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Drone racer wearing FPV goggles and holding a radio controller. First-person view (FPV), also known as remote-person view (RPV), or video piloting, is a method used to control a radio-controlled vehicle from the driver or pilot's viewpoint.
Skydive! Go Ahead and Jump (often stylized as SKYDIVE! ) is a video game developed by The Groove Alliance and Gonzo Games and published by Electronic Arts for Windows and Macintosh in 1999.
Skydive: Proximity Flight is a sports video game developed by Gaijin Entertainment for PlayStation Network in 2013, and for Xbox Live Arcade in 2014. Reception
Custom flying field of the HHAMS Aerodrome created for RealFlight 7.5 Custom flying field of the HHAMS Aerodrome created for Phoenix RC. An RC flight simulator is a computer program that allows pilots of radio-controlled aircraft to practice on a computer, without the risk and expense of damaging a real model.
The player free falls by tilting the controller, with additional stunts also using motion sensing. There are two main modes; Formation and Landing. There are two main modes; Formation and Landing. Formation has the player and a team of three other skydivers (either other players online or computer controlled) perform different stunt setups.
On 9 November 2023, Ukrainian soldiers claimed to have used a civilian-donated FPV drone to destroy a Russian Tor missile system on the Kupiansk front, showcasing the potential cost-effectiveness of fielding such munitions. A Tor missile system costs some $24 million dollars to build, which could buy 14,000 FPV drones.
Good trackers can cover nearly as much ground as the distance they fall, approaching a glide ratio of 1:1. The fall rate of a skydiver in an efficient track is significantly lower than that of one falling in a traditional face-to-earth position; the former reaching speeds as low as 40 metres per second (90 mph), the latter averaging around the 54 m/s (120 mph) mark.
Free flying is a skydiving discipline that began in the late 1980s, involving falling free in various vertical orientations, as opposed to the traditional "belly-to-earth" orientation. The discipline is known to have originated when Olav Zipser began experimenting with non-traditional forms of Body flight .