Yet another educational video from you. You were holding the control stick full back in Home-Lock mode to bring the drone home. But Home-Lock mode was cancelled at the moment the critical battery auto-land feature kicked in. Because you were still holding the control stick full back, the drone suddenly started reversing at full speed. It's interesting that it reversed at a much higher speed than it was managing previously while heading home. It's easy to panic when something completely unexpected like this happens. Good for you that you didn't freak out at this point, instead just calmly landed the thing. In hindsight, you probably could still have flown it forward much closer toward you as it descended. But not understanding at the time why it so suddenly changed direction like that, you were smart to just set it down. Others may not have reacted so calmly, instead continuing to pull full back on the stick and then insisting it was an uncontrolled flyaway. Had this happened unexpectedly at low altitude, between obstacles, with no time to think about it, the outcome may have been different. Kudos to you that you always manage to structure your experiments carefully in such a way that you leave yourself enough margin to safely deal with unexpected results.
'Some people go to a gym for fitness. I fly a drone and retrieve it.' Wonderful. Thumbs up as always. Many times, while watching a video - like this one - I have my hand on my mouse. When you were returning and about to run out of power over the water, I found myself moving my mouse as if to nudge your drone away from the water and the trees. Yes, I have a simple mind.
Your posts are long but the beauty is that you show both the good and the bad of drone flying! I learn so much AND I feel a bit better now when I have trouble. I used to think that I must be some sort of dunderhead. Now, I realize that despite the amazing technological advances in these machines, there are still serious limitations. Your viewers get the benefit of seeing your problems and what you are doing to overcome them. Flying when everything is optimal anyone can do; flying when there are problems is where you really have to understand what is going on and what countermeasures are appropriate. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I find myself biting my fingernails as I watch you fly. It is stressful :-).
Yes, you are right. Right from the start that was my idea of the channel, to show all, the good and the bad. That way people can learn the most of it. Glad you like it.
Your awesome man! Great test! Great no panic! Love the jump across the creek too! I need to try this home lock mode. Could be very handy in some instances.
Hey there... thanks for all the effort you go to, and thanks for all the time you put into your videos back at home in front of the computer screen. I can see a huge change from your first videos to what you are doing today, you are funny and inspirational... I look forward to your next adventure. Shannon :-)
I'm a newby, P4Advanced my 1st Drone. Studied ur vids on tube before purchase. Learned just about all my fly skills from ur vids, ur successes and mishaps. I keep looking for more to learn more such as this vid, invaluable to me as I fly surrounded by mountains and large lakes in the UK. U dispense confidence so needed by grey hair fossils as I am. Thanks flying dutchman keep up the humor as well.
In most countries around the world that would have been an illegal flight because the regulators don't understand the things you proved very well in your video: 1. when flying FPV you can *hear* aircraft in your general vicinity (up to several miles away) 2. modern video systems are very good and provide great situational awareness 3. sensible pilots do not take unreasonable risks (such as crossing the busy highway) Unfortunately, the vast majority of regulators do not understand any of this so they fear that which they do not understand and simply say "ban VLOS". We deserve a better calibre of regulator and regulation.
Exactly. Thanks for your comment. That's what I want to show indeed. That flights like this can totally be done safe and how to do it safe even when something unexpected might happen. It's like Urban Exploring. Or Base Jumping. That's 'illegal' in most cases, but when you do it safely without harm to anything or anybody, people might start to respect and even appreciate it.
You always have good stuff, I’ve learned so much. Your too cool and don’t sweat the small things, like almost losing a drone. Keep it up, I’m gonna watch.
Good video Peter, I really thought you're gonna make it but then I saw your horizontal speed slowing down. Always an adventure. A couple of good lessons there as you mentioned settings for loss of signal. You have me thinking about it now. Aloha
Nice flight, thanks for sharing. I think you are right with your assumption of the landing gear extra drag and weight combined with the wind played a large part in it not making it back home. Thanks again and fly safe.
very good video very good explanation I've been looking at a phantom 4 for a while and I love watching your videos tells me what could be expected in the future thanks a lot thumbs up five stars all that stuff good job and work out also
Woah! Close to that Pond, always a edge of the seat, change of underwear moment with you Peter! Great video, like the tracker device, I'll look at getting one for the Hex. That's simply awesome performance for an HD link to work at that distance, I know you we're elevate but even so, for a small package such as the P$, that's Top Performance. I'm happy with my P2 analogue link that gives me around 500m but must admit, I feel a hole growing in my pocket, I want the P4P now with HD performance that good!
I have flown out to a range of 3.7 km and just managed to return to home just being short by about 100 feet, It was nice to see that I made the right choice to return earlier than you lol, be safe, TJK
My Phantom 3 Standard would fly about 650 Feet. I bought a reflector antennae but that didn't work. Then bought the Argtek antennae kit and quadrupled the distance. I get a lot of radio interference from buried undergound cables and possibly WiFi and cellphone signals. You are very calm. I'd be a nervous wreck. Cheers..
Interesting as ever. Because most of the power is used to keep the drone in the air, a greater range can be obtained by flying faster. Flying flat-out in sports mode with a P4, across a valley between two 200m high hills, I got: Out (headwind): 4.55 Km, 29 MPH, battery 96% to 53% Back (tailwind): 4.47 Km, 51 MPH, battery 48% to 24%. Video and control links ok all the way on standard antennae. I have to say you can jump a lot better than I!
That's exactly why I offered you the transmitter, so you would have an opportunity to do tests using an unmodified unit. You scared me at the end I thought you were going to auto-land in that water. Excellent video!
It's just the one provided with the Phantom 4. The DJIGo app has a feature where it shows a map with the drone's last known position and your own current position, so you can try to locate it.
I'd start the return to home at 60% battery not 50% you cut it to close for me. I don't know how you sound so relaxed when things start to go wrong. :-)
In general the drone indicates to RTH with a large margin. I think the landing gear extensions in combination with the strong side wind must have drained the battery too much. I was calm, because I was prepared if anything would happen.
Thanks again for a very informative video. Maybe the extra weight of the landing gear and tracker cost you a few seconds of flight, but then again your exemplary caution of avoiding houses, and careful road crossing, cost more time, but I agree with cautious flying. I rarely use home lock, but you have prompted me for my next trial flight. Thanks
Ik volg je site met veel belangstelling. Hartstikke goede videos. En nu zelfs nog een van mijn geboortegrond. De voormalige vuilstort in Nuenen. Het Wolfven met het driehoefijzerven. De televisietoren van Mierlo, Het oorlogskerkhof in Mierlo. De kerk van Geldrop op de achtergrond. De e3 autosnelweg. Bedankt voor de prachtige beelden en voor mij herinneringen van de plaatsen waar ik in de bossen rondzwierf. Binnenkort ga ik de 4 pro kopen met de nieuwe dji goggles.
Vince C Going faster expends more energy, plus with a headwind the drain on the battery is exponential, so he might not have made it as far as he did, flying Sport mode as you suggest.
Hallo Hast aber auch die höchste Erhebung weit und breit in dem kleinen Holland gefunden!!! Aber spannend wieder. DJI Software ist aber ohne Wind programmiert.
I have a Bluetooth tracker, the Nut2. It has the same crowd source "find me" function, I don't find it to be very good. I prefer to rely on the Dji where's my drone function where I can manually bleep the ESC's and flash the arm lights and use the GPS of the drone combined with its own map.
A lot depends on the wind. With a head wind is best to go as quick as possible. With a tail wind, going slower helps to profit longer from the wind. Without wind I wouldn't know what's better.
Peter I just love your DJI camera profile, your videos are so sharp. I have a Mavic and I'm having a tough time trying to get mine that sharp. Will you please tell me your exsposer settings ( + - +) what do you have??? Thanks
Most of the time I have stuff on Auto. On the screen capture you can see some of the settings. I record in 4K and render it down to HD, which also gives a better quality than recording in HD. The P4 camera is better than the Mavics camera. Also you will have to focus the object that you are filming.
Peter, mooi avontuur weer haha. Echt leuk en leerzaam je drone videos. Ik zelf heb ook al wat range tests gedaan waar ik woon in Duitsland. Ik zal je wel eens een screenshot sturen. Keep the videos coming.
Hi Good video.. I think the mistake you made on the return to home was that you increased the height and the forward speed dropped otherwise you would have made it.... ps, where did you get the feet extensions ?
Yeah, but that was only a very small part of the entire flight. I think the strong side wind (on the extensions) made the battery drain faster than normal. Link in description.
Great video as always, I'm not keen on your tracker though. I use a loc8tor system - about 60 UKP on amazon, which has two disks (two drones!) and uses RF - no app, gives about 120/140 meters range - possibly shorter if hills in the way - but accurate to within centimeters, look them up!
I live ontop of a mountain, so I can see both directions for around 20 miles, bonus is one side views a lake! I've been wanting to get a phantom and fly it to the lake and back, which is exactly 3.5 miles (5.6km) away. Seems like some people can do that round trip with their P5's, probably on a calm windless day? Enjoyed the video by the way, I wonder if the signal started to drop out because of that cell tower? You were pretty close to it and those cells emit quite a lot of high frequency energy (though usually not anywhere near 2.4GHz)
That's what I have been thinking. It must have been because of that tower. 5.6 km back and forth is a lot. With the extra capacity battery you may be able to make it.
Good flying and flying responsible Lol I know sometimes you like to cancel the returned home on low battery.. but this time you let it come home good flying .. I know you push it to the limits you're really good at that good experience pilot 😉👍
You'll get much better range / battery life if you go faster. I did 4.5 kilometers and made it home with 49% in P mode. Although there was little wind though.
Thanx for the video. The p3a can fly down to 0% battery by canceling auto land ( I know this because to recalibrate the battery I had to fly it to below 8% , this should be done every 16 battery cycles recommended by dji ) so maybe the p4 can also be flown to 0% I thought for sure you would make it!
Thx Peter, for another ADVENTURE. Love your videos. btw do not listen to KEN and make your videos shorter. Lol. I don't care if there an hour long. Lol, in fact, I would LIKE THAT! later buddy, from Philadelphia in America MICHAEL
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Nice video. Perhaps someday you can create a video in which to find out what works more battery-efficient. A 5 km flight (in total) in normal-mode and a second flight done in sport-mode. Then you do not have the risk of crashing but you have flown long enough to say something about battery usage.
There's another way to get your drone when it cannot make it back. When you are at 15% battery and you understand that it will not make it back, instead of depleting the battery just lend it somewhere out of sight. Then catch your car and get as close as you can but still on a road. Can be 200-300mt. Then no need to walk in the bush, just take off again your drone and get it back to you, it'll make 200mt. when at 15% with no problems. I do it time by time.
it's probably me but it looks like the drone landed with a higher rate of descent than usual, as if it was almost in free fall. By the way, very nice video, it's a really nice feeling to fly over the forest.
Lesson to learn: wind has a gradient. If you want to fly far, fly low when you struggle against the wind. At 150 meters, wind will be 2 times faster and rotate 30° right (northern hemisphere).
I was aware of that and only flying higher in the end for a little bit. The battery was already drained a lot by that time. I think it was the strong side wind on the landing gear extensions that must have caused it.
When it has began landing it turned home lock off, so you should pull right stick forward to take it to home, by the way, i am sure, that if you done it in sport mode you would have enough battery to return to home;)But, anyway excellent video)
By the way, you can tap on the right corner of card(sumbol like radar) and then you will know where your drone flyes, his forward, so you will be able to use sport mode with correct route, good luck.
Hi mate, I am just flying a F550, and I got 5500mah 3s battery but I can only have within 10 mins flight time. What the capacity is your battery? How can you fly it for over 20 mins? Thanks for helping
I enjoyed watching this video. My surmise is that if DJI replaced your drone and this 'new' craft entered RTH mode, then how sure are you that it was not trying to return to some place called 'home' from a past life???? :o
You know you have got the tracking on it now, maybe you could buy one of those dirt cheap phone watches and attach that on to the drone... For tracking purposes. Food for thought.
That is a good question and the whole purpose of this test. But as I said in the video, the circumstances where ideal here for me and often they are not. Then an extender or even booster may help.
Good stuff mate, what was the total distance of that flight? just thinking, it cant of been more than 10km. Cant understand it not getting back home. Maybe when flying in home lock mode it uses more power?. I think if you had flown manually you would have made it back ok. I have also come to the conclusion that the go app works faultlessly with IOS and litchi works best with a android os device.
Total kilometrage was 7,8 km. I think it may indeed use more power in Home Lock mode. Also I think the speed is limited in Home Lock and with strong side wind of 34 km/h that takes a lot of power. The landing gear extensions may have contributed too, not so much because of the weight, but because it had to battle the side wind even more because of those.
Yet another educational video from you. You were holding the control stick full back in Home-Lock mode to bring the drone home. But Home-Lock mode was cancelled at the moment the critical battery auto-land feature kicked in. Because you were still holding the control stick full back, the drone suddenly started reversing at full speed. It's interesting that it reversed at a much higher speed than it was managing previously while heading home. It's easy to panic when something completely unexpected like this happens. Good for you that you didn't freak out at this point, instead just calmly landed the thing. In hindsight, you probably could still have flown it forward much closer toward you as it descended. But not understanding at the time why it so suddenly changed direction like that, you were smart to just set it down. Others may not have reacted so calmly, instead continuing to pull full back on the stick and then insisting it was an uncontrolled flyaway. Had this happened unexpectedly at low altitude, between obstacles, with no time to think about it, the outcome may have been different. Kudos to you that you always manage to structure your experiments carefully in such a way that you leave yourself enough margin to safely deal with unexpected results.
Nice summary of what was going on and thanks for the great compliment you make! You make my day ;-).
Great Vid Peter. Love how calm you are 26% battery left 1500m away. No PROBLEM lol
It is absolutely beautiful where you live. Love watching your videos!
'Some people go to a gym for fitness. I fly a drone and retrieve it.' Wonderful. Thumbs up as always.
Many times, while watching a video - like this one - I have my hand on my mouse. When you were returning and about to run out of power over the water, I found myself moving my mouse as if to nudge your drone away from the water and the trees. Yes, I have a simple mind.
Your posts are long but the beauty is that you show both the good and the bad of drone flying! I learn so much AND I feel a bit better now when I have trouble. I used to think that I must be some sort of dunderhead. Now, I realize that despite the amazing technological advances in these machines, there are still serious limitations. Your viewers get the benefit of seeing your problems and what you are doing to overcome them. Flying when everything is optimal anyone can do; flying when there are problems is where you really have to understand what is going on and what countermeasures are appropriate. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I find myself biting my fingernails as I watch you fly. It is stressful :-).
Yes, you are right. Right from the start that was my idea of the channel, to show all, the good and the bad. That way people can learn the most of it. Glad you like it.
Your awesome man! Great test! Great no panic! Love the jump across the creek too! I need to try this home lock mode. Could be very handy in some instances.
I do like your experiment, you take the risks (I am taking a coffee) and I am learning. Always a good time between you and Ken, keep flying 🚁
Hey there... thanks for all the effort you go to, and thanks for all the time you put into your videos back at home in front of the computer screen. I can see a huge change from your first videos to what you are doing today, you are funny and inspirational... I look forward to your next adventure.
Shannon :-)
I don't know what it is, but i always watch your videos from start to end.
Probably because I already deleted all the boring parts... :D
...and that is what good editing is all about LOL
I do the same here... lol
Love the videos. Keep up the great work! I fly my P3 Advanced all the time pushing it to its limits.
Another cool test video, liked...
Another excellent flight and more valuable lessons learned from your adventures - thank you. Home lock mode looks very useful.
I'm a newby, P4Advanced my 1st Drone. Studied ur vids on tube before purchase. Learned just about all my fly skills from ur vids, ur successes and mishaps. I keep looking for more to learn more such as this vid, invaluable to me as I fly surrounded by mountains and large lakes in the UK. U dispense confidence so needed by grey hair fossils as I am. Thanks flying dutchman keep up the humor as well.
Good test Peter and look forward to your next video.
In most countries around the world that would have been an illegal flight because the regulators don't understand the things you proved very well in your video:
1. when flying FPV you can *hear* aircraft in your general vicinity (up to several miles away)
2. modern video systems are very good and provide great situational awareness
3. sensible pilots do not take unreasonable risks (such as crossing the busy highway)
Unfortunately, the vast majority of regulators do not understand any of this so they fear that which they do not understand and simply say "ban VLOS". We deserve a better calibre of regulator and regulation.
Exactly. Thanks for your comment. That's what I want to show indeed. That flights like this can totally be done safe and how to do it safe even when something unexpected might happen.
It's like Urban Exploring. Or Base Jumping. That's 'illegal' in most cases, but when you do it safely without harm to anything or anybody, people might start to respect and even appreciate it.
You always have good stuff, I’ve learned so much. Your too cool and don’t sweat the small things, like almost losing a drone. Keep it up, I’m gonna watch.
Good video Peter, I really thought you're gonna make it but then I saw your horizontal speed slowing down. Always an adventure. A couple of good lessons there as you mentioned settings for loss of signal. You have me thinking about it now. Aloha
Good to see your back to flying long distance.
Nice flight, thanks for sharing. I think you are right with your assumption of the landing gear extra drag and weight combined with the wind played a large part in it not making it back home. Thanks again and fly safe.
Another great video with emotion until the finish...keep like that!!!
awesome man. cool as always with great actual flight tips!
That's better! my favourite kind of videos from you, I learn from your mistakes!
very good video very good explanation I've been looking at a phantom 4 for a while and I love watching your videos tells me what could be expected in the future thanks a lot thumbs up five stars all that stuff good job and work out also
Hi matey, great flight and video. But you were bloody lucky when she landed, it looked like that Pond was only a couple of feet away. # Drone X I'm in
Woah! Close to that Pond, always a edge of the seat, change of underwear moment with you Peter! Great video, like the tracker device, I'll look at getting one for the Hex. That's simply awesome performance for an HD link to work at that distance, I know you we're elevate but even so, for a small package such as the P$, that's Top Performance. I'm happy with my P2 analogue link that gives me around 500m but must admit, I feel a hole growing in my pocket, I want the P4P now with HD performance that good!
I have flown out to a range of 3.7 km and just managed to return to home just being short by about 100 feet, It was nice to see that I made the right choice to return earlier than you lol, be safe, TJK
Another great video. Your a crazy man, I like it. When I fly my nervs start vibriting at 20%. Your are very cool.🖒🖒
Great videos. Like your presentation. Thanks.
Końcówka filmu trzymała w napięciu . Jesteś szalony :)
Always great Videos! Always interesting stuff! - Tks!
My Phantom 3 Standard would fly about 650 Feet. I bought a reflector antennae but that didn't work. Then bought the Argtek antennae kit and quadrupled the distance. I get a lot of radio interference from buried undergound cables and possibly WiFi and cellphone signals. You are very calm. I'd be a nervous wreck. Cheers..
Yet another brill video buddy, even my wife makes me put on TV so she can watch them too. She's impressed with the river jump too LOL
Ha ha. Say hi to your wife ;-).
Interesting as ever. Because most of the power is used to keep the drone in the air, a greater range can be obtained by flying faster. Flying flat-out in sports mode with a P4, across a valley between two 200m high hills, I got:
Out (headwind): 4.55 Km, 29 MPH, battery 96% to 53%
Back (tailwind): 4.47 Km, 51 MPH, battery 48% to 24%.
Video and control links ok all the way on standard antennae.
I have to say you can jump a lot better than I!
Another great video. I need to get out a fly some more.
Great video as always, and some interesting unexpected adventure :)
Nice and educational videos as always. Regards from Argentina
Very interesting as usual thanks for sharing
That's exactly why I offered you the transmitter, so you would have an opportunity to do tests using an unmodified unit. You scared me at the end I thought you were going to auto-land in that water. Excellent video!
Thanks again Charlie. It took a while, but I made good use of it :D.
What type of transmitter do you use? Does it help track lost drone?
It's just the one provided with the Phantom 4. The DJIGo app has a feature where it shows a map with the drone's last known position and your own current position, so you can try to locate it.
Bravo.....
that was close man.
its very fascinating Peter!
I'd start the return to home at 60% battery not 50% you cut it to close for me. I don't know how you sound so relaxed when things start to go wrong. :-)
In general the drone indicates to RTH with a large margin. I think the landing gear extensions in combination with the strong side wind must have drained the battery too much. I was calm, because I was prepared if anything would happen.
Thanks again for a very informative video.
Maybe the extra weight of the landing gear and tracker cost you a few seconds of flight, but then again your exemplary caution of avoiding houses, and careful road crossing, cost more time, but I agree with cautious flying.
I rarely use home lock, but you have prompted me for my next trial flight.
Thanks
How about a link to the landing gear extensions, thanks Peter
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331879740897 But I have to say that they fit rather loose after a while.
I love your videos I'm in Los Angeles don't stop making this awesome videos keep up
Thank you Martin. You may support me on Patreon and I will use the money for the channel, so I can keep making more and more interesting videos.
Ik volg je site met veel belangstelling. Hartstikke goede videos. En nu zelfs nog een van mijn geboortegrond. De voormalige vuilstort in Nuenen. Het Wolfven met het driehoefijzerven. De televisietoren van Mierlo, Het oorlogskerkhof in Mierlo. De kerk van Geldrop op de achtergrond. De e3 autosnelweg. Bedankt voor de prachtige beelden en voor mij herinneringen van de plaatsen waar ik in de bossen rondzwierf. Binnenkort ga ik de 4 pro kopen met de nieuwe dji goggles.
Top, leuk om te horen. Je kan deze link gebruiken! goo.gl/RwE3vB. Groet.
very interesting to watch
Well done 👍
Peter. Another great video, pushing the limits.
Have you noticed if you have any battery issues after flying them to such low power levels?
No issues. They are still very good. As I understand they will just live a little bit less long.
Another great video, one day I will be able to buy as DJI
Man I love your videos
You pioneer the drones to their limits
So educational for newbies like myself 👍
You should make the decision to use Sport Mode to come back.
Vince C Going faster expends more energy, plus with a headwind the drain on the battery is exponential, so he might not have made it as far as he did, flying Sport mode as you suggest.
Hallo Hast aber auch die höchste Erhebung weit und breit in dem kleinen Holland gefunden!!! Aber spannend wieder. DJI Software ist aber ohne Wind programmiert.
Ive watched this video like 4 times ........only just noticed the guys playing golf lmao
Great! More downwind distance flights:)
The wind was 34 km/h almost perpendicular to the flight direction ;-).
Big tension drama until the end!
another great one!
Very interesting video. I'm afraid to fly so far with my Mavik Pro, because the batteries are discharged very quickly in a strong wind.
Always an adventure!!😀😀😀👍👍👍
I have a Bluetooth tracker, the Nut2. It has the same crowd source "find me" function, I don't find it to be very good. I prefer to rely on the Dji where's my drone function where I can manually bleep the ESC's and flash the arm lights and use the GPS of the drone combined with its own map.
That helps in most cases, but not in this situation: ua-cam.com/video/G8G5iSfb3nw/v-deo.html
I think you got the US Transmitter the canadian one is made to cut out after 1000m
That might be a point! It is from the US. Most likely it goes further!
i am always torn: What is more battery efficient: normal RTH or sportsmode?
A lot depends on the wind. With a head wind is best to go as quick as possible. With a tail wind, going slower helps to profit longer from the wind. Without wind I wouldn't know what's better.
I always bet on the sports mode because the longer you have to stay airborne until you are at home, the more battery you consume!
NeverMindYourOwn Always fly with obstacle avoidance disabled for maximum distance.
Peter I just love your DJI camera profile, your videos are so sharp. I have a Mavic and I'm having a tough time trying to get mine that sharp. Will you please tell me your exsposer settings ( + - +) what do you have???
Thanks
Most of the time I have stuff on Auto. On the screen capture you can see some of the settings. I record in 4K and render it down to HD, which also gives a better quality than recording in HD. The P4 camera is better than the Mavics camera.
Also you will have to focus the object that you are filming.
Peter, mooi avontuur weer haha. Echt leuk en leerzaam je drone videos. Ik zelf heb ook al wat range tests gedaan waar ik woon in Duitsland. Ik zal je wel eens een screenshot sturen. Keep the videos coming.
:-) Ja stuur maar.
Hi Good video.. I think the mistake you made on the return to home was that you increased the height and the forward speed dropped otherwise you would have made it....
ps, where did you get the feet extensions ?
Yeah, but that was only a very small part of the entire flight. I think the strong side wind (on the extensions) made the battery drain faster than normal.
Link in description.
Great video as always, I'm not keen on your tracker though. I use a loc8tor system - about 60 UKP on amazon, which has two disks (two drones!) and uses RF - no app, gives about 120/140 meters range - possibly shorter if hills in the way - but accurate to within centimeters, look them up!
Nice one. I'll have a look at that.
I live ontop of a mountain, so I can see both directions for around 20 miles, bonus is one side views a lake!
I've been wanting to get a phantom and fly it to the lake and back, which is exactly 3.5 miles (5.6km) away.
Seems like some people can do that round trip with their P5's, probably on a calm windless day?
Enjoyed the video by the way, I wonder if the signal started to drop out because of that cell tower? You were pretty close to it and those cells emit quite a lot of high frequency energy (though usually not anywhere near 2.4GHz)
That's what I have been thinking. It must have been because of that tower.
5.6 km back and forth is a lot. With the extra capacity battery you may be able to make it.
another great adventure lets share so he can get money from views to travel for us and make more videos!! cant wait for the next one
You may also consider Patreon: www.patreon.com/nevermindyourown ;-).
Good flying and flying responsible
Lol I know sometimes you like to cancel the returned home on low battery.. but this time you let it come home good flying .. I know you push it to the limits you're really good at that good experience pilot 😉👍
phew! I got nervous when you flew back over the lake with 14% battery
You'll get much better range / battery life if you go faster. I did 4.5 kilometers and made it home with 49% in P mode. Although there was little wind though.
"Some people go to the gym to do fitness, i fly a drone and retrive it!" - Hahaha... made me laugh. :-)
Thanx for the video. The p3a can fly down to 0% battery by canceling auto land ( I know this because to recalibrate the battery I had to fly it to below 8% , this should be done every 16 battery cycles recommended by dji ) so maybe the p4 can also be flown to 0%
I thought for sure you would make it!
Thx Peter, for another ADVENTURE. Love your videos. btw do not listen to KEN and make your videos
shorter. Lol. I don't care if there an hour long. Lol, in fact, I would LIKE THAT! later buddy,
from Philadelphia in America
MICHAEL
Nice!
you videos are ace kida keep em up i flew a mile and rth kicked in gets ya stomache turning lol
thanks for value information
Still enjoying your videos. I like the style of your p4 landing gear extenders. Would you mind sharing where you found them? Thanks!
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Awesome video! You always entertain!
Did you get your goggles working?
I think it must have been a setting in Shield. It should be set to mirror the tablet screen and maybe this wasn't done. Now it works fine.
Very impressive jumping skills, lol
Nice video. Perhaps someday you can create a video in which to find out what works more battery-efficient. A 5 km flight (in total) in normal-mode and a second flight done in sport-mode. Then you do not have the risk of crashing but you have flown long enough to say something about battery usage.
Yes, I want to do that one day.
Fun! Also Ken's idea of the three amigo's btw :-)
There's another way to get your drone when it cannot make it back. When you are at 15% battery and you understand that it will not make it back, instead of depleting the battery just lend it somewhere out of sight. Then catch your car and get as close as you can but still on a road. Can be 200-300mt. Then no need to walk in the bush, just take off again your drone and get it back to you, it'll make 200mt. when at 15% with no problems. I do it time by time.
That's a very smart tip! Thx.
it's probably me but it looks like the drone landed with a higher rate of descent than usual, as if it was almost in free fall. By the way, very nice video, it's a really nice feeling to fly over the forest.
I helped it a bit, otherwise it took too long.
Thank you!
You're welcome !
Lesson to learn: wind has a gradient. If you want to fly far, fly low when you struggle against the wind. At 150 meters, wind will be 2 times faster and rotate 30° right (northern hemisphere).
I was aware of that and only flying higher in the end for a little bit. The battery was already drained a lot by that time. I think it was the strong side wind on the landing gear extensions that must have caused it.
When it has began landing it turned home lock off, so you should pull right stick forward to take it to home, by the way, i am sure, that if you done it in sport mode you would have enough battery to return to home;)But, anyway excellent video)
By the way, you can tap on the right corner of card(sumbol like radar) and then you will know where your drone flyes, his forward, so you will be able to use sport mode with correct route, good luck.
Love your vids!
Wait for IOS 11 to come out! Then you're able to record your screen on an Ipad!
I am using the beta version and its working perfectly!
great really enjoyed that
all the deletion things do not help, i did this multiple times... only LitchAPP works "stable" for me.
Cool video, but I'm wondering why you are flying the P4 and not the P4P. Either way still an awesome flight. Keep up the great videos!!!
Because I had never done a range test with stock antennas like that and my P4P was sent back to DJI because of the issues I had with it on the Azores.
Hi mate, I am just flying a F550, and I got 5500mah 3s battery but I can only have within 10 mins flight time. What the capacity is your battery? How can you fly it for over 20 mins? Thanks for helping
Well...I once flew 4,2km and made it home with 15%.
What kind of tracking tag do you use?
I enjoyed watching this video. My surmise is that if DJI replaced your drone and this 'new' craft entered RTH mode, then how sure are you that it was not trying to return to some place called 'home' from a past life???? :o
Ha ha. Probably they gave it a hard reset :P.
You know you have got the tracking on it now, maybe you could buy one of those dirt cheap phone watches and attach that on to the drone... For tracking purposes. Food for thought.
do u still have the p4p? is there a video where u talk about your switching?
Next video... ;-)
Nice Video as allways.You are so cool, even when your drone auto land 10 meters from the Water :-)
Because I am still in control of it and was able to have it land where I thought would be ok.
what is the purpose of a range extender if you can already fly till the battery is low on stock?
That is a good question and the whole purpose of this test. But as I said in the video, the circumstances where ideal here for me and often they are not. Then an extender or even booster may help.
Good stuff mate, what was the total distance of that flight? just thinking, it cant of been more than 10km. Cant understand it not getting back home. Maybe when flying in home lock mode it uses more power?. I think if you had flown manually you would have made it back ok. I have also come to the conclusion that the go app works faultlessly with IOS and litchi works best with a android os device.
Total kilometrage was 7,8 km. I think it may indeed use more power in Home Lock mode. Also I think the speed is limited in Home Lock and with strong side wind of 34 km/h that takes a lot of power. The landing gear extensions may have contributed too, not so much because of the weight, but because it had to battle the side wind even more because of those.
Must be the biggest mountain in Holland.
It kinda is :P. The word 'mountain' has a totally different meaning in our country... ;-).