What is First Person View

What is First Person View

What is First Person View? also known as FPV. The term is used in describing what a person would be seeing if they where there in-person. Example: If you placed a video camera on your forehead and allowed someone to watch your views via wireless video link, they would be watching the First Person Views of what ever your looking at. So the term FPV caught on with the help of one of the pioneers of FPV piloting (cyber-flyer*). With the assistance of a wireless video transmitter and receiver the user will see what the Remote Controlled heli/plane/car sees from the driver/pilot seat. This gives the user a real sense of controlling their aircraft/vehicle in the skies or on the ground. Most of the people who enjoy FPV piloting and do well with it are typically persons who like video simulation games for example... flight simulators, auto racing, etc....Also full-size aircraft pilots seem to pick up FPV piloting with ease. So why not call it "UAV piloting" since they really are UAVs...One reason is with the term FPV there's a general understanding in the RC community that a person is controlling the aircraft movements via watching a wireless video downlink and not a using a PC based flight control system with programed waypoints, altitudes, speed etc...where as most FPV aircraft are not much more then a light weight cheap foam RC plane with a simple wireless camera on board.

First Person View piloting seems to be coming a big part in the future of radio controlled hobbies and this site is here to help others to gain some understanding to get involved. Since FPV piloting is fairly new idea to the RC hobbyist, it maybe difficult to get started. It's a new way to pilot RC and this can make most hobbyist confused when researching for it along with all the information on the net so we'll stick to the basics here. Regardless if FPV piloting is for you or not, we hope you gain some information that will help you in the future with your RC hobby.
We want to help the new FPV pilot who is looking for the fun part of this hobby and not wanting to spend hours or days deciphering all the forum info relating to FPV. You can easily get lost in all the "jibber jabber" and different equipment being used and developed for it.