Fabulous treatise, @sar104!! Major props!!
One question: Where do i find this:
I'd prefer the data for the current drones I have, but what you used for the MP and P4P would be fine. I have no idea where to find this data, and came up empty...
Yeah... but you're mixing the user cases a bit here. You can't compare a drone that holds position in a gusty wind (with all necessary motor RPM changes) with a drone that drifts freely with the wind in ATTI mode.
If you as a pilot should...
This is not correct.
@slup described the aerodynamics above well. To add some analysis, efficiency reduces directly in line with increasing speed because drag increases proportional to speed squared – there is 4x the drag force that must be...
That's not correct... both the Mini 3 Pro & Mini 3 have different max air speeds in Normal vs. Sport (10m/s vs. 16m/s).
The speed change is achieved by allowing the Mini to tilt down further in Sport than in Normal... below is how the prop...