I noticed that last update did add quite a bit of distance. I went out over a large body of water 3 1/2 miles and just didn’t have the guts to go further
Lots of farm land. I cant be a distance tester like you. I get to ancy.
I only do this test in areas like this. Before the 27000 ft success, I went 35000 and turned around at 51%. Only made it back to 14000 ft and had to take it down to a bean field. I was going for a ditch on the side of the rock road but over shot it due to image cutting out lol. I realized after that I went out with the breeze. Marco Polo tracked it down.
lol visibility that day was 10 miles. But yea I see what you mean. That’s why I find the most remote locations.It appears like you're in a location like me..I could fly from by back yard to Cucamonga(Jack Benny fans know where that is...It's on the Anaheim Azuza line) without passing over a soul but..I'm thinking...you're eye sight belongs in Ripleys..
I got a range booster coming in the mail but this flight was all stock. I don’t think I will be doing any other mods. When I had P3S I had the DBS Itelite antenna. Loved that thing.
I don’t think I’ll ever do long range over water again after my first P3S took a dip. Still never got it back. It was 30 degrees at the start of winter when it went down.
I have two batteries and both have been ran through these tests. In normal flying around, I tend to land somewhere between 10-20% because I just don’t want to stop lol. So now one battery shows 99% life and the other 98% life. Both have been through a basic service once on air data and hasn’t made any difference in the life. I need to get more batteries but they’re so expensive.
