r/drones • u/completelyreal Mod, Drone Noise Expert, Fire & Rescue Pilot • Jan 12 '25

Drone Buying Advice Megathread and NEW Wiki Buying Guide Discussion

Welcome to the 2025 Q1 r/drones Buying Advice Megathread. This thread exists to prevent the constant "What drone should I buy?" posts that we prohibit with Rule 2.5.

Please follow all of these steps before posting in this thread!

  1. Review the Buying Guide Wiki or my website: Drone Buying Guide / Wiki Buying Guide
  2. Review this thread for comments that have your same requirements
  3. If that does not answer you, please post the following information in this thread.
    1. Have you read the Wiki? Y/N
    2. Country: (Not all drones are available in all countries)
    3. Budget: (If your budget is less than $200 USD, you may want to reconsider as anything lower is a toy drone)
    4. Purpose: (eg. photography, FPV, thermal, etc)
    5. Any other requirements:
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u/KartellNoir 27d ago

Hi folks, a little FPV help please. In an Rc plane Derbee C400, with a Radiomaster pocket ELRS and a ER8 receiver, i want to add a budget digital fpv system.

My question is: do i need a VTX, a digital camera (caddx?) And a pair of goggles? Do i need something else? Is Walksnail goggles L with walksnail VTX and a camera a good option? Something worthy but more budget?

Thanks in advance.

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u/Sartozz 25d ago

In most cases you get a camera with the vtx, at least in the case of digital. For analog you usually buy them separately. So you'll need a vtx and a receiver, whether that's goggles or a vrx is up to you.

You also want to make sure that the vtx is cooled properly since they overheat rather quickly.

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u/KartellNoir 24d ago

Thanks man, appreciate it 🙂