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I flew my drone approximately 21,000 feet across the Hudson and received a warning that I needed to return home immediately so as to have enough battery life to make it back. My battery was at 40% and I spent at least another minute flying around the shoreline before returning. Long story short, my battery died 1,000 feet from shore and the drone is now at the bottom of the Hudson. I had increased the speed to full throttle on the way back and wonder if I should have let the drone fly itself back. After this experience I will never fly the drone more than 2.5 miles as there are too many factors I suspect the drone can't compute such as the amount of wind. Lesson learned the hard way. I'm sharing this so that someone else doesn't need to learn the hard way.