@@FalconRadFPV same question here - how did you stay connected over that distance? maybe you can show in one of your next videos :) would appreciate that
You provide an invaluable or very valuable service to all of us who would like to be able to do just half of what you do. Thank you for showing us your way so that we can learn and utilize the same materials.
If you check out the quads and gear playlist on my RUclips page you'll find several video there about li-ion cells. Including choosing which ones to use as well as a look at how I build my own packs. Be aware that there is an element of risk to assembling your own li-ion packs.
just breath taking shots, it just got better and better, absolutely jaw dropping. the music was a nice fit too. can't wait for the deep dive into the technicalities and the snow bridge etc. imma watch again with music blasting.
Insane!! Music, flying, location, everything! I'm sure it didn't feel very worth it while you were out flying but I can tell you that it definitely was, at least for us viewers. Loved how the flight progressed as a story, with it starting in the relatively safe but still beautiful forest and waterfalls, up to the stunning glaciers and peak, racing back down the steep rock faces, and finally back to the forest. Keep it up man!
This is EPIC-Rad video! Flying it like a cine-drone again. 🙀🤣 Great flight lines, and awesome music track in the edit. You sure did your homework checking out the sight lines, flying that close and low!! 😲 Did you see that epic snow bridge at 4:37. 👉👈 (on the right)
I actually didn't notice it while I was flying, I wish I had. Only in reviewing the HD footage later on. I think I was too intently focused on the path ahead and not really watching what was off to the side. It looked like a wide open gap though. The hard part is figuring out in your head when and for how long the snow will cut the video and how confident I'd be to possibly have to do the exit for it blind.
With good antennas and about 800mW of video signal it should do fine. The catch is what happens when you lose video? Does it return immediately like analog does? One second is precious time when flying blind, if it's in close proximity to objects one second is almost a guaranteed crash unless you have your bailout technique well practiced. (in my case it's to level out the drone and throttle up, I'll switch to angle mode if my video is gone for more than one or two seconds.)
Thanks 👍 It actually was one flight just the two close in shots on the waterfalls were from the previous flight with a lesser ND filter for the part in the shadows.
Great footage. One piece of feedback is that the music throughout the 2nd half of the video is MUCH louder than your voice in the beginning, so I had to change volume to make it bearable. May wanna normalize that a bit more in the future
Your brave, When you were dipping into those crevasse's I was thinking you might loose it. You know even though you were prob. 5 miles out. You dip down in there just a little bit farther and you will loose it. I have the full crossfire system too. So I know its limits. Check out Kerni FPV He makes some super sick long range videos. Awesome footage FalconRad FPV.
Amazing flight brother! Magnificent footage and excellent edit!! I'm amazed at how close you can get to the ground flying up, particularly while following the stream. And that skier in blue...where does he go after he skies down the patch of snow? It was gravel after that. I guess heli goes to pick him up?😮
Tip of the hat to you , very inspiring what you have done. Little by little you have been solving and improving every aspect o your drone and flying. Congratulations.
All about line of sight. I have spent crazy amounts of time to find just the right locations to give me a good visual perspective on the part of the mountain that I wish to fly. For every ten mountains I check out only one or two of them will have interesting features with good sight lines and perspective. I spend more time looking for just the right spot to fly than actually flying. The more work and/or research I put into finding flight locations the better my results.
Amazing flight!! And ohhh! The cliff hanger right there at the end! I'm bringing my 7"LR back online after an 03 upgrade. Hope to hit the slopes soon. Keep up the good work!!
I don't see it?! It would be very hard to get up there. Maybe you could hike the other side but you would want a snowmobiles to get across the glacier and it would be dangerous to cross at this time of year. They only ride snowmobiles up there in the winter time.
@@FalconRadFPV You know what? On closer inspection at 1/4 speed I think it's a crevice. The size of my phone screen combined with the shape of the crevice and parallax shift as the drone banked in made it look like a man walking. Now that I'm on my monitor, defiantly not. What I'm seeing is just right of dead center on the screen as you bank in to the rocky part. Then exits frame from the bottom right corner.
Epic as always! Is there an advantage to having crossfire telemetry in addition to what is on the OSD? I’ve always turned mine down to 0W so as not to have more RF floating around. Is the reason redundancy? I’d love to get an insight to your logic here. Thanks. Amazing work, I’m a fan no doubt!
In my experience the way I do things the Betaflight OSD has everything I need LQ, RSSI dbi and all the battery info required to time flights well enough to maximize battery usage. I think if you lock crossfire at 50hz (done for long range builds) it might disable telemetry, not 100% sure if I'm remembering that correctly.
@@FalconRadFPV Same here (LR FPV 20+ years) … On the receivers, I leave Crossfire telemetry ON but at a power level of 0. I still get a telemetry signal as evidenced by my RCTX but, like you, don’t need it; everything is already in the OSD. I’m going to turn Crossfire Telemetry OFF from now on. Already locked at 50Hz. Thanks for the time/effort into putting your videos together, I’d rather watch them than anything on TV!
The fact that you flew so deep into the crevasses while being so far away blows my mind, some true balls of steel! I've flown at a glacier before, too, but didn't dare to fly into the crevasses as you did and I wasn't nearly as far away. But I was also not positioned well enough, the crevasses ran perpendicularly to where I was standing (if that makes sense) so I would have for sure lost signal if I had dipped down into them. Maybe I'll work up the courage next time lol. Thanks for sharing!
What camera angle are you running. Your FPV cam not your action cam. Curious as to your pitch vs average speed Amazing flight btw. This is the stuff of legends for long range. Top of your game
No I only used a GoPro 8 so no 10-bit option. Got a hero 11 mini for videos this year so I'll be able to start recording 10-bit color and a higher bit rate now.
This is incredible footage, but I thought the drone and transmitter's radio waves would only go Line Of Sight? How does the radio signal get around obstacles? Please forgive my ignorance. Steven. U.K.
it only works line of sight. I had line of sight the whole time. The ice cracks traveled vertically up the mountain so the side walls did not get in between the drone and myself. At most there was 1 or 2 small bushes in the way. It's all about learning a route that works for line of sight as well as being interesting. This one took about 7 flight to learn the exact route I wanted to take and that's on top of the knowledge gained from flying this mountain several times before. Lot's of practice and planning went into this, it's a 10 or 12 min flight but I put 50 times that amount of time into all the preparation, planning and practice for this specific location..
I used two seperate 6s batteries for 6s2p, they were rated at 2800 mAh each for 5600mAh total at 6s voltage. I made the packs myself using molicel P28A 18650 sized li-ion cells. Here's a video about how I made those specific battery packs: ruclips.net/video/CLyWh9Sc7C0/видео.html
I hope that this film gets submitted to the short film/documentary categoires for various awards. You really deserve a huge amount of recognition for this marvelous film. It is stunning. I felt I was actually flying through those crevices and could reach out and touch the ice walls. Maginificent. Good luck and well done.
Great video! 😁 Excited to see the snow tunnel fly through next. I can relate to the almost crash, had quite a similar close call recently. I see you use crossfire diversity. Got myself a diversity receiver too. Did you put the crossfire antenna on the rear inside a tube? I wonder how I could mount my immortal T antenna without wiggling around too much.🤔 Don't want to shield the antenna by putting too much stuff around it though. 😅
I use either a bardpole for my rear vertical antenna or a dipole that I made myself. Although I have seen some good mounts to get an immortal T mounted vertically I much prefer the the other two I mentioned for the rear vertical antenna. I always use an immortal T horizontally mounted up front though. The antenna wobble is important, my DIY dipole does well if I put a stiff plastic tube over it, funny that a bubble tea straw was the PERFECT size that it snuggly fits over a bit or the brass SMA connector and stiffins it up really well. Otherwise I've noticed some bad vibrations from it moving around too much with just heat shrink to stiffen it.
Just a few other thoughts. Kerni FPV has a video where he looses his drone. He dips over the edge just a little to far. And it drops like a rock. Takes Him a whole day to rescue it. He also uses a TBS diversity receiver with 2 Immortal T antennae's. One in the front and one in the back. Such a good idea. I only have nano's at the moment. Awesome work man.
I'm using Orqa FPV.one goggles with a rapidfire RX. The secret is using the right antennas and keeping clear line of sight. If you do that you can get great range with almost any gear.
Think this is your best flight that you have posted. Not that you ever really crash but have you considered crash recovery setting on betaflight, especially if you were concerned about bouncing off a wall?
I haven't looked into it really. I though it was more of a whoop thing. I think it's meant to regain control if the quad freaks out. But ever since like BF 3.2 or something quads do great at maintaining control. Back with like 3.1 or earlier they would flip out from just hitting a branch. With whoops though they crash different and tend to be harder to control post crash. Also hearing about having to tweak the settings so it doesn't accidentally get triggered unnecessarily makes me not want to use it.
Wow nerves of steel!! Great video. One day :) What was your signal like when you were dipping down into the crevasse? Did you have to punch out at all. I loved when you had the OSD but I understand not wanting to share that anymore.
Thank you. I had to find the crevasse's traveled up and down the mountain which kept them in a straight line of sight from my position back at the home point. Finding and learning which one's had just the right line of sight was the key. There were ton's of big cracks in the ice but only a few were perfectly lined up with my sight line.
Both have plenty of range. the issue is with the way the video reacts when you lose connection. With analog it gets lines in it or turns totally to fuzz, BUT the instant the obstruction is out of the way the video returns. With DJI it will look fine then all of a sudden it will freeze. You lose a split second of reaction time while realizing that the video has actually frozen and it's just a single frame frozen in place. As well once the obstruction is out of the way the video takes 0.5 - 1 second to start up again. That is with frozen video, if the video cuts out completely with DJI I'm not sure what happens, but I know when powering on and making the initial connection it takes 4 or 5 seconds to do it so... Not sure I would fly into these ice cracks with a DJI quad, much more comfortable doing it with an analog setup.
incredible footage. I know you must be in Canada somewhere. I have always liked your videos. till I found your channel, I did not know you could fly a fav that long of range. would like to build one, one day. good stuff!!!
Very nice footage! Something that you might see in a well done documentary. Don't blame you for not wanting to lose your drone! would say please keep it up, the video was very interesting, tense, fun to watch. Kind of cool to see part of earth that you would have a hard time getting to without a plane, helicopter, drone, etc... Cheers!
Wow man! Your epic flights keep getting better and better! Can't wait to get back up into the mountains with my freshly rebuilt Aos Falcon7! Been running 8400mah 6s2p Molicel p42a. Gives me 10 minutes cruising at 75mph.
You were shaking a little bit? I was shaking while watching it :) because I know how it is when the video goes out or the remote says signal lost heh... i can't believe you actually held line of sight for the whole flight... that was some beautiful scenery!
So many places we can see & explore with these drones that can get into areas many humans have never been before. Would love to do a gofundme one of these days to go around the world to get to these places that would costs tons just to mount an expedition to get to some of these places & can get shots in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. What happened with your DJI O3 build?
Thanks for the comment. My 03 build is in my newest frame design that is still yet to be released so it's hasn't been in any of my videos yet. It's coming soon, but I am way behind on my expected timeline to be finished working on it. This one has a bunch of different GoPro mounting options and that part alone has been weeks of design revisions to get it all just right.
How on earth do you keep flyable video feed that far?!?! On my Rush Tank I would've lost video a quarter of that distance even at max output. Amazing video!!! I was clenching when you got into those crevasses. That feeling of responsibility and the possible consequences just makes your heart rate soar.
@@EnglishTurbines hehe, how much do you sell them for? To be honest, i skipped a little so if there were obvious cuts i misses them. However, the dive and return to home at the end looks quite long distance away and is a single shot as far as i could tell....
Ummm. it was all one flight. The two close in shots going up the waterfalls were from my second flight, all the rest of the footage was from my third flight. Each flight took basically the same route. 14 km is not that far in one flight, a 5" freestyle quads can do like 6 or 7 in one flight. I've done flights over twice as long as this.
Keeping good video is all about antennas and the placement. Two strong patches or similar on the goggles and a good quality omni antenna on the quad is all you need. I never fly over 800mW even though my VTX goes up to 1600mW. With good antenna you can do like 8 to 10 km with 5.8 video on 800mW.
Wow what an intense flight, stunning footage. The whole things draws you in and your choice of music is exquisite, so aligned with the visuals. Well done my friend, you are very talented on so many levels. Subscribed, all the best from Australia.
Amazing! I wonder how you still had signal, since the ice it's basically a big body of water? Water is normally problematic for signals to travel trough
Ya the ice kills the RF signal worse than water. Glacial ice is very dense. It was all about maintaining line of sight even when in the ice cracks. Only a small portion of the cracks were flyable so I had to kind of picture a 3D model in my head of the line of sight to me, the direction of the ice crack in relation to the sight line and also pay attention to the elevation of the areas around the crack to ensure I did not fly behind a rise in the ground. It gets easier the more you do it, when I first started flying long range I would lose video very often. Now that I've got it practiced so much, I was able to maintain perfect clear video for that entire flight.
i lose video in an openfield after 100m and that guy flies 14km and still goes out of line of sight.. this just proves to me that something in my setup is performing terribly wrong :D
Never out of line of sight. Due to the mountains steepness everything I just flew past is down below the drone afterwards. If I fly behind anything my video signal will disappear. It took about 7 practice flights to find out where to fly and keep signal and still be able to fly down as low as possible.
Thanks, here's a link to the build video ruclips.net/video/Q66jSfA7-ec/видео.html And the release video for that frame ruclips.net/video/4rwsv-dNwyk/видео.html
Wow, Falcon, this is just incredible! This vision is stunning. Your flights make me nervous every time! haha! But darn, what a rush! Thanks again for sharing. 🙌❤
You mean off to the right in the snow filling the gully? It's a sort of tunnel melted into the dense snow pack. The dark part is the rock that you can see through the melted snow and the lighter part is a trench melted into the snow that hasn't made it all the way through yet.
You long range guys are the actual crazy ones. Hucking my quad from the moon into a hole an inch bigger than my drone aint shit compared to this. Good stuff.
It's all about keeping line of sight. There is nothing between me and the drone for the entire flight. It looks like I'm behind the ice but from my perspective the drone is never behind anything, or else I would lose signal.
Now that's what I call a stunning video!!!
Respect that you have dared so far into the crevasses! 😱😱😱
Thank you so much 😀
Amazing footage! I have no idea how you keep video link going literally into those crevasses. Well done.
Thank you very much!
@@FalconRadFPV same question here - how did you stay connected over that distance? maybe you can show in one of your next videos :) would appreciate that
800mw vtx, 1w for vrx = long range
@@AndGuitar i never heard you can set power on VRX? Got rapid-fire.
Amazing flying and footage, dude... That's just EPIC! 😯
I have no words!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks so much MC, I really appreciate the comment!
You provide an invaluable or very valuable service to all of us who would like to be able to do just half of what you do. Thank you for showing us your way so that we can learn and utilize the same materials.
I appreciate that!
Geez mate. You must have incredible confidence in your equipment. Fantastic to see a pro like yours videos.
Thanks 👍
A lot of really amazing footage here. That is such a surreal landscape up there like a alien world, its crazy! Watched to the end 😬I'm anxious now!
Thanks Brandon! Oh ya the upcoming snow tunnel video is going to be awesome!
my mother! What nerves, how can I build a battery that lasts so long? congratulations for the good video and Garcia for the visits.
If you check out the quads and gear playlist on my RUclips page you'll find several video there about li-ion cells. Including choosing which ones to use as well as a look at how I build my own packs. Be aware that there is an element of risk to assembling your own li-ion packs.
Thank you very much, I will review the videos to build a pack, greetings
just breath taking shots, it just got better and better, absolutely jaw dropping. the music was a nice fit too. can't wait for the deep dive into the technicalities and the snow bridge etc. imma watch again with music blasting.
Thanks so much for a great comment!
Insane!! Music, flying, location, everything! I'm sure it didn't feel very worth it while you were out flying but I can tell you that it definitely was, at least for us viewers. Loved how the flight progressed as a story, with it starting in the relatively safe but still beautiful forest and waterfalls, up to the stunning glaciers and peak, racing back down the steep rock faces, and finally back to the forest. Keep it up man!
Thanks a ton!
This is absolutely amazing mate, you are a fighter
This is EPIC-Rad video! Flying it like a cine-drone again. 🙀🤣
Great flight lines, and awesome music track in the edit.
You sure did your homework checking out the sight lines, flying that close and low!! 😲
Did you see that epic snow bridge at 4:37. 👉👈 (on the right)
I actually didn't notice it while I was flying, I wish I had. Only in reviewing the HD footage later on. I think I was too intently focused on the path ahead and not really watching what was off to the side. It looked like a wide open gap though. The hard part is figuring out in your head when and for how long the snow will cut the video and how confident I'd be to possibly have to do the exit for it blind.
Epic Bro 👍👍👊🔥
Thanks 👍
love it!! this is why we fly!
Awesome! There is a entire lifetime of drone flying, building, and flight planning in that one flight. Very impressive!!
Thanks so much!
omg! thats so sick.
Thanks so much!
Magnifique
Merci et encore merci pour tes exploits !!!
Champion du monde de longrange 👍👍👍👍
Thank you, much appreciated!
Holy Smokes!! Speechless. Awesome x1000 flight Conrad.
Thanks a lot!
Amazign ride! Would you think you can fly as far with a, let´s say, Walksnail Avatar system? Congrats, Cheers!
With good antennas and about 800mW of video signal it should do fine. The catch is what happens when you lose video? Does it return immediately like analog does? One second is precious time when flying blind, if it's in close proximity to objects one second is almost a guaranteed crash unless you have your bailout technique well practiced. (in my case it's to level out the drone and throttle up, I'll switch to angle mode if my video is gone for more than one or two seconds.)
Nice editing, it made it look like it was one flight....😳😏🇬🇧
Thanks 👍 It actually was one flight just the two close in shots on the waterfalls were from the previous flight with a lesser ND filter for the part in the shadows.
Your best video to date! Keep on pushing man!
Thanks! Will do!
What an epic ride, thanks for taking us along!
Great footage. One piece of feedback is that the music throughout the 2nd half of the video is MUCH louder than your voice in the beginning, so I had to change volume to make it bearable. May wanna normalize that a bit more in the future
Thanks for the tip
Your best video yet! I really liked the music at the start.
How was your signal and feed when you dropped into the crevasses?
I had solid video for the whole flight, just a flicker here and there. All about line of sight and the antennas!
Dig the journey. Have to say the dramatic music takes away from the flight. Simple opinion. Sweet footage!
Your brave, When you were dipping into those crevasse's I was thinking you might loose it. You know even though you were prob. 5 miles out. You dip down in there just a little bit farther and you will loose it. I have the full crossfire system too. So I know its limits. Check out Kerni FPV He makes some super sick long range videos. Awesome footage FalconRad FPV.
Darn, this blew me away. Well, I didn't say 'darn'. I guess RUclips embarrasses easily. That's OK.
I could send you some of my heart pills. Bless you!
Amazing flight brother! Magnificent footage and excellent edit!!
I'm amazed at how close you can get to the ground flying up, particularly while following the stream.
And that skier in blue...where does he go after he skies down the patch of snow? It was gravel after that.
I guess heli goes to pick him up?😮
Tip of the hat to you , very inspiring what you have done. Little by little you have been solving and improving every aspect o your drone and flying. Congratulations.
Another great long range adventure! Like it when you say your hands are shaking. Awesome! :)
Thanks! 👍
WOW just WOW, possible to release full flights in a series perhaps, even the explorer vids would be awesome . Great work
Incredible range, didn’t realize you could keep a video connection that far out! Awesome vid
Excellent, love it. superb flying. impressive.
Thanks a lot!
1:35 also very dangerous shots, these branches were most likely not visible in the analog
So good! Big respect man. 🙌🙌👍
Thank you 🙌
Wow!!! That was one flight! And how did you keep video signal when dipping below the trees and ice wall? So insane! 🤘🏻love it
All about line of sight. I have spent crazy amounts of time to find just the right locations to give me a good visual perspective on the part of the mountain that I wish to fly. For every ten mountains I check out only one or two of them will have interesting features with good sight lines and perspective. I spend more time looking for just the right spot to fly than actually flying. The more work and/or research I put into finding flight locations the better my results.
WOW! Just incredible flight! It must have taken a considerable amount of planning to fly that far out. Subscribed and look forward to more
Thanks a lot!
7:39 in these frames, all the time I want the camera to shoot a couple of steps darker than the exposure
Amazing flight!! And ohhh! The cliff hanger right there at the end! I'm bringing my 7"LR back online after an 03 upgrade. Hope to hit the slopes soon. Keep up the good work!!
$300 to $6oo worth of potential loss always makes for a good flight. Awesome footage!
Awesome !!!! 🎉🎉 congratulations
Thank you!!
Truly epic flight well done 👍liked and subscribed 👍
Beautiful, I had never seen mount… mount… mount what?
7:25. There's a random guy up there on the mountain.
I don't see it?! It would be very hard to get up there. Maybe you could hike the other side but you would want a snowmobiles to get across the glacier and it would be dangerous to cross at this time of year. They only ride snowmobiles up there in the winter time.
@@FalconRadFPV You know what? On closer inspection at 1/4 speed I think it's a crevice. The size of my phone screen combined with the shape of the crevice and parallax shift as the drone banked in made it look like a man walking. Now that I'm on my monitor, defiantly not. What I'm seeing is just right of dead center on the screen as you bank in to the rocky part. Then exits frame from the bottom right corner.
Epic as always! Is there an advantage to having crossfire telemetry in addition to what is on the OSD? I’ve always turned mine down to 0W so as not to have more RF floating around. Is the reason redundancy? I’d love to get an insight to your logic here. Thanks. Amazing work, I’m a fan no doubt!
In my experience the way I do things the Betaflight OSD has everything I need LQ, RSSI dbi and all the battery info required to time flights well enough to maximize battery usage. I think if you lock crossfire at 50hz (done for long range builds) it might disable telemetry, not 100% sure if I'm remembering that correctly.
@@FalconRadFPV Same here (LR FPV 20+ years) … On the receivers, I leave Crossfire telemetry ON but at a power level of 0. I still get a telemetry signal as evidenced by my RCTX but, like you, don’t need it; everything is already in the OSD. I’m going to turn Crossfire Telemetry OFF from now on. Already locked at 50Hz. Thanks for the time/effort into putting your videos together, I’d rather watch them than anything on TV!
Where is that place?
it's the coastal mountains over on the west coast.
I felt just like James Bond gliding down that mountain ... ¶ ; - )
wow just wow that flight was beyond nuts - next level long range proximity fpv here!
oldguyFPV says; Killer! Luv it! You still the man!
One the most amazing long range video, send dvr too.
The fact that you flew so deep into the crevasses while being so far away blows my mind, some true balls of steel! I've flown at a glacier before, too, but didn't dare to fly into the crevasses as you did and I wasn't nearly as far away. But I was also not positioned well enough, the crevasses ran perpendicularly to where I was standing (if that makes sense) so I would have for sure lost signal if I had dipped down into them. Maybe I'll work up the courage next time lol. Thanks for sharing!
I had to find the few that ran the right direction. Most were perpendicular to my line of sight.
What camera angle are you running. Your FPV cam not your action cam. Curious as to your pitch vs average speed
Amazing flight btw. This is the stuff of legends for long range. Top of your game
I use about 26 degrees for fpv cam and 28 for gopro.
Great piloting. Amazing range you were able to get.
If you’ve never flown Fpv, your all missing out.
Amazing pictures! Thank you!
Killer footage man. Love it. Never stop. Its like porn for LR
that's awesome , makes me regret selling my long range stuff ...
@1:55 Dude think about that distance and going proximity like that... I got shaking hands even at home in front of my screen. AWESOME FLIGHT!
Thanks very much!
Incredible! Do you have the footage in 10bit log? How about mastering in HDR? I’d be happy to assist... (Have an HDR Grading Suite)
No I only used a GoPro 8 so no 10-bit option. Got a hero 11 mini for videos this year so I'll be able to start recording 10-bit color and a higher bit rate now.
Really Digging the music adds flair to each video, nice smooth flying very stable, and every shot is breath taking Bravo Fly Brother Bravo!!!! 😢😮🎉
Thanks very much!
Holy fuckin hell the art is in the edit as well as the insane BEAUTY ... AFUCKIN PLUS
This is incredible footage, but I thought the drone and transmitter's radio waves would only go Line Of Sight? How does the radio signal get around obstacles? Please forgive my ignorance. Steven. U.K.
it only works line of sight. I had line of sight the whole time. The ice cracks traveled vertically up the mountain so the side walls did not get in between the drone and myself. At most there was 1 or 2 small bushes in the way. It's all about learning a route that works for line of sight as well as being interesting. This one took about 7 flight to learn the exact route I wanted to take and that's on top of the knowledge gained from flying this mountain several times before. Lot's of practice and planning went into this, it's a 10 or 12 min flight but I put 50 times that amount of time into all the preparation, planning and practice for this specific location..
What kind of battery are you using? you mentioned 6s2p but not the MAH/weight of the battery
I used two seperate 6s batteries for 6s2p, they were rated at 2800 mAh each for 5600mAh total at 6s voltage. I made the packs myself using molicel P28A 18650 sized li-ion cells. Here's a video about how I made those specific battery packs: ruclips.net/video/CLyWh9Sc7C0/видео.html
Blown away. One of the best journeys on a LR rig I have ever seen. I just can't imagine how it felt in the Google's. 👍👌🔥
Much apprecaited!
Absolutely bloody incredible mate ✊🔥🤝
Thanks so much for the time you put into the description and all the accompanying information 🤜🏻🤛🏻
No problem 👍
What tha? How tha? Incredible! Immersive, inspiring, and ballsy. But you missed the arch gap at 4:40 😲
Thank you!
I hope that this film gets submitted to the short film/documentary categoires for various awards. You really deserve a huge amount of recognition for this marvelous film. It is stunning. I felt I was actually flying through those crevices and could reach out and touch the ice walls. Maginificent. Good luck and well done.
Thanks so much!
Great video! 😁
Excited to see the snow tunnel fly through next. I can relate to the almost crash, had quite a similar close call recently.
I see you use crossfire diversity. Got myself a diversity receiver too.
Did you put the crossfire antenna on the rear inside a tube? I wonder how I could mount my immortal T antenna without wiggling around too much.🤔
Don't want to shield the antenna by putting too much stuff around it though. 😅
I use either a bardpole for my rear vertical antenna or a dipole that I made myself. Although I have seen some good mounts to get an immortal T mounted vertically I much prefer the the other two I mentioned for the rear vertical antenna. I always use an immortal T horizontally mounted up front though. The antenna wobble is important, my DIY dipole does well if I put a stiff plastic tube over it, funny that a bubble tea straw was the PERFECT size that it snuggly fits over a bit or the brass SMA connector and stiffins it up really well. Otherwise I've noticed some bad vibrations from it moving around too much with just heat shrink to stiffen it.
Just a few other thoughts. Kerni FPV has a video where he looses his drone. He dips over the edge just a little to far. And it drops like a rock. Takes Him a whole day to rescue it. He also uses a TBS diversity receiver with 2 Immortal T antennae's. One in the front and one in the back. Such a good idea. I only have nano's at the moment. Awesome work man.
Thanks so much for the comment!
So, are you telling me that this beauty was done with an analog setup?
800mW... Wow.
Superb, absolutely astonishing.
👍👍👍
Yes, correct
Crazy flight how far was that?
Amazing flight! I see that you use Rush vtx set at 800mW, what goggle and receiver do you use?
I'm using Orqa FPV.one goggles with a rapidfire RX. The secret is using the right antennas and keeping clear line of sight. If you do that you can get great range with almost any gear.
Amazing flight....and that's an understatement!! Your videos are what got me into wanting to fly long range.
Great flying🤙🏾
Awesome! Thank you!
Think this is your best flight that you have posted. Not that you ever really crash but have you considered crash recovery setting on betaflight, especially if you were concerned about bouncing off a wall?
I haven't looked into it really. I though it was more of a whoop thing. I think it's meant to regain control if the quad freaks out. But ever since like BF 3.2 or something quads do great at maintaining control. Back with like 3.1 or earlier they would flip out from just hitting a branch. With whoops though they crash different and tend to be harder to control post crash. Also hearing about having to tweak the settings so it doesn't accidentally get triggered unnecessarily makes me not want to use it.
Wow nerves of steel!! Great video. One day :) What was your signal like when you were dipping down into the crevasse? Did you have to punch out at all. I loved when you had the OSD but I understand not wanting to share that anymore.
Thank you. I had to find the crevasse's traveled up and down the mountain which kept them in a straight line of sight from my position back at the home point. Finding and learning which one's had just the right line of sight was the key. There were ton's of big cracks in the ice but only a few were perfectly lined up with my sight line.
Just a beginner question, how does the DJI O3 air unit perform in comparison to your bvtx built?
Both have plenty of range. the issue is with the way the video reacts when you lose connection. With analog it gets lines in it or turns totally to fuzz, BUT the instant the obstruction is out of the way the video returns. With DJI it will look fine then all of a sudden it will freeze. You lose a split second of reaction time while realizing that the video has actually frozen and it's just a single frame frozen in place. As well once the obstruction is out of the way the video takes 0.5 - 1 second to start up again. That is with frozen video, if the video cuts out completely with DJI I'm not sure what happens, but I know when powering on and making the initial connection it takes 4 or 5 seconds to do it so... Not sure I would fly into these ice cracks with a DJI quad, much more comfortable doing it with an analog setup.
incredible footage. I know you must be in Canada somewhere. I have always liked your videos. till I found your channel, I did not know you could fly a fav that long of range. would like to build one, one day. good stuff!!!
Thank you very much!
Very nice footage! Something that you might see in a well done documentary. Don't blame you for not wanting to lose your drone! would say please keep it up, the video was very interesting, tense, fun to watch. Kind of cool to see part of earth that you would have a hard time getting to without a plane, helicopter, drone, etc... Cheers!
Thanks for the comment!
Amazing flight, was worth it!
Wow man! Your epic flights keep getting better and better! Can't wait to get back up into the mountains with my freshly rebuilt Aos Falcon7! Been running 8400mah 6s2p Molicel p42a. Gives me 10 minutes cruising at 75mph.
wow that's a good speed for li-ion flying, nice!
You were shaking a little bit? I was shaking while watching it :) because I know how it is when the video goes out or the remote says signal lost heh... i can't believe you actually held line of sight for the whole flight... that was some beautiful scenery!
Thanks for the comment. Ya it's quite nerve wracking knowing if you make a tiny mistake you lose $1000 and there's nothing you can do about it.
HOLY FUCK dude. Most incredible LR I have ever seen. Even sicker that you fly analog too!
It's way safer to fly analog for long range. Analog lost video reset time 0.01 seconds, DJI lost video reset time 8 seconds!
So many places we can see & explore with these drones that can get into areas many humans have never been before. Would love to do a gofundme one of these days to go around the world to get to these places that would costs tons just to mount an expedition to get to some of these places & can get shots in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. What happened with your DJI O3 build?
Thanks for the comment. My 03 build is in my newest frame design that is still yet to be released so it's hasn't been in any of my videos yet. It's coming soon, but I am way behind on my expected timeline to be finished working on it. This one has a bunch of different GoPro mounting options and that part alone has been weeks of design revisions to get it all just right.
I want to see zazhbkm dvr to understand how the level of interference changes
Damn dude! intense flying!
How on earth do you keep flyable video feed that far?!?! On my Rush Tank I would've lost video a quarter of that distance even at max output.
Amazing video!!! I was clenching when you got into those crevasses. That feeling of responsibility and the possible consequences just makes your heart rate soar.
You think this was all in one flight?
I have some magic beans for sale...🤔😳😏😏😏🇬🇧
@@EnglishTurbines hehe, how much do you sell them for?
To be honest, i skipped a little so if there were obvious cuts i misses them. However, the dive and return to home at the end looks quite long distance away and is a single shot as far as i could tell....
@@finkelmann Yes, the return trip of course is way easier, no gulley flying...The shots going up are a different story though....😏😏😏🇬🇧
Ummm. it was all one flight. The two close in shots going up the waterfalls were from my second flight, all the rest of the footage was from my third flight. Each flight took basically the same route. 14 km is not that far in one flight, a 5" freestyle quads can do like 6 or 7 in one flight. I've done flights over twice as long as this.
Keeping good video is all about antennas and the placement. Two strong patches or similar on the goggles and a good quality omni antenna on the quad is all you need. I never fly over 800mW even though my VTX goes up to 1600mW. With good antenna you can do like 8 to 10 km with 5.8 video on 800mW.
The footage is beyond worth it, stupefying!
Thank you for pushing boundaries further and showing us all what is possible :D
Glad you enjoyed it!
My first time on your channel and this blew me away - absolutely amazing footage. Where is this?
coastal range on the west coast.
Wow what an intense flight, stunning footage. The whole things draws you in and your choice of music is exquisite, so aligned with the visuals. Well done my friend, you are very talented on so many levels. Subscribed, all the best from Australia.
Thank you so much 😀
THIS IS AMAZING!!!. Thanks for sharing this with us.
No problem 😊
Amazing! I wonder how you still had signal, since the ice it's basically a big body of water? Water is normally problematic for signals to travel trough
Ya the ice kills the RF signal worse than water. Glacial ice is very dense. It was all about maintaining line of sight even when in the ice cracks. Only a small portion of the cracks were flyable so I had to kind of picture a 3D model in my head of the line of sight to me, the direction of the ice crack in relation to the sight line and also pay attention to the elevation of the areas around the crack to ensure I did not fly behind a rise in the ground. It gets easier the more you do it, when I first started flying long range I would lose video very often. Now that I've got it practiced so much, I was able to maintain perfect clear video for that entire flight.
Ballsy Mr Falcon Rad. 🔥
i lose video in an openfield after 100m and that guy flies 14km and still goes out of line of sight.. this just proves to me that something in my setup is performing terribly wrong :D
Never out of line of sight. Due to the mountains steepness everything I just flew past is down below the drone afterwards. If I fly behind anything my video signal will disappear. It took about 7 practice flights to find out where to fly and keep signal and still be able to fly down as low as possible.
This is unbelievable!!! Amazing footage!!! You are taking long range flying to the edge.
Thanks a lot!
Awesome flight! Great job! Subbed!
Thanks for the sub!
Amazing... do you have a build up video?
I really wanna get a drone like that one.
Thx.
Thanks, here's a link to the build video ruclips.net/video/Q66jSfA7-ec/видео.html
And the release video for that frame ruclips.net/video/4rwsv-dNwyk/видео.html
Wow, Falcon, this is just incredible! This vision is stunning. Your flights make me nervous every time! haha! But darn, what a rush! Thanks again for sharing. 🙌❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
very good flight and footage ^_^
perfect music to a great video, thanks man. 7,26 min, any idea what it is in the snow down in the right corner?
You mean off to the right in the snow filling the gully? It's a sort of tunnel melted into the dense snow pack. The dark part is the rock that you can see through the melted snow and the lighter part is a trench melted into the snow that hasn't made it all the way through yet.
You long range guys are the actual crazy ones. Hucking my quad from the moon into a hole an inch bigger than my drone aint shit compared to this. Good stuff.
Thanks so much for the comment!
How in the world does the signal reach that far? Where are you located? Do you have to be line of sight to maintain signal?
It's all about keeping line of sight. There is nothing between me and the drone for the entire flight. It looks like I'm behind the ice but from my perspective the drone is never behind anything, or else I would lose signal.