News, Announcements and general tips and tricks
In this section you will find news, product announcements and general tips and tricks for everything quadcopter related.
Want to learn what product is coming out next or maybe a neat OpenTX related trick - this is the place to be.
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May 28, 2026
BetaFPV’s Aquila20 HD FPV Kit is an all-in-one bundle that pairs the Aquila20 HD whoop with the LiteRadio 4 SE and the rest of what you need to start flying digital FPV out of the box. The kit is aimed at people who don’t want to source drone, radio, goggles and batteries separately and would rather pay one price and start flying. Is the convenience worth it?
The kit was sent to me by BetaFPV for review. They had no input on this article, they however did answer a lot of questions that I had and tried to help out with some of the issues I was having.
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May 18, 2026
BetaFPV has released the next iteration of their game-pad styled radio - the LiteRadio 4. It is the successor to the LiteRadio 3 and comes in at a price point of $44.99 - making it once again one of the cheapest integrated ExpressLRS radios on the market. But is it worth the price tag? Let’s have a look.
The LiteRadio 4 was sent to me by BetaFPV as part of the Aquila20 HD kit, but I was so excited about the radio that I thought I’d write a separate article for it.
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Feb 15, 2026
I was super excited when I saw that BetaFPV released an “Open Community” HD-System. My excitement was a bit dampened once I realized that “Open Community” does not mean “open source”. Nonetheless, “Open Community” still sounds intriguing, but what does it mean? I took a closer look at the Artosyn AR803X chipset that powers it, the ecosystem forming around it, and whether we might finally get the cross-compatible HD standard that FPV has been missing since the analog days.
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Apr 17, 2024
BetaFPV has released a new line of LiPos with BT2.0 connectors - the Lava line up. The name is hilarious and my first thought was: Holy shit, those being BetaFPV batteries, I hope the name does no say it all. Don’t get me wrong: I am a big fanboy of everything BetaFPV, really like their RTFs - generally most of their products have been decent. If not, they usually try to do the right thing. But their batteries have always been atrocious.
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Apr 12, 2024
The ISDT K2 AIR is a two channel (LiPo) battery charger with a lot of very useful (and not so useful) features, let’s have a look, why you might want to consider it as your next battery charger. The pros, the cons and everything else you might want to know.
If you are looking for a 1S charger, have a look at WhoopStor 3 - IMHO this is the best charger for 1S batteries that you can get right now.
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Sep 1, 2023
MEPS, a relatively new player in the FPV market (although, according to themselves they have been in the business for a couple of years), and it already started out with quite a bit of drama - I will get into it a little bit later.
MEPS were nice enough to send me a set of their 0802 and 1103 motors to have a look at, so a big shout out to them.
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Mar 22, 2022
I was super stoked for the Runcam Thumb once I heard about it and saw that there is a 1.0.0 release candidate for Gyroflow. Potentially a super low budget, low weight - 10g - solution for stabilized footage.
Unfortunately the initial reviews were not so great, gyro logging was not working properly and stabilization with Gyroflow was not really possible - this all changed with the latest firmware version 2.1.0 - I highly recommend you follow my tutorial on how to update the firmware on your Runcam Thumb.
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Mar 18, 2022
The first Runcam Thumbs are reaching the users and it is super important that you upgrade the firmware - especially if you want to use Gyroflow - which, you most likely want.
Luckily upgrading the firmware is super simple and everything you need is in the box - apart from the SD card. The Runcam Thumb can handle micro SD cards up to 128GB, make sure to use a fast one. Basically any name brand 128GB micro SD card will be fast enough (Class 10, UHS 3).
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Jan 5, 2022
It has only been 3 months and BetaFPV has a new radio in the pipelines - the Lite Radio 3. It comes in two options: Integrated ELRS or integrated FrSky D8/D16 RF module. One thing is for sure, with a price point of $59.99 it is one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest option for an integrated ExpressLRS radio, but did they fix any issues that were raised with the BetaFPV Lite Radio 2 SE? Lets have a look.
This radio is available with internal ExpressLRS or FrskyD8/16 module. I got the ExpressLRS version which will be subject of this review.
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Dec 5, 2021
The TuneRC EZ 1-2S AIO board is the first - and hopefully not last - flight-controller manufactured by TuneRC. This one does some things different from all the other ones. From what I understand it was manufactured to the specifications of Bob Roogi (KababFPV) - he is even selling it in his own store.
This usually is a good indicator that the product is of good quality, otherwise Bob would not vouch for it with his name.
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