Taking my TBS DISCOVERY for a long range flight across my backyard alpine wonderland. How do you manage extreme long range with quadrotors? With some careful pre-flight planning and a battery-swap-team on the mountain!
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You got me, I meant to type distance :) I don't think anyone has really tried to optimized a multi for distance before. It would be an interesting project.
Jonathan, the goal of this project is not endurance :) the VTx / VRx setup is the TBS 2.4GHz tuned video transmitter and reciver
Carl, yes.
Thanks for sharing Were you in "Com " contact with the battery changers ? Have a grest day!
Awesome, Trappy! Care to share what FPV and Rx equipment you use to make such a long journey? If you really were going for just endurance I would try higher pitch props, since they may be more efficient for forward flight. It would be an interesting experiment to see if you gain any distance/endurance.
I enjoyed watching that a lot. You have some nice friends to help out along the way!
Jake, the pilot is at the launch spot at the start :)
Great fun. Would be sweet if you would edit the video to show where you are transmitting from... given line-of-sight, I'm guessing you are way off down in the valley somewhere? Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Hooks.
Jack Crossfire, the point is everything in between is flown. The last mountain takes 1hr from the launch spot to the peak, the quad does it in 3 minutes and can see it from perspectives never seen before.
Crasher, no, it's not. The battery position corrects the CG nicely.
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