FPV Drone Racing

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Our favorite places to fly FPV drones in [Northern] Vermont

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Our top five places to fly FPV drones in Vermont.

 

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(in no particular order)

#1 Tree Farm Soccer Complex (Directions)  Essex, VT

The Essex tree farm soccer complex fields offers a good mix of open area flying as well as trees, goal posts and a spacious parking lot to make as your obstacles.  The trees near the fields offer great opportunities for powerloops, which once you master you can graduate to powerlooping the very narrow soccer field signs.

#2 Maple Street Park (Directions) Essex, VT

Maple street park is a bit technical and has limited open space. Tight and technical. We recommend this to intermediate flyers. Utilize the scoreboards to fly through and around. Once you progress and get a feel for the field you can even powerloop the metal picnic area structure. (as seen at :17 seconds) Just be mindful of the power lines that run the length of the field(s)

#3 Williston Central School (Directions) Williston, VT

Williston Central School Park is the best kept secret for FPV flyers. This is a great spot that offers a mix of open area flying but also some volleyball nets, trees and gates to fly under. Be sure to get there early as this is a very active location which make have walkers and runners come up on path without notice. A spotter at this location is suggested. 

#4 Allen Brook School (Directions) Williston, VT

Allen Brook School has a great parking lot as well as tree lines and open fields to create your own course. You could easily spare 3-4 batteries on just the parking lot flying around the light posts and under the trees. Save a few batteries for the open fields behind the parking lots. Be mindful of any lone walkers on the nearby path that might be out for stroll. 

#5 Cairns Arena Soccer Fields (Directions) South Burlington, VT

The Cairns soccer fields are great for all skill levels, most of the area is open, but if you seek out obstacles to fly around then be sure to check out the baseball fields and the great metal structure that is just asking to be powerlooped. Be warned however that cars can be lurking around the parking lot and you wouldn't want to dent a car on your flying adventures. Be sure to check out the video below.

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Shopping for Drone Parts in Vermont?

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Experience the thrill of flight with first person view on racing drones brought to you by BTV Drones.

We offer a wide and constantly changing selection of complete quadcopter kits for drone racing and aerial videography, as well as accessories to keep you in flight no matter what pilot experience you have! 

 

Ready to fly drones in stock! Take off with starter, intermediate and professional fpv drones.

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Fat Shark, Eachine goggles in stock for a first person view of your drone.

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Why we love Racekraft props: 5" Tri-Blade Propeller 5051TCS

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RaceKraft Props are made to perform and withstand todays rigorous FPV races. Combined with the unique color combinations, and resilient plastic combinations.

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Each propeller model was designed specifically— here we will use the 5051 model to describe that process:

Despite it's simplistic appearance, the Racekraft 5051 was designed from the ground up to maximize efficiency at high rates of speed. Custom Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) programs were developed to design the RK 5051. A Vortex Lattice Method was used to develop the flow around the propeller which performance estimates can be derived from. Viscous effects are accounted for using airfoil 2D section data gathered from NACA databases or derived from using 2D airfoil programs such as XFOIL. A design for maximum efficiency is ensured by manipulating blade geometry to meet the Betz condition. Betz condition requires each shedding vortex at each station along the blade needs to shed off as a perfect helical screw. This condition allows convergence on one blade geometry for one design point. Our CFD program takes in inputs to produce the geometry of the propeller. These inputs are speed of the multirotor, RPMs, Power, angle incidence with the flow, number of blades, and diameter. The optimum geometry from the program is then inputted into a CAD software and a 3D solid model is drawn. 

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This design process allows for the design of propellers optimum for certain use cases. The RK 5051 prop model was made specifically for the multirotor racer, when a fast propeller with control up at high rates of speed is needed. A Racer’s propeller also needs to be extremely durable and not break when hitting other racers in the air or gates to stay in the air longer. The RK 5051 is designed to operate at 60 mph at 40 degree incidence with the flow at roughly half throttle with a 2205 - 2206 2300kv motor. 

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The number 5051 is derived from the propellers diameter (5.0”) and the propellers advance ratio (J = 0.51) which results in the 5051 indicator. "Advance ratio" is used over the conventionally used "static pitch" since static pitch is rather meaningless in the design process. Advance ratio is the ratio of the speed the multirotor is moving at to the top speed of the propeller. The design is optimum to a specific advance ratio, in this case 0.51. This tells the customer the intended purpose of the propeller. Higher advance ratios will be optimum for faster flying scenarios, compared to a low advance ratio which will be more optimum for lower speed flying.

The RK 5051 will give you the power, control, and durability you need to win a race.

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