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Cosob says
One real problem that I see with FPV is snhotmieg that no one has addressed so far, at least directly. In a full scale airplane, the pilot is in the plane. He has his flight instruments and his own supply of fuel with a fuel gauge, and what’s more, he is able to fly anywhere he chooses, without worrying about straying too far from the airport (unless, of course, he’s a student). This is not the case with an R/C model. R/C planes have a limited range and flying outside that range will cause the flier to lose control of their model. And that range will vary, depending upon a number of factors. An FPV flier may be able to have a better perspective, in some ways, than an LOS flier, but once they’re up in the air, it’s very easy to start ranging further and further from the field and end up flying past the transmitter’s and/or receiver’s range. Unless the FPV system includes feedback to the pilot with data about airspeed and altitude, and monitoring equipment that will report how much fuel and battery power is left and that signal strength is beginning to be lost, I think that FPV is an accident (or multiple accidents) waiting to happen.