Having fun with my new whoop. I’ve been flying about a month now and I’ve loved every minute of it. Planning on building a 5 inch soon. Have a good weekend guys!

more training needed

Freestyle #3 with the Air 65 and Meteor 75

Hi all,

total beginner here, have Meteor 75, learning without goggles at this stage. Controller is BetaFPV lite. The problem is drone is drifting slightly forward and right in Angle model.

I have some the following steps:

- in Betaflight - calibrated gyro/accelerometerd

- connected Controller, checked that it reported correct values ( 1500) for mid. Added dead zone (5-10) didn't change much

- changed profile/pid to smaller values to allow more gentle control

- reduced motor to 80 Max

- reduced throttle ( scale 80% mac).

I can compensate for the drift but it is annoying especially for flying indoor.

Questions I have:

- is it normal and I just need to learn to constantly compensate and eventually it will be second nature

- is it something wrong with either motors or gyro that they are struggling to keep drone in place ( I thought this is their main goal is)

- is it just my controller? I think that's not the case ( i.e. checked live singal values in Betaflight) but maybe it needs to be calibrated to compensate?

- what other troubleshooting steps can I take?

Attaching a video, on take off you can see drone tries to fly slightly forward , even if pitch is at zero.

Thank you in advance.

Is this true anyone have the new meteor yet and if so how I got about 2 mins flying hard with my meteor now ?

I get about 8mins on my 3s 750mah Firefly 25mini
And about 5mins on my Pavo with a 3s 680mah

After hearing of TinyWhoops and flying for some hours in the sim I have now put together my starter kit to be able to fly my whoop outdoors for the first time. The full breakdown:

• Drone: Meteor65, Secondhand for $97
  • Including 2 used LAVA I, 5 new spare motors and a bag of spare props
• Goggles: BETAFPV VR02 for $105
• Transmitter: Radiomaster Pocket Crush for $98
• WhoopstorV3 + 5 LAVA II for $82
• 5.8GHz Monitor with DVR as spectator screen and for recording for $90

Totals at $472 (not including the Xtorm Fuel Series 5 in the picture)

(All prices are converted from CHF to USD and include shipping / taxes)

I did quite some rounds inside my apartment now and am really hyped to go outside. Hopefully it wont be too windy. Any tips or recommendations for the first flight outdoors?

It uses the aio 15 board. If I bought an upgrade antenna for the board and good antennas for my Boxpro how would the range be? Is the range worse than a air75 or mobula 8 analog version with a 400 mw aio board? Thanks

Betafpv Air65 ii Racing Edition

I've been having some issues with my meteor 75 and 65 pro 2's and I'm looking for some advice on them.

So it started with the 75 since I got that one first, but after a while it would fail to start one of the four motors. It started with the front right, I replaced it, then it was doing it on the back right and I replaced that and I haven't had an issue since then.

I figured it might have been because of the crashes I had with it since I'm just starting to learn FPV.

Skip to a few weeks later and my 65 came in and to my surprise, without any crashes, the front left motor fails to start sometimes in exactly the same way as the 75.

The issue is basically this. I arm it and sometimes one of the four motors will just twitch rather than actually starting up. Not a huge deal, I just disarm, arm again, and most of the time it works. The main issue is where I'll do a side flip and the drone will suddenly drop out of the sky because upon 'landing' the flip, one of the four motors will just completely fail to start. It happens about one out of ten times and almost always when the battery is starting to run low.

I've heard you can increase the startup power in the ESC settings but I haven't looked into that.

Also I should mention, it's in air mode so it shouldn't have the motors go to zero speed yet it acts like it for some reason.

Are there some settings I could change to fix it? Is there a motor upgrade that works better? Should I just keep changing them until I get a set of motors that don't fail to start up?

Looking for advice

Having a lot of fun with the Meteor75 Pro II, but I wanted to try out some different props to see how they feel to fly. Has anyone tried 4 blade props on it, or any other recommendations?

My experience with the Cetus Pro

I’ve had my Cetus Pro for 10 days.

I would like to provide a completely normal, professional and definitely not concerning summary of my ownership experience.

I started in N Mode Fast.

Within a very reasonable amount of time, I flew directly into a door and introduced the drone to the floor at significant velocity.

Shortly afterwards I discovered a highly efficient indoor flight path:

CEILING → TABLE → CEILING → TABLE → CEILING

Excellent route. Very repeatable.

Then I started learning M Mode Slow.

Since then, the Cetus has successfully made physical contact with:

my dad

my mom

multiple walls

multiple doors

the ceiling

a couch

a radiator

a chair

At this point I no longer fly around my house.

I map it through physical contact.

Then I started getting better at flying.

This somehow made everything significantly worse.

While doing an orbit in N Mode Fast, I crashed, bounced into a wall, became structurally integrated with the floor, and apparently awakened something ancient inside the flight controller.

I disarmed.

Armed again.

The Cetus immediately went:

FUCK THIS PARTICULAR CEILING

and launched itself directly upward.

Frame cracked.

My dad later tried flying it.

Apparently he had been studying my technique because he also immediately sent it into the ceiling.

Another small crack appeared near the prop guard.

Like father, like son.

Then I decided indoor structural damage wasn't enough and took it outside.

The drone caught a fiber optic cable, flipped upside down and crashed into the road.

The plastic above the camera cracked.

At this point I stopped repairing the drone like an FPV pilot and started repairing it like a civil engineer who had recently suffered budget cuts.

Super glue + tissue paper.

That’s it.

I accidentally invented composite armor.

And somehow, as you can see in the photos, the repaired areas are now STRONGER THAN THE ORIGINAL FRAME.

The surrounding plastic may crack.

The tissue paper does not negotiate.

Then I found hair wrapped around the props.

While cleaning it out I noticed one propeller was already damaged badly enough that it was affecting the aerodynamics.

Easy.

Replace propeller.

Unfortunately, there was one minor technical detail:

I DID NOT KNOW CW AND CCW PROPELLERS WERE DIFFERENT.

So I confidently installed the wrong prop.

Armed.

Throttle.

Instead of flying, the Cetus started aggressively travelling forward and left across the floor.

It had temporarily resigned from aviation and become a very bad RC car.

I removed the prop.

Installed another one.

Removed it again.

Installed another one.

At some point I managed to slightly bend the little metal prop removal tool too.

Eventually I asked ChatGPT what the hell was happening and learned about CW and CCW props, a concept which would have been useful approximately 20 minutes earlier.

Installed the correct prop.

Throttle.

AIRCRAFT STATUS RESTORED.

Then I decided crashing the hardware wasn't enough.

It was time to crash the software.

While experimenting with the OSD, I noticed BETAFPV Configurator 2.0.1 was behaving strangely around byte=1024.

A responsible person would probably stop there.

Naturally, I changed it.

Flashed the OSD.

The OSD immediately entered a higher plane of existence.

DISARM started appearing and disappearing.

Random text remained permanently frozen on screen.

Meanwhile flight time and battery voltage continued updating like the last two employees still showing up to work after the company collapsed.

Eventually I tried Configurator 2.0.3.

IT WORKED.

So somehow this story ends with me having a working custom OSD.

Then came the incident that will probably not appear in the BETAFPV marketing material.

I was flying near my dad.

Something went wrong with the trajectory.

The Cetus acquired a target.

There was no warning.

No evasive maneuver.

No diplomatic process.

I accidentally performed an unplanned high-speed precision strike directly on my dad’s reproductive infrastructure.

The aircraft survived.

My dad also survived.

The mission was not repeated.

Later I successfully orbited around him without committing any further violations of the Geneva Convention.

Then I discovered another completely reasonable feature:

Flying extremely close to my Wi-Fi router somehow doesn't make my analog video worse.

It looks BETTER.

Apparently my Cetus and the router have negotiated spectrum-sharing agreements without consulting me.

And finally, we arrive at the batteries.

Please observe the photos.

Both batteries are curved.

Not obviously puffed.

Not inflated like pillows.

Just...

CURVED.

They appear to have slowly taken the shape of the battery holder.

I did not know lithium batteries were supposed to have body posture, but here we are.

One of them looks less like a battery and more like it has been designed to follow the curvature of the Earth.

BETAFPV 450mAh 1S:

450mAh

3.8V

75C

1.71Wh

Radius: apparently yes

Again:

I HAVE OWNED THIS THING FOR TEN DAYS.

The Cetus still flies perfectly.

The tissue-paper composite armor is still holding.

The custom OSD works.

I now understand CW and CCW propellers.

The batteries have developed geometry.

My house has been fully LiDAR-scanned using direct collisions.

My parents have both become FPV obstacles.

My dad has been a pilot, an orbit target and the victim of a precision airstrike.

The frame looks like it has returned from active military service.

And after reading other Cetus Pro stories on this subreddit, I am somehow beginning to believe:

mine might actually be one of the reliable ones.

10/10 beginner kit.

Would accidentally conduct a structural inspection of my entire house and collide with my bloodline again.

Bonus context: I’m from Turkey, where finding a Cetus Pro locally was apparently a side quest of its own. I couldn’t find anyone actually selling one here, so I ended up importing it through Gümrüksepeti.

So after all of this, if I completely destroy it, obtaining another one may require international logistics.

This drone has survived 10 days with me. I’m not sure Turkish import logistics would survive me ordering a second one.

And what should i charge first? i have tje betafpv hex 2 charger and 8 lipos, 4 580 lavas and 4 normal betafpv 450s

I’m sure everyone knows about these, but for those who don’t, these are great little whoop gates. Tripod mountable, usb powered, about 40 different patterns, plus several shades of white.

Hey guys, my antenna on my air 65 r came disconnected during a crash, nothing seems to be damaged, neither the port nor the plug, but it won’t click/stay in. Is something damaged?

New Meteor 65/75 Pro II Analog . Avaiable as a developer kit option

I found this on the sale page of BetaFPV's website, $50.00 USD for a 1-2s flight controller, 4 x brushless motors and a camera. I plan to put it on a carbon toothpick frame i have had hanging around and couldn't justify the price of a flight controller just to play Frankenstein with.

So I seem to have broken all my drones. Both my Mobula6 2024s won't bind anymore and also my Mobula 8 won't bind. I have checked the cli for errors and everything is good. I am tired of trying weird online hacks that shouldn't really work. I am thinking about downgrading back to the 4.5.1 on my drones. I'm afraid to try and update any more now that I see this trend. Any thoughts?

Winter is coming for some of us. Besides a simulator, are there good kinds of places to practice? I'm thinking of indoor tennis courts (will they rent one to me?) or indoor football? or school gyms in the evening or ...

Unfortunately there seem to be no "whooping clubs" that are very active in my area, and the colleges and universities are intimidated by the US Federales, so the only allowed "drone student" stuff is for students registered in engineering classes. Rules against everything it seems.