 Welcome to Rotoride and today we are gonna see if we can get eight DJI quads to fly at the exact same time We're gonna be flying our HD one spec quads It's always been a challenge with RC like even early control link technology used to interfere with each other But as spread spectrum technology came out control links don't really interfere with each other as much anymore You go to an event like flight fest don't put 200 planes up in the year at the same time But once you're doing something like FPV that problem becomes very real again, and typically we're using a 5.8 Analog video system, you know a video feed it takes it takes a pretty wide bandwidth So Jamie what happens when you try to fly with multiple analog pilot you not only have to coordinate? Who's on what channels you have to know if the channels are even going to work together because not everybody flies The same band if you're too close You just bleed into each other and see everybody else's video while you're trying to fly it gets kind of like Heated like people get aggravated who plugged in plugged in over there DJI with their digital system has come up with an Ecosystem that alleviates a lot of the pinch points of flying with other people We've never tried to max it out though, and they're saying that we should be able to fly eight pilots What do you think about they think it's gonna work? I think I'm pretty confident. You're pretty confident I have you flown with more than one person so far. Yeah, two people two DJI pilots at the same time There was no question. There's no problem So instead of just going to an open field and to bring this to like a spot that's going to be horrible RF I mean this is where if we were flying this in five eight with even three people It would be a super issue, but I think I think this is like the worst-case scenario besides a band though Yeah, I mean how many people have you flown with that also the DJI system like two or three Did you ever have a problem being on the same channel? No, right? So what's really cool what DJI is implemented is what they call a public channel, and that's channel eight So anytime you boot up your drone The drone starts on channel eight it looks out there for other DJI pilots Sees which channels are in use and it won't let you go there So that's really cool. Yeah having that technology makes channel management a breeze like I didn't know did that It's really cool. I'm really curious about because the air units are on like 700 milliwatts when they're unlocked Generally flying with eight people with that kind of power sky And that's not a normal situation that I've ever been at this should be really interesting. Yeah We're just gonna start with three pilots at once and see what their experience is when they plug in Get ready to go and then once they get in the air, you know, what kind of blockages and stuff to have Where do you think that you're cut off limit where your comfortability? How many pilots? Yes, I'm gonna start getting nervous at like five It's so weird to have such good quality in the parking garage where I can see The details of the pavement on the ground. I'm all the way in the back of the parking garage right now And I'm not dealing with any problems. I have a little bit of breakup. Oh, it's fantastic. Oh, that's a good spot I'm ready. Should I let you go up in the next heat? Yes, I wanted I was ready two minutes after we got here It's good straight to five. We could do that straight to fight. Yeah, let me go straight from three five three worked out Too well Are you flying I'm flying Chad is so excited Lower just frame rate. Yeah, it's really really bad. It's super laggy super block. Oh, you know what guys hold on I think if you guys all stand so close to each other because the goggles also pop off Maybe land and then let's spread out the bodies Way better now that I'm not close to everybody it's backed out was the last flight That's interesting. I I think people have already tested improving that so yeah That was just so oversight on our part something we're not used to because usually the goggles have nothing to do with it Right, so yeah moving away from people tends to make the signal a little bit better I'm also more out open in the field. I have less interference for the trees behind me. This is much better flying to these fun Firing experience. It's great. My battery sucks. It's already dead That's one of my batteries. Yeah, thank you. When we were all staying next to each other I definitely experienced some some lag and that was mine was horrible Yeah, when we were right next to each other, it was because at first I was like we just found the limit We got about like I don't know 12 feet away from each other Maybe and that was really nice better hot rod FEV. Why are you here cuz cuz I'm yeah, I'm mr. Stellar Fox Mr. Stellar Fox Like probably some of the happiest pilots ever who've been in this game for a while too so to get this excited is that something Yep, give me some excitement I'm waiting on video Something's happening. Something's happening. Give it a second. So what happened? So when all the quads plugged in Seemed like they were trying to find each other's channels But because everyone was still plugging in some of the air units weren't aware of what the other areas were already on because they're still booting up and Essentially a cut out my video. It went to black, but now replugging in the quad everything seems to be working It took a couple seconds to figure out what it was doing, but hey, it's working Is everyone recording It's a swarm It's the same now as it was when it was three of us This is so crazy showed up Add a thing at a thing Okay, so we just did seven I mean it's so I don't know if eight's gonna work because eight is a public channel It's really just supposed to be like a bus stop where when you plug in you show up a channel eight It looks see is there an opening is there an open seat? Okay? I can sit down so basically we're just gonna fill up all the seats and then I'm gonna show up late to the party Does anyone's gotta go say they're on chat you're on a yeah, that's crazy I want let's try it. I got the good chip I just saw one perfect HD quad just it was like a single frame of like hello there That's the truth that is true. I've seen the light. It's oh my god What I have no idea and eight was fine It was what I loved was seeing that it saw what we were doing and it just kind of rearranged us or whatever I don't know what is he doing that works The only thing we had to do that was like at all a little bit of work was like stagger the plug-ins Yeah, pure magic. This is what I was hoping would be FPV when I started remember when I started out My goggles were slightly on the wrong band of channel the major video transmitter for six months I had really bad video with a system like this Things like that are a thing of the past and that has me excited for the future of FPV in a way that I've never been before It worked out a lot better than I thought what do you think I thought it was gonna Do basically what it does when you run out of range like when you go too far it gets a little blocky and laggy I thought it would do that but it seemed the same whether we had three five or eight I would definitely say don't ever fly on eight Unless you have to because you have eight people total because he was just up And if someone else had plugged in that's when you would have a problem because I thought I was just gonna be plugging in on eight And hoping it worked. I plugged in on eight and it moved him To eight and let me have seven for whatever reason Is that it? Oh, this is the drips quad. Okay, Chad step aside All right guys that was eight quads in the air at one time at an office park with tons of concrete and metal Amazing the only time we had issue is when we plugged in too quickly so as long as you kind of plug in way Put in the next one. I mean it. It'll just put your rank and file where you need to be I just had an issue with hitting the concrete And we'd like to thank DJI for sponsoring this episode and bringing this whole new revolution of HD into our hobby Well, that would have ruined the whole shot. I'm really glad you got that. Thank you Be part of the episode