Hey guys,
So I have a total of 4.5 hrs of flight time (3.5 hrs on a P4, and 1 on the inspire). As I was heading back from a flight in Malibu, all packed up, I saw a sailboat and remembered I have one TB48 battery left.
I estimated the boat to be 2 miles away, a little worried that I might lose the drone over open water but I figured YOLO. Better lose the x3 than the x5. So I threw the battery in, calibrated the drone, and went for it.
The drone flew 13,000 feet with my range extender on before I started getting intermittent video signal cuts when I started flying it around the sailboat. I was able to bring her back safely with about 48% battery left. I then saw a speeding yacht and chased it down, and was able to start bringing the inspire back at 28% and landed her with about 18% battery left. The drone was flying almost full speed the entire time, roughly 40mph against strong wind towards the sailboat and back.
The footage below you can see when the inspire is going around the sailboat there is a cliff in the far distance - that is where I was at.
Pls excuse my newb editing skills (iMovie lol). The operating skills is minimalistic since I have only had my phantom 4 for 10 days and the inspire for 3 days.
All shot on the x3. Now I'm confident in flying the inspire over long distance as long as it's over somewhere without people and with direct LOS.
So I have a total of 4.5 hrs of flight time (3.5 hrs on a P4, and 1 on the inspire). As I was heading back from a flight in Malibu, all packed up, I saw a sailboat and remembered I have one TB48 battery left.
I estimated the boat to be 2 miles away, a little worried that I might lose the drone over open water but I figured YOLO. Better lose the x3 than the x5. So I threw the battery in, calibrated the drone, and went for it.
The drone flew 13,000 feet with my range extender on before I started getting intermittent video signal cuts when I started flying it around the sailboat. I was able to bring her back safely with about 48% battery left. I then saw a speeding yacht and chased it down, and was able to start bringing the inspire back at 28% and landed her with about 18% battery left. The drone was flying almost full speed the entire time, roughly 40mph against strong wind towards the sailboat and back.
The footage below you can see when the inspire is going around the sailboat there is a cliff in the far distance - that is where I was at.
Pls excuse my newb editing skills (iMovie lol). The operating skills is minimalistic since I have only had my phantom 4 for 10 days and the inspire for 3 days.
All shot on the x3. Now I'm confident in flying the inspire over long distance as long as it's over somewhere without people and with direct LOS.
