First one mile flight

rkyleh · Dec 3, 2017

This is the first time I tried this. 1.2 mile still had great video probably could have gone farther but decided that was enough tempting fate for one day.

Jagerbomb52 · Dec 3, 2017

rkyleh said:
This is the first time I tried this. 5.2 mile still had great video probably could have gone farther but decided that was enough tempting fate for one day.

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Nice but what is with the 5.2 miles in your description?

rkyleh · Dec 3, 2017

ooops. Maybe that was wishful thinking.

ovrszd · Dec 4, 2017

I've flown 1.2 several times. If I have good surroundings it doesn't worry me too much. That is until the last update. Now I don't trust my drone to decide when it "needs" to come home. So I won't fly more distance than I want to walk for retrieval.

When I get time I'm going to try to deplete one of my batteries and recharge to see if it helps with the sudden power loss situation.

rkyleh · Dec 4, 2017

ovrszd said:
I've flown 1.2 several times. If I have good surroundings it doesn't worry me too much. That is until the last update. Now I don't trust my drone to decide when it "needs" to come home. So I won't fly more distance than I want to walk for retrieval.

When I get time I'm going to try to deplete one of my batteries and recharge to see if it helps with the sudden power loss situation.

So far I haven't had that problem. But you noticed I flew pretty close to that road just in case she had a tantrum.

wrdavis57 · Dec 5, 2017

It’s scary for sure, in the mountains of my state, I have went out 1.5 but was on top of the mountain and not in valley so reception was good. I can say once I was in a valley, went around bend watching scenery and got a little to far, it went into RTH without issue and thankfully altitude was correct for setting. But for me it’s very unnerving hoping it works because If I loose reception finding it would be hard and in one piece even harder.... Orange has not let me down yet

HiloHawaiian · Dec 21, 2017

Impressive, I’d love to try that since I have a ITELITE DBS MaxxRange Extender Antenna. I just don’t have the guts to do this over the kind of terrain I face on the Big Island of Hawaii. There is one road like that at 10,000’ on Mauna Loa, but it’s treacherous lava fields on both sides, so if there’s a hiccup, it’s aloha XSP!