dang man, I felt like I gained years of experience just watching you handle all that adversity. That cliff dive was freaking awesome 🔥 Thank you for sharing this. 👍👍
I don't know if i'll ever be able to fly long range like this one day, but this looks so cool. The sensations, the tension and of course the landscape. Incredible 👏
I have the ViFly Finder 2. It solders to the FC which charges up it's little 1s. Mine saved my bacon a couple weeks ago when my 7" went down in a huge field about a mile out. I didn't have GPS coordinates saved and my OSD didn't record. About 3 hours of foot searching with two people and a dog produced nothing. I finally found the quad by walking the heading line it was on after dark and seeing the flashing beacon on the Finder 2. I couldn't hear the beeper very well even when I got close but the flasher worked GREAT! All of my builds now contain the ViFly Finder 2. Cheap insurance in my opinion.
@@Sonic_Ox i agree the vifly is a must on each quad. I lost one in a cornfield. The buzzer was so crazy loud there's no need for gps (at mid range) while dvr is recording where the quad has landed.
Nice. I lost my drone 3 times in a scenario with simetrical landscape luckly i found it every time . I have a lua script that saves the last 50 coordonates on the remote and also for the last mile the buzzer its a lifesaver, its a pain in the ass when you plug unplug the battery. The gps coordonates bring you close but simetimes its very hard to spot the drone.
Oh man! 04:08 The pain of sudden realisation when there is nothing you can do. We probably need an auto-landing feature in Betaflight. Thanks for sharing!
Thx Rad your video gave me long range flying anxiety… 😂 it is weird to still feel what you might feel despite just watching past events with 0 consequences for me 😂
Hey man, I just finished a week trip in Switzerland doing my first ever long range flights, first time flying Li-ions and first time flying 7" extensively Just wanted to say thanks for your videos, I watched loads and learned lots in the run up to the trip Happy to report no drone loss and my best shots ever and I can't wait to do more LR
@RadFPV hey man i am from Switzerland and if you ever want to take a trip here let me know, i am just finishing a new build with tbs source x frame, tmotor mn 5006 300kv and mamba h743 stack, video link is o3 and radio is diversity. i have some friends that fly long range too and the peaks are white XD cheers.
As someone who has already lost a 5 inch FPV quad to a stupid mistake, I can totally relate to some of the incidents you show in this video. How I lost my drone - I was doing some freestyle flying near by home and I went totally crazy, one stunt after another. I didn't realize that I was almost 300 meters away from home then. The adrenalin rush caused my feet to start shaking. I wanted to adjust my seating position and I did so, and in that process, my left index finger accidentally flicked the disarm switch. I could see the quad falling down, but then I lost video too, because I had set "low power disarm" on my vtx settings page. I tried to arm it again but arming angle limit didn't allow me to do that. So the quad fell somewhere in the middle of extremely thick tropical vegetation. I gathered a rough idea about where it fell, from the DVR video footage, and we searched for 6 hours spanning 2 days but we never found it. Cheers form Kerala, India.
Aw no 😢 similar happened to me. I accidentely pressed the disarm button. My quad fell from the sky (30-40m) and landed on a brand new lipo, which dampened the impact. Lot of damaged parts, torn wires etc. Gps broken, vtx. But it's already back in the air ❤ happy flying!
Wow that's a very impressive range with a 5.8ghz vtx at 1w. My walksnail digital (with trueRC antennas) setup already struggles at 2km range 😂 thanks for the video!
Well, my old A** heart was pounding hard you do good under pressure that's why you were able to fly blind and save the drone plus you have put some time into long range and you know your gear thanks for sharing
I have got the Vifly Finder V2 in all my quads and it got me out of trouble on few occasions. GPS coordinates in the OSD and in telemetry also helps a lot.
I wish my friend had the patience to watch this to better understand the perils of long range FPV! Beautiful spots and flying too! Come up to Alaska, Im pretty sure im the only fpv guy here and its lonely haha.
Wow! I really felt that mountain wind too. Also that dive you caught 😅. When you say your max speed is 120kph, is that with Li Ion concidering the rated max current draw? Sure you can do 150kph with a lipo
That older quad could do short bursts of 120kph with a li-ion pack. Probably more like 100kph sustained. Not sure if I ever flew that one with a lipo battery.
Cant wait to get my long range drone finished to start flying the mountians here. Its 10 inch 1.5kg auw with a 6500mah lipo not li-ion so i have more oomph for sketchy situations like in this video lol
I started putting galaxy smart tag on my drones. Weighs next to nothing. Battery lasts a year or more. Can interact with phone up to 150m. Worst case scenario, have to fly a cellphone across area to mark location of drone. Has beeping alarm, quiet though. Haven't needed to use it yet.
Hello, may I know the max transmitter power output that you normally set while doing long range? In other words, is 1 watt really needed for long range?
One thing you never do is power up your drone or a video transmitter without antennas or a antenna it will damage it i have been flying FPV since 2015!
I can do it with my dji 03 VTX so I assume walksnail should have comparable results. A lot of it is about using good antennas. Years ago, I made it 5.5km out using a $25 eachine VTX (and good antennas).
Hummm need to do a Checklist Bro. That will make you a Pro! I am sure your Quad would love you. It was YELLING>> BRO NO RECEPTION< NO RECEPTION>> CRAP GPS AGAIN?