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FLIGHT TIME CALCULATOR

Posted by William Nicholls (Flying Tech) on February 16, 2015 at 4:30am

FLIGHT TIME CALCULATOR

One of the main considerations when building or buying a drone is flight time. Yet, although it’s such an important factor, it’s actually quite hard to calculate. Our simple flight time calculator isn’t designed to accurately predict flight time down to the second, but it should help you to quickly get a ballpark idea of what you can expect from your setup.

The calculator requires input values for: battery capacity (Ah), discharge (%) and average amp draw (A).

Calculator

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DB February 16, 2015 at 11:26am

Yeah I use ecalc too but the air time calculator has been more accurate for my quads
criro1999 February 16, 2015 at 9:20am

The one I am using is next one below. It is designed for multicpters, planes, helicopters and is very accurate.

http://www.ecalc.ch/

http://www.ecalc.ch/xcoptercalc.php?ecalc&lang=en
cedric lefort February 16, 2015 at 6:55am

If I have 1 Ah for 100% disharge and 1A of Average Amp Draw.

Result is.. 60 minutes.

Huhu, what a surprise! :D
DB February 16, 2015 at 6:42am

Here's another flight time calculator, the one I usually use. This one allows a bunch more inputs:

http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/dbershad/EMSTAirTimeCalculator.html

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