so ive been running dominator v3s for like 4 years now and they still work fine honestly but everyone keeps telling me to make the jump to walksnail or dji and i finally pulled the trigger on the avatar HD goggles last month. been flying them for maybe 6 weeks now so figured id share some thoughts since i was hunting for this kind of post before i bought and couldnt find anything recent.

latency is noticeably lower than i expected, like i genuinely thought digital would feel mushier than analog but its really not that bad once you tune the vtx power output to match your flying environment. flying tight woody areas i keep it at 25mw and honestly penetration is decent, open fields i bump to 200 and its rock solid. the goggles themselves fit my face way better than the fatsharks did which sounds dumb but after a long session it actually matters.

the one thing that bugs me is antenna placement on the goggle receivers feels a bit awkward, im running lollipop antennas on the vtx and the stock patch on the goggles and theres occasional breakup if i get too far behind a tree line. thinking about adding a rapidfire module or equivalent but not sure if thats even a thing with walksnail yet. anyone done diversity antenna setups with these

yeah the antenna situation on walksnail goggles is honestly the main thing people sleep on when they switch. the stock antennas are fine for casual flying but if youre doing anything beyond like 300-400m with obstacles you will feel it. i swapped mine out for a pair of pagoda antennas on the goggles and kept lollipops on the vtx side and its made a real difference. no diversity module solution that ive seen yet that works natively but people are hacking stuff together with external receivers, theres a thread on rcgroups about it but its a bit of a rabbit hole.

also re: the fatshark comparison ? i had dominator HD3s not v3s but similar era, the image quality jump to digital is just not something you can go back from after a month or two tbh

cant speak to walksnail specifically but i just want to say the antenna thing is super underrated in general. most people obsess over vtx power output and totally ignore that a bad antenna on either end tanks your effective range way more than dropping from 200mw to 100mw would. ive seen guys running 600mw vtx with the stock stubby antenna and wondering why their buddy with a 200mw setup and proper antennas is getting cleaner video