Range test - DJI Mini 3 Pro

Can’t deal with dji they done my head in last year and sent me a drone 50 shades of grey for my brand new faulty one , so I stuck it on my home insurance

I was 400 meters out to sea still.
Had my wife and son watching me.
They said it looked like I was having a heart attack.

:joy:

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Mate I was burning up and shaking :rofl: it proper done my swead in , gotta laugh now tho :smile:

I think with the large battery it would do 5km
The signal was still good and perfect picture.
But I want to find the limits of the standard battery first.
:see_no_evil:

I was doing great on the way out about 3 miles over fields and lakes but I forgot about the wind coming back :cold_face::smile: then it all went Pete tong !

I knew I had enough juice just and I don’t like taking it critically low but I did and I failed ……

Edit : signal was good to be fair on the way out but for some reason on the way back it just or I just rather got it all wrong !

The return flight conditions such as wind are critical. (To make it back)

I know it’s a lesson learned

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It was Bloody exciting anyway :face_with_peeking_eye:

A couple of times I’ve pushed it to far managed to get back and said

ooooooo never again

Then I got to ahead of myself

My next attempt will be in the Yorkshire dales.
Waiting for a nice still day and push it as far as I can over land.
:crossed_fingers:

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That’s the better way and not over water !

Can you share the video with us?

He’s using Phanton Help, not Airdata, Dave. Perhaps that doesn’t have it :man_shrugging:

Ah …

Not much to see just North Sea :joy:
But I can put it up if you like .
Its very long there are 4 clips totalling around 20+ mins .
And I stopped the recording to conserve battery life the last 3/4 mins.
If you are having trouble sleeping it may help.
:sleeping:

Wish I had recorded the RC and audio that would have been funny :laughing:

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Negligable!

Motors main user - video transmission second (and that won’t change if you’re not recording).

The additional amount to save to the card for a whole flight probably won’t change potential flight time by more than a few seconds. (OK - they might be critical. :crazy_face:)

I was in full panic mode :face_vomiting:

Maybe one of these for next time :wink:

Or a long string :joy:

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Not sure they’d be stable enough in the waves in the sea … and they’d shorten max range / flight time. :stuck_out_tongue: