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Hannover is a large environment in the LiftOff simulator. In this video I am cruising around and exploring the environment and getting more familiar with it.

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Fast Acro Proxy - LiftOff track in ‘Autumn Fields ‘

I have been enjoying this track in LiftOff. Autumn Fields has always been one of my favourite environments and this track is the fastest run.  After the first lap I decided to make my own way and have a bit of free riding.

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Some amazing LiftOff tracks here

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Proximity Flying in Velocidrone - exploring the river environment low to the ground with a corkscrew dive from high altitude.

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Where to go for an FPV vacation

I have been looking at this breakdown of FPV laws and regulatoins by country. 

https://www.pylo.co/blog/list-laws-and-regulations-about-fpv-and-rc-aircraft-various-countries

The top 3 countries, in that FPV is full allowed, are Norway, Thailand and Italy.So if we are talking a summer vacation in Europe where there is sun and sea for Partners to enjoy while  - Italy is the FPV vacationers location of choice!

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Very interesting stuff - reassures me that as a UK citizen 25mW still allows a reasonable range. Much less difference to 250mW than I would have guessed.

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Simulator Flying - some cuts from LiftOff and DRL SIm.  

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Also gives a very good summary of each concept

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Car Park Freestylin’

I find the car park pretty tricky to fly in, but I have to say that acro mode does make this easier. I think I would really struggle to keep the props from the ceiling with stability on.  Long way to go though as I last a few seconds and then crunch. If this was real life 30 flying seconds in a carpark would prove very expensive in my case.

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Hay Bale Freerider

I get a lot of pleasure flying around a big open scene like this. My skills are not really good enough yet to fly in the more enclosed scenes for very long. So in LiftOff I always spend time warming up in this environment. I’m suffering from a defective USB controller at the moment that keeps rolling to the right slightly so my flying is having to compensate for that a bit. Looking forward to getting the Turnigy 9XR rigged upto LiftOff for a better quality controller than the Dynam USB one.

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We have LiftOff!

My first run of LiftOff.  First impressions are good. I would say the FPV Freestyler engine has the edge in terms of FPS and overall rendering quality. But that said, LiftOff is clearly a lot busier - and in ‘Fantastic’ mode it was pretty fantastic. I can see once I’ve got a few hours air time in on this I’m going to be a convert and I can see FPV Freestyle gathering dust. Needs juice though - this video is captured at 2560x1440 - I’m running on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB / 16GB / i7 Quad 3.5GHz.  I’m not prepared to run resolutions that aren’t native to the display so I am going to be tempted to hang a smaller monitor off my iMac to run this on. I believe it supports FPV Googles as FatShark have been involved in the development of this so I can serious a serious dent in my wallet fast approaching.What really excites me about this though is the capacity for multiple online FPV racing. LiftOff IS the sim I’ve been looking for!

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This is me getting to grips with Acro-mode in FPV Freestyler with my Dynam USB Controller. This is my favourite Sim although Liftoff might have something to say about that but I haven’t been able to get it up and running with either my USB controller or my Turnigy - I think Liftoff works best with a Taranis at this point.

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When they said drone music I pictured a Scottish guy wearing a kilt.

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Nice evening out on Earlswood common.  One of the things I’m finding is that I lose track which way the camera is facing. But I can adjust my control to make it go where I want it to go even if it’s not actually forward facing. I think when I go to flying FPV instead of LOS maintaining a forward facing stance will be easier. 

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Practicing flying low to the ground in a circle - an exercise I’m starting to get the hang of - but it’s windy today (just look at flag in video) which makes this tough for a n00b like me.