Wifey Tries FPV with DJI NEO in Fort Langley

The Wifey and I went for a nice walk down in Fort Langley, it was a really nice day and I brought some of my FPV Drones with me to out up in the air and fly. I brought my DJI Avata 2 which is a beast of a drone, it's fast, fairly agile and the camera is amazing in it as you'll see from the video. I took the DJI Avata 2 for the first flight of the day and then kind of forced the Wifey to give FPV a try using my DJI Neo with the Motion Controller which allows anyone to fly a DJI FPV Drone in minutes.

She did pretty good and now has a good basic idea on how it all works. It can be a bit intimidating at first especially when you don't know the location so well. After her flight we walked back to the main village area and I put my tiny BetaFPV Meteor65 Pro with DJI 04 Light for a quick cruise to see what was going on. That was a short flight as smaller drones use really small batteries and have a lot shorter flight times. My camera mount on the Meteor65 Pro was missing a rubber bushing so I did get a lot more vibration than usual in the video but it still looks pretty good.

It Begins - 2025 Vancouver Open - 56 Years Old - Post Open Heart Surgery

So it begins yet at least one more time! Last year I did a show called the 2024 Vancouver Open Regionals and competed in the regionals which is "Open" to everyone, no qualifications required. I competed in Classic Physique 45+ along with Physique 40+ and Physique Open.

The goal of this show for me was to see how my body would respond now after the open heart surgery and to see if I could get anywhere near being somewhat competitive on stage. I did end up placing 3rd in Classic Physique 45+ and 3rd place in Physique Open, which I was happy with but more importantly I was very happy with how my body responded to the contest prep as it is very stressful on the body and I have to say this contest prep was probably one of the easiest and most comfortable I have ever done.

That brings us to this year and I have decided to compete again at this years Regional Vancouver Open which is on July 12th, so that gives me over 3 month to contest prep which is perfect. Last year I only had around 5-6 weeks to prep and my starting weight was 185 pounds with a body fat percentage in the high 9%. Right now I weigh 195 pounds with a body fat percentage in the mid to high 8% so I am in a much better starting place with an extra 10 pounds yet around the same body fat percentage.

With all that in mind my expectations for this years Regional Vancouver Open will be much the same as last year. Which is first and foremost to not stress my body out too much and to come in highly conditioned and with as much muscle as is healthy and realistic to expect, knowing that I can not rely on drugs to do much of the work for me. I am just not willing or prepared to jeopardise my health for a plastic trophy a the end of the day. This means I will more than likely not be holding as much muscle as some of the guys that have less to risk, so I will have to focus a lot more on conditioning to make the muscle I do have look as good as possible.

Hopefully at this years show the judges will be awarding conditioning a bit more than last year as in my opinion they were looking more for size over conditioning based on what I saw in the judging and placing of those on stage.

If at any point I do not feel good or have any health concerns I will be shutting down contest prep, but I am confident that it will go well this time around as I do have more time and can take things slow and adjust along the way.

Half Life and How it Affects Your TRT

When you take a medication it is always good to have a basic understanding of what that particular medications "Half Life" is. Half Life is the amount of time it takes for the medication you are taking to reach its halfway point, so in other words when it becomes half as effective or there is only half of it left in your system. Some medications have a very short Half Life, like 12 hours while some medications can have a Half Life of several weeks. The shorter the Half Life, the quicker the medication gets into you body, but that also means you need to take a short Half Life medication more often.

Typically your doctor will give you instructions so you don't really need to know the Half Life time as the doctor will tell you how much and how often to take the medication prescribed with half life being considered. I still think it's good to know what's going on with any medication, especially when you are going on it or off of it as Half Life will determine how quickly that medication gets into your system and how long it will take if and when you stop using it to get out of your body fully.

In this video I talk about TRT and how not all Testosterone is the same when it comes to Half Life time, and how the Half Life time can change how quickly you feel the effects not only going on the TRT but also if you decide to come off.

 

BetaFPV Meteor65 Pro 1s Smallest DJI 04 4k 60fps FPV Drone

I already had a BetaFPV Meteor65 Air Analog FPV Drone that I really enjoy flying around outside when it's not too windy, and I also fly it in the house since it is so small and light there is no way it can damage anything. The only problem with such a small Analog based FPV Drone is that you can not get any decent recordings since all you really have is the analog 640x480 DVR recording that you get in your goggles which is not very good. And being that the BetaFPV Meteor65 Air Analog FPV Drone only weighs around 30 grams with the battery, there is no way to mount a decent camera on it, even my 30 gram Insta360 GO2 is the same weight as the drone and mounted to it it would make it pretty much unflyable.

Here is the good news! DJI released their DJI 04 Air Units in both Pro and Light versions. The light version is made specifically for smaller drones as the DJI 04 VTX only weighs in at around 8 grams and can run off of a 1s 3.8 volt battery making it perfect for tiny FPV Drones.

I have a bunch of BetaFPV Drones already (BetaFPV Meteor65 Analog, BetaFPV Meteor75 Pro Analog, BetaFPV Pavo Pico with DJI 04 Air Unit Light, and BetaFPV Meteor85 with DJI 04 Air Unit Light). But I really wanted the smallest FPV drone possible but with the best possible 4k digital video system I can get. Right now that is the DJI 04 Air Unit Light which can record in 4k at 60 frames per second.

What makes the BetaFPV Meteor65 Pro HD perfect for my application is that it has a built in 5 volt regulator on the flight control board which sends 5 volt 3 amp current to the DJI 04 Air Unit Lite so that I don't lose video signal from a brown out, as the DJI 04 Air Unit Light needs at least 3.5 volts and when a 1s drone battery gets close to it's lowest operational point, it can get down to as low as 3 volts before you really need to shut it down or you could damage the battery.

In this video I take the BetaFPV Meteor65 Pro DJO 04 for a little rip at a nearby school to test it out and see what it can do. luckily the wind was not too bad today, it was a bit overcast so the video would be better with more sunlight, but I think it did a good job. I was even able to stabilize the video fairly well using Gyroflow as I record in 4k 4x3 60 fps and then stabilized down to 4k 16x9 60 fps. There is a little bit of vibration when I decelerate and ascend, but for the most part the video is really very smooth. Enjoy the video!

• Buy the BetaFPV Meteor65 Pro DJO 04
• Buy the DJI 04 Air Unit