August 21, 20168 yr Author Just now, Zambroski said: Man...that shit really is cool! What's the range on that? It all depends on interference and line of sight. I can get about a mile away from here at home with some trees blocking my line of sight. My max is a little over 2 miles from the public beach on the lake.
August 21, 20168 yr USA Donating Member 1 minute ago, ckf said: It all depends on interference and line of sight. I can get about a mile away from here at home with some trees blocking my line of sight. My max is a little over 2 miles from the public beach on the lake. Pretty good. When it starts to get out of range or interference, does it give you a warning or something? Or do you go pick it up at the scene of the crash?
August 21, 20168 yr Author Just now, Zambroski said: Pretty good. When it starts to get out of range or interference, does it give you a warning or something? Or do you go pick it up at the scene of the crash? I usually loose the video feed before I lose the ability to control the drone. When the video feed goes out I can switch it map view and fly it that way. If I do loose all control it will go in 'return to home' mode. When that happens it climbs to 400' and returns to the takeoff location. It's almost foolproof.
August 21, 20168 yr USA Donating Member 6 minutes ago, ckf said: I usually loose the video feed before I lose the ability to control the drone. When the video feed goes out I can switch it map view and fly it that way. If I do loose all control it will go in 'return to home' mode. When that happens it climbs to 400' and returns to the takeoff location. It's almost foolproof. That is awesome! Damn...got me thinkin!
August 21, 20168 yr Author 5 minutes ago, Zambroski said: That is awesome! Damn...got me thinkin! This is the one I have. http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3-adv
August 22, 20168 yr 2 hours ago, ckf said: This is the one I have. http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3-adv What kind of battery life do you get ??? does it automatically return home when the battery get low ??
August 22, 20168 yr Author 13 minutes ago, soupkid said: What kind of battery life do you get ??? does it automatically return home when the battery get low ?? The battery lasts about 20 minutes. Yes, the drone will return to home and land automatically when the battery level gets low. 9 minutes ago, Fireball 440 said: Are those sleds or jetskis running across at the end? Jetskis.
August 22, 20168 yr Author Here's the flight data from one of my prior flights. This was from the public beach so there wasn't anything blocking my line of sight.
August 22, 20168 yr Author I just found the flight data for the flight that I got the greatest distance away. The data only shows one way because the app crashed and I had to reboot my tablet. Conditions couldn't have been much better than they were for this flight. I started from a field up on a hill and flew across the valley to the Ski Area on the other side. I still had great signal at the time but wanted to get the drone back before the battery got to low. The video of the flight is below the flight data.
I just uploaded my drone footage to YouTube.