Avata 2 Range Test - BEYOND Visual Line of Sight! 

Would love to see a video explaining the process it took to get that BVLOS waiver. It doesn't seem like those are given out very often so any insights would be great.

LOL...i don't know anyone who would bother with getting a visual observer for FPV flying. Seems silly.

Very nice. Entertaining as well. Thanks for making the video.

7km. That’s Epic. Thanks from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Excellent flight and video, thank you.

Thanks for the test! Cheers from Brazil

Nice job!

That is seriously impressive! "The Harry Potter Controller!" You thought I met the 4.22 miles in range didn't you?

More range than i anticipated. Nice work Greg

Love how you did a one way distance NO one does this.... Good job!!!!

When you launch from a hill over the desert you will get some good range. Put a few trees in the way and fail safe. Mine fail safes at 200 meters because of some thicker trees. Battery ejected and it was hard to find. Good idea updating the home point every couple of thousand feet.

Nice!

Greg, does flying in an urban environment significantly cut back the distance, due to signal loss from multiple signal interference sources? Great video! Thanks

Could you have taken off 2 miles out with a full battery and test if it would go out farther?

Thanks, Greg for showing us this legal range test.

Ver impressive!

Great video. Seems a shame you didn't even try to land, get them to put a new battery in and then just see if you could connect to the drone again? That would be legal wouldn't it? Just to see if it still connects and carries on working?

so in summary you need 4 people to fly this in a straight line out in the boondocks with approval. thanks!

impressive

My avata 2 runs flawless in open territory, but around large trees it won't go beyond a thousand feet.

My Avata 2 went into fail safe RTH twice and my Mini 4 pro still had max signal during identical tests less than 1000 feet away. Signal can go from bad to worse with little time to react especially when flying in manual mode. To be fair, the conditions in your run were superb.

How to update RTH ? When I fly in residential my flight distance is limited , is it because the RC signal is line of sight ?

what radios do you recommend for comms with your remote VO's?

I didn't realize Cottonwood was so desolate. Great flight!

I flew over the harbor in my town to check out all the boats on moorings. I cant get more than a mile without near total loss of signal with perfect VLOS and no obstructions with the Avata 2. All these range test videos put my performance to shame LOL.

Lame not a time goes by when i fly i dont go at least 2 to 3 miles out

Watch out folks that want to buy Avavta 2.. Only if you own one of a limited number of phone models will you be able to download and use the DJI Fly App and therefore you will not be able to set it up... I'm returning an Avata 2 I just bought due to this.

What are you talking about would rather loose signal rth before loosing battery at 22000ft out atleast you know it coming to your original return home point before battery loss. I know my signal from my backyard will go way before the point in which the drone will not make it home thats close to 4kms. Thats great knowing I can push it as far as I can from my house and not worry about it dying on the way home. Know the opposite Id be running out for it trying to find it.

When you say that 5000 feet is nuts what do you mean by that? Just that it's different than the line of sight distance without the waiver? I don't see anything that seems nuts 🤷‍♂️

Not sure you could get that distance with hills or buildings blocking you. But cool none the less.

Great Job guys LMAO

My dad owns the FAA, you are going straight to jail.

Only works when you have a straight line when you have no trees in the way... #justsaying

I'm Curious what elevation you were at with the controller 🤔

135 waver

Almost 100 thousand subscribers, How are we going to celebrate??

He's using the love toy controller, lol. So is this how Amazon and the like do it... Have people spread out along their flight path...

I was hoping you'd replace the battery and keep flying from there. For science, of course.

I know you are seeing the max range of the controller But a true range test is safely make it back How many people will just fly until you loose signal

I can go to the desert with a long range rifle by myself and shoot rounds legally all day, I need a special waver to fly my drone behind visual LOS? Who is tracking my bullets? Nobody. This is all preposterous.

Lame, I fly BVLOS all the time

This video demonstrates why people ignore the VLOS rule. You are in the middle of nowhere. There is essentially ZERO risk by flying beyond VLOS in this environment. There is no legitimate reason for a VLOS restriction in this scenario. Hence, it gets ignored. The same way mask mandates, social distancing, & Covid jabs were ignored.

Recreational pilots are allowed to traverse over people and traffic, as long as it is not a sustained flight, and they do not need the classification of drones. The letter of the law says that. I also want to point out, we are currently trying to save drones from being banned, dji ones in particular. For 107 sustained flights, there's currently no approved drone. It will be impossible due to "impact force rating". What this means is there's no legal 107 flights that could be over vehicles or people, ie pretty much any real estate flight, etc. There is an advisory circular that said it was not intended to be a form of a ban, so many still just do their job an obey the law the best they can. I still think you teach a great course an will recommend it to anyone. But the interpretation of the law in that regard is to much for me to just not say anything. It essentially says I can't fly my drone in my neighborhood, which is not sitting well. And I get it, why should recreational pilots be held to a different standards then 107. Theres nothing stopping a 107 pilot from operating like this either. Just as of now, sustained flights are a no go. Its essentially a de facto ban, which the community is trying desperately to stop congress from hammering the nail in the coffin. A similar issue is how high one can fly. To many people think 107 can fly above the building, but recreational flights can't. Well the letter of the law says otherwise. Some airspace restrictions limit the height, and 107 and rec are both responsible for that. On reporting people. If it doesn't look like someone is going to do something "destructive" with a weaponized drone, I would just say leave the person an flight alone. Sorry for the long winded post. But these things need to be addressed. Recoveryonedrone is another one who likes to push different interpretations of the law that are more restrictive then actually intended. I would hope you change your snarky tone an your pushed advice on who can fly how, and when in line with intended regulations. Good luck Greg. ADDED fundamentally, stop suggesting people confront pilots flying a drone. It is contributing to absolute madness.