FPV Drones

For sure, racing quadcopters are the most widespread FPV drones.  Why? Flying a super-fast FPV racing drone is an otherworldly experience!

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If you’re asking “What is an FPV drone?” or “What FPV drone you should buy?” this is the place for you. In this category, you can find the cheapest as well as the best FPV quadcopters on the market right now.

FPV racing is growing rapidly as a competitive sport, and it’s become commercialized through events like the World Drone Racing Championships. Best pilots around the globe compete to make it to the top of the international rankings and to win big money.

FPV drones. FPV racing quadcopters

FPV or First Person View is the most unique experience of interacting with your drone through the highest level of immersion. Piloting a drone through your FPV goggles makes the feel like you’re in the cockpit of the aircraft.

To be honest, flying FPV racing drones isn’t easy at all, till you become a master of this hobby you will crash thousand of times.

FPV drones can send the live video signal to your Remote Control screen, FPV monitor, smartphone device, tablet, or FPV goggles. Currently, there are two main approaches 5.8G analog (most widespread) and HD digital by DJI.

Find below the best FPV drone brands

FuriBee KingKong AuroraRC
Diatone Happymodel Emax
iFlight FlyWoo SkyStars
HGLRC GepRC BetaFPV
HolyBro Axisflying GeeLand

LDARC/Kingkong GT7 & GT8: Two micro brushless Whoops

LDARC/Kingkong GT7 & GT8 FPV drone
LDARC's (ex KingKong) new Tiny GT series, brings two micro sized brushless Whoops. While LDARC GT7 has 75mm wheelbase, the Kingkong GT8 has 86.7mm. Both drones, feature similar Tiny Whoop alike ducted propeller design. The Tiny GT series comes with Betaflight SPRACING F3 flight controller, 800TVL FPV camera, 25mW/16CH 5.8G VTX and 2S battery compatibility. The only hardware difference between the GT7 and...

Betafpv Beta95X V2 HD: For Insta360 Go & Naked GoPro

Photo of Betafpv Beta95X V2 HD with Insta360 Go camera
Betafpv's latest micro size FPV drone is specially designed to carry an Insta360 Go or Naked GoPro camera. The Betafpv Beta95X V2 HD is built on a 95mm size frame with Whoop style blade protector. Its versatile F4 flight controller comes with integrated 16A ESC. The tiny Betafpv 1106 4500KV brushless motors are paired with Gemfan D63 3-leaf propellers. You...

T-Motor Feather120 indoor FPV drone

T-Motor Feather120
T-Motor's new Feather120 fpv drone is intended to be used indoors. It is compact, lightweight and super quiet. IMHO for safety, they should provide a removable 360° protection guard. The T-Motor Feather120 has a size of just 160x160x26mm and weighs about 30 grams without a battery. Both, the carbon frame and plastic canopy adopt a hollow design to be super...

LDARC 90GTI & 130GTI small FPV racing drones

LDARC 90GTI & 130GTI drones
LDARC just announced two new compact FPV drones. While the 98mm size LDARC 90GTI is powered by 3S batteries and has XT1105-5000KV motors, the larger and more powerful KingKong 130GTI has XT1406-3600KV motors and it is 4S LIPO compatible. Both models are available with two type of FPV cameras (C1200 - FPV or Cadds Turtle V2- HD). In addition...

DTS GT200 review: Fast and beautiful FPV drone

DTS GT200 review
The fact that, after only 2 hours we published the article about the DTS GT200 drone, its authorized dealer contacted us regarding the possibility to review it, gives us confidence that we are doing a good job here on FirstQuadcopter. We will continually strive, during 2019, to provide even more exciting drone news and honest quadcopter reviews. Zonda Hobby's portfolio...

Happymodel Crux35 (Analog/Digital): Ultralight 3.5″ FPV drone

Happymodel Crux35
After HGLRC, BetaFPV, GepRC, and Diatone, Happymodel also released their ultra-light 3.5" freestyle FPV drone. Like its contenders, the Happymodel Crux35 is available with analogue and digital FPV systems. The Crux35 Analog comes equipped with Caddx ANT camera and OVX303 VTX (up to 300mW broadcast power). The digital edition comes with DJI FPV compatible Caddx Vista Nebula Nano kit. The...

BetaFPV X-Knight 360 drone for Insta360 ONE R camera

Photo of BetaFPV X-Knight 360
The BetaFPV X-Knight 360 is probably the first FPV drone specially designed to carry an Insta360 ONE R camera. This aerial setup allows taking unobstructed super cool 360-degrees aerial videos. X-Knight 360 adopts unique flat design. Combined with a customized 4S/1000mAh LIPO pack, the max height is only 23mm. You simply won’t see the X-Knight 360 in the sight, just...

HGLRC Arrow3 FPV drone: The real Racing King!

HGLRC Arrow3 FPV racing drone
According to the first rumors, the new HGLRC Arrow3 152mm FPV drone will be offered in two variants. While the 4S version will have 3600KV motors, the 6S one will have 2400KV motors. Both models will be available with FrSky or FlySky radio receiver. As FPV rig, HGLRC opted for the Caddx Ratel camera and GLRC XJB TX20 5.8G/48CH Mini...

Coming soon: GEPRC ROCKET Plus & Lite

GEPRC ROCKET Plus drone
Like most professional-grade FPV drones, the GEPRC ROCKET Plus also comes with on-board DJI FPV Air Unit. There is also a cheaper version with Caddx Vista HD called ROCKET Lite. Both digital video transmission systems use the same type of DJI camera with a 1/3.2” CMOS image sensor. Thanks to its TinyWhoop alike blade protectors, the GEPRC ROCKET can be...

GEELANG LIGO78X: Cheap CineWhoop for Insta360 GO

Photo of GEELANG LIGO78X
Priced for only US$135.99, the GEELANG LIGO78X is currently one of the most affordable brushless CineWhoop that can carry an Insta360 Go camera. It comes in the box with two types of camera mounts. While the red bracket is suitable to install the Insta360 Go in a vertical position, the blue one in a horizontal one. According to your existing...

Diatone 2018 GT-M530 and GT-R530 FPV drones

Diatone 2018 GT-M530 and GT-R530 drones
Chinese New Year comes with two new drones from Diatone, the GT-M530 and the GT-R530. At first look both drones share same hardware (flight controller, camera, VTX, motors and ESCs) and the only visual difference between them seems to be the design of the canopy. Both quadcopters will have Normal X and Stretch X versions. As usually the number in the...