 Hey guys, welcome to Rotorite. I'm Bubby FPV. I'm Les Flair C. And today we're talking about the top five FPV accessories that you need. You're not an FPV pilot if you don't have these five things. Yeah. I was just a young little FPV pilot and I showed up to Quadcamp for Rotorite Quadcamp, but I didn't have a prop tool. I had some pliers and I got made fun of and I was crying after. I felt so bad. You were really crying. Oh my gosh, they were so mean. I remember it because I was like, sorry, I don't have a prop tool, but yeah. So you used a pair of pliers to put your props on? Yes. Wow, that's pretty bad. The first accessory that you need for FPV is a prop tool. Prop tool. Whether it be a socket wrench or a drill. I got a $10 drill from Harbor Freight. It's like at the perfect amount of torque to where it doesn't rip your fingers off. But enough torque to put the prop on and keep it from getting loose. Yeah. So while we're on the topic of like props and stuff, I think something else that helps you move your props easier is motor grip. What's a motor grip? A motor grip is something that you wrap around the motor to get extra grip to help you take off the prop. Yeah, like they have the... They have the clamp thingy? They have the clamps, you know, with a rubber on them. You don't want to use a regular pair of pliers. You will mess the motors up. So don't do that. But we have these little rubber things that we sell in the store where you just wrap it around and you can hold the motor. It keeps you from, you know, hurting your fingers, hurting your hands when you're tightening your props. I've gotten kind of used to just using my hands, but there are some motors like the little three inch motors that are a little too small sometimes and that little rubber grip really helps. Yeah, are your hands cut up? Because I know before I used this motor grip, my hands always had cuts going through them. Well, I think at first, I got kind of used to it. I kind of now kind of just hold the prop with my fingers and hold the motor at the same time. And I got it, I don't know, I got it all figured out as to just how to hold it where I don't cut my hands when I do it. Now, if using a really strong drill like we talked about earlier, that will cut my hands. So our second item on the list was motor grip. In case you missed that. Number three on the list of essential accessories is a backpack. Now, don't be that guy that shows up to the field. You know that guy, that guy that brings the Tupperware container? But is it 2021 now? Yeah, I know, right? You got to have a backpack. It doesn't have to be an expensive backpack. Now you could go out and you could buy yourself a nice $200 backpack. It's horrible. I like that backpack. I personally like the, I don't even know what I fly. I use the Skypack because it has a lot of room, tons of crap that can fit in there. I put all my stuff in the Skypack. I mean, you've got to find one that has all the little loopy things on it so you can hook all your drones to the outside of it. You can look cool. Like you roll up to the spot and you're like, I got my drone backpack. Yeah, I mean, you've got to let everybody know that you brought your drones with you. Yes. You can always get a skateboard backpack because skateboard backpacks, they have straps on the back, told your skateboard, but you can use them for your drone. And then you look like you got a legit backpack, but you got the Chee Betany's backpack. I was, I was, I got the skateboard backpack. I strapped the drone. Looks the part. I didn't have to pay for it. That's cooler than what I started off with. I started off with a jewelry box. Really? You started off with a jewelry box? I, before I flew drones, I'd show up to the airplane, RC plane field and I would have my little jewelry box that my mom gave to me and I'd open it up and it'd be all pretty and I'd. Where'd you get a jewelry? Your mom? My mom. Your mom's jewelry box. Wow. It was huge though, but. Oh my gosh. I guess it's for all your little bits and pieces. You probably didn't put your drone in the jewelry box. I mean, I did planes at the time. So just hold like radios and things for the planes. Yeah, but didn't look cool. I didn't look cool at all. Number four, antennas. Well, you got to have antennas. Yeah, you got to have antennas. You got to have antennas. You can't fly without an antenna, right? I like the patch antennas. My favorite antenna have on my goggles. You technically need antennas for your goggles and your quad, right? So my favorite antenna fly with my goggles is just dual patches. I'm patched all the way. I think they're crosshairs. They're actually crosshairs technically, not patches, but. I'm omnis all the way, man. Really? Omnis all the way because I can stand in the middle of the fly field and just fly all around myself. With your patches, you can really go in front of you. Let me tell you something. I just recently took a trip to Detroit and I flew in buildings that are bigger than anything we have in Florida. They've got more concrete and metal that you could ever imagine. And with my dual patches and my DJI setup, I could fly behind myself to the end of the bandeau all the way in front of myself to the other end of the bandeau all sides. I mean, not to be a DJI show or anything, but with the DJI setup, my patches, I can fly behind myself with no problem. It doesn't bother me at all. You should try it. I guess I got to try it. I can penetrate like nobody's business. Everywhere we go, Drew flies with omnis. I fly with patches and I get farther than he does every time. Nice. Well. All right, so number five is technically on the list, but I don't necessarily agree that it needs to be there. I don't actually use a radio lanyard. I mean, you need one. Dude, remember when you fly, you just do the radio. Yeah. Remember that? I like to throw my radio on the ground. No, seriously, though, I had to fight myself on this because I originally started out with a radio lanyard. I see Skitso with his, and Drew likes to fly that Skitso with his radio way up here with a little tiny lanyard. Some people like it way down here. I'm down here. I'm like, yeah. Originally started out with a lanyard because I flew airplanes. And if I didn't have the lanyard on my radio, I would literally drop the radio fly somebody else's quad. They bring over the radio and hands me and I would say, are you got a lanyard? You know, have a later. I can't fly without a lanyard. So I had to break that habit. I felt like I needed to break that habit because I didn't want to fly somebody else's quad or fly somebody else's plane and just drop the radio when I was done with it just out of habit because I'm used to letting go. Yeah. Okay. I guess that makes sense. But like I kind of hold the radio too, but I like to have it as like as a backup because I know if I'm going through a crazy dive and then there's a pole in the middle of the way, I'm going to go like this and my radio is going to go flying and it's just nice to. So you need a crutch. I need a crutch. Basically you need a crutch. I need a crutch. All right. Well, you fly pretty good. So I mean, I'll let you have your crutch. It's okay. All right, guys. So that's the five FPV accessories that you need to fly FPV. Wait, we're forgetting something. What? T-shirts. Rotor. Oh, you got to have your Rotorite T-shirt, right? Or if you're not a real FPV pilot, if you don't have a Rotorite T-shirt, that's fact right there, guys. You want to get a T-shirt? You can go to Rotorite.com. Don't forget the T-shirt. If there's an accessory that you can't live without that we missed, make sure you leave a comment and let us know. Don't forget to subscribe. Hit the bell. See you next time on Rotorites. Bubby, no pressure. Wait for it to start counting. You'll see it through this. We're doing it right now. See? It's counting. This episode needs to be ready for Monday. Put that in your pocket. I didn't. Don't touch it. Do that two days, okay? Did you forget to make an episode? Okay. It's all comes down to you. Don't mess up. Send clap.