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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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!
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.
If someone has to drive there to change batteries, what's the point of flying there?
Nice video, all the battery changes were fun.
One note, it's not AGL but MSL, unless your unit of measure was millimeters... AGL refers to ground level under the aircraft, so you looked like you were 20'Ft AGL while much more than that MSL.
Hehe, nice idea :)