Recently I flew with a couple of other pilots for the first time, one of whom had an FPV rig. As soon as he flew off in to the distance I knew that I had to get into FPV as soon as possible. So now I have bitten the bullet and started to put together and FPV kit. I haven’t purchased a set of goggles yet as there is some internal debate about starting at the cheap end with something like the Eachine VR-007 or spending the money upfront and getting the Fatshark Dominator V3’s. I’m currently leaning towards the latter option.

To get the ball rolling I’ve started off with the airborne end:

• Camera – Foxeer HS1189 XAT1200M (NextFPV) – Primarily chosen for the 16:9 aspect ratio.
• Transmitter – ImmersionRC Race Band 200mW 5.8GHz A/V Transmitter (Hobby King)
• Antenna – ImmersionRC 5.8GHz Circular Polarized SpiroNet Antenna V2 (Hobby King)

To start with I will keep things as simple as possible so no OSD or any other extra bits, just this basic video system.

So far I have only received the camera, I am still waiting for my Hobby King order, however I decided I would start roughing out a layout to see how all the parts are going to fit onto the 215 Hopper platform. My progress can be seen below.  Obviously I need to design brackets and housings for the various parts but this shows how it might be laid out. To differentiate the FPV version I thought a colour change was in order (I’ve also just bought red filament, the orange will go go back to Steelcity Electronics before too long).