attitude in the controller settings and make sure you give yourself a lot of space and elevation.

You should also set your left stick to FPV by getting rid of the spring tension. There are plenty of Youtube videos showing how.

Learn how to press the panic button quickly to escape manual mode so you can at least hover, and take it out of manual mode when landing. I found landing harder than flying.

 

[Droning on and on...]

Learn how to press the panic button quickly to escape manual mode so you can at least hover, and take it out of manual mode when landing. I found landing harder than flying.

Yes indeed! I've been flying full "manual" FPV for something like 5 years now, and while I can't fly like those videos near the beginning of the thread -- too old, reflexes and visual processing has slowed -- I do pretty well. However, landing is a biotch, and after I stubbornly learned to do it, I quickly switched to landing drones in "angle" mode (what DJI calls Normal and Sport) rather than acro (DJI "manual").

Without any positioning tech -- most home-built and non-DJI drones -- it's tough enough to hold position and land in angle mode. For me, to do it in acro, it pretty much has to be an absolutely dead-air day without any of the slightest of breezes. That is, if I want to hit a spot, rather than plow the landing

 

[Christian]

I saw your vid last year... You fly max in normal mode bro. 5 years ago you didn't even know what a drone is. Guess the A2 was your 1st drone. A year ago.

 

[Droning on and on...]

I saw your vid last year... You fly max in normal mode bro. 5 years ago you didn't even know what a drone is. Guess the A2 was your 1st drone. A year ago.

What the hell are you talking about?

My first FPV drone was the DJI FPV, bought in March 2021 when it was released. I still have it, and fly it occasionally.

I've been flying drones for over ten years. My first was a Phantom 4.

Are you always this obnoxious?

 

[RcHawks]

Now that I’ve had both goggles 3 and 3n I almost never use the goggles 3n. I like the 3 so much better. It’s good to have if I ever want to use it in audience mode but I always go to the goggles 3 because I really like being able to dial it in.

 

[Christian]

What the hell are you talking about?

My first FPV drone was the DJI FPV, bought in March 2021 when it was released. I still have it, and fly it occasionally.

I've been flying drones for over ten years. My first was a Phantom 4.

Are you always this obnoxious?

Is this you?
This was fun too!

practising for the acro world championship...