🇹🇷 FAI Drone Racing World Cup Turkey 2025

This was the second FAI race that the SplitS team participated in. Unfortunately, only I, Daniil (JazzMutant) represented our team. The location and track were amazing. I really wanted to just fly around the track for fun.

On Saturday, it was raining, so we could not fly for half of the day. Afterwards, the weather improved and I crashed into the castle wall on my first attempt. My drone survived the crash, but some other pilots were not so lucky. Everything went smoothly, except for an incident with the channels. One of my group's pilots occupied my channel and caused another crash. The judges explained that this was their fault and we had to do a rerun.

Thank you to all the organizers, competitors and supporters for the amazing race! I am happy with the results, as they are better than in my last race. This means that our training has been effective.

1st 🇹🇷 Nazım Tüzün
2nd 🇰🇿 Kirill Loban
3rd 🇹🇷 Burak Mercimek
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23rd 🇬🇪 Daniil Tolstoukhov

Stay tuned, we're getting faster

Neon Night Tbilisi Race '25

The weather still allows us to train outside, but the days are becoming shorter. We have no opportunity to start early, we all have jobs. That's why a few months ago, we decided to make lights for our gates.

There were a lot of options, but also more requirements. For example, it should be safe, easy to set up, etc. I’ll show our solution in one of the next videos on our YouTube channel.

We had been testing it for two weeks before my teammates decided to organize a competition. That time, we didn’t want to have a big event, but gather all local racers for just a small, friendly get-together competition.

My teammate drew and made a track. And I love it. This track is killer! I’m going to fly it next few weeks. But that time I was injured, so I couldn't participate and made the spectator area. Food, drinks, and a cozy campfire. This race was bound to succeed. It was a pleasant surprise to see competition at all levels. Every pilot was so close to each other. The race was over in the blink of an eye, but we’ll make a new one again soon.

HDZero has released a battery case today. I double-checked the date, and it's not April 1st.

Funny thing. It contains two 21700 batteries, a card reader(!), and a USB charger.

How long will the goggles work on two 21700 batteries? A couple of hours?

Global market: $45
For the US market, it comes with two 5000mAh batteries, the price there is $60