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A good charger can charge a battery in about 20 minutes.įPV Goggles have built-in video receivers that display the drone’s live video, so you can navigate the drone racing course from the perspective of your racing drone. Some goggles even have built-in DVR to record the video! This is a great way for students to share their ups and downs, since there will be lots of them.Ĭertain FPV goggles are sleek with a small screen in front of each eye, but these are more expensive and don't work well for students with glasses.

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Pro tip: stay away from the small, inexpensive chargers-those can take hours to charge a battery and in the heat of racing, you'll either need a lot of batteries or a better charger. To save time, get a charger that can charge one, two or four batteries simultaneously. Most racers use between 4S – 1600mAh 70C and a 3S 1100mAh 45C battery. These do require some set-up.ĭrone races usually last about 4 to 6 minutes, but to get your racing drone up to speed, you need high-powered “juice cans'-lithium polymer batteries. As students learn to pilot their drone, they'll undoubtedly crash a few times-which means it's helpful to already know how the drone is built and how it should be re-assembled when damaged.Ī six-channel remote control with a corresponding receiver is necessary to fly the drones, so your team will need one for each racer. You can buy racing drones as kits or completely assembled, but we suggest getting a kit (especially one that comes with cameras and video transmitters). In fact, they require a decent amount of practice to fly, because they don’t use GPS. These drones are different from most drones you see in classrooms or electronics stores-they're small, but that doesn’t mean slower or easier to fly. RACING DRONESįirst step: get racing drones! A school will need between 4 and 8 of them depending on the size of the school team. Sound like fun? It's easy to bring this new sport to your own school by starting a drone racing team. These young men and women pilot their drones at speeds that can exceed 75 MPH solely by watching the live video from the drone via FPV goggles. Each racing drone is equipped with a small video camera and transmitters, so pilots can watch in first-person as their drone speeds around the track. If you're new to racing, here's the gist: pilots race their drones around a course using First Person View (FPV) goggles. Image Source: The Star FLYING IN FIRST PERSON Purdue University conducted a Collegiate Drone Race last spring, and since then, the sport has continued to grow. In the last year, a lot of schools have started drone clubs and drone racing teams. Since 2012, the recreational drone arena has grown from a slow boil to a boiling cauldron.

No longer are drones just for flying in your backyard or up and down your street.

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