Best module for fatshark?

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There is a possibility I may get some new hdo2 goggles for Christmas 
So the question is which module to get?
Reading up it seems that RapidFire is best but is not cheap. True-D X seems to have been reduced quite a bit down to £54 from £92!
So is the RapidFire really worth spending £130 on?

Or any other suggestions?
It will be for sub 250gms quads so dji digital not going to fit.
Cheers

[Lamaule]

There is a possibility I may get some new hdo2 goggles for Christmas 
So the question is which module to get?
Reading up it seems that RapidFire is best but is not cheap. True-D X seems to have been reduced quite a bit down to £54 from £92!
So is the RapidFire really worth spending £130 on?

Or any other suggestions?
It will be for sub 250gms quads so dji digital not going to fit.
Cheers

Hey Ched,

Imho the rapid fire was totally worth the extra cost. For me my vision is the most important part of the overall system, but also the weakest party of the technology at present.

The rapid fire really makes the best of your video signal. It allows me to see details I otherwise couldn't which is so crucial to me when flying challenging spots.

However, if you are flying in open spaces with limited multipath, the rapid fire ads limited value.

But go to a bando, it through the trees and it's a game changer.

I'm sure jakala will add to this. When he had a go with mine he bought one almost straight away.

He also got a good deal on his from drones direct at the last drone show. It might be worth giving them a call as we managed to chat them up for a bit of discount! [emoji6]

Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk

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Well in the end I went for the TrueD-X as it dropped in price down to £40! Not tried it in field yet but it was very easy to update via mobile phone app. Menus seem very easy. Fitted easily but firmly into the HDO2s.

Hopefully I will get chance to try it at the weekend and report back.

[sh0wtime]

How do you find the True D X?
i thought i was the only person that bought it 

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How do you find the True D X?
i thought i was the only person that bought it 

Seems great to me but since Feb I haven't been out properly. so not much testing at all. How do you find it?

[sh0wtime]

Well, despite deciding i wanted to get into fpv & throwing loads of money at it the last couple of years i'm only now just starting to actually learn to use my stuff.
i've just been trying to get a feel for flying line of sight at the moment but i did do my first fpv flight ever on Sunday!
it didn't last for long & ended up in a crash but nothing broken 
first impressions are good. i've seen loads of DVR footage from peoples goggles & the quality was better than most. i was very impressed with the vivid sunset colours. maybe a tad oversaturated but it might have been like that as it was starting to get dark. Little foxeer camera in a prebuilt Armattan Gecko 4incher 
The chameleon i was using to learn kept losing video, after a quick look i found a
broken vtx wire so thats just an LOS basher for now. i do have another Chameleon with working video i will take with me this weekend 

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Must admit when I first started learning I tried LOS but just couldn't manage it. Gave up for a year then bought F450 (10" props DJI Naza FC) and LOS was so much easier but still stabilised. Then after a year built 5" quad and LOS in acro was so difficult, if I really really concentrated I could fly fig 8 but mostly just lost control and ditched. Then tried with huge box goggles and wow so much easier not great at all but so much easier to control. After a couple of years I can happily zoom round my little garden with a Mobula6 fpv. It is just so natural now to fly fpv, I still can't fy los but if my video feed goes down I just ditch anyway, so no problem.

One thing that really helped me was using my transmitter on a simulator. I use Velocidrone and as it uses BetaFlight (3.4 I think) you can play with rates and find settings that give you enough sensitivity to make small adjustments round center stick but allow flips etc on full deflection. Once I found rates that suited me it was so much easier. I think my rates round center had been way too sensitive and my fingers couldn't cope with the very small movements needed. I liked the sim for playing with rates, ok it's not great at simulating real flying but it helped me a lot.

I realised that I can fly fpv reasonably when I notice my mind was able to wander to think about something else not just trying to keep it in the air 

Good Luck and keep it up as it will click.

[Bad Raven]

I run FrSky on two Horus X12S (mostly) and a Taranis. The two X12S each have a long high dB rubber duck external running along with the internal.

Goggles are Eachine EV200D supplied with the duel receivers, each dual diversity, with one pagoda and one patch each side. I have not felt the need to "upgrade" from that.

It always seems odd to me when you see the "name" pilots running one omni and one patch, and they don't even orientate themselves to be even roughly facing the quad, often with the patch pointing away from the quads location.  Surely with the patch angled so far off to one side they cannot be getting best available signal?

I suppose the answer is that they are running way illegal power, so it doesn't matter?