So You Want to Fly Long Range FPV?
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- There is so much more to flying long range than just the flying. Come along for the ride and find out what it really takes to fly long range FPV in the mountains. 60% flight footage & 40% Vlog. This trip turned out to be quite an adventure.
Video chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - First you have to get there
02:12 - Day 1: Scouting new locations
03:30 - The reason we came to this spot
05:43 - This is where I'll be flying from
07:50 - First flight of the trip
10:11 - Day 2: Long range at the new location
11:42 - Flight #1 (with DVR & commentary)
18:00 - Flight #2 (with DVR & commentary)
29:15 - Flight #3 (cinematic edit with soundtrack)
36:25 - We have a big problem
39:25 - Yay, we figured out how to get home!
40:06 - One last rip
44:00 - Home at last / Conclusion
My Long Range FPV frame designs:
-Falcon RPM 7.5" Cinematic / Long Range @ AddictiveRC - bit.ly/Falcon_RPM_AddictiveRC
-Falcon RPM 7.5" Cinematic / Long Range @ CNCDrones - bit.ly/FalconRPM
- RAD Li-ion 7" Long Range - bit.ly/3MFoCdg
- RAD Scout 7" Xtra Long Range - bit.ly/3kyvPDy
- AOS Falcon 7 Cinematic Long Range - bit.ly/3jUiLUI
Parts list and affiliate links for 6s long range build - (great reliability and balance between power and efficiency)
T-Motor F7 Pro flight controller - bit.ly/3xtW1mE
T-Motor F55 Pro II ESC (4in1) - bit.ly/3uITNOF
Motors for 7" props: T Motor F90 2806.5 1300kv - bit.ly/3M4fjDg
Motors for 7.5" props: T-Motor Velox 3008 1500kv - bit.ly/3QJ8Gcf
Camera Butter ND Filters - bit.ly/3WZmSQR
7" props for RAD Scout - Gemfan 7035 (tri-blade) - bit.ly/3vdSzKu
7" props for RAD Li-ion - Gemfan 7037 (tri-blade) - bit.ly/3rvCz5f
7" props for Falcon 7 - Gemfan 7040 (tri-blades) - bit.ly/3YaxFrZ
7.5" props for Falcon RPM Gemfan 7535 (tri-blades) - bit.ly/3vdSzKu
VTX antenna TrueRC Singularity - bit.ly/3xvXFEg
VTX - bit.ly/3JHWW5l
Receiver - bit.ly/3xuMGv8
FPV camera (analog) - bit.ly/3JL88OT
GPS - bit.ly/3uJjRci
Receiver antenna - bit.ly/3jG7o2L
Consider supporting the channel on Patreon:
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Check out my frame design page @ CNCDrones: bit.ly/3vvRrD7
Use this link for the purchase of anything from GetFPV with no extra cost to you, but it helps the channel out: bit.ly/3roKZui
The memories you are creating are priceless, not only do you record and fly great spots. But you have great company, I can see they often have a hand on your shoulder when your flying, I can see the calming effect this has. Great people, great times, great scenery. Love to see people make memories like this.
Thank you for taking us with you on this incredible journey 🙏😇
My pleasure 😊
Such a spectacular adventure (with some great, and some not so great parts). Loved the views and editing. At least you have an awesome basecamp to return next year. Glad this story had a safe ending.
Making the most out of every situation, you guys rock! Great flight and vlog with a bit of everything.
Thanks so much!
Thank you for making this epic vlog and taking us along for the journey. Loved every minute of it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As allways, amazing. thanks for sharing
Great video, loved the shots along the highest mountain ridge. Glad you got home ok in the end.
Thanks 👍
amazing as usual!
Wow great instructional video! I cant believe I missed this one when it came out!
love this so much, thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
Cool video. Very insightful. Awesome your partner is knowledgeable and supportive with this. Seems like it helps a ton!
Actually Stunning.. Many thanks. & welCome home
Love this longer form video. More like this please. A day out flying is so much more than just the footage you get. BC has some great spots!
Noted!
Great story, appreciate you sharing & editing this for us all, cheers!
P.s. plan a trip to Norway, I’ll have some batteries charged for ya!
Thanks so much!
This video was recommended on my yt feed this morning... What a fantastic vlog, fantastic edit, and epic adventure! Wow! Thanks for taking us along... and glad you made it back home. And what a great flight assistant you have! Teamwork makes the dreamwork 👍👍
Would you mind if I share a bit of this on my live stream Thursday night, and shout out your channel?
Sure go ahead, thanks very much for the comment!
Adventures of the FPV Long Ranger!
Awesome flights and trip bro. That was a really cool journey to watch.
Thanks
So cool!!!
Love this video!
Such amazing good people thanks for taking us with you on this incredible journey💯💯💯👍👍👍
Thanks for the comment!
Nice flight I am getting into LR AND man it’s crazy trying to figure out parts keep up the good work
Absolutely beautiful location to fly in. Amazing footage
Thanks a lot!
Awesome 👏
What a flight!!! as a fellow quad pilot and sometimes LR flyer, I felt every bit of your anxiety on those first couple test flights! But Great flights my guy and what an amazing veiw you gave us! Happy flying brother...
Thanks so much!
@@FalconRadFPVmy pleasure. Liked and subbed 🤙👍
awesome flight..
Thanks! 👍
Dang. Glad you made it back.
I once backed a full sized school bus (converted to a kitchen) into an overhead sign at the Alpine Motel in Radium. Owner laughed and said it happened once a year. Gorgeous country. Glad you made it home. Good score on the tranny.
Technically interesting and visually awesome, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great work and superb video... 👏👏👏
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome quality video. 👏
Thank you 🙌
Thanks for sharing! This is my dream vacation
Even with the car troubles :)
Glad I could share it with you.
I live in the Andes, mountains are all there is here. It's amazing, nature!
Thank you
Sounds like you live in great place for long range!
@@FalconRadFPV yes, so it is! Started with miniquad and got a micro LongRange now, feeling out distance. Wind affects much at 4" though.
Nice seeing your process of getting out there, it's nerve wracking specially in that landscape!
Flying analog too. Nice!
Epic flights, I just love watching lr mountain surfing, but I still have not taken my Source one 7in over very far from myself, but once I'm used to traveling far away, I hope to get some good videos. Thanks again for the video, and how you get great shots.
One question ? What are you using for Google antennas. Home made ?
Ya I still use my DIY helical antennas like these: ua-cam.com/video/aH0cW9XJ4D4/v-deo.html
nice 🙌
I flew a canyon this morning where I knew signal was going to be an issue. I can feel the anxiety in your narration, and I totally relate. I just ordered parts for 2 seven inch drones. Check out the AOS UL7. Im super excited! Thanks for sharing beautiful trip! Colorado?
very very very verrrrryyyyyyyy good video dude!!!, nice!!!!!
analog forever for this type flight ever!!!!!1!!!!!!!!
Thanks, I really appreciate that!
if it was easy everyone would do it - love it!
Thanks smeagol
Very fun until the end😄
Hi! I just found your channel and am blown away by the epic aerial videos you captured. Seeing how you and your partner plan your positions and set up was insightful and interesting. I fly an old phantom drone but am very interested in FPV Long range platforms to get better videos of the mountains in my area. Your video was very helpful. Subbed, shared and thumb up. GREAT job making this!
Awesome, thank you!
Superlative!
Incredible range! Thats so wild! I'm scared to fly 1km 😂
great video, sorry about your truck. I know it may not be your cup of tea but I'd love to see some "mid" range flights with smaller quads. Like most people I'm just not willing or able to risk a big 7-10" long range quad, but I enjoy taking my flywoo 4" out a mile or 2. A lot of the lessons you teach have transfered over well and I'm pretty sure your video on setting up switches and GPS rescue save me one quad! I'd buy a Falcon FPV 4" long range quad in a heart beat.
💕 from India
maybe i missed it, but where are you!? its beautiful there! great flying and showing what it takes to do fpv
It's western canada.
👍
Thank you for all your content FalconRad and partner!! You give so much insight and helpful info with every release🥰 Being in the PNW, I have a lot of area to fly like yours, so I love soaking up your knowledge and techniques!🙏🏽💯🦾🦾🙏🏽
Glad to hear that!
i do medium range at best . thank you for such a great channel you are top dog at that game .
Much appreciated
Great adventure! Mountainous long range flying is really challenging.👍
Ever considering flying with a fix wing plane?
Yes I have but I keep putting off getting one setup. I gotta get one setup, I'd love to do some mountain dives with a wing!
😍😍👍👍
That was one ☝️ hell of a journey for sure. Most likely a release bearing failure for your clutch noise 😉
Thanks! Ya it was the retaining collar for the release bearing.
@@FalconRadFPV we get the same thing on Subaru, I’ve been working on them for the last 20 years 🛠️
great adventure documentary. stunning shots over the peaks, what a place to fly. only thing that could have made those peaks better would be seeing foresty forest and rocko sitting on a peak hehehe. it must be great to have a spotter taking care of data and being an extra pair of eyes on the flight. people under estimate how stressful it is flying even one mile away over impossible terrain, and one big thing nobody mentions is flying without a solid horizon, we dont notice how much the visual bit of flat ground informs our stick inputs, take that away and you have to be holding the quad by the scruff of the neck at all times. not to mention not being able to hear the quad, 80mph looks pretty much the same as hovering when your in gigantic arenas. so, to add it all up, flying a mile away is stressful, flying a mile away up a mountain with no horizon or distance visual input, is horrifying. ps. i know these kind of vids are a real pain to put together but please do more.
Thanks so much for the comment, I really appreciate it!
Incredible footage, love how supportive your spotter is! Love your enthusiasm for FPV, kinda like how hunters go hunting when they love hunting. your enthusiasm is addictive, and it makes me want to go out and do the same. So please keep sending Content! did it end up being your throwout bearing on your truck? That’s kind of what I was thinking it sounded like from your exclamation of the grinding noise. No one does long range like you, thanks for sharing! BTW, I got my eye on the RPM, but I still haven’t actually used my falcon 7 yet. also, I have purchased helical antennas that look very similar to yours, I just wonder if your DYI ones are better. it’s still on my bucket list to fly with you someday, then we could do a little horse trading. until then, Go FalconRad Fpv!
Thanks so much for the comment! The retaining collar for the throwout bearing broke. Haha, you knew what it was right away, it took me a week to convince an auto shop that it was a throwout/pilot bearing issue not an internal problem with the transmission.
Very nice roundup of your spot scouting technique! Nice flying as always! Good habit to freestyle in the meantime to keep up the muscle memory for dangerous long range situations as well! 👍
At 2:20 - is there the chance of bears visiting at night? 🐻 (Haha actually wrote that before I reached the part that your clutch went funny!)
And why do you use Betaflight? Got used to it and just a habit? INAV has a nice return to home trackback feature now and it works pretty nice but I guess the regular raise altitude before RTH is more suitable for mountains anyways... As long you don't fly around at half altitude of the peak lol!
However I am watching your videos for quite a while now, just sad that I built a 7" HGLRC Sector already - my next one will be a FalconRad for sure as well!
Keep flying! 😉
Thanks for the comment! Ya I'm just used to betaflight. I also kind of like the thought of doing it without any automated functions, full manual.
@@FalconRadFPV Ah okay thanks for your reply I understand!
RTH saved me though a couple times from losing a quad when I started it but yes over time you get more confident about your gear and that is the most important.
What an amazing flight and nature !
Is there a possibility where some of your complete gear out for trading ??
Sorry I don't understand the question?
Hey man, I like this long format with vlog and test flights!
One thing I noticed is that your dBm level never went down below -70 while in my last flights I was getting -100 while being only 3km away in a U valley with no RF noise, which made me worry a bit. What power level are you running on your radio? I have it set to dynamic but it never goes up more than 250mW...
Ditch dynamic mode, I always hear not to use it. It also messes with crossfire, so lock it at 50hz for long range and set it to 500mW.
hello, I love your work, it is very beautiful. I just bought a Falcon RPM frame and can you show the settings for this frame under betaflight 4.0? thanks
Thanks you! You can email me at falconradfpv@gmail.com and I'll send you some screen grabs of my settings or whatever. Let me know your parts list in the email so I know how similar your setup is.
@@FalconRadFPV Thank you . I sent an email to you
Awesome video!
Quick question, what are you using for your RC Link? Im guessing crossfire? I see you have the Frsky X-lite, how do you like that radio? I had a Tango2 and really like the shape of it like that but the Gimbals seemed small to full size gimbals on the bigger controlle's. Are using the TBS Micro TX V2 or the bigger 2W Crossfire Module?
I'm using the micro tx v2. Same as you I don't like the short travel on the xlite gimbles. I'm switching to a tx16s.
@@FalconRadFPV The TX16S is a nice radio but it seems kind of big, but i havent seen one in person before..
For comparison, have you ever tried a Tango 2 or a TBS Mambo, or even the RM Boxer? Did you like any of them?
I think they have 3/4 size gimbals.
The X-lite has way smaller gimbals than my Frsky Q X7S and even looks smaller than the T2/Mambo's, but i kind of miss the smaller travel of the Tango 2 style gimbal controller
Thank you! Really nice flying and great location.
I usually film with gopro hero 8 4K@30 fps without stabilization and use ReelSteady in post. However, if I don't make really slow turns, the video looks like it's missing fps.
Can you please share the gopro version and settings you used for the flights in this video?
If the video looks jittery or like it's skipping frames (when played back at regular speed) then it's probably because of your cameras shutter speed. You need motion blur = ND filters. No matter what fps the camera is at it only records while the shutter is open. At 1/240 sec shutter speed and 30 fps the camera is only recording for an brief instant once every 30th of a second. It makes it look like frames are missing but it's actually that the camera only recorded brief flashes of footage. If you change the shutter speed to double the fps it'll look much better. So at 30fps (which is best I think) you want double for shutter speed so 1/60th sec. At 1/60th instead of say 1/240th the camera is recording four times longer for each 1/30th of a second frame of video. But now the exposure is likely too bright. That's where the ND filter comes in, it allows you to slow down the shutter speed without over exposing the video. Bright sunny day use an ND32 cloudy day an ND 8. Even with the camera on auto for the shutter you'll see a difference. Then use ISO 100 or 200 whichever works best for exposure, 100 iso is preferable.
Thank you very much for your answer! Much appreciated@@FalconRadFPV.
its usually the camera processor struggling, it can be the sd card too, or both, you'll notice most panning shots judder a bit even on great cameras. it could also be your computer, strange but a lot of computers and vlc or windows media player struggle with high bit rate images, i've got a few vids (especially 60fps) that look juddery in my video player but once uploaded to youtube they look fine...... double check your vlc is ready for h265 vids, its just a plugin you download and vlc acceses itself... i think, i forget. pps. get gyroflow, its much better than realsteady now, and lets you fine tune how much stabilising and cropping and zooing is going on, my tip is turn smoothing below 0.1, so 0.04 etc etc. it removes the shakes but leaves the stick inputs, also there a button that lets you see the whole image sstretched out and the window its capturing, you can then push the window to get some image back, fov gets bigger.
Thank you,@@TheMadmacs! I'll take a look. However @60fps I don't get any jitter so I don't think it's the video player's fault.
Was wondering what type of battery your using i missed that part i quess , Lipo or lith-ion ???
These flights were all with 18650 li-ion packs, 6s2p.
Wow man, great video, what's the name of this spot ? Looks incredible
We have lots of beautiful mountains on the west coast of Canada.
Excellent work, I managed to reach 9.3km of distance
nice, that takes some real confidence in your setup!
yeah Dude....I'm usually worried about battery life@@FalconRadFPV
Hi FalconRad just subbed awesome content.
May i ask what goggles and VRX your using?
Thanks! For analog I'm using orqa goggles with an immersion rc rapidfire module. For my DJI setup it's the goggles v2 and the 03 air unit.
@@FalconRadFPV 🙏
Hi, What setting are you using on the Crossfire RX ? 50hz? 150hz? Dynamic ?
Always 50hz for long range on crossfire.
Do you use Crossfire protocol? Which controller are you using? Do FPV skills translate to LOS drone skills?
I'm using crossfire with an old X-lite TX. I'm looking to get a new TX at the moment the xlite has crappy gimbles. No FPV skills do not translate well to los skills. I can't fly LOS worth crap! lol....
Nice 😊. What analog camera you use?
I'm using the runcam eagle v3 and phoenix v2 on my analog FPV builds.
I suspect a throw out bearing. Cheaper fix.
ca you recomend motor for 8' longrange quad?
I guess 3008 1150kv from t motor is fine. How do you thinhk?
Ya the 3008 1155kv or the F100 1100kv. I'd guess the 3008 for a more efficient setup or the F100 for a little more power and top end. It's a 2810 size stator.
@@FalconRadFPV Thanks a lot! I love your vidio
What battery size did you use for this flight?
this was done with a 6s2p battery made from 2800mAh 18650 li-ion cells. So rated for 5600 mAh total at 6s voltage.
Which firmware do you have on your quads ? BF oder INav?
Great and truly inspiring video by the way :)
It was BF, i think version 4.2 for these flights. I'm on the newer 4.4 version now with my digital builds.
Do have any experience with INav ?
I am building my first 7" long range quade and I am considering using INav or Ardupilot instead of BF as I heard those are the go to firmwares when flying long range!
@@FalconRadFPV
also was wondering, coz internet says inav, if you have an opinion would be nice to see in a new video on that matter.
You have likely explained to others before but what is your partner holding while you are flying? Great video..
She has a set of box goggles that she uses to periodically check on the location of the drone.
Are u using the 03 air unit
I have an 03 on my digital builds. I also fly analog for long range since it responds more predictably.
Lets see if this is intuitive
Walksnail?
a mix of Analog and dji 03.
Are the googles your wife uses the eachine ev 800d ?
Yes that's right. My old EV800D long range goggles still work after something like 5 years. It's all about the antennas.
Thats cool….. du you have a link or name for those ?
Analog or digital?
Digital, We live in the future!
The DVR is long from analog flights. Still more comfortable with analog than digital for some long range flights.
Analog. Look at OSD
analog, it can be seen on the OSD. do not misinform people without understanding@@emilpers1078
Analog or HDZero are the safest options for sure!
Wait, that is YOUR frame?
They are all my frames, I've got several of them. I only fly long range with my own frames. Got annoyed with other 7" frames having bad jello and vibrations so I make my own now. Also many frames for 7" are called long range just because they take 7" props but the design doesn't make sense for long range if it can't even carry 6s2p or gets jello at low throttle.
@@FalconRadFPV That is amazing! What headset are you using? All I can see is Yagi. Where are you on social? I could use some pointers please.
Как, как черт возьми вы сделали прямое включение с аналога?
It's all about learning line of sight for the location and making sure you don't go behind a ridge or too many trees. Having good antennas keeps the signal strong.
Hope yall got adequate protection from the predators in that area you know Grizzley /Black bears, cougars ,ect. They will eat you alive in case you didnt know and attacks on Humans are on a rise ppl
Ya I always have bear spray, an air horn and at night a super bright flashlight as well. We also carry a bear bell and intentionally make lots of noise when we stop the vehicle and walk around. Although I heard about a grizzly attack where the bear just didn't care it was getting bear sprayed by conservation officers and kept coming at them so they had to shoot it.