What is FPV?
First Person View is named so because the pilot flies these aircrafts with a first-person perspective provided by a video camera on board the quadcopter that relays live video feed through a screen or video goggles.

If you're coming from the Fixed Wings page, this is what I moved on to a few years after I first started. FPV Quadcopters are specialised flying machines that are not only capable of flying at a very high speed (imagine 0-100kmph in 0.5s) but are also very agile. These machines require specialised carbon fibre frames and a super fast flight controller that can provide control outputs at a high frequency.

This page shows my journey with FPV Quadcopters. The page scrolls backwards in time with my most recent videos at the very top.

Disclaimer : I despise using the word 'drones' for their negative portrayal by the media as dangerous war machines. These are hobby machines meant to have a lot of fun, not intended to hurt or cause harm to any individual.

Some of the equipment I currently use

Defunct cranes, once used to build ships, now form the iconic skyline of Gothenburg.

A desolate Dollar Store that closed down in 2021 is now a fun place to fly around!

My first attempt at following a moving target, in this case an Enduro rider on his practice session.

Made an attempt to create a short clip to use as an advertisement for the startup company I was working for.

My attempt at creating an immersive audio-visual experience of a local park in Eksjö

A cinematic view of Linneryd, my workplace for Vässla AB.

Casual flying around the Geneta IP football stadium in Södertälje on a foggy night.

A revisit of the site next to Stockholm University after 2 years.

Found a good spot for flying just 15 minutes by cycle from where I live. It is now my most frequented spot for practice sessions.

Flying in a wide open space in the Swedish town of Fagersta. I was testing out my latest quad setup. Still getting used to the rates.

The first flight in Stockholm. This is the field right next to Stockholm University.

My very first attempt at flying a quadcopter.

It was flown with a stabilization attempt where the quad would return back to a level orientation when there was no input from the control sticks.

This is how I learnt how to fly a quadcopter. 

The flying of acrobatic quadcopters is a steep learning curve as control over 6 degrees of freedom of an aircraft while only having a first person visual frame of reference could be quite intimidating.

Each Li-Po battery has a capacity of 1300 mAh and provides a flight time of about 5 minutes which isn't a lot by any means. The only way to have significant flight time is by having several batteries and changing them after every 5 minutes of flying.

What do you do when you have too many batteries and it takes forever to charge them?

You charge them parallelly!

To save costs of buying a brand new parallel board, it was entirely possible to fabricate the most basic version using the equipment at KTH.