Club 3-Mile

CoolBreeze · Aug 12, 2017

cderoche said:
Awesome. I really need a higher launching area as you have, so I wouldn't have to fly 1000ft up when really far out. That and launch from an area with less WiFi interference. I guess I could sit on top of my 10' tall A Frame ladder as a start lol.

Not to rub in my deck location, nevertheless have flown in my underwear with morning cup of coffee, delivered to launch site by my wife.

Is it realistic to fly from your roof?

ryo · Aug 12, 2017

5100mt and the rth kicked in. No weak signal alerts and perfect and smooth video feed. When the MP was almost home the low battery alarm started the annoying beep beep.

Duse · Aug 12, 2017

CoolBreeze said:
Not to rub in my deck location, nevertheless have flown in my underwear with morning cup of coffee, delivered to launch site by my wife.

Is it realistic to fly from your roof?

LOL TMI LOL

CoolBreeze · Aug 12, 2017

ryo said:
5100mt and the rth kicked in. No weak signal alerts and perfect and smooth video feed. When the MP was almost home the low battery alarm started the annoying beep beep.

Smooth flight. What was your flight area? Open area residential etc.?

Would like to control RTH beeping.

ryo · Aug 12, 2017

CoolBreeze said:
Smooth flight. What was your flight area? Open area residential etc.?

Would like to control RTH beeping.

Rural, very open and with almost zero interference.
Later fw upgrades allow to turn off beeping, but i like very much my version so i am not upgrading from my .0400.

cheers

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

CoolBreeze said:
Smooth flight. What was your flight area? Open area residential etc.?

Would like to control RTH beeping.

Haven't really kept up with the latest parameter mods since I tuned mine, but has anyone figured out how to cancel that annoying beep beep on the RTH?

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

ryo said:
Rural, very open and with almost zero interference.
Later fw upgrades allow to turn off beeping, but i like very much my version so i am not upgrading from my .0400.

cheers

I'm on 700 and I agree, I wouldn't go back to 900 or later even if I can stop the beeping.

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

CoolBreeze said: ↑
Not to rub in my deck location, nevertheless have flown in my underwear with morning cup of coffee, delivered to launch site by my wife.

Is it realistic to fly from your roof?

Duse said:
LOL TMI LOL

I bet there are people jealous of his deck location.

Duse · Aug 13, 2017

cderoche said:
CoolBreeze said: ↑
Not to rub in my deck location, nevertheless have flown in my underwear with morning cup of coffee, delivered to launch site by my wife.

Is it realistic to fly from your roof?

I bet there are people jealous of his deck location.

hell,im jealous of his wife bringing him coffee,

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

Duse said:
****,im jealous of his wife bringing him coffee,

I hear that! Mine couldn't care less about a drone or its videos or photos!

CoolBreeze · Aug 13, 2017

cderoche said:
I hear that! Mine couldn't care less about a drone or its videos or photos!

Wife also best friend and hobby partner. In turn I show interest in her hobbies. Team!

After breaking my piggy bank to buy a Mavic I'm breaking news a computer is needed to download and edit 4K videos. About eight years ago bought a iPad and gave up room/hobby dedicated to assembling and overclocking PCs.

mlash · Aug 13, 2017

32,353 feet, Yeah, Finally made the 3 Mile Club! This was with only a Stock Battery, Mavic Pro and RC, made it back with 31% in the tank. I had the OA off so i could run at 32mph and did not have the recording on. My altitude in the pic below was 601 feet but there was a difference of 449 feet in elevation from my take off point so I was really only 152 feet above the ground at this point. The weather was perfect, only had a 5mph cross wind. Right after this point in the pic below the RTH activated so I went ahead and canceled and brought it home.

Landing with 31% left. Motor Temps were 96f on the front and 95f on the back. Total Flight Time 15:03 minutes.

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Duse · Aug 13, 2017

Real nice Ill be at a job in NY this week so Ill finally be able to fly from some elevations where you can see for miles.

CoolBreeze · Aug 13, 2017

mlash said:
32,353 feet, Yeah, Finally made the 3 Mile Club! This was with only a Stock Battery, Mavic Pro and RC, made it back with 31% in the tank. I had the OA off so i could run at 32mph and did not have the recording on. My altitude in the pic below was 601 feet but there was a difference of 449 feet in elevation from my take off point so I was really only 152 feet above the ground at this point. The weather was perfect, only had a 5mph cross wind. Right after this point in the pic below the RTH activated so I went ahead and canceled and brought it home.

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Landing with 31% left. Motor Temps were 96f on the front and 95f on the back. Total Flight Time 15:03 minutes.
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Great flight and lots of battery at landing.

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

cderoche said:
I hear that!

CoolBreeze said:
Wife also best friend and hobby partner. In turn I show interest in her hobbies. Team!

After breaking my piggy bank to buy a Mavic I'm breaking news a computer is needed to download and edit 4K videos. About eight years ago bought a iPad and gave up room/hobby dedicated to assembling and overclocking PCs.

I need a new PC bad for 4K. I have a 9 year Dell Studio Desktop 540, upgraded to the max running 64bit Windows 10 (8GB RAM and 2GB Video Card 500w power supply) and it struggles!

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

Duse said:
Real nice Ill be at a job in NY this week so Ill finally be able to fly from some elevations where you can see for miles.

I'd love to be able to fly off from a tall building rooftop somewhere.... like a 25+ story, then you can probably just take off and stay basically the same height as you are and worry about getting distance.

cderoche · Aug 13, 2017

CoolBreeze said:
Great flight and lots of battery at landing.

I'm hoping bad that DJI or an aftermarket company comes across some breakthrough in battery technology, cheap, high MAH, quick recharge and maybe lasts at least 60 minutes or more flight time. THEN you will really see some crazy Mavic pilots doing some distance stunts once they pack on a directional antenna that's boosted and all.... Bet it won't be uncommon for 10 mile radius flights. Heck the stock record guy I think did 5 miles+ on stock Mavic setup, I have no idea how his battery allowed it!

CoolBreeze · Aug 13, 2017

cderoche said:
I'm hoping bad that DJI or an aftermarket company comes across some breakthrough in battery technology, cheap, high MAH, quick recharge and maybe lasts at least 60 minutes or more flight time. THEN you will really see some crazy Mavic pilots doing some distance stunts once they pack on a directional antenna that's boosted and all.... Bet it won't be uncommon for 10 mile radius flights. Heck the stock record guy I think did 5 miles+ on stock Mavic setup, I have no idea how his battery allowed it!

My one and only totality stock distance flight was 6.3 total round trip.
So yes agree not much mor difficult to achieve greater distance. I just poster a related thread question on speed, distance and battery. Hope someone has information.