webFPV

Real flight controller, in a manga world

Learn to fly FPV from your first hover to a pro licence, on the flight controller code a real racing quad runs.

WebFPV compiles the open-source flight controller firmware most racing quads run and flies it a thousand times a second against a physics model of a real quad: a 710-gram 6S five-inch and a 65 mm whoop. Rates, PIDs, filters, feedforward, anti-gravity, and airmode are the firmware's own, not an imitation of them, so a tune that flies well here is a tune that makes sense on the bench.

Learn

73 lessons in 16 chapters, each one skill with a briefing, a coach in your ear and a medal to chase:

• First Hover: lift off, hold a box, land on a pad, in Angle mode

• Angle Mode Navigation: rings, figure eights, a slalom

• Switching to Acro: what rate mode is, holding an angle, banked turns

• Big Gaps: eight metres between two container stacks, then six, then four, then through a building

• Flips and Rolls, then Segmented Flips and Rolls: one at a time, both ways, doubles, knife edge, hanging inverted

• Gates, Racing and Freestyle: dive gates, double stacks, powerloops, Split-S, the Matty flip

• Rookie Licence and Pro Licence: a checkride, a gap final, a freestyle final and a five lap championship

• Race Craft: the start, brake points, the line, beating your ghost, steady laps

• Whoop League: front room, bunk room, shop doors, the Barani doorway

• Real Tracks: tracks built by real pilots, flown lap by lap

• Proximity: wall skims, garden gaps, the tree line, under everything

• Lines: first combo, gap to trick, Infinity Loops, Baka

If you already fly, open every chapter and skip to the part you want.

Race

Five race tracks for the five-inch, three living rooms and eight Ultra Tiny Tracks for the whoop. Laps, splits, your ghost and your best. A 65 mm ducted whoop through living rooms and the Ultra Tiny Tracks, on 28-inch gates, where the line matters more than the speed.

Freestyle, and fly it upside down

A whole town to fly round: roofs, alleys, a level crossing, a lake, the hills behind it. A trick recogniser that names more than 60 tricks and grades them clean or sloppy, combos, named gaps, close calls, and Hibari Yard, a yard built for freestyle.

Turn on 3D mode in the settings and the motors spin both ways, just like a real quad with 3D props. Flip over, fly upside down past the porch of the yellow house, then roll back out the right way up.

Mini games

When you just want to muck about, there are six mini games, all playable against bots:

• Dogfight: guns and missiles. Pop the other quads before they pop you.

• Ribbon Cutting: snip their ribbons and keep yours. Last ribbon flying wins.

• Drift Matsuri: chase the drift cars through the cherry blossom and film the best shots.

• Ridgeline MX: chase the dirt bikes round a motocross track and film the whips.

• Quad Ball: two teams and a ball the size of a car. Push it into their goal.

• Goat Herding: herd more goats into the garage than anyone else.

Build

A builder for race tracks, whoop rooms and freestyle maps, drawn from above and flown from the same page. Saved on your computer and in Steam Cloud, and exported to a file to give to a friend.

Tune it

The firmware's own rates curves and its PID sliders. Save tunes by name, fly them again with one press, and trade them as files.

Fly it with what you have

A radio in USB joystick mode (EdgeTX and OpenTX radios), an Xbox or PlayStation pad, a Steam Deck, or a keyboard for your first minutes. Mode 1 to 4, a calibration wizard, and Angle mode for learning.

A desktop game

Works offline. No account, no adverts, no telemetry. Steam Cloud saves, and your friends see what you are flying.

This is the complete desktop edition: the career, cloud saves, offline play and every map.