As a young boy I always wanted to fly model aircraft and own one of those giant radio controllers with a lot of buttons and switches on it. So, many years later, and after seeing tons of FPV videos on social media, I decided to try out the hobby. I built my first 5 inch quad in Nov. 2022, with the idea of becoming a bad-ass 5 inch freestyle pilot. November being a bad month to start the FPV hobby in the northern hemisphere, I decided to buy a 75mm walksnail whoop. The first week or two were just pure horror and I thought I had made a giant mistake with that investment, as it turned out that flying whoops indoors is HARD…
But I stuck with it, and got to the point where I could do some basic tricks like a powerloop and a juicy flick (not realizing it was called a juicy flick at that time). Then two important things happened. First, I decided to go analog with my whoops, which was a giant step up in terms of being able to do tricks indoors. And second, I decided to participate in IGOW4, which was a fantastic learning experience that really helped me improve my flying skills quickly (with a lot of trial and error, crashes, broken gear, sweat and tears, etc.).
These days I am mainly whooping around my attic and occasionally outdoors. When I am not flying I’m in the basement fixing my whoops. Aside from trying to fly regularly to keep improving my piloting skills, I am helping with TPW in various ways.
My fleet (as of Dec 2023):
- 4x 65mm freestyle whoops in various configurations
- 2x 75mm freestyle whoops
- Meteor 75 walksnail (which is currently dead because of IGOW week 7)
- 2x 5” inch walksnail quads
- 3.5’’ inch walksnail quad
- Pavo 25 walksnail quad
TPW Contribution: Sammy has played a vital role in helping develope a cloud system for our web application and creating an app for the judges to uses during live streams. He’s also helped brainstorm TPW to help shape it into what it is today.
Go give FPVSammy a sub on YouTube and Instagram to check out some of his incredible freestyle videos!
