It was a beautiful day here in Surrey, England on a Friday - 10c, zero measurable wind and a cloudless blue sky. So, I decided it was worth a go at a couple of flights with the Windsurfer. Its one of the really cheap foldable units from Gearbest which was a couple of quid. I had to file out the bottom antenna holes to make them fit round them perfectly.
Well.... was I blown-away or what!? My best distance to date was 8,090' before it finally lost signal and went into RTH.
With the windsurfer, I got out to 9,517' and I still had 100% signal, but rather less in the way of balls to continue! I found it pretty easy to maintain alignment of the antenna to the AC using the compass in the GO app. I'm not really into achieving great distances per se, but what I'm going to find most useful is maintaining a really good signal and judging it on these first couple of flights, the windsurfer achieves this really well. Brilliant!
Well.... was I blown-away or what!? My best distance to date was 8,090' before it finally lost signal and went into RTH.
With the windsurfer, I got out to 9,517' and I still had 100% signal, but rather less in the way of balls to continue! I found it pretty easy to maintain alignment of the antenna to the AC using the compass in the GO app. I'm not really into achieving great distances per se, but what I'm going to find most useful is maintaining a really good signal and judging it on these first couple of flights, the windsurfer achieves this really well. Brilliant!