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FPV equipment:

Camera “Xtreme HD”

MinimOSD

ImmersionRC 600mW 5.8 GHz

2 Spironets Antennas

ATTITUDE SD V5 - FATSHARK VIDEO GLASSES

Gimbal Servo ALIGN DS410M

Finally I got around installing the FPV gear to my T-Rex600.

I kept it simple, the self-made tilt gimbal is servo driven and suspended by a number of ear plugs. The result is acceptable, very little jelly.

The video shows one of my first FPV flights at a nice New Zealand beach. It felt really weird to fly that heli just with the few through the camera.  I didn’t use the head tracker yet, one step at the time.

Some movements are still a bit uncoordinated at times, but along the beach it was easy to navigate and the heli reached speeds up to 75km/h at an altitude of about 50m.

It was gusty at times; you can easily see the “pine pollen dust cloud” drifting along over the forest and the beach (at 4:30 in the video). At the end everything was covered in a yellowish dust.

I also connected the head tracker via the DX8 Trainer plug, and it works. The only drawback was, you need to hold the Trainer-Button down, and so you would need a third hand. To overcome this inconvenience, I drilled a 1.5mm hole through the housing and the button while pressed.

Now I just press the button and insert a pin in to the hole to keep the button down by it selves, simple. But don’t forget to realise the Trainer-Button before switching on the DX8, otherwise you end up in the binding mode.

In the pictures you see the modified Trainer-Button and the DX8 setup.

I selected only Aux3 as slave for tilt only, if you have pan as well, you need to select Aux2 for example also.

I still fly ArduCopter 2.9,  the next thing on my list is to upgrade to 3.0.1 first the 450 for testing and then the 600.