Wanted to annouce our new Quads
Xaircraft USA . . . NOW have X650's in stock !!!
Welcome to the forum! I saw some great pics of yours on one of the heli forums, how about some pics here?
One thing I'm curious about; I read somewhere on your site there is an integrated level control for the cam built into the controller. This is a great idea used in such systems as the Carvec and works great to level the video, but I'm curious if you've tried it for FPV. I feel like if the video is stabilized we'll loose that "seat of your pants feel" you get from the video moving with the aircraft.... Thoughts?
Exactly right Aaron, you can turn it on or off and run it off different channels or a switch to run head tracking or video stabilisation or use 2 cameras. The newer mount coming out in a few weeks as an option is 2 axis but it is roll and tilt, not pan/tilt. the tray is large to mount a pan servo on the tray and use the built in tilt axis for FPV which was my plan. There is also a plate above where the battery mounts plus a 3rd level tray above the AHRS-S Flight Sltabiliser which again would make a great place for FPV feed video and a pan/tilt axis camera setup.
http://xaircraftusa.com <<< there is a video on the Upgrades page of a test on the pan/roll stabilsied mount, pretty nice video with the axis' reversed for demo purposes.
hmm, that video looks pretty good, but I'd like to see it outdoors in some breeze with the Roll stabilizer turned on. It doesn't seem as disconnected as I thought it might, but I wonder if you would end up drifting an not realize it flying FPV with the camera stabilized?
Aaron- mostly you would just use the stabilization part for an HD camera for aerial videos, and have a hard mounted FPV camera for flying. Flying through a roll/tilt stabilization system would be very difficult- the whole point of the stabilization system is to eliminate movement.
Kmart is 100% correct but you can use the Tilt axis for single axis head tracking which doesn't throw you off, you can even add a pan for head tracking but . . . I honestly would never use roll for FPV . . . Unless I was flying 100% autonomous ... Then your a passenger . . . not the pilot
thanks Aaron and kmart
Video from X650V-8