Stambo's Night FPV Flight

[Stambo]

Yup you read it right.
Just for fun we decided to go out and scout some sites for flying FPV at night.
I tweaked the second profile in the Mobius in the hope of capturing this madness on video and I was quite surprised at just how well it did.
Still quite grainy but what can you expect from such a small lens at night.
I have uploaded a sample, and will edit some more and upload a longer version later in the weekend.

Did a lot of flying today, now I have a lot of editing to do before I upload it.

TURN DOWN THE VOLUME, RAW VIDEO, LOUD!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kitn3IuB-I

[danhampson]

Thats insane. the mobius did pretty well. Which firmware is it running?

[Graham Lawrie]

Brilliant Stambo:)

My wicked sense of humor:) You could use your drone at night to go to the docks and pick up a "femme de la rue" without fear of Mr Police man catching you:)

[Derek]

HA HA HA! That's awesome!!!

[cml001]

Yeah!

[Stambo]

Here is my Mobius settings for these vids.

To use these settings:
1. Turn on the Mobius.
2. Pess the MODE (center) button, LED will change blue (change to profile 2).
3. Press and hold the MODE button for 3 seconds while aiming the cam at a darker area, LED will flash off and back on (this locks the exposure).
4. Start recording.

You have to do this each time you turn it on or the Mobius will start on mode 1 again although you could probably set it to start mode 2 if doing a lot of night flights.
Exposure lock must be done every flight.

I am going to experiment with locking the exposure during daylight, I am hoping this will prevent the brightness changes in green areas when you change view angle from ground to sky.

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[Stambo]

Ok I did a quick edit of some of last nights flights.
We are now thinking about putting headlights on our quads and using glow sticks to mark a course in one of my paddocks.
Some reflective tape on the pool noodles, wait for a moonlit night.
Am I nuts or what.
The darker areas were nowhere near as dark through the FPV camera, next time I might tweak the Mobius some more and see what happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOgYAwNfGGs

[Graham Lawrie]

Dark bits are scary:( i cant fly in day light never mind dark:)

[Derek]

That was an exciting ride, Stambo!

[Stambo]

The dark bits weren't so dark in the goggles, the little sony 600tvl cam does a really good job in low light.

[Tony]

That's awesome flying Stambo