In my experience, it will vary greatly depending on the type of area you are in. In Canada right now, you can legally fly drones under 250 grams beyond visual line of sight. (BVLOS).Hi all, with decent lone of sight, what is the average maximum distance that I should expect to fly before losing signal with my MM?
Was that under CAA Part 102 rules with special permission to go above the 120m altitude limit and beyond the point where you can still see the drone? It's certainly outside the scope of Part 101 flight.Tried a test run at the weekend with mm1 on 5.8Ghz with Yagi-Uda antenna.
Over farmland with no high trees and nothing to block signal.
went to 500m high and just made 3km but the battery was down to 55% so had to RTH.
No problems with signal loss at 3km.
Done under 102.17Was that under CAA Part 102 rules with special permission to go above the 120m altitude limit and beyond the point where you can still see the drone? It's certainly outside the scope of Part 101 flight.
to 500m, which is the legal distance limit in the UK just now.
Now you've got me as my references for the outgoing regs show it as being withdrawn and refer to the incoming regs?It depends on your location and perhaps the individual drone controller combination. Over open sea at 60ft I lost signal at just over 2km, as it climbed to the RTH height the signal came back and was rock solid. In my garden on a bad day 100m (trees and mist etc.), besides which I wouldn't go much further than that there.
Outside the garden, not near built up areas etc. and interference I would expect to reach 500 to 600m which is the edge of my VLOS but I have seen it down to 400m and perhaps less on a misty day.
All with a CE version
Where does this 500m distance limit come from please?
For UK Read Rivision history thus:Now you've got me as my references for the outgoing regs show it as being withdrawn and refer to the incoming regs?
CAP722 Ed8 puts a number of 500m on the CAA's expected maximum distance which VLOS can be maintained, which is nearly (but not explicitly) a legal maximum. I read it to mean they'd not challenge you if you keep within 500m horizontal distance and beyond that they could reasonably ask for it to be demonstrated that you could maintain VLOS. I'm pretty sure CAP722 Ed7 had similar wording.
Are you sure about that? The Transport Canada site says:
While flying
To keep yourself and others safe, fly your drone:
- where you can see it at all times
Interesting. Thank you. How can I change to 2.4ghz? Or is this even possible?Given your location, I'd assume you have the CE version of the transmitter. The specs claim this has a range of 2km. From my experience I think this is achievable, provided its using a 2.4ghz channel. 5.8ghz range is closer to 500m, which is the legal distance limit in the UK just now.
On auto mode it may automatically select 2.4ghz, but usually if there are houses near it will use 5.8ghz due to there being lots of wifi interference. In manual mode you can choose, with the lower number channels being 2.4ghz band and the high numbers 5.8ghz. Note 2.4ghz is only available on the CE version of the mini. If you bought yours anywhere other than in the USA it'll most likely be a CE model.Interesting. Thank you. How can I change to 2.4ghz? Or is this even possible?
You could sell it and try and buy a fcc model, or get very hany with a soldering iron and replace the transmitter board. However the fcc version performs worse than the ce model in the UK(GPS location detects its outside the USA and limits the transmit power), so kinda pointless.yes, mine is CE model. No way of changing it?
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