I FLEW TOO FAR - Mavic Pro Distance Flight
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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Well, this weeks vlog is kinda basic. I decided to be like all the other Mavic Pro owners and try and find out how far away my quad copter would go. I failed...or succeeded, depending on your perspective.
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You would have easily made it back with 20% from that point. But better to be safe than sorry
Ernest possibly, the head wind was only letting me get about 10-16mph and there was still 3600 ft of water between me and the quad, so in the moment it absolutely seemed impossible
Im only saying this because at 3:31 you had lots of height and 34% battery and were cruising at 23mph! You would have just and just made it with 4mins flight time. That 2mins it shows you is till auto landing. But again, if I had a friends house I would have done the same. Not gonna risk £1000
haha! I definitely see your point! My inexperience with the mavic put my brain into panic mode and my estimation skills went out the window! ah well, never again (intentionally) will i do this. thanks for watching!
Ike Brider So the mavic is impossible to see from the sky, that must suck. I'll stick with my Phantom 4.
Typical loser who has old tech attempting to put down newer tech
LOL , not you r not an idiot ,this is part of the hobbie we choose ,is funny my heart was pumping also ,glad your Mavic is safe ,good luck in the future !!
I hope you're an immigrant.
Man, you totally had that bagged ;) Would have made it ;)
So glad to know I'm not the only person who's had to sit there waiting 39 minutes for a firmware update! (in my case, in a park surrounded by people and children coming up to me asking when I was going to start flying and leaving after 2 or 3 minutes of conversation after they got bored waiting). But I've learned my lesson the hard way: ALWAYS check for firmware updates before leaving home!
I’ve had distance tremble before when my first drone went rouge on me then came back on its own it’s a funny old game. Great that you show your true self so we can all relate. Good on u brother. 👍👍
LOL! "Weird I found it from the sky I can't remember how to get there...... from the ground." Hilarious!
The part that gets me most is people flying them beyond LOS and expecting nothing but rainbows and unicorns in the end. But you nearly always hear the panic in their voice towards the end.
I felt that moment of relief when you manage to land the drone safely at your friends backyard. It's a thrilling misadventure that is not life threatening but I felt the agonizing moment when you were finding a safe and recognisable spot to save your drone. I felt like I'm invoved as well in this video clip. Good one. Cheers
I love how he jumped the fence instead of just flying the drone back to the car, there was 12 pct left on that battery.
What really made this spectacular was you landing it at a friends house. I have no idea how you located his house from the air while under such intense pressure. Well done!
WoW! I am glad you were able to keep connection and you landed safely. That shows the resilience of the Mavic Pro.
I just flew 3.2 miles out over the Gulf of Mexico...my first long-distance flight. Definitely got the jitters....RTH function worked like a boss! Landed within maybe a foot from its departure point. This is one bad-ass piece of technology.
This would have been a whole different video if you had slipped on thise railings. Yowzer!
ha ha!
Chris Rollins right? I was more worried for him there thinking he might be needing surgery to remove a fence from his colon
GREAT Save man!!! you are not an idiot! You just learned a few things... Looks like going out you might have had a tail wind and coming home you had a headwind. On range flights always and try outbound with a head wind and then keep the tail wind as your secret weapon on the way back. I also noticed you did not fly straight out but sure did fly straight back! Good job again!
Excellent video!! Thanks for the range test you've done for all of us Mavic Pro owners, so we have an idea of how far it can go!!👍🏻👏
Great video Chris! One thing I've learnt with my P4 is that sport mode is really inefficient, it's better to come back slower or in automatic return to home mode. It's cool you captured the whole emotional journey!!!
andy kirby i get all sorts of drones i have a mavic for you
I feel your nervous pain. I've only had mine about a week and each day I'm willing myself to fly a little farther with it and get more comfortable with it. But it's stressful and you have to really trust that it's going to perform as expected. But that pit in my stomach when it's a mile away tells me I'm not really trusting it just yet.
Lesson Learned brother never take it out of line of sight
With a little Mavic, it's effectively out of sight (For flying orientation) in a couple hundred yards. FPV and the GPS map give you all the info you need and then some. It's a lot easier than trying to fly via line of sight a symmetric spec in the sky. The FAA is nuts. I have TONS of time in a P3P, and have pushed it, lost signal and had it come home MANY times. I REALLY WOULD fly that thing out to 10,000', turn off the remote, and bet $2,000 it will land real close to where it took off. Anyone who wants to bet can message me. You'll lose! The Mavic has done well, but the DJI Go4 App is always dying and needing to be restarted on my Android phone. And I've read about a couple fly aways. BUT I'd Zbet $500 the Mavic comes home if you completely turn off the remote, and will land real near where it lifted off.
I can see my mavic more than 1,000 yards out. But don't blink. Lol
come check out my Solo 3DR video, it flew 40,000 foot.
@@gedgar2000 I take my Mavic out to an indicated 3300 metres REGULARLY, and I do manual orbits. If I engage RTH it returns and lands on the 80cm landing pad. If you could do the same with a rifle any army in the world would have you as a sniper.
16000+ ft range at 400 ft height- pretty good! Nice save on the emergency landing....I just got the p4 pro+ , haven't had the nerve to fly it far out- yet...nice to see others do the experimenting for me, haha. Gonna be using mine to do security sweeps of my farm, I'll be happy if I get a couple miles in each direction! cheers!
Chris, you're NOT an idiot and thanks for letting us into that test flight!
Great video and great save! I was as nervous as you were just watching it. Good thing you found your friends' house. I still can't wait to do a range test on mine. 👍🏼for you.
thank you! PLEASE come back and share it, Id love to see it!
Dude, you handled that like real Pilot! Great job.... ! You flew it..to a safe place... glad you got her back!
Great thinking landing it at a friends house. That's actually pretty clever you could spot a house from overhead.
Wow very frustrating you had to do a firmware update right before flying.
he should have skipped it until he got home
If there is a way to skip it, i couldn't find it that day. I couldn't figure out how to bypass it, it was saying I couldn't take off until I updated. Ticked me off pretty good.
That update might have drained the battery a bit.
Bushangels he used a new battery or charged it again for that flight. It's at 100% at the beginning
Really. Was thinking about getting one of these for my business, but I couldn't have a client wait around 40 minutes while I'm forced to update the software. You should be able to defer the update to a later time. It's like they saw the Windows 10 update model and said "yep, that's what we want to mimic".
Accidents happen ! It was a great flight Man !! Try to take-off into the headwind next time and have the wind at your back when RTH .... I know this optimal condition (flying into the headwind) is not always possible BUT it is the prefered method for distance flying with a drone ! Congrats on the recovery Chris & Thanx for the video !!
Good decision making I'd say. I'd have been worried too, it's such an expensive toy, but you landed safely rather risking losing power over someone's car or house and you got your mavic back safely. Good result
That was funny! Glad you were able to land somewhere easy to retrieve and with no damage!
Lol! I'm glad someone had the balls to do that! I've gotten pretty far out but always RTH due to my hands start shaking. Great video. Hand me dying laughing!!!
+Kevin Walker haha thank you sir
Just showed this to my neighbor. Had us dying laughing. AGAIN!!!! Now he's pumped on getting a drone. I have the P4 limited, Mavic, & a Typhoon H. I like them all so not sure what to recommend. Any thoughts???
Kevin Walker mavic pro seems more futuristic looking, but revell spot 2.0 is cheap and fast.
I think you had a better chance of skewering yourself hopping that gate than losing your drone. Glad you got it back safely.
The adrenal dump of drone flying ! We get that down under too 😂😂🚁🎥
That panic face every single time you took an experiments with your drone. LOL 😂
2nd time I watched this and it's still funny seeing how nervous you got 🤪
That had to be nerve racking, lucky you had a friend out there.
Hell of a flight, good video.
LOL You went bright pink hahaha - I will be a carbon copy of this when I get mine next week LOL
Congrats on getting back safely! I did something similar, but panicked. My mavic ended up falling 300 feet. Amazingly, two arms were broken, but everything was otherwise functional. But I had to send it in for repairs. I'm the bigger idiot, for not landing when and where it wanted. Better to LAND in someone's yard than crash and have to ask them to search.
You found out how far you could fly it. You recovered it intact.SUCCESS!!
I agree
One thing to consider if you decide to fly long distance is the speed you are traveling. There is a sweet spot flying that will allow you to maximize the distance you can fly while conserving as much battery as you can. I found with my P4, 23mph to 25mph allowed me to fly the farthest.
I am glad you got it back. I am buying a Mavic Pro soon and I personally won't try that because just my luck I won't get it back and I sure won't be able to afford another one. I enjoyed your video.
I've been in that panic mode before... the adrenaline!!! lol! Good to see you landed the Mavic in one piece! Fun vid to watch!
I think you made the safe decision of landing on a good spot.
You only had 13% battery left when you landed.
Perhaps if you continued returning it would have dived in the water.
So, I think you were right to play safe and were lucky, as a bonus, to be able to land it in a place where you could retrieve it.
I support your choice 100%.
Whew, close one! I won't be testing my drone like that haha! Thanks for the video.
Just want to say again Excellent Job saving your drone!! Reminds me of a pilot with an engine failure. Picking out a good stop to land.
Great video, good info to know before doing a range test.. especially over water!!
your problem was u went out and came back in sport mode and it eats your battery. u need to stay in p-gps and turn obstacle avoidance off for a speed of 31 to be more efficient....u def would have made it back if u never went into sport
Don't panic. I had this happen with INspire 1 flying at night. Use the GPS map screen to follow your bird. RTH and land somewhere safe if you can't make it. Good job!
Just a note for next time, don't return to home in sport mode. You want your RPM to be somewhere between 4,000 to 6,000. Sport mode is just so inefficient because it's in the 8000 to 9000 RPMs to move the drone at those speeds. Your over all distance would of been much more if you stayed in gps more the mode the entire time.
Stephen Dopler you're absolutely correct! I've learned that now after about 50 flights with the mavic.
I'm not too sure about that, because it looks like he didn't return back in sport mode, but went out in sport mode... From my experience, which I could be wrong, I seem to actually get farther with sport mode than if I'm just in regular mode...
Stephen Dopler was talking to another guy that did a flight test and on the same day n weather with fresh batterys for both test flghts he got 2% more drain on sport mode to do 1km away
Hmmm... I will have to do some more testing, could have been the cold that affected it or because it had the return to home to ascend quite a bit before coming back... but mine, the farthest I made it on regular mode was about 3.5 kms or 2.17 miles on regular mode before it wanted to return home because of low battery...
Nice effort anyways man!! I took mine out to 4km and had a emergency landing lol....so know how u felt !! Dam long way to send such a cool toy ;-) like the vids u got a sub ;-)
Great video!!! I will be getting my mavic soon and will use this video as an example.
you get the drone shakes!!!
I get em too!
what a fun addiction!
Ken Serratt hahaha i've never heard that term before! Awesome! Im gonna use it! Yes its a real thing for me! Haha thanks man!
All that water was making me nervous. I was more worried about you potentially going down into the water, really though going down on land can be also likely that you wouldn't be able to recover the drone. I lost a small one the other day into a tree I know right where it is but I have yet to try any recovery efforts, the fact of the matter is that its really easy to lose a drone and these mavics are too expensive to have to replace for a reasonable person. Glad you found an escape option! alternately I would have put it down into a strangers front yard and asked for forgiveness if I absolutely had to. Knowing you have to go down sucks, going down battery 0 into water would be much worse haha.
I felt your urgency! Glad you it back....
I know this is over a year old but adding that location and Geomagnetics makes a huge difference with range.
I have flown a P3Pro at "noisy" locations where signal gets weak at less than 2,000-3,000Ft distance but I made it to 20,070 Ft one time where location and conditions were perfect.
I could have gone further that day (still had both RC and video signal) but I turned around at 20K because the battery was at 46%. My plan was to turn around for the downwind leg at 48% but when it passed 17K and then 18K I just had to push it to 20,000 😜
Advertised range on P3Pro is 3.1 miles so it's still hard to believe it made it 3.8 miles with "no mods or range extenders" (even more shocking that the video worked that far out) but again the location AND conditions were obviously perfect that day.
Battery was 6% when I landed and hit 5% before I turned it off so yes I timed it closer than I would have liked, and yes it took a lot of Up-Stick to keep it from auto-landing once it hit 10%.
Hands were shaking during that last 5% and I have zero desire to ever try that again.
Watching this and a few other vloggers reallllly make me wanna get one. Not just for the vlog but man that would be so awesome to play with!
its kind of addicting, I try and fly mine everyday, i get bummed when weather won't allow!
That was intense. Thanks for sharing. Glad it worked out.
Duuuude please do.... Do more tests that push the limits of these things. : ) Love your videos.
Dude, I watched your video without sound because I am at work but......I have tears down my eyes from laughing at your video. I lost signal of my mavic in a park before and I thought I would lose it in the trees on a bad landing. The other time, I made it back home on 2% battery. I was laughing at this video because it actually happened to me! lesson learned. lol
Thanks for doing the video. I have a Mavic Pro and you made me nervous just watching your video. Glad it all worked out.
+Ken Alverson :)
Dude. Nice save. Haha. That battery panic is real!
Caleb Canal it really is! A part of me felt silly for being so worried, but then again a thousand dollars at the bottom of the lake is a legitimate worry in my book! Thanks for watching
Chris, it looked liked it was going to be close, but I think you would have made it back above the critical 10% autoland battery value. But if you were in doubt, and had a great spot picked out, better safe than sorry. One CRITICAL thing I think I noticed is that if you were at max. Sport Mode speed, going out and coming back (from the speeds shown), it looks like you flew out with light tailwind, back with a slight headwind. THE BIGGEST NO NO! On a pretty calm wind day, I made 14,000', still with OK radio signal strength, but thankfully turned home. I cut it SO close that I was at 10% and landing and JUST made the edge of my front lawn! Phew. Dumb luck! Just as an aside, I don't think full forward Sport Mode speed is the best range speed. ESPECIALLY with a tailwind. I used full speed out and back though, maybe screwing up my range a little. ANY further, and I'd have lost my cool bird, and would have been in mourning for weeks. LOL
Good fast thinking. I have wanted to do a range test to but I also get nervous when my phantom goes out of sight. I also start shaking haha.
I think you would have made it back but either way that was hilarious! Thanks for posting. I feel like every new Mavic Pro owner with some balls has probably tried this already. LOL.
Chris. When flying a drone, you must think about wing speed and direction. I noticed you had a ground speed of 42 on the way out, but only 26 on the way back. This indicates that you had a tail wind going out and thus a headwind coming back. Never test for distance with a tail wind as it could take you 2x as long or more to come back which means bye bye drone.
Fair play for posting and being honest. Lucky flying close to friends place.
Wow, I can see how fast your heart was pumping when the battery getting critical and you had to find a spot to land. 😊
Good you had a friend there eh. That was better then the videos when they crash, more intense lol happy flying
Dude, great vlog. Funny, informative, & suspenseful - a great mix.
Loved the emergency landing then having trouble actually finding their house. :)
I found this through Gene's UDEMY course. Great video!
Thanks for sharing this video. I'm really glad that it worked out for you.
+Mark Greenwood you're welcome! Let my idiocy be your wisdom.
glad you got your bird back! I always thought it ridiculous that DJI puts these insane distance limits on the Mavic & P4P. While it's great to know these drones CAN fly that far, rarely do they have the battery life to make it back, especially when the weather can turn on a dime, often making a RTH next to impossible. I've seen far too many videos like yours to trust a long distance test. IDK, a couple miles is plenty car enough me, I can't afford to fork out another 1600 for a replacement. LOL
Great recovery though! Happy flying!
i absolutely agree. My theory is that it has far reaching radio range because they want the close proximity flying to have as strong a signal as possible, and the long range is just a by product of that strong signal.
Someone said it already and I agree. I have no $ involved here but your video had my heart pumping and adrenaline pumping. I guess I'd hate to see a magnificent bird like the Mavic lost in the water. I'm just a beginner with a 3 Standard but someday I hope I can upgrade to a drone like the Mavic. I have a finance manager and she's frowns on buying expensive man toys. I subbed as well. Happy Flying.
One of the funniest drone videos. Pleased all was ok in end.
course you're not an idiot, you were so close to the home point!!!! Don't be afraid to fly far, is so exciting!! Next time try to take off slowly an Hoover just a few seconds over home point and this way the Mavic could record exactly the same spot for a precision landing. Nice video! Have a nice day
Javier Medina thanks for the tip! But no more range tests for me.
I'm new with my mavic Pro, so I appreciate your video it's given me confidence to fly a little further away maybe not 4 miles but definitely 2 or 3. take care!
thank you! its an impressive machine!it handles indoors extremely well too. have you tried that?
Yes I tried flying indoors, did not go well.... something interfered with the signal and got within 6" of hitting the wall before I could get it to land. Met a guy who owns a drone company and he suggested I look into FAA part 107...check out.... learn the legal rules of the road. Also he suggested I use an app called Airmap.... check it out in your app store. Take care!
Smart thinking on the friends house landing. I've done that before with my Inspire one, in the Bronx, on top of buildings.. lol
Anthony Aprea oh man! I can only imagine the anxiety you had with that expensive thing! I mainly have to worry about trees, you have people to watch for! Haha stay safe!
Chris Rollins Haha I forgot about the people part ;) great videos man, waiting for the Mavic to arrive, got some good info from you thanks. Peace bro!
You probably could have made it back. If you decide to land somewhere else it is important that you tell the aircraft to land rather than just lower it down and hope that it gets the message. If it has been told to land it will land and switch off. If it just goes down it might lose signal as it drops down behind something. If it loses signal it then should try to return to home which means taking off again and ascending, which is likely to doom it to not having enough power to return, in which case it lands at the point (perhaps over a lake) when it runs out of power. If you have the presence of mind you can select the behaviour in the event of signal loss.
wow I am waiting for my Mavic now but don't think I will ever get to that level of confidence to fly that far. LOL up till now been flying a lot of "toy" models ranging from $69 to several hundred dollar drones. And only lost one so far. great video thanks
Cool video, at least you found your friends house from the air!
this was awesome! loved your genuine admission to being nervous.... !!!!
Very lucky Chris...Nice Flying Dude!
I'm sure you have heard this by now... I saw someone else do an emergency landing like that and forgot to completely disarm the Mavic. When he got in the car to go get it,it lost signal. What does a Mavic do when it loses signal? It returns home. lol
While he was driving to the landing spot,it had taken off again and was going home. The battery died enroute and he lost it over a cliff.
That was hilarious, Chris. Respect to you for a) attempting this and b) posting it on YT. Thank god you had a mate close by. Cheers.
haha thank you!
Always fly away into the wind, so you have that tail wind to bring you home quickly. Also when flying into the wind, drop altitude as windspeed is probably lower at lower altitudes.
live and learn! count your blessings you got it back
Preach! I'm smarter and wiser, hahaha
You did a great job! If you can on a range test just fly outbound with a head wind so then when you come back you'll have a tailwind to help, but you handled it like a pro. I bet you are a private Pilot??
rule of thumb ..if max flight range is 4.3 miles ..divide that by half then subtract 10% ..that way you should make it back with a buffer
Hi Chris, Enjoyed your video and was in panic mode with you. I subbed and liked 👍🏼
Today I almost lost mine in a 6 mile excursion. "Aircraft disconnected" I had the CJI goggles on (which somehow were working) so I flew back to my 'woods' with literally one sec left to RTH (near the precarious trees). Live, learn, and be blessed I guess.
That was fun to watch, but I thought you could turn off sport mode and do an auto return to home to make it travel more efficiently.
Thanks for doing this test for me, now I know...I will keep mine close. Lol. Enjoyed your video
Common Chris premeditates his vids. Well thought out and very entertaining.
haha great video. im glad the drone is safe and sound!
Holy crap mate! Glad you made it!
awesome clip!!! hahaha i would be worried too. glad you got it back and the dog weren't there to molest it!
You got big balls dude. I'm afraid to try that.
Love this video! Should do this again but more in Range!
Brilliant video! Had me laughing! I got a MP and can just imagine how you felt!
Dude !!! So Glad you got it back
i like how you made sure to catch your bicep in the shot... nice lol
Was expecting a Rottweiler come snarling out at ya for 'breaking and entering' lol
Congrats on a happy ending, man. I would have been shaking too!
Lol. This was awesome! I was nervous for you.