Comment by Hein du Plessis on September 21, 2012 at 1:47am

Awesome Duran! Well done. Beautiful area to fly..

Comment by Carl La France on September 21, 2012 at 2:10am

Excellent well done! Reminds me flying IFR Is the Sun coming up or going down? Thanks for sharing Have a Great Day!

Comment by Duran - SteadiDrone on September 21, 2012 at 2:27am

Thans guys, was fun. Sun is going down and storm coming in, wind was 30-45km/h

Comment by Biggles on September 21, 2012 at 3:53am

Awesome video guys.  Was any of that on the STL or Nav modes of the autopilot?  If so, would you share your PID's for the X8?  Or did you use some standard ones?

Comment by Duran - SteadiDrone on September 21, 2012 at 3:58am

Thanks Biggles, this was mostly on STAB mode, on the way up we tested RTL and all was working perfectly so headed up. PID are pretty much standard, we only changed the cruis throttle from 50% down to 30% (very powerful motor) and top speed throttle from 90% down to 75%, also change the banking angle up to 50' for fast banking which works great along with decreasing the crosstrack correction which I prefer, rather have it head more towards the waypoint rather than having it try and get back on path and end up occilating, thats it really.

hope this helps!

Comment by Biggles on September 21, 2012 at 4:03am

awesome, thanks guys.  Keep up the good work.  The site and products look great.  I'm trying to convince my photographer brother to purchase one of your octo's.  Any chance you guys need some BETA testers in Australia ;)  cheers.

Comment by Duran - SteadiDrone on September 21, 2012 at 4:05am

haha, thanks for the support :)

Comment by I.S. on September 21, 2012 at 4:20am

Are you really getting that kind of range with standard 2.4G RC_Tx and 5.8 vdo_Tx ?!!
Are you using dipole antennas or something else?
Nice vdo BTW!

Comment by Duran - SteadiDrone on September 21, 2012 at 5:40am

Yip, it's on the limit of the range as when the radio whip antenna is pointing straight up then i lost signal twice, but poitning 90' towards the plan it's fine no problems. The 5.8Ghz video using the new Immersion RC pol antennas with the 600mw 5.8Ghz tx and just the normal dominator rx.

Comment by Patrick L on September 21, 2012 at 6:03am

Tears in my eyes, not from staring into the setting sun but from the sheer beauty.

Alas, just to spoil the fun: keep in mind VFR rules: 1500 meter horz, 1000ft vert from clouds ;-)

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