Hi,

I am not only new to RC flying (a little over a year) but just breaking the first ground into camera mounted flight.
I don't anticipate using a camera system for flight operations, but am beginning the works on a mounting a az and el slewing camera on a secondary receiver w/transmitter setup so that the kids (big kids too) that hang around the airfileld can control the camera system during flight....that and Id let a buddy fly my plane so I have an opportunity to look around.

I am looking at doing a underplane mount to acheive greater representation of the ground BUT am curioius about a few things.

The FPV setup you have usues the skywalker and other FPV setups iv seen use asimilarly designed aircraft. Is there a particular reason for using that style/configuration? I am hoping to simply modify an already owned aircraft, the E-Flite Apprentice (trainer), which offers an above wing design....seemingly stable flight with a great glide ratio. Iv calcuated the wing loading but there don't seem to be specs on max allowable weight for airframe or wings. Do you know of a good place to start looking or have any advice on whether or not installing a camera/transmitter assembly would be possible with that aircraft or.... just scrap the apprentice idea and build from scratch using a skywalker (or similar design).

thanks for all the links, videos, and pictures. Iv got my work cut out for me the next few weeks as I decide on how to best get a camera mounted plane zooming around.

regards,

Bill<br type="_moz" />