AIRFRAMES
A preset here is a whole airframe rather than a difficulty setting: its own mass, thrust-to-weight, drag, pack life and link range, so an 80-gram whoop and a 1.6-kilo 10-inch genuinely fly like different aircraft. None of them is an unlock, a reward or a purchase. Pick one in /setup, or change it mid-flight from the Terminal.
| AIRFRAME | WEIGHT | THRUST:WEIGHT | PACK LIFE | LINK RANGE | BEST AT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trainer | 550 g | 3.2:1 | 4 min | 200 m | Learning the sticks without losing the aircraft |
| Whoop (80mm) | 80 g | 3.6:1 | 6 min 30 s | 250 m | Tight indoor lines and proximity work at low speed |
| Freestyle | 650 g | 5:1 | 7 min | 500 m | Dives, gaps and chaining skills through traffic |
| Long Range | 800 g | 4:1 | 15 min | 1.5 km | City crossings and mountain runs |
| 10-inch | 1.6 kg | 5:1 | 26 min | 2.5 km | The longest flights, and committing early to a line |
| Cinematic (Dual-Op) | 1.1 kg | 3.6:1 | 10 min | 600 m | Filming, with a second person on the camera |
No top-speed column, deliberately. The figure the flight model implies is a dive number — it assumes every newton of thrust points forwards, when a real quad spends most of it holding altitude — so publishing it would mean publishing a speed you cannot reach in level flight. Thrust-to-weight and weight are the two that actually predict how a machine feels.
Gentle and forgiving, on a short leash
Where you start if you have never flown FPV. It is deliberately slower to respond and deliberately hard to lose: the link only reaches 200 m, and when the battery runs out it lands itself rather than falling out of the sky. Nothing about it is locked or earned — it is a setting, and you can leave it on your first flight or come back to it on your hundredth.
Ducted micro that carries a camera
Eighty grams all-up, which is the whole character: at a fraction of a 5-inch's mass the same air resistance stops it roughly twenty times harder, so it parks the instant you let off instead of coasting. Ducts bounce off things, so it survives contact that would end another run. Short legs — six and a half minutes and an indoor-length link — because that is honestly what these are.
The 5-inch quad feel
The default shape of the sport and the one most pilots picture when they say FPV. Five to one thrust-to-weight under 650 g means it climbs out of anything, and it holds speed through a line rather than braking itself. This is the airframe the flow chain was tuned against: dives, gaps, and staying close to things at speed.
Heavy cruiser with reach
Fifteen minutes of pack and a link that holds out to a kilometre and a half, which is enough to cross the city or run a mountain ridge and still come home. It is heavier and less eager than the 5-inch by design — a cruiser trades snap for the ability to keep going.
Enormous punch and braking, slow to change direction
Not a long-range quad with different numbers — a different machine. Ten-inch props are flywheels: the airframe does not refuse to rotate, it refuses to change what it is already doing, so you commit to an input a beat before you want the result and stop it a beat before you want it to stop. In exchange it has vertical punch, real braking authority, and twenty-six minutes of endurance.
Steady, smooth, and it seats two
The camera platform: heavier and damped so the horizon stops moving, with a belly gimbal underneath. Its distinguishing feature is that a second pilot can join it — press O in flight to invite a camera operator, so one person flies the line and the other frames the shot, which is how this is actually done on a real set.
There is no unlock path, no currency and nothing to buy. Progression here records what you have flown; it has never gated what you may fly, and the rule that says so is enforced in code rather than promised in a FAQ.
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