I let it rip today. (Stock) 4031ft

Tony Cowan

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Hey all. Today I just let my guard down and let the thing fly. I went to our famous sunshine skyway bridge and headed over the Gulf of Mexico towards St. Petersburg beach. All over water. And a few small uninhabited islands. I'm using stock remote. No mods or not even the windsurfer. As I have not received it yet. I'm so curious what I will get with dbs or windsurfer. Also I did not lose signal. It was about 3 lines still. I just got scared and turned it around as I could not see it. I was about 300 in altitude. Flight logs here.
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Lol. I don't know how to do trickery. Hehehe. That's what it is.


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Yes. Thanks. That's exactly what it is.


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it wasn't windy there today cause wind really picked up around noon in st pete
 
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flpholt said:
it wasn't windy there today cause wind really picked up around noon in st pete
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This morning was windy. But you're right. Wind was only 8mph in St Pete.


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Sabalon said:
Tony - now imagine letting it go a little further - and then letting RTH kick in. It works great, but I bet your blood pressure will go up during those few minutes!
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I was already getting nervous after not actually seeing it for about 8 mins. I did see the fpv but that is not the same. The actual return trip video is below.
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Good work tony, I am still at 100m and at that distance I get scared......

I just have visions of my old brushed xinxun ufo loosing signal and crashing...


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dpicx68 said:
Good work tony, I am still at 100m and at that distance I get scared......

I just have visions of my old brushed xinxun ufo loosing signal and crashing...


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Ooh. Believe me at that distance. I was thinking. This thing is completely out of sight. Blended in with the sky. No way could I see it. The sky was perfectly blue. I looked and looked. Nothing. But video feed was perfect the entire way. So I had confidence.


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Good news, technically you only got a max distance of 3864! That means you get to go out flying again to get over 4k! Very nice by the way, my max is only at 2500, I need to go out again too.


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