Website Improvement: Now includes testimonials.

Its 3am and I've finally finished the next mod to the website. We now have customer testimonials and the ability for customers to submit their testimonials as they wish.

Check it out at www.firstpersonview.co.uk on the left hand side.

I hope this is useful for customers to get an idea of what people really think of our products when they receive them and also their experiences with our customer services.

Web Site Improvement: Now includes prices in Dollars and Euros

After a great deal of my sweat and tears the website now shows an approximate conversion in both Dollars and Euros. http://www.firstpersonview.co.uk

This is a feature requested by many of our foreign customers and it also serves to show UK customers how cheap our products are compared to those in the US at the moment.

The Advanced Flight Kit for instance is cheaper from us than buying from America and you'll get it next day with no additional costs, unlike one from America which would attract 14% import duty (the rate for video goggles), usually a £10-15 admin fee from the courier and up to 2 weeks waiting!

Easystar Pilot makes the front page!

A couple of days ago I watched this beautiful but tragic Easystar film from Sweden: http://uk.youtube.com/user/dadde87.

I felt for the guy and emailed him to say that I was impressed by the beautiful film and sorry to hear about the tragic ending and I offered him some "disaster discount" to get him back in the air!!

We started having an email conversation and today he let me know that the model was found! He put posters up in the local supermarkets and before long got a call! Apparently the Easystar glided down to earth, hit City Hall (of all the buildings to hit!!) and was rescued by a lady who works at City Hall.

The Easystar is a little worse for wear but what a relief to get eveyrthing back, almost in one piece. He even made the front page of the local paper!

First Person View simulator...Are there any good ones?

I am often asked about RC simulators that include First Person View or cockpit view. Yesterday I downloaded the demo of RealFlight G4 after a tip that this indeed includes a cockpit view.

Unfortunately the demo version doesn't include the cockpit view so I was unable to test it. I wonder if anyone else has used RealFlight G4 for FPV simulator flying and if so what is it like?

Or has anyone got other suggestions for FPV simulators?

Personally I love flying Phoenix RC simulator but unfortunately that does not include the FPV angle.

We're booked in for the 3rd annual FPV event in Northern France for May 8th-10th

http://translate.google.fr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Faeroimmersion.free.fr%2FMeeting09.htm&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8

Its official! The event is on and I've just booked a ferry ticket! The entire www.firstpersonview.co.uk team (that's right BOTH of us!) will be there from first thing on Thursday morning until about midday on Sunday and we'll have as much as we can fit in the car! Hopefully the Easystar, Wing Dragon, Innovator (which hopefully by then will be modified to be a twin or perhaps a pusher) and Trex 450 - all setup for FPV flying.

Lets hope for good weather now!

I hope to meet lots of other FPV pilots at the event and have some great fun flying. If you can make it please do come along, full details are in the link at the top of this post. If you need any help translating or anything let me know and I'll try and get you in touch with someone who can tell you everything you need to know.

I wonder if anyone there will have a Mikrokopter. I'd really love to see one in action. Perhaps I'll ask Alex Wilder at NextGenRCif he's going to go to the event.

FPV Tanks are go!

Here's a testimonial from one of our customers who has fitted FPV cameras to two RC tanks with InfraRed fighting capability and been battling his young daughter in the woods!

I have just come back in from test driving one of the tanks.

Total complete success! It is absolutely brilliant, quite surreal though. It actually feels quite fast when you go full chat. The suspension is very good on the model so vibration was not an issue, also I had no signal interferance from all the motors & systems in the tank.

The sets were worth buying just for the tanks alone. Any other models we use them in will be a complete bonus.

Many many thanks. Just on that 10 minute play outside I am sold on the system. You have to actually use it to get the full feel of it. I think with practise & familiarity it will become quite an immersion experience.

Best Regards to you,

Andy

New Cameras coming very soon...sneak pics

I probably shouldn't reveal these yet but what the heck. www.firstpersonview.co.uk will very soon be stocking a range of 12v cameras.







These are well proven FPV cameras and we have put them through significant testing in real PFV flight use over the past 6 months before deciding to develop a 12v plug and play power system to accompany them.

The KX171 and OSC camera will hopefully be available on our website on or around the 5th February alongside our 2.4Ghz transmitter with built in PSU and 12v output for the camera. The Tx module also has OSD pins which include an audio pin for use with the new Ez-OSD telemetry feature when it is available.

Pan and Tilt units now finally in stock!

After a very very long wait our Pan and Tilt units are now in stock and we've shipped out all back orders. We're very pleased with the units and they're available here with a standard pan servo: http://www.firstpersonview.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=124

Or here with a 180 degree modified pan servo: http://www.firstpersonview.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=136