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For the most part, people don't understand drones.
So when they do, they're comfortable with it.
When they don't, they want to see it burn.
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Then when you go out
and see it in real life, it's like, well, that's freaking cool is crap.
You remember that scene in Star Wars with the Speeder Bikes?
Everybody watched that scene and you wanted to be on the Speeder Bikes.
Flying FPV, that's the closest analogy to what that's like.
So you might have seen drone footage before, but you probably haven't
seen drone footage like this.
So if you're prone to motion sickness, you might want to grab a barf bag
because it's about to get wild.
Since your little you dream of flying
and you know, all the superheroes like, you know, Superman and Iron Man.
Basically, that's the feeling FPV gives you.
Who hasn't looked up at the sky
and thought, man, I wish I could be Superman and just.
Go 100 miles an hour with a cinema camera
So you've basically flying a little Lamborghini.
It is all manual.
When we fly these things, every movement that you see is
input or not input from the pilot.
It's like freedom, you know, is like total freedom, separation of body and mind.
Apart from flying a wingsuit FPV is as close
as real flying as it can get.
You'll get shaky, your hands are shaking.
Your heart is pounding.
This is an adrenaline rush.
Get ready for like the ride of your life.
Whether it's diving down the side of a mountain,
skimming along the top of the water, you know, 100 miles an hour.
There's no other feeling like it.
There's no other way to get that rush that you get when you're flying FPV.
So flying FPV,
you're always looking for like this dope spot to fly if you've ever skated.
Most people are like, they're looking at stair sets
and handrails rather than, you know, maybe an architecture of a building.
Where with FPV we look at these things
so differently now because you can fly in three dimensional space.
With FPV technology it's just up to your skills how crazy and good the shot gets.
Having that headroom on the power lets
you do a lot of the crazy stuff that we're able to pull off, pulling out
at a gap at the very bottom of a building dive to go underneath this tree.
The adrenaline is always there.
No matter how long you've been flying.
You feel the power, you feel the speed.
The sensation
that you get or the adrenaline rush comes from directly comes from speed.
Even now I get shaky hands, I get almost dizzy about it.
You don't notice in the goggles.
It's only when you come back, you're like, oh, my hands are shaking.
Why are my hands shaking?
Because you just drove, you know, 100 feet through a tiny little gap,
with your drone that you really like.
The first time I saw FPV
I thought to myself, I'm never playing another video game again.
Your environments are mountains, rivers, lakes,
marshes, beaches, whatever you want your environment to be
it is the closest thing that you can get to flying a fighter jet.
Without actually flying a fighter jet.
You don't strap into the jet.
You strap the jet onto you.
When you put on the goggles, you are completely immersed
and you don't feel like you're sitting there flying a drone.
You feel like you're actually flying.
The adrenaline that goes through your veins
is extremely similar to actually flying a fighter jet.
This is something that you can only do
with these highly specialized quadcopters.
And you land and you can take the goggles off,
and there you are in the park and you're like,
what? It feels like my life and a million dollars is on the line.
Hi, I'm James Christianson and I'm a documentarian.
I'm also an FPV drone pilot since 2018 and I have been
watching many of the influencers and top drone pilots,
these are very skilled pilots around the world,
most of them posting on YouTube
I have come out from L.A.
to within a short drive of Atlanta, Georgia, Knoxville to Florida,
New York, and also interviewed pilots from other countries as well.
2020 is going to be a pivotal year for the history of drones.
And when I say drones, I mean quadcopters.
And it's not limited to toy drones or larger professional drones,
camera drones, FPV, drones, delivery drones,
drones in general are going to have a very pivotal year
in what is decided with the regulations coming from the FAA.
We have the protest coming up at the end of the month, February 2020
in Washington, DC at the FAA building.
And these pilots will come out and they're going to protest the fact
that they need to be able to save their hobby and for many of them,
it's a profession as well.
So come on this journey with me into the amazing,
fascinating adrenaline rush of FPV culture worldwide.
FPV, first person view.
First Persion View is you are not looking at the aircraft from the outside
you are inside the aircraft, virtually looking out.
Back in 2008 I started putting cameras
on just remote control airplanes, no FPV yet, and basically just trying
to do some HD footage of my surrounding neighborhood, just out of my backyard.
I could launch a plane and fly in the most beautiful scenery.
Back in the day, there were no drones.
It was only model aircraft.
You had to buy cameras from like baby monitors,
like hack the equipment out of it
and then just tape it on to not even purpose built airplanes.
Just airplanes that you would buy in an old rusty model shop,
and basically we used old ski goggles.
And then we cut out the front and taped
in some old personal video goggles.
And so we hacked up a receiver and taped that to our face.
We bought Wi-Fi range extender antennas
to get more range out of our equipment.
So this was kind of the early days of hacking together equipment
that really wasn't made for FPV
we had to make them back in the days
because there was just no purpose built FPV equipment.
So that's what we designed and then started to sell
and then it turned into a business.
I started flying RC helicopters with the age of 12 or 13.
So I'm in this RC hobby for a very long time.
For over 28 years.
All of us started with airplanes and helicopters and then move to drones,
and that's where a lot of experience comes from.
I actually started out with RC planes, fixed
wing planes before I got into multi rotors and mini quads.
That was some of the first aircraft that I built were fixed wing planes.
So really what inspired me to get into
FPV was a Team Black Sheep video, which was Trappy flying.
They were flying wings and diving down the sides of mountains with them.
And that kind of really set it off for me.
I always wanted to skydive and fly so this was just something where
I didn't have to put my body in harm's way.
FPV actually started for me with Trappy.
He was actually a huge inspiration with his TBS discovery
it wasn't until I went in the forums that I learned, okay,
how do you put one of these together?
Like, oh shoot, I got to pick up a soldering iron, but I didn't care.
I was like, I want to figure this out.
Figure it out MacGyver style. Like you
were just on the internet forums for hours on end looking for answers
and so people would just buy stuff and just plug it in and cross
your fingers that the magic smoke wouldn't come out because you just never knew.
In the beginning it was really janky.
People were using these Wii nunchucks and pulling the gyros and accelerometers
out of that and putting them into these multi rotors
in order to be the sensors to get these things to fly.
So it's very hacked together, and we slowly started to get more things
that were built specifically for the purpose of flying FPV.
The very first FPV drones had
scavenged surveillance cameras in them.
Bare bones like basic literal security cameras.
Most people are familiar with drones they see in
Best Buy, like DJI Phantoms or Mavericks.
I think a camera drone is best thought of as a like a tripod in the sky.
It's going to have larger props.
It's going to have a gimbal
so the camera can tilt while the drone is sort of hovering in place.
A freestyle or racing drone.
It's goal is to give the pilot the experience of flight.
It's got a fixed angle
and that means that the camera on it is actually up tilted a little bit
so the pilot can be looking ahead while the quad pitches forward.
It was kind of a byproduct of being super lightweight
to just mount or strap a GoPro to your quad.
But it's also something that was intentionally done to
provide the flying experience to the viewer.
And so every tilt, every piece of movement that you see,
that's what the drone is doing and that's what makes FPV so unique
is that the flying is more inherently
the subject of the video.
For the most part,
people that fly FPV are used to very crappy video signals
and just the most terrible image you could ever expect someone
to be able to fly an aircraft with.
This signal is super weak.
It's super scratchy.
They're static all the time.
So many people think that what we see in the goggles is like
what a GoPro shows you,
because that's what we show you guys when we upload this stuff to YouTube.
But now we have these new systems, these new digital systems, which are
high definition.
So, 2015 Drone Nationals was,
I think in my opinion, and I think I speak for a lot of people
here, it was probably one of the best FPV events ever, probably because
It was the first time where people from like all around the world came together
and it was really the first time, you know, people were starting to put
names to faces.
Because up until now our entire relationship with the community
just existed on forums and messages.
So not long after the Drone Nationals,
Dubai comes out with the World Drone
Prix of 2016
and that was an absolutely huge deal. Because first of all I got to go to Dubai.
And you know Dubai, it's big grand and large.
I remember showing up and they showed like the racetrack lit up at night.
So not only did it look crazy beautiful
but the frickin track like articulated like it breathed and moved.
But the kicker, $1,000,000 purse!
I never heard of before and I feel like that just straight
legitimized drone racing.
And then the the kid that I tried to strangle with
my arm is Nick Bannister, known as Benny UK
who won the Dubai World Drone big race.
And as you can see in the photo this is the hat Mr.
Steele gave me to avoid the sunburst
on my almost bald head.
A lot of people who are in FPV think of some of the early
like Charpu videos, the early Rotor Riot episodes.
He's a taxi driver from Mexico City.
That's where we got him.
We picked him up.
He's now a professional quad pilot.
But, you know, there's going to be a point where people are going to be
shooting down drones because they're everywhere, right?
So that's kind of like a way of like testing it, seeing it,
you know, seeing if we can actually
shoot down one of these little drones that we usually fly.
The odds are very slim.
You want to put bets on it?
I think it'll be a lucky shot. Anybody?
Yeah, lucky shot and be really hard.
But I kind of want it to happen.
If you want to know about nearly anything you just go search it on YouTube.
At least that's what I do.
And I think a lot of people,
maybe they discover the hobby by watching FPV pilots on YouTube.
Someone shares a clip with them.
I would say like 2014 is really when it started.
And then it's kind of exponentially grown since then.
But yeah, putting security systems and remotely flying aircraft via
goggles is just something that's been around for a while.
We've just refined it a lot in the last six years.
Being able to fly is
such an amazing experience, and my goal is to help
everybody who wants that amazing, transcendent experience
be able to get through the obstacle course and be able to enjoy the hobby.
People send me things occasionally.
This is a sign that a local guy made for me with my slogan on it.
That's kind of cool.
I'm Joshua Bardwell and you're going to learn something today.
So my brand is FPV Know It All.
It's a little bit tongue in cheek. At least that's the intent.
I don't literally know everything.
He answers everybody. That guy never stops.
Like when we're shooting together he's just in the back seat on the way
to the spot, just nonstop on the phone, answering every question.
The patience, of that man.
A lot of my content is for beginners
because much of my content is driven by the questions that I get.
I let my email inbox every morning write my editorial calendar for me.
If I start getting a question
five, six, seven times, I just say I got to make a video about it.
The antennas that come with the goggles have this shoulder here
to prevent you from twisting off the internal SMA connector.
It kind of cinches it down.
So I have a degree in computer science from Georgia Tech.
So I've got this background in computers and familiarity with computers
and maybe even a little bit of programing.
When I was a kid, my dad was into electronics.
He taught me to solder.
So I've got this background with electronics.
Another piece of my background that I think really makes a difference
is that I spent about ten years as an instructor, and courseware
designer doing classroom instruction, not like academic, but corporate.
I spent a lot of time figuring out how to break
complex topics down into an understandable way
and then communicate them to people in a way that people could get.
I think that's what I'm most proud of, is the people out there
who say I wouldn't be in the air if it weren't for Bardwell's videos.
I got into FPV fairly quickly,
mainly just because of my background
with electronics engineering and being around my father as a DIY
self-employed electronics engineer at home.
This workshop behind me is where I put together
all the drones and whatever projects I'm working on.
Hey, guys, this is my drone wall.
This is where I keep all of my older drones that I don't really fly anymore.
It's just kind of a decorative way to store these things.
You know, I built this thing for a race in Dubai and ended up
kind of making it into some long range drone where I don't necessarily always fly
far away, but this thing will fly for like 12 minutes.
Opposed to my normal three to five.
So this is like my very first drone ever it's a mini quad
made by a company called Black Out.
This particular quad
got run over by a trophy truck on my very first commercial gig ever.
And this thing Fail-Safed, which means it lost RC connection
fell out of the sky onto the racetrack, and got run over.
So this drone right here is like the combination
of six years of R&D and testing and trial and error.
Every time I go out, this is exactly every video I've ever made
has been flown with something either similar to this or this exact unit itself.
So like anything, skateboarding,
working on cars, you got to have the right tool for the right job.
And so this is a typical two millimeter driver
that we would use to work on drones.
In the last few years the technology has become
a little bit more accessible and obviously these drones are becoming easier
and easier to build, and so that's drawing in more and more people.
The FPV community mainly takes place on the Internet.
We're spread across the globe
and most interactions with each other, all done on Facebook groups.
FPV is basically this one giant tribe from all around the world.
When I go live on any social media platform,
there are people from all over the world that will comment in
But also because in a lot of places there just aren't any other FPV pilots.
You could be like the only one in your small town
and you just kind of got to do it yourself.
Social media has enabled us to find each other and congregate
in these bigger groups.
Like I have thousands of people that I interact with online on social media.
So when you get a chance to go to an event and meet other FPV pilots in person,
I think it's really special, it's really important, and
gets the keyboard out of the way
and gets you face to face.
The community in general is just so helpful.
You know, it's a place
where everyone just contributes ideas and goes to find inspiration.
I learned myself from the community, you know, I go back and learn
and trying to find and find new things that I hadn't known about.
See what other people are working on.
It's this place where everyone learns.
And I think that's just so amazing to have.
We kind of joke that when you become a pilot,
the first thing you do is make a logo
pick a pilot name, then you build your drone and learn to fly.
What is it with pilots in their brands?
I don't know the answer to this question.
As soon as they get into the hobby they want to hire somebody
to make them a logo, but I cannot explain it to you.
I guess it probably has something to do with social media culture.
It's how you rep your brand.
That's how you like give your buddies a sticker, you know, like the sticker
just indicates like, I knew this guy or you met this person In person.
FPV becomes your identity.
So why would you not, you know, want to buy the URL,
get some stickers made of your name, let everybody know what your pilot name is.
It's a way to reinvent yourself.
Everybody has stickers, everybody has stickers.
Please stop sending me stickers
no I'm just kidding.
Surfers are really protective of their spots,
because like there's only so many waves, right?
If there's a really good spot
and somebody else gets your wave, you're not going to get it.
And it feels like FPV pilots are a little bit like that, too.
Or they could piss off the security guard.
Cops called on you, maybe you're not quite supposed to be there,
but if you're cool about it, then you won't get any trouble.
We've had police ride up on us and not know
what we're doing alone in a parking lot and making all this noise.
These kind police officers want to go for a quick ride.
But you put the goggles on them, and take them for a ride.
They think it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
And we get away with getting a stay at a lot of spots that way.
The only other thing that like how I recognize
FPV drone pilots is massive backpacks at airports.
So like you can pick out a drone pilot from a thousand people easily
because they have a backpack full of stuff and they always get checked at security.
The king of carrying extras is definitely Corey.
Like today, his bag was like fifty pounds and mine was maybe 20.
You never fly your last pack.
So the minute you say, this is my last pack that I'm going
home, you're going to lose your quad, it's going to explode.
Some people keep a charged pack and that is their quote unquote last pack.
And they just leave it. I'm not making this up.
They superstitiously just leave their last pack in their backpack.
But the quad gods know that's not really your last pack.
You can't fool them that simply.
A lot of people who used to skateboard
and now they're like they're middle aged and they're tired of breaking their bones
end up as FPV pilots because it's like the same kind of thrill
and challenge to do a new trick.
So with skateboarding,
you typically show up to a spot and then you kind of explore it
and find out what you can use or what you can't use.
Maybe a handrail, skate, stair sets or ledges.
With FPV you really do the same thing.
So you show up and you're like, wow, there's a gap there.
There's this hole here.
There may be some, you know, some kind of weird thing that I can slide on.
You know, you're looking for cool spots, but instead of handrails,
you're looking for dive gaps.
If you have a flat parking lot,
there's probably nothing interesting to skate there.
Once you have elevation changes and you have stairs, there's
something good to skate there.
The same thing applies with FPV.
It really does feel like skateboarding in the air.
My friends that don't fly ask me what it's like.
I say it's like skateboarding in the air.
And I also have a a large background
or a long history of skateboarding, which I think also carried over.
And it makes sense that a lot of pilots come from these worlds.
That was like the new normal, it was to break things.
With flying FPV, I can chase that same itch, I can try to push myself
without risking more titanium rods in my body.
You're like, Okay, here we go.
Oh, no, I crashed.
Oh, no, I screwed it up and pack after pack after pack after pack after pack.
Until sometimes you break through.
I thrash my drones. I don't give a sh♪t what my drones look like.
I don't care. As long as they fly, I'm throwing it through that gap.
You know, it's going to slam into a wall and still take off,
the props are bent, Whatever.
Just keep flying.
If I were still skating, I would be injured all the time.
So, yeah, you can either break your legs or your wrists
or you can just break your pocketbook and fly FPV.
Somewhere out there there's somebody who's like, that's the whole point brah,
is that there's something on the line.
But you reach a point in your life where you're tired
of going to the hospital with broken bones and sprained...
and your just like, I'm done with that.
So you get everything together for a nice day out
with your friends, plug in, you get your tones,
put your goggles on...
no video.
This is why FPV is like such a pain the ass sometimes.
Or then you left something at home. And then you left something at home.
That's a mean one. Or you didn't charge your GoPro.
Or you didn't charge your GoPro. Or you didn't charge your radio.
Oh, that's the best.
So what's the solution?
Just bring four or five quads.
You never have to worry about four or five quads.
Three or four GoPros.
I don't go as hard as Corey does, so I don't do as much damage
to my equipment as Corey does. How about that?
I remember my first time breaking something.
I was like, Oh my God, I broke a prop.
And people were like, Oh, that's nothing.
If you spend your whole time being terrified that you're going to crash,
then you'll never get better.
That's really the only way that you're going to really learn and excel as a pilot.
Like you just got to be willing to break something.
And let's face it, that's kind of like half the fun, right?
You egg each other on, you're like, Hey, I bet you can't hit that.
Oh, there's a branch up there.
Trees grab you, trees will pull you right out of the air.
Trees will gobble you up and not let you fall
to the ground.
And heaven forbid you get into a palm tree because that's like the end all.
Once you get on top of the palm tree, you're done.
First pack with my freestyle quad.
I'm a racer.
Check this out.
Where skateboarding sometimes takes, you know, 100 tries and you can fall
down, hurt yourself really bad.
And that's going to affect your next line, FPV is just a drone.
Get a new drone, fix the motor, whatever it is.
And you continue to hit that crazy gap or do that crazy line until you do it.
And the movement can just seem really random,
but it's actually very practiced.
We actually have a whole set of defined tricks.
Going to start with the split-S. Everybody's first trick is to split-S,
and some of the most common ones are like a power loop
where you go under something and power and it loop around
and come back under it.
Every trick in FPV
really boils down to a combination
of three basic moves: the roll,
the pitch, which is a flip, or yah.
And the first time you go to a place
there's like this magic to it because you don't know
where all the lines are, you don't know everywhere that you can flow.
So it's a little bit exploratory.
It might be your second pack or it might be your 20th pack.
You just don't know.
But there's always that
one pack that you know you're going to get the best clips from.
There's that one.
So, I feel like that FPV is definitely a transition
from BMX or any type of skateboarding, BMX snowboarding,
because that thing of flow, like just the flow of cruising down a mountain
or hitting that grind that you want is pretty much identical
to hitting the gap or hitting this bando that you wanted to fly.
I mean, you just don't have to get hurt. It's beautiful.
Carbon,
carbon.
I may never make it into Tony Hawk's pro skater,
but I did make it into a drone simulator and I'll count that as a win.
Good morning.
We are now in Orlando, Florida, where we are going to visit today with Rotor Riot.
Just got off the phone with Drew.
We're going to go meet up at the warehouse and we're going to find a Bando,
which is an abandoned lot or abandoned structure
of some kind.
We're in Orlando, Florida, at the Rotor Riot
headquarters, where we've got our offices, our studio and our warehouse.
Rotor Riot was founded by Chad Kapper.
It's his second RC YouTube venture after flight test.
It was founded
with the idea of being at the center of FPV culture,
and it really evolved to be at the center of FPV freestyle culture
specifically.
The idea was get top pilots and personalities, put them together on a show.
And have them challenge each other,
go on adventures and take the audience along with them.
The episodes we make
are supposed to be educational, teach a little bit about how to do this
whole FPV thing, and more importantly, it's supposed to be inspirational.
We're really lucky to have a team that in their own way wants to inspire
people to fly and help them get into this hobby.
Be sure to like subscribe.
We'll catch up the next one!
So this would be like our go to build.
That's the HD1, and it's based on the original CL1 one frame.
We modified it to accommodate the DJI system just by making it
a little bit longer.
It's probably our cheapest frame, but it's still very durable
with like five millimeter arms.
It can take a pretty good beating.
This is something new we're doing
it's the Digi-whoop.
So it's kind of reminiscent of the tiny whoop.
So it's a little bit bigger.
It's I think a two inch prop rather than true
tiny whoops are like one inch prop, but it's actually digital, right?
So it's using the Caddix Vista.
So it's compatible with the DJI system.
So to be able to fly something
this small where you can really fly it, I mean, this is more than enough space.
You could fly this around your house and have digital HD is pretty fun.
What is a bando?
A bando is an abandoned building.
Abandoned buildings.
That's another thing where it really became popular
because people were exploring abandoned buildings and factories,
flying into windows, exploring old facilities.
Bando's are golden, just because of the layout.
There's so many the way it looks on film, the way it feels to fly the structures
of it, there's holes everywhere.
There's cool things.
Number one you have structures.
Number two, typically don't have windows or glass in the windows.
So all of those openings are openings that you can fly through.
Elevator shafts, windows.
There's so many different variations of what you can do in a bando.
So today
we are doing a Rotor Riot shoot on location.
There are some local pilots that I saw flying this
really cool looking Bando and I reached out to them.
Actually, one of them was my buddy Edwin, AKA Erodyo.
When I started flying, I lived in Detroit and I lived there for the first
three years I was flying and we had Bando's everywhere.
There's little areas in Detroit where you've got
five world class spots all within 10 minutes of each other.
Some of them you can literally fly the other
spot while you're standing at one spot.
Bando's are usually always going to be concrete, metal,
rusty, gritty when you crash It's pretty brutal.
I do love flying tree spots, too.
It's a great place to train, but when you get to a bando,
that's like that's the best FPV experience I think.
Bro, this is amazing. Wow.
So are you kidding me?
Just flying in an open space is boring.
So you're looking for obstacles and a Bando is like it's
a holy grail of obstacles because you can crash into anything.
Nobody is going to complain.
There's not going to be any people there.
So it's perfectly safe.
It's just the ultimate playground for FPV pilots.
Freestyle is about pushing the limits of the drone,
being fast and agile, but also creating a beautiful shot.
The subject of that shot is the movement of the drone itself.
It's highlighting the drone capability and the piloting skill in an artful way.
While I'm rolling out of it sideways.
So you got to think on your feet and turn that to the next thing and just
keep the line going.
There are holes in walls that are blown out that you can fly through.
You've got shafts, you can dive down all sorts of ways that you can push yourself
and what the drone is doing and with a really high risk factor.
Because this is all concrete metal when you crash, it's not like you're
crashing the branches of a tree.
It's a nice little cushion for you to go on.
You're probably going to break something.
A Bando is a great dynamic spot
for FPV because you get all of these different diverse types of elements.
I mean, you can
fly inside the actual buildings themselves where you're just trying
to not hit anything.
Or you can fly on the outside of the buildings
and kind of dive along the side or do these wall rides along the side.
Inside the building itself.
I saw these two, this pair of cylinders, and so I was trying to do a big power loop
around those, and I finally ended up getting it, which is awesome.
We're out there and we're watching each other fly
and all we want to do is see the other people improve
and push other people to the best of their abilities.
There's nothing more fun than that.
We really push each other when we watch each other fly, especially in person,
to see them pull off something like, Okay, I got to do, I got to one up that.
I've got to take that trick and make it even better.
Sometimes you will smack right into a metal beam.
But these drones are pretty tough
and a lot of times you'll be able to bend the props back and fly again.
And if you're really good,
sometimes you'll be able to recover and fly away from the crash.
For the past five years, I've been as engaged
as I can be to help the FAA develop reasonable and appropriate policy.
I was on the registration task force in 2015 then two other aviation
rule-making committees for flight over people as well as remote identification.
And I've been on the Drone Advisory Committee for the past several years.
As long as it's existed.
The ARC provided an 80 page report to the FAA, which set out different ways
to accomplish remote ID, but didn't recommend any single way to do it.
And so what you had is these stakeholders agreeing
that, look at the end of the day this remote I.D.
requirement has to be reasonable,
has to be low cost, low burden, has to respect privacy.
And then you have the FAA two years later actually not listening
to that part of the advice.
I think what the FAA came out with is a proposal
that is overly burdensome and overreaching.
They want every aircraft over 250 grams,
0.55 pounds, in the national airspace of the United States
to continuously report its location
and other information about itself back to a central database.
It's an all of the above approach in which you have to provide remote ID
information in more than one way and ways that are extremely costly.
It would be very easy and very low impact
to come up with a solution that's based on the RF we already use.
But instead they're coming up with very odd ideas
about essentially building an iPhone into your drone.
This hobby is really expensive.
We put a lot of time, money and energy into it.
So I can't imagine paying a cell phone subscription
for each of my drones.
So, as far as a small business, a modular remote ID unit
would be absolutely critical because we don't
you know, the FPV market is kind of small and when you innovate,
you're not going to sell a whole lot of units right off the bat.
So something modular you can put into a custom build, you know,
very simply it's going to be critical as far as allowing innovation to happen.
So people building their own drones can add the remote
ID component to it and comply with the rule.
Otherwise you're going to have a remote ID solution
ultimately that fails and doesn't satisfy the government's needs.
Individual hobbyists, innovators, STEM programs, small companies
all are just going to not be able to exist.
If this is not possible to build your custom drone or to innovate
and maybe tinker a bit and change something here and there, you would
basically take away those shots and the possibility
of doing things in the future that we maybe even kind of think of today.
At DJI, we don't just advocate for what's good for us.
We really are advocating for what's good for the entire drone community.
So one of the things we did
is we proactively developed a remote I.D. solution called drone to phone
that shows the FAA and other regulators that a broadcast solution works.
It works in an urban environment
and it would be free because it would involve software changes
to many drones and a phone app that people could download and use for free.
And you would not need any of that network infrastructure.
The service providers that are expected to charge monthly fees
and network connectivity, which comes with its own costs and complexities.
Products that are
sold will have to comply and then at some point, products
that you have that can't do remote ID would have to stop being used.
The worst thing is I've got 15 to 20 drones
that are going to be pretty much worthless if that doesn't get changed.
And and a lot of people are in the same boat I'm in.
These proposed regulations are trying to blanket kill
an entire industry when in reality what we're doing is just for fun.
We're not trying to spy on people or deliver packages.
We just want we want the ground we want like 20 feet.
That's about it.
You know most freestyle or racing drones we're not going super high in the air.
If we had to go to fly
in just little areas and little parks, I mean, it would just take away
all the creativity and just what makes FPV what it actually is.
Like the real core of it.
Who wants to be stuck at the same designated park
with probably zero features along with the 50,000
other people that are all trying to do the same thing?
It's kind of sad because we think what we're doing is pretty safe.
It's pretty awesome.
It's a really interesting and multifaceted hobby that kind of gets pushed into
into an illegal space.
Where FPV fits into the current rule that's proposed
and the industry that's trying to be created by companies
like Amazon and Google is that, in my opinion, it really doesn't,
and that's pretty much exactly what the rule tells us.
There is no place for you here.
You will not fly.
It's just shooting ourselves in the foot.
Other countries are going to take off and run with this technology
and American innovation is going to die.
The entire drone industry grew out of hobbyists.
There has to be a way to to balance both sides where you can keep things safe
but still have the freedom to fly anywhere.
Definitely worth saving.
It's worth protecting and defending.
At this point in 2020 there was just kind of a period of being in the dark.
You know, the FAA is not usually receiving more than, say,
5000 comments in a comment period.
They received 53,000 comments from the community
not only to mention that an actual protest happened
at the FAA building and nothing like this had ever happened before.
At this point the pilots and the community
really thought at large there was
there was no way this was going to change.
Are we going to lose our hobby as we know it?
This is something I believe is going to be very significant
no matter what the outcome is of the NPRM, this notice of proposed rulemaking.
I've got to capture it.
We've got to capture what happens here in 2020.
I bought a plane ticket,
I'm packing up my camera and my gear and I'm going to fly to Washington D.C.
meet up with some of these influencers that I've met with
and capture this day of protest, because this is history in the making.
But in the back of my mind I'm thinking, how is this going to make an impact
if people don't really know what FPV drones are
and this amazing community.
My expectations for today,
I think it's mostly important there just is a presence here.
I think that the actual communication with the FAA is going to
happen in more sort of private meetings and committees.
I mean, I think one of the biggest problems is
that they don't really even know we exist.
I know that the organizers have a bunch of stuff planned.
There's going to be picketing.
I'm mostly just looking forward to seeing who comes and
showing the people in our community
that we are going to be out here fighting for them.
Is Rotor Riot going to riot here?
No, we are not.
This is not a place for that, this is a place to peacefully protest
and to have our voices heard.
I'm a little nervous
that it's not going to be a huge turnout
because we're so spread out and it feels like we have such
a large community, but it's just like this membrane spread across the world.
If it was ever going to matter, if it was ever going to be worth
taking time off work and getting on a plane
and doing something expensive and obtrusive and inconvenient,
it's kind of kind of now, if you actually care about this stuff.
There's a lot of power in coming together physically,
especially for a community that is so spread out
and does most of its communication and interaction electronically.
Regardless of how you do it, why you do it, what you're doing it for.
We all love this weird hobby and it's under threat
and we got to do something about it.
The FAA released
its notice of proposed rulemaking that's called NPRM
just after Christmas 2019,
which then started a 60 day comment period
The protest was held in February on the last day to submit comments
kind of as a way to raise awareness with all the live streams and everything
that happened, all the pictures posted to Instagram and social media.
Enok FPV,
had taken the initiative to plan a day of protest.
People from all over the country coming here to save their access to hobby flight.
And together this community has now really created a bunch of momentum.
And this momentum is going to move forward in a way
that I don't think the FAA was expecting.
It was just a really profound
statement that I don't think a lot of people in the FAA
had truly grasped until we showed up on their door.
We do need things like remote I.D.
and registration but we need to do it in a way that
is reasonable and fair to the community and to the technology.
It's very understandable why this community would come out in protest
on a cold day with picket signs in front of the FAA.
Because I think they read a proposal that doesn't take into account
their concerns and is not realistic for the kinds of technology they use.
It was a great turnout.
I mean, it was a far bigger turnout than I had imagined.
It was a really cold day.
I marched.
I held signs and I chanted.
Mostly, I think what I did was I got to connect with other people who were there.
We did our chants.
We marched and we did actually, like, get people coming up to us on the street
asking what this is about.
We actually got news articles written about the movement.
It's one piece of fighting for this hobby,
and we'll go back to Washington as many times as it takes
to make sure that the world actually knows that, first off, we exist
and that what we do is worth saving.
We had about 250 people out there
all taking time out of their day
and ages, ranging out there from ten years old to 80 years old.
We had kids there that were brought by their moms.
There was a whole group of FPV moms
with their 13 year old kids that were into this hobby.
Because it's the youth who were also a part of this.
Let's keep this STEM going.
So I've been into FPV for about four years, and it's stuck
with me more than anything else I've done before, and it's allowed me
to learn just so much more than I would have ever expected when I started.
When I heard the FAA was trying to take away drones
I went to my first protest ever.
We went down there and people assembled.
People are very passionate about FPV, and it was so awesome to see everybody.
It's important for influencers to show up, to not only show that they care,
but also to meet the people that they've influenced.
And for me personally, I met a guy who said that
he was from Alaska, and he drove here based on a video that I made a week ago.
It was cool to be able to go there and show
my support and hang out with people that are also supportive of,
you know, stopping extra drone regulation that is unnecessary.
I see the need for regulation to make sure people stay safe,
but overregulation is going to stifle any amount of innovation.
We can stand and do everything that we need to do
as a united body.
At minimum, give us a way
to put a module on our drones so that we can comply.
It may not end today this may just be the beginning.
There's going to be a lot of steps after this.
We're not going to win just from having a protest in a park.
But the protest in the park is giving us more power.
We want to protect our access to the sky and we're going to do it
together as one community.
Basically, when I got started in FPV,
I just had really got to flying with the goggles on
and approximately a month after that, my daughter passed away.
And so, in the midst of all that agony and pain I was going through,
basically I could go to the park after work and
fly my drones and I would get away from all that I was feeling.
You know, all that was bothering me inside.
For three minutes at a time
I got it up in the air and fly and on occasion, you know, I actually even
felt closer to my daughter.
But that, that laid the foundation for me in FPV, and why
I feel like I should give back so much.
My local community
needed somebody like me to help out, and I stepped up.
And now we have great races and it's still a part of my life
two and a half years later.
All the pilots.
Are you ready? Let me see your thumbs up.
Two, three pilots are ready.
Pilots arm your quads.
On the tone, less than five.
So one of the things that makes Multi GP
so instrumental in the hobby is that it is near you.
There are so many chapters around the world
both local chapters, and then those local chapters
will branch into a regional chapter.
So, for instance, we're filming here in South Carolina
and not 20 minutes away there's a Multi GP chapter here in Greenville.
It's very active races regularly.
And so it's very important
that if someone's looking to pick up FPV here in Greenville, for example,
they can go out there and see what actually is.
I am not a racer.
I cannot compete on that level.
Haha I've tried,
it's just different skill sets and a different discipline.
So racing, the level so high today, you need to do that
and that only if you want to be on the top.
I'm 17 years old now
and I started flying remote control airplanes with my dad at the age of six.
I started getting into RC airplanes flying competitively at around the age of ten.
My name is Kevin Turner and I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Right on. What's your position right now?
Uh, you know, first or second, I'm not sure.
So cool to go from flying these remote control airplanes.
Third person to being able to sit inside of one.
And that's really what drew me into it.
Multi GP is very grassroots.
Everyone is building their own drones.
You can do
whatever you like to these drones to make it fly to the best of your ability
and preferences.
So I was able to go to a local chapter and meet with a group of guys
that were already sanctioned through Multi GP and get my racing journey started.
There's just so much to FPV nowadays and it's gotten a lot better.
But having someone there that's local, I can help you out
through the building and purchasing process is super beneficial.
It's the most fun
racing for anyone and everyone, whether it's your first race or your 100th race.
That's Multi GP's goal, is to grow the sport of drone racing
and to make it as fun as possible for each and every one.
So for the world's best racers, in my opinion,
the Multi GP National Championship is the pinnacle of the sport.
They take FPV truly to a worldwide scale.
If you go on to Multi GP, you will find a chapter in an area,
you will find pilots that you can fly with, whether you want to race or not.
With the Multi GP Drone Racing League, over 20,000 pilots from across
the world use our platform for organizing
and making drone racing most efficient.
Right behind me on this awesome track here
at Daytona Stadium in beautiful Daytona, Florida.
We're battling it out for a DRL contract.
Over $10,000 in cash prizes and bragging rights
For the last two years we've been one of the primary sponsors
of the Multi GP National Championship
at multi GP events.
You can just be in the stands as a spectator
with your own goggles on your face and watching the pilots feed, live
coming from my competitive background, I really just had a drive
to want to not be the second best, not be the third best, but be the best.
I saw And I got to meet all these guys and see the community behind it
and see how bad everyone else wanted it.
And I knew that I had to drive
the will to want it more, if not the same amount as them.
So I worked very, very hard.
I came back in 2018
and actually was able to win my first Multi GP national championship.
We're pretty famous for being
the main sponsor, at Multi GP every year.
It's in Muncie, Indiana in August
and it's pretty much the biggest celebration of FPV.
There's 400 - 500 pilots there every year and we all just get together
and have a great time.
You would think it would be specifically for racing, but because,
you have people traveling
to go to this race and they're from all over the world,
you get this kind of like mixing melting pot of people that show up
that don't even race.
And they're just coming over
because they know there are going to be a lot of top name pilots there.
It's kind of transformed from just a race
in the last few years to like almost this Tomorrowland-esk
style event that happens for FPV.
Like they have these tiny whoop races,
where they light up hoops and fly through them.
And it's a fun environment to be in.
Initially there was a whole situation
where if you plugged in on somebody else's
channel, and that caused someone to crash, then like the marshals would come.
If anybody powers up his quad above the allowed power level
or during another person's race, he was going to hammer and smash the quad.
That was like the rumor and nobody had
that happen yet, it was all bluff.
And then all of a sudden someone plugged in on a freestyle
flight line and it caused someone in a race to crash.
And all these people came over from the race and they were all upset.
And the founder of Multi GP at the time, Chris Thomas, was over there
with the hammer.
And then I was like, You won't do it.
And eventually he got hammered.
They literally just put the quad on this table and hammered it.
And then I made a video about it and it became Hammer Gate.
He ended up replacing it because he felt bad for the kid.
That event is now known as Hammer Gate.
Plugging in on someone is one of the worst things you can do.
That's the biggest social faux pas, not to mention just being rude.
If somebody is flying in the air, you want to find out what channel they're on.
If you're on a close channel and you plug in
you're going to block out their view
they're going to see all static
or see your drone on the ground.
Do not plug in on people. Don't be that person.
You go out there and you're flyin, somebody powers up.
You're like, Oh, who powered up? Who powered up?
But you got to have a sense of humor about it
because you're going to do it to somebody else too probably, eventually.
Lately, I've been more focused on the cinematic
side of FPV, and a lot of the designs are just motivated
by a certain shot that someone might want to get.
And the design is all driven by the needs of the pilots.
One of the designs that really got popular of mine
was The Squirt, which is a tiny little ducted drone
that I originally designed for Robert McIntosh.
So it's a little three inch ducted
drone for carrying a GoPro Hero.
So a little bit slower, a little more
focused on the subject instead of on the piloting skills.
I mean, especially Andy, he created the squirt that was technology
that enabled people to do shots that were not possible before
and that created a whole new style of shooting drone videos.
It's just
giving people a totally new perspective
of our world.
Flying a Cinewhoop is very different from flying any other rig.
They bring a level of safety to this, which is pretty nice
because now you can fly around people and just the general reaction
that we get from people is really positive.
And then suddenly you have a machine that can fly
and be touched by people and go through people.
And that's what I really like about it.
You can have this whole interaction of movement and
then it becomes like kind of like a dance between
you and the drone, that person.
And you feel like you actually are with the person performing with them.
So I did this video with Lotfi
Le Mali, who is a professional long border,
and we just went and did this awesome video, had a lot of fun.
He did the single greatest Cinewhoop video ever.
With the long border.
He kept like
catching it, throwing it, like going under the skateboard.
You know, it was such a perfect video that he had a great location
a great subject, great music, great editing.
And yeah, it opened up like this whole genre
of flying that's now like...
I mean, it's almost 50% of what people fly, I'd say.
And now it's kind of spawned a whole movement and a bunch of clones
of the original design.
FPV is not just one thing, it's
a whole spectrum, and it's really both for me.
Freestyle and cinematic go hand in hand.
You have to have the technicality, but you have to have the eye as well.
I have a lot of respect for those people that basically night and day
think about how can we do things differently
and how can we push innovation to create even cooler shots.
Tommy, "ummagawd" who came up with this you know, a little conversion
of the Cinewhoop where you basically de-case a GoPro and then put it on top.
And that became It became a standard now.
More often than not, you know, I have a director asking like,
oh, can you get like this close to the guy's face?
I want to make out his eyelash and, you know, fly through this tiny little gap.
And today we're at a point where we are literally just taking apart a GoPro down
to it's bare minimum so that I can fit onto a small little form factor like this.
I mean, look at this guy.
You can pretty much fly this through anything.
The third one I have is called the Thicc.
It's a seven inch - X eight, which is an octa copter.
So, instead of four motors there's eight.
So it can lift a bigger camera like a Blackmagic Pocket or the Red Komodo.
The center of mass of the drone is as centered as possible.
And it's quite timely that all these manufacturers are coming out
with kind of smaller form factor cameras that are worthy of feature films.
You know.
I've been on shoots with Gab and Nurk,
and they're like almost a computer programed robotic arm.
They can fly the same line again and again and again.
So for a director, it's almost like having this instant
camera that can go anywhere
because, you never know what the director will start throwing at you.
It is definitely skill based, 100%.
Snowboarding, wakeboarding.
I see a lot of wakeboarding content and it's just pretty wild
some of the stuff thats out there now.
Like snowboarding is cool.
You know, mountain biking is a perfect example.
Wingsuit pilots,
base jumpers, paragliders, all these kind of things that previously
you couldn't really film very safely are now possible because of FPV.
And because of mini quads.
With FPV we can get real close to someone
and you can move in a similar way to that person.
Mixing, drifting, and FPV is kind of
the best of what we've got right now in two different hobbies and art forms.
These two together, like these two troublemakers together,
just makes sense in the end I think.
So we are constantly hearing what the director says, and sometimes
when we're lucky, we get to see on the big screen over there.
This is also, by the way, live,
and hundreds of thousands of people are watching it across the world.
So you better not mess it up because if you do, everyone's
everyone's going to see it.
Live is a completely different animal.
But yeah, I love it
because you get to work with new technologies and try things out.
This thing that we did, no one did it before in that form
and we made those FPV drones
just so that they can fly
with that technology on.
I think we all are like adrenaline junkies in the hobby
because we're just looking for it.
With drifting, with cars drifting at 100 miles an hour,
and us flying about a meter away from them.
Especially when you see some of the shots that can be done with drift cars
you quickly realize there's no other way
to get a shot like this.
Drifting and FPV just is like the perfect match.
Drifting cars are not that super fast.
They always have the same speed.
It looks spectacular because you have smoke and tires bursting.
And it goes really well with each other just because the way a car drifts around
the corner is very similar to how a drone flies on a banked turn.
It is very much like a dance when you pair the two together.
Drifting, you know, it is kind of like an art.
You're out there, you know, the drivers are doing their things,
trying to hit those lines smooth, trying to get that time.
And the drone above it is also just trying to keep it's line
above the drift car, trying to get those smooth lines.
And they just complement each other so well.
Drifting is very much an art form.
Also, it's got this
like technological motorsports, kind of modification culture around it.
And that's like the same exact thing as FPV.
A lot of people
in the FPV community view Atlanta as the Mecca.
They want to go there. They want to fly these spots.
Just having the diversity of a growing, expanding city, all the foliage
and then the melting pot of people and culture that lives here,
it is ultimately became like this amazing FPV Mecca.
Early on in FPV, so many great FPV pilots
seem to come out of Atlanta and they formed this community together.
That was just this amazing birthing ground for great FPV skill.
I think they all made themselves better
as a result of all these great pilots being together in the same community.
They are like a really special breed of people.
Like they have very short attention span, but they are like
neurotically focused on details in other areas. Right?
So like the communication is - it's like herding cats,
but once they're on site and everything is ready to go,
like they make magic happen.
When you have a community
to inspire you, to challenge you, to show you things
that you would never have thought were possible, you become better.
Everyone becomes better as a result.
Atlanta specifically in 2016.
It was all about me, Steele, Skitzo and Wild Willie.
Nick Willard.
We always had this really ambitious, like wanting to push things
all the time and not necessarily trying to stay ahead of the curve.
It was just something that came natural to us.
Meeting up with Kevin and John and some other people.
I hear quads
and see what's going down.
And we always just pushed each other.
I would be flying around a spot trying to find lines and then I'd watch Kevin.
I would tap into his feed and be like, Oh, I didn't know we could do that.
The progression in that little group and that little area is just intense.
Like, you go there, you come back feeling like you really accomplished
something huge.
Every pilot down there is really killing it.
Guess who else moved to Atlanta?
Have you ever heard of this guy?
It's just a big melting pot of very extreme
and talented people.
So I just, I'm just looking forward to getting together
with a bunch of great pilots and a bunch of friends and flying for a day.
Kevin is like, he just has this innate, magical,
skill to find dope spots to fly at.
It was just really easy to go there and just on the daily
find a new spot that was really cool to rip that.
There's so many good spots in Atlanta
I don't know if it's just because I lived in Atlanta for a while,
because of the schools that are there, you know, Georgia Tech being one.
There's a lot of technically minded people that adopted FPV early on.
And so you have all of these amazing office parks that were able to fly.
It has more trees per square mile than any other metropolis in the US.
This is an amazing spot.
Office parks like this are so much fun.
There's so much cool architecture to interact with.
There will be carnage.
There will be
I mean, I won't be too broken because I'm running the Bot Grinder AFX frame
which is the strongest frame on the market right now.
But there will be some carnage for sure.
When we get together. It's like, you know, Hey, what have you been working on?
Or what's that? What's changed on your drone?
Because it's always like an ever changing process.
There's new technology, there's new equipment,
there might be new motors, new props.
All of this stuff like equates to how the drone flies.
And honestly, it's just fun to interact and kind of share
the knowledge of what you've done and see what other people have done.
Vista?
Naked Vista?
Oh, that's hot.
But what's your controller still X9D?
X9D Baby.
Again!
How many times?
I reside in Greenville, South Carolina at the moment.
I'm a part time FPV Pilot.
I work a lot.
Whenever I get a chance, I go out and fly empty parking lots.
I love it. Probably going to do it up to the day I die.
All right. I'm ready to rip.
Let's go fly.
Frequency Management, it was a lot easier with less people.
The bigger it gets, the more confusing it gets, the more tempers
start to come out because people plug in, and that causes someone to crash.
Can I power up now on race eight?
I'll walk over here, get away from y'all.
You can only have two to four guys up in the air at a time.
So I don't want to go to a flying spot and have 40 people there.
I want to have like half a dozen.
You have to, find this middle ground of making it a social event,
but not too big of a social event so that you can actually get some flying time in.
Who's on race eight?
I'm on race eight!
Because at that point, once there gets to be too much people
like you can't go as far or you can't, you know, because you have video issues.
All right, going up on eight.
Why are we all on race eight?
Basically, instead of swapping the whole motor, you can just put
this piece of motor on, screw it in.
We're done.
I just was doing some little wa-ha-ha.
I'm going to go between the pillars
around the thing, turn left and weave in
and then up through the gap and over the dome and down into the gap.
And then weave out and miss everything.
And it's going to be awesome.
Oh, son.
Oh, damn son!
Two in a row!
So we're trying to, you know, hit all of these certain clipping points
and then also be able to do it in a smooth fashion.
But once he did it, then, you know, I'm following right behind him and then
you got to take it to the next level.
And that is him chasing me or me chasing him getting that double footage,
the third person style footage.
Power cycle. Good as new.
Mostly.
I'm going to take the B+
It ain't the A+ but it's the B. I'll take a B-
I was like, well, I can't be smoother than Skitzo,
I can't be more technical than Steele, so all I can do is like go bigger.
So I'm going to do sh♪t that people think is impossible and make it possible.
And that's kind of what I did
Just power looping, trying to chase each other
because it's always fun trying to follow quads.
Especially with analog.
Because you literally can't see anything.
Kevin!
You know, everybody started doing their own thing
and moved away, so it was really nice to come together again
and see everybody vibing off each other and trying to one up each other.
And flying and everything.
It really did feel like like those trips used to be back in the day.
I told Stingy that, you know, I was like, man, this feels like back in the day.
Being able to go out and fly with your friends is like going to a soccer game.
Or doing something that allows you to hang out with people that are like minded.
And I really enjoy being with them.
And I hope that, you know, regulation doesn't take away from that.
It's possible that this could be one of the last times
when this many people come together in one place and fly.
If remote it goes through, a lot of people are going to drop out.
The trippiest thing for me when I started
was to take off and circle myself
and see myself fly.
It actually does
provide this kind of spiritual experience.
I mean, you literally are having an out of body experience.
I think one of the first times you really bug out when you're flying
is the first time you are flying
and you see yourself, you're like, Oh, that's me not in my body.
You see like a GTA version of yourself with a remote controller.
And then see myself standing there
while I was clearly in this little machine in my head.
It was literally an out of body experience the first time.
It's 100 percent an out of body experience.
You know, I say all the time, like when I'm flying,
I'm like, Oh, drone me did this. Because that's what it is. At that point.
At that point, when you're flying in the goggles you're two separate beings,
you're human you that's controlling things and your drone you that's flying around.
I think what we're all looking for is that state of flow.
You are essentially one with the craft.
You're not fighting it. You're not
trying to overthink what you're doing and everything is just natural.
We're there resonating with the environment.
To really make very smooth movements,
you have to kind of anticipate where your drone is going to be
in the next 10 seconds.
And you have to make the movement transition into that state.
To just have that state of flow where you never appear to hesitate
and it always feels like you know where you're going next.
Just everything feels like it's going right.
You feel completely connected to the quad, all the tricks are leading
into each other and flowing between each other perfectly.
And you just get this amazing sense of bliss and accomplishment.
But I get this kind of release of endorphins by getting into the flowstate.
I'm being able to control the drone
in a way that I just don't even realize is happening.
I cannot describe it other than being in a state of flow.
And it's an addictive state to be in.
There's never a ceiling.
You've never figured out every trick, figured out every flow,
mastered every possible line, and if you think you have,
you're just not being creative enough.
You can't get this experience any other way.
It's beyond the capabilities of the human body.
Everything is like making noise at you.
And then you put on your goggles and for three to five minutes, it's
absolute silence and you're just focused on that screen right in front of you.
When you get to the point of entering that flowstate, it's ultimate happiness.
You're not worried about anything else.
There's nothing in the world.
There's no stress,
there's no anxiety, there's no depression, there's no hate, there's none of that.
It's just you and the quad.
When you're in that, you're no longer thinking about
anything other than the movement that's happening.
Everything else turns off
except for the one or two things in your brain that you need to fly.
I'd almost say that it becomes effortless at that point.
Once you get into this crazy Nirvana state.
When you hit that man, it's like there's nothing else like it.
We just go out of our bodies and suddenly you're limitless...