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[SkyNinja]

Fellow straight line fliers,

I love good competition and to keep things interesting this holiday season, I am offering a challenge in each class that expires @ 23:59 31DEC2018 GMT. The first one to acheive the challenge in each class within the allotted time will win a new factory M2 battery.

Stock - 39,000 feet
Modified - 60,000 feet
Unlimited - 70,000 feet
Suicide - 100,000 feet

Good luck and happy flying!

@beanbubba

Great challenge, but I don’t think it’s possible to do 60k modified and 70k unlimited due to the hard limit, unless you let us move controller forward from the home point.

 

[Aumoe]

Fellow straight line fliers,

I love good competition and to keep things interesting this holiday season, I am offering a challenge in each class that expires @ 23:59 31DEC2018 GMT. The first one to acheive the challenge in each class within the allotted time will win a new factory M2 battery.

Stock - 39,000 feet
Modified - 60,000 feet
Unlimited - 70,000 feet
Suicide - 100,000 feet

Good luck and happy flying!

@beanbubba

Pr

That happens when your external batteries start charging the factory battery. Always make sure to top off your main battery and make sure it is at the same or higher temperature as the externals.

Yeah that's what happened my point is it didn't turn off main battery like mavic 1 but instead voltage was working an accurate all batt was same volts at the end

 

[Aumoe]

2 protek 4200s an clip @beanbubba
"I am submitting this MODIFIED CLASS flight for consideration to be placed on the leader board.

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[lolo780]

Great challenge, but I don’t think it’s possible to do 60k modified and 70k unlimited due to the hard limit, unless you let us move controller forward from the home point.

Moving the home point was mentioned as being acceptable since there's no other way to do a long distance flight with occusync.

Also don't forget to change transmission mode to regular instead of HD for long range, and use a lower res 24fps setting. I was wondering if flying in the dark reduces power consumption of the camera and processor as well.

 

[Aumoe]

@SkyNinja any tips for getting the case off the 4200s

 

[SkyNinja]

Moving the home point was mentioned as being acceptable since there's no other way to do a long distance flight with occusync.

Also don't forget to change transmission mode to regular instead of HD for long range, and use a lower res 24fps setting. I was wondering if flying in the dark reduces power consumption of the camera and processor as well.

**** I missed that change, I would’ve shot for 60+ when the weather was still warm.

 

[SkyNinja]

@SkyNinja any tips for getting the case off the 4200s

I start where the wires come out of the case, with a pair of needle nose pliers, carefully breaking small pieces of the case off down the seam line until I can pull it apart with my fingers.

 

[beanbubba]

@SkyNinja any tips for getting the case off the 4200s

Bloody knuckles and cut fingers

 

[beanbubba]

**** I missed that change, I would’ve shot for 60+ when the weather was still warm.

Rules edit version 9 added this to the unlimited and suicide class. I threw out a 60k feet challenge for MODIFIED class to see if anyone could come up with a new solution to get an extra 1000 feet past the limit.

 

[beanbubba]

2 protek 4200s an clip @beanbubba
"I am submitting this MODIFIED CLASS flight for consideration to be placed on the leader board.

Board updated.

 

[beanbubba]

It is recommended (but not required) that you upgrade your airdata account to gold status and this unlocks the in-flight wind data for you and your share links for others. It's not cheap but gives a lot of insight on your drone performance for analysis and planning.

 

[mlash]

Something in the logs is not right, I think it did split some data. The airdata notifications stopped while your bird was 102 feet away. But google earth showed you landed 3 feet from your home point.

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Weird, indeed! However, if you look at the "HD Flight Player" on Airdata Notification it will show that I landed 2.3ft from Homepoint as well. I'm pretty sure that 102ft at 20% was the altitude I was hovering over Homepoint.

 

[mlash]

Something in the logs is not right, I think it did split some data. The airdata notifications stopped while your bird was 102 feet away. But google earth showed you landed 3 feet from your home point.

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This is from Aumoe's flight today and it cuts off at 170ft but in the "HD Player" you can see that he did indeed land 5.2ft away from homepoint. It might be Airdata doing this because the log clearly has the information for it to show up in the HD Player!

 

[mlash]

2 protek 4200s an clip @beanbubba
"I am submitting this MODIFIED CLASS flight for consideration to be placed on the leader board.

Very nice flight Aumoe!

 

[beanbubba]

This is from Aumoe's flight today and it cuts off at 170ft but in the "HD Player" you can see that he did indeed land 5.2ft away from homepoint. It might be Airdata doing this because the log clearly has the information for it to show up in the HD Player!

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Yes, we are saying the exact same thing with different words. Does anyone know how/why this is happening and is it repeatable so we can document it?

 

[mlash]

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beanbubba, something tells me this is not the first time you used the Jedi Mind Trick on someone!

 

[beanbubba]

beanbubba, something tells me this is not the first time you used the Jedi Mind Trick on someone!

You are a wise man says obi wan

 

[Aumoe]

Very nice flight Aumoe!

Thanks boss I added the video had to edit out old lady's phone #

 

[beanbubba]

beanbubba, something tells me this is not the first time you used the Jedi Mind Trick on someone!

This is another go-to video sometimes interchangeable with the Jedi video:

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[lolo780]

Rules edit version 9 added this to the unlimited and suicide class. I threw out a 60k feet challenge for MODIFIED class to see if anyone could come up with a new solution to get an extra 1000 feet past the limit.

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My mistake. The stock and modified batteries should stay safe in your hands then.

I'll be outfitting your old M2P with a couple of externals shortly and testing auto land and optimizing flight speeds. As always I'll report any useful data in this thread.

Edit: I'm eyeing the weather and have a fresh battery to make a 39k stock attempt. If the DA goes to -2000ft or below there's a chance.

@beanbubba skins are allowed in stock. How many layers and what material? With near freezing temps I'm obviously looking at ways to keep the battery warm throughout the flight.