It’s real ? It’s possible ? 33 Km with MM

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[Nonprophet]

Didn't watch the vid, but seems like BS to me. I did see a guy in Hawaii fly his mini 3 miles out for a 6 mile RT, and he BARELY made it to his launch spot. Signal issues aside at that distance, hard to believe a mini would have the battery capacity for a distance like that....

 

[Deleted member 113929]

Didn't watch the vid, but seems like BS to me. I did see a guy in Hawaii fly his mini 3 miles out for a 6 mile RT, and he BARELY made it to his launch spot. Signal issues aside at that distance, hard to believe a mini would have the battery capacity for a distance like that....

Another video of the same pilot, but showing the MM with another type of battery :

 

[Lurch003]

I don't get it for a one way trip, why?

 

[AndreaBB]

I don't get it for a one way trip, why?

It's just a technical exercise

 

[scro]

Could be real. There are some significant modifications here, including very specialist high gain antennas on the controller, as well as a power amplifier for the transmission. The MM has a large extra battery pack too. I wonder if there's an amplifier on the MM for the return video feed and telemetry? 33km is a long way away to reliably pick up a stable video feed from the low power transmission sent back by the Mini, regardless of the antenna being used.

 

[dirkclod]

Anyone thinking it’s not possible have never tried long range flying. With the extra antennas,boosters and battery mods
one can do unreal distances. Lots of it really depends on location, catching the wind just right finding the right speed,
humidity, temperature and other factors .Using a tripod to hold you tx steady. Wifi is strange and loved messing with it with my Phantoms but along came the Mavics with this new
signal and just don’t see it being done as much now.
Some do and really you shouldn’t but It is possible.

 

[scro]

@dirkclod How did you get on with picking up the return transmission from the aircraft back to base? There's quite limited scope for fitting amplifiers/high gain antennas onto the aircraft, I guess? Was a high gain receiver antenna at your base station good enough to pick out the signal from the aircraft from the surrounding noise?

Am just curious. I have no real interest in doing long range tests myself.

 

[dirkclod]

I always just did a RTH back when I played with it.
All I ever used where itelite panels and did use outside antennas on my P2V. My signal never really dropped coming back.

 

[appleguy010]

Yup it’s real. Here’s his antenna setup from 3 weeks ago. I’m sure it’s gotten way more sophisticated since. Also, check out the battery mod thread. Justinswidebody has gotten his mm to last over an hour.

 

[dirkclod]

That....would do it.

 

[hiflyer201]

It's just a technical exercise

would that be a technically illegal flight? just sayin..

 

[dirkclod]

would that be a technically illegal flight? just sayin..

Sure it is but I don’t know the rules in Brazil.

 

[hiflyer201]

right..who knows in the amazon jungle..

 

[dirkclod]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen any footage on any of our forums
someone flying out over the jungle there.

 

[scro]

That 33km flight was in Yorkshire, England. Cars driving on the left, style of houses, general 'look' of the countryside make it England. Just happened to spot a few subtle landmarks that I know are in Yorkshire.

 

[dirkclod]

That 33km flight was in Yorkshire, England. Cars driving on the left, style of houses, general 'look' of the countryside make it England. Just happened to spot a few subtle landmarks that I know are in Yorkshire.

I just saw the location of the op and missed it wasn’t his video. Whoops.?

 

[scro]

Here's a still of a waterfall in Brazil to make up for it. Not quite footage over rainforest, but close.

Taken with a Tello!