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NoBiffBetter · Jan 22, 2017

Here is my return from 40k, it wouldn't post for some reason..

As you can see I ran out of battery power almost completely, I was proud of myself for finding such a nice spot for an emergency landing, and landed it dead on in the center of that baseball diamond near my old highschool..

I actually am really happy that I decided take a slight different rout home, had I not passed over the school I prolly woulda never had a safe place to land, and it most likely woulda ended up in a populated area or the woods somewhere and I woulda never retrieved it later on.

What a rush! Can't wait to do it all over again.. If the temps were at least 20 degrees warmer like yesterday I can guarantee you I woulda made it back successfully.. It was mainly the cold weather that drained my battery's so viciously on the return flight toward the end. 22min in the air.. When yesterday I was getting 27min easy.. Which is another reason I pushed for 40 assuming I would make it back.

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Atlantic Surfer · Jan 24, 2017

Glad you can recovered your bird ! And yes their is a learning curve in this game, managing the wind, temperature and so on. 57 % at the turnaround may be a little optimistic in this kind of weather !!
Thanks for sharing, I'm happy to see that your Maxxrange Antenna worked very well, event with fog as I've always believe that fog kill radiowave.
Be careful, P3 is discontinued !!

NoBiffBetter · Jan 27, 2017

Atlantic Surfer said:
Glad you can recovered your bird ! And yes their is a learning curve in this game, managing the wind, temperature and so on. 57 % at the turnaround may be a little optimistic in this kind of weather !!
Thanks for sharing, I'm happy to see that your Maxxrange Antenna worked very well, event with fog as I've always believe that fog kill radiowave.
Be careful, P3 is discontinued !!

Yah man I hear ya! Well what happened is being so close to the lake the wind shifted on me, I thought I would be doing close to 40 most if not all the way back, but being so close to the lake once the winds shifted ( which I noticed right before my turn around when the quad ramped up from roughly 35 to 40-41mph.. At that point I knew things were gonna get ugly... It was the first time I had gone to 40k feet out in that direction and noticed on my way out that the straight line path I took was leading me closer and closer to the shoreline and I knew it wasn't good. Next time I will try to keep farther inward on land than outward toward the shoreline. And on my way back I tried going high, low, and everywhere in between but once the wind shifted the way it did there was nothing I could do to pick up the pace :/

And your right I learned a lot off that flight, next time my path will be different, I most cerInly won't do it on such a foggy day, and if it's below 40 degrees, forget about it lol.

I sure hope the p3 isn't discontinued forever. I'm thinking eventually they will bring it back.

phxbird57 · Jan 28, 2017

I took my P3a out for a little joy ride today. And was not really planning going to far took up some sights on the way out.
Made it out to 23133ft before turning around All stock but a wind surfer over the rabbit ears. Next time I'll stay straight and with more of a battery started with 96%.
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Digdat0 · Jan 28, 2017

phxbird57 said:
I took my P3a out for a little joy ride today. And was not really planning going to far took up some sights on the way out.
Made it out to 23133ft before turning around All stock but a wind surfer over the rabbit ears. Next time I'll stay straight and with more of a battery started with 96%.
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thats a heck of a flight on stock battery man. What happened at the end? HD showed Motor Obstructed at the end, all okay??

dirtybum · Jan 28, 2017

Fool probably flew into a cactus [emoji266][emoji41]

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phxbird57 · Jan 28, 2017

Digdat0 said:
thats a heck of a flight on stock battery man. What happened at the end? HD showed Motor Obstructed at the end, all okay??

I missed my landing spot by 2 ft and landed in a tail weed.(tumble weed). It's all good II did another short flight after words.I'm working on the video. I was fighting a little w ind coming back you can see my speed jumping around.at the end of the video if you look there is a wind sock on my buddy antenna of his truck. Temperature does play a big thing in the long range flights. I'll be going back to my DBS or even the CCP's. So I can get a better signal. I was surprised I was able to get that far with a wind surfer. The signal would come and go. even when I did turn around I had good control.

phxbird57 · Jan 28, 2017

dirtybum said:
Fool probably flew into a cactus [emoji266][emoji41]

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phxbird57 · Jan 28, 2017

dirtybum said:
Fool probably flew into a cactus [emoji266][emoji41]

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Db side note I had my friend change the name of the drone with his I phone. I shows Phxbird3 in the DJI APP flight data but in healthydrone it shows Inspire.

Alan Russel · Feb 4, 2017

Hi Guys...Its frustrating sometimes..ideal weather for flying during the the week and you have to work, and come the weekend yes you guess it to windy...but hows this during some down time I was checking the bird and as I was checking externals and a wire just disconnected from XT60 connection...wtf and yes my soldering joint was not up to scratch..re solderered taking extra care it was done good..so in ironsight i was a lucky...check and double check pilots!

Digdat0 · Feb 4, 2017

Alan Russel said:
Hi Guys...Its frustrating sometimes..ideal weather for flying during the the week and you have to work, and come the weekend yes you guess it to windy...but hows this during some down time I was checking the bird and as I was checking externals and a wire just disconnected from XT60 connection...wtf and yes my soldering joint was not up to scratch..re solderered taking extra care it was done good..so in ironsight i was a lucky...check and double check pilots!

i had that happen once as well .. flew my test flight, landed .. unplugged and plugged the next setup and took off. it was like 8mins right away .. the externals were not powering. I took it home and popped the lid and my power solder line had come off the mainboard. My solder wasnt good enough .. oops. Fixed and better than ever!

NoBiffBetter · Feb 4, 2017

I hear ya with the weather.. Seems the weather is always perfect the days I work.. 12 hours a day 7 days a week.. My only days are Sunday and Tuesday IF I don't have things going on.. And wouldn't you know it, every single Sunday or tues it's either way too cold, or way too windy.. At least for long distance!

It's frustrating. I hope tomorrow is nice so I can do some testing.

I never wanted spring so badly!!

Alan- good catch man! Just another reason it's always SO important to look over EVERYTHING, and even more so for us long distance junkies!

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phxbird57 · Feb 4, 2017

NoBiffBetter said:
I hear ya with the weather.. Seems the weather is always perfect the days I work.. 12 hours a day 7 days a week.. My only days are Sunday and Tuesday IF I don't have things going on.. And wouldn't you know it, every single Sunday or tues it's either way too cold, or way too windy.. At least for long distance!

It's frustrating. I hope tomorrow is nice so I can do some testing.

I never wanted spring so badly!!

Alan- good catch man! Just another reason it's always SO important to look over EVERYTHING, and even more so for us long distance junkies!

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NBB spring it was like 72 degree's f today.

. I was working on my honey do list thou.

JimBinDallas · Feb 6, 2017

This one is with my P3Pro, early model from first couple months production. COMPLETELY, TOTALLY stock system with lots of interference here in DFW metroplex. I would lose video about halfway out and found that a TV station had built a new weather radar on a 75 ft tower only 1500 feet off the path. When the beam would sweep through, it wipes me out temporarily.

dirtybum · Feb 19, 2017

It takes Florida like weather to put out Florida distances! Well that and a HUUUUUGE battery! I've been experimenting with this 10.0 for a few flights and while it shows promise it does not handle very well. I don't recommend it, but it got the job done.

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chazz · Feb 19, 2017

dirtybum said:
It takes Florida like weather to put out Florida distances! Well that and a HUUUUUGE battery! I've been experimenting with this 10.0 for a few flights and while it shows promise it does not handle very well. I don't recommend it, but it got the job done.

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Nice flight DB! is that an LIHV?

Digdat0 · Feb 19, 2017

dirtybum said:
It takes Florida like weather to put out Florida distances! Well that and a HUUUUUGE battery! I've been experimenting with this 10.0 for a few flights and while it shows promise it does not handle very well. I don't recommend it, but it got the job done.

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Bat mod 10.0 multi star
Terminator, video side boosted
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hollllllleeyyy cow boys! We got us a new record!! 62,182 feet, **** thats nice! Coming in at 4%, thats pushing it dirtybum! Read your post, it says "Terminator, video side boosted" .. your running unboosted on the rc side and had signal at 62k? wow! congrats man, the record is yours again!

Lee SK · Feb 20, 2017

dirtybum said:
It takes Florida like weather to put out Florida distances! Well that and a HUUUUUGE battery! I've been experimenting with this 10.0 for a few flights and while it shows promise it does not handle very well. I don't recommend it, but it got the job done.

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P3A w/ cam
Bat mod 10.0 multi star
Terminator, video side boosted
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phxbird57 · Feb 20, 2017

dirtybum said:
It takes Florida like weather to put out Florida distances! Well that and a HUUUUUGE battery! I've been experimenting with this 10.0 for a few flights and while it shows promise it does not handle very well. I don't recommend it, but it got the job done.

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P3A w/ cam
Bat mod 10.0 multi star
Terminator, video side boosted
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Nice Fly DB