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Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

First Person View (FPV) Drone culture, here told by its main influences worldwide, is in threat of elimination due to heavy regulations coming from the FAA. In the most pivotal year (2020) of quadcopter regulatory history, freesty...

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James Christianson

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Then when you go out - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Then when you go out

Everybody watched that scene and
you wanted to be on the Speeder Bikes. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Everybody watched that scene and you wanted to be on the Spe...

Flying FPV, that's the closest
analogy to what that's like. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Flying FPV, that's the closest analogy to what that...

So you might have seen drone
footage before, but you probably haven't - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So you might have seen drone footage before, but you probabl...

So if you're prone to motion sickness,
you might want to grab a barf bag - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So if you're prone to motion sickness, you might want t...

Since your little you dream of flying - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Since your little you dream of flying

Basically, that's the
feeling FPV gives you. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Basically, that's the feeling FPV gives you.

Who hasn't looked up at the sky - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Who hasn't looked up at the sky

So you've basically
flying a little Lamborghini. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So you've basically flying a little Lamborghini.

When we fly these things,
every movement that you see is - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

When we fly these things, every movement that you see is

It's like freedom, you know, is like total
freedom, separation of body and mind. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It's like freedom, you know, is like total freedom, sep...

Apart from flying a
wingsuit FPV is as close - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Apart from flying a wingsuit FPV is as close

Get ready for like the ride of your life. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Get ready for like the ride of your life.

Whether it's diving down
the side of a mountain, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Whether it's diving down the side of a mountain,

There's no other way to get that rush
that you get when you're flying FPV. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

There's no other way to get that rush that you get when...

So flying FPV, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Most people are like,
they're looking at stair sets - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Most people are like, they're looking at stair sets

Where with FPV we look at these things - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Where with FPV we look at these things

With FPV technology it's just up to your
skills how crazy and good the shot gets. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

With FPV technology it's just up to your skills how cra...

Having that headroom on the power lets - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Having that headroom on the power lets

The sensation - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Even now I get shaky hands,
I get almost dizzy about it. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Even now I get shaky hands, I get almost dizzy about it.

Because you just drove, you know,
100 feet through a tiny little gap, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Because you just drove, you know, 100 feet through a tiny li...

The first time I saw FPV - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

The first time I saw FPV

Your environments are
mountains, rivers, lakes, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Your environments are mountains, rivers, lakes,

It is the closest thing that you
can get to flying a fighter jet. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It is the closest thing that you can get to flying a fighter...

When you put on the goggles,
you are completely immersed - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

When you put on the goggles, you are completely immersed

The adrenaline that goes through your veins - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

The adrenaline that goes through your veins

This is something that you can only do - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

This is something that you can only do

And you land and you
can take the goggles off, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And you land and you can take the goggles off,

I'm also an FPV drone pilot
since 2018 and I have been - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I'm also an FPV drone pilot since 2018 and I have been

To within a short drive of Atlanta,
Georgia, Knoxville to Florida, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

To within a short drive of Atlanta, Georgia, Knoxville to Fl...

2020 is going to be a pivotal
year for the history of drones. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

2020 is going to be a pivotal year for the history of drones...

And it's not limited to toy drones
or larger professional drones, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And it's not limited to toy drones or larger profession...

We have the protest coming up at
the end of the month, February 2020 - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

We have the protest coming up at the end of the month, Febru...

And these pilots will come out
and they're going to protest the fact - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And these pilots will come out and they're going to pro...

So come on this journey
with me into the amazing, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So come on this journey with me into the amazing,

First Persion View is you are not
looking at the aircraft from the outside - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

First Persion View is you are not looking at the aircraft fr...

Back in 2008 I started putting cameras - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Back in 2008 I started putting cameras

I could launch a plane and fly
in the most beautiful scenery. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I could launch a plane and fly in the most beautiful scenery...

Back in the day, there were no drones. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Back in the day, there were no drones.

You had to buy cameras
from like baby monitors, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

You had to buy cameras from like baby monitors,

Just airplanes that you would
buy in an old rusty model shop, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Just airplanes that you would buy in an old rusty model shop...

And then we cut out the front and taped - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And then we cut out the front and taped

And so we hacked up a
receiver and taped that to our face. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And so we hacked up a receiver and taped that to our face.

We bought Wi-Fi range extender antennas - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

We bought Wi-Fi range extender antennas

So this was kind of the early
days of hacking together equipment - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So this was kind of the early days of hacking together equip...

We had to make them back in the days - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

We had to make them back in the days

So that's what we designed
and then started to sell - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So that's what we designed and then started to sell

I started flying RC helicopters
with the age of 12 or 13. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I started flying RC helicopters with the age of 12 or 13.

All of us started with airplanes and
helicopters and then move to drones, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

All of us started with airplanes and helicopters and then mo...

I actually started out
with RC planes, fixed - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I actually started out with RC planes, fixed

That was some of the first aircraft
that I built were fixed wing planes. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

That was some of the first aircraft that I built were fixed ...

So really what inspired me to get into - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So really what inspired me to get into

They were flying wings and diving
down the sides of mountains with them. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

They were flying wings and diving down the sides of mountain...

I always wanted to skydive and
fly so this was just something where - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I always wanted to skydive and fly so this was just somethin...

It wasn't until I went in the
forums that I learned, okay, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It wasn't until I went in the forums that I learned, ok...

Figure it out MacGyver style. Like you - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Figure it out MacGyver style. Like you

People were using these Wii nunchucks
and pulling the gyros and accelerometers - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

People were using these Wii nunchucks and pulling the gyros ...

So it's very hacked together, and
we slowly started to get more things - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So it's very hacked together, and we slowly started to ...

The very first FPV drones had - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

The very first FPV drones had

Bare bones like basic
literal security cameras. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Bare bones like basic literal security cameras.

Most people are familiar
with drones they see in - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Most people are familiar with drones they see in

I think a camera drone is best
thought of as a like a tripod in the sky. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I think a camera drone is best thought of as a like a tripod...

It's going to have a gimbal - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It's going to have a gimbal

It's goal is to give the pilot
the experience of flight. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It's goal is to give the pilot the experience of flight...

It's got a fixed angle - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It's got a fixed angle

It was kind of a byproduct
of being super lightweight - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

It was kind of a byproduct of being super lightweight

But it's also something
that was intentionally done to - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

But it's also something that was intentionally done to

And so every tilt, every piece
of movement that you see, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And so every tilt, every piece of movement that you see,

For the most part, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

For the most part,

So many people think that
what we see in the goggles is like - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So many people think that what we see in the goggles is like

But now we have these new systems,
these new digital systems, which are - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

But now we have these new systems, these new digital systems...

So, 2015 Drone Nationals was, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So, 2015 Drone Nationals was,

Because up until now our entire
relationship with the community - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Because up until now our entire relationship with the commun...

So not long after the Drone Nationals, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So not long after the Drone Nationals,

And that was an absolutely huge deal.
Because first of all I got to go to Dubai. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And that was an absolutely huge deal. Because first of all I...

I remember showing up and they
showed like the racetrack lit up at night. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I remember showing up and they showed like the racetrack lit...

So not only did it look crazy beautiful - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So not only did it look crazy beautiful

I never heard of before and
I feel like that just straight - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

I never heard of before and I feel like that just straight

And then the the kid
that I tried to strangle with - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And then the the kid that I tried to strangle with

And as you can see in
the photo this is the hat Mr. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And as you can see in the photo this is the hat Mr.

Steele gave me to avoid the sunburst - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

Steele gave me to avoid the sunburst

A lot of people who are in
FPV think of some of the early - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

A lot of people who are in FPV think of some of the early

But, you know, there's going to be
a point where people are going to be - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

But, you know, there's going to be a point where people...

So that's kind of like a way
of like testing it, seeing it, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

So that's kind of like a way of like testing it, seeing...

If you want to know about nearly
anything you just go search it on YouTube. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

If you want to know about nearly anything you just go search...

And I think a lot of people, - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And I think a lot of people,

And then it's kind of
exponentially grown since then. - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

And then it's kind of exponentially grown since then.

But yeah, putting security systems
and remotely flying aircraft via - Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary

But yeah, putting security systems and remotely flying aircr...

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First Person View (FPV) Drone culture, here told by its main influences worldwide, is in threat of elimination due to heavy regulations coming from the FAA. In the most pivotal year (2020) of quadcopter regulatory history, freesty...

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Director: James Christianson

Writer: James Christianson

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary

Year: 2021

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 8.8

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 15 Nov 2021

Awards: 3 wins

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