Was just killing time and came across this thread. FPV is a cool way to go. I have lots of fpv planes, wings, drones, vehicles and even boats. A couple of them are long range, HD video, GPS, return to home, waypoint mission craft and big $$$$ into them. The most fun ones are small and really don't have much $ into them. My $50 pawn shop fatshark goggles get a lot more use than my $1000 DJI HD goggles.
For anyone thinking of getting into it, first thing you need is goggles (or a small screen, but goggles is way more better) find yourself some fatshark analog goggles on 5.8g with a built in receiver. The Eachine EV100 looks to be a good entry level unit. I have older fatsharks that work really well for me
Holy crap! I just looked up some goggles to put up examples and man have they gone up in price. Check your pawnshops and local hobby shop - maybe they have some trade ins. I lucked out and stopped in at a hobby shop while passing through a major city and they just happened to have some fatshark goggles on consignment. Only wanted $50 and that was a smoking deal.
Whatever you do, after you have your analog goggles, do NOT 'just have a look' through someone else's HD goggles. You will never go back and your bank account will take a big hit. If you have the $ ($1000 plus for goggles and cam) then just go HD right from the start.
Then get yourself an 'all in one' camera/video transmitter. Amazon has some branded wolfwhoop ( google the wolfwhoop wt06) that I have had good luck with, but the VC400 from ZOHD is really nice. It is the cam/transmitter and antenna all in one little package. You have to make sure that it transmits on the same freq as your goggles receive. I have yet to find one that won't work with my fat shark goggles
You will also need a battery for the goggles and AIO.
now you can stick that AIO on anything you want and can see the feed through the goggles - plane, car, boat, cat, dog..how about a model rocket? The sky literally is the limit.
If you don't already have an RC vehicle, just get a cheap Walmart RC toy and see how much you enjoy it. If you do like it (and you prob will) then spend the bigger Bux.
As long as you know the basics of controlling a plane, flying by fpv should be easier than flying by line of sight. I know it is for me.
. Was out with some friends (they were ice fishing) on the weekend and me and the Son in-law had some planes out. Had 5 of them between the 3 of us and along comes the conservation officer. Really cool guy, quickly checked the licences and then and has lots of questions about the planes. The CO service here does use drones but they only have abt 20 mins flight time and limited distance. He was quite intrigued when I told him about the VTOL that takes off like a drone and flies like a plane for an hour or more, and can go 10kms or more (depending on batt used)