 Three mile power loop! We're gonna make Paul do a power loop from three miles away. I don't know if something like this has ever been done. Definitely don't think something like this has ever been done with the DJI FPV drone. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, here at Rotor Riot we fly high performance FPV drones that are capable of some incredible things. They can fly long distances, they can do high speed acrobatics, it's crazy. And recently DJI came out with their FPV drone. It's getting a lot of new people into the hobby which is awesome. A lot of people that have been flying FPV for a while kind of question, you know, how good is this thing? I mean, it's made out of plastic. Can you do some real serious operation? The battery life is superb. The distance that it can go with good video is incredible. I think it's the perfect tool to get this job done. So here's what we're gonna do. Paul and Jeff are gonna load up and drive to the other side of the lake all the way over there. I don't even know if you guys can see all the way over there. Bubbie is gonna stay here and he's gonna set up an obstacle for Paul to power loop. Sean and I, we're gonna get in the boat and head across the lake rendezvous with Jeff and Paul and begin the mission to fly over the lake to come here to do the power loop. They're gonna chase the drone in the boat so that we always have a visual line of sight on the drone no matter what. Yeah, that's the thing about flying. Technically you need to always have someone able to see the drone line of sight. To get that information back to us on the ground we're gonna be on a conference call with all of us. So it'll be us on our side, Bubbie on his side and then Drew and Sean on the boat and we'll all be in communication. Let's draw this out. Okay, we're gonna be representing this lake by the circle that is filled in with some line. Paul and I think Jeff are gonna be standing here at point A. Drew and Sean are gonna be on a boat and it's going to go all the way across this lake. Paul is gonna power loop. Gonna be epic. There's something there to power loop. And basically the distance across the lake is three miles. Thanks for drawing that treasure map for us. So we're set up at the launch point. We're waiting for the boat to come from the dock. But honestly, I'm kind of just looking out over the horizon waiting for that kind of dark plume of smoke that means that their boat has totally fried itself. Genuinely not expecting them to get here. That's not a problem. That's okay. It's okay. It's on E for an excellent. Extra full. Extra full. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little bit nervous about weighing way out here on this boat. Why? What's gonna happen? The one thing going for us, the wind is blowing that way. So if we do get stuck, where do we get stuck? If the boat decides it doesn't wanna run anywhere. Why would that happen? Ripped rudders, dented drops. Every time we do anything that has to do with the boat, we get a lesson in Morrison Mechanicry. So at the impaler, if you follow you, I'm gonna, I'll follow you. Okay, he's gonna follow us. But we need to make sure we go straight there, Sean. I will also have to kind of set the pace a little bit too, so I might tell you to go faster or slower, because I gotta make sure that we're not over-flying our battery. Very smart, very well thought out. All right, watching the drone. It's going down, it's going down, oh my gosh. I'm locking this in on 10 meters per second. Okay, he's approaching. I have visual line of sight on the drone. I'm going 10 meters a second, it's locked in. Wait, hold on. Max flight distance reached. Oh no, there's a goggle taking, oh it's parking. Go into the goggle, see if you can turn that off. I got it set to the max. Shoot. We're good now, we're good now, we're good now. Okay, he's going. He had the flight limit on. Oh no. All right, he's on us, keep going. Ha ha ha. On the way out to the destination where I'm gonna do the power loop, I decided to use sport mode. And in sport mode, I'm able to turn on cruise control and let the drone just move forward at a certain attitude, meaning it's gonna just keep going that direction at that speed until I tell it otherwise. Once I arrive at the destination, I can then switch over to manual mode, which is what's gonna allow me to do the power loops and do all of the kind of traditional FPV sort of thing. So I'm just, I've got it set in the cruise control mode, watching the height, watching the distance, and at this point I can just let it go. It's good that we have the drone as a compass because I don't know where I'm going. Ha ha ha. You guys can get in front of me if you want. We're trying, we're going as fast as we can. This boat's kind of falling apart. It sounds like they're dying. I think it'll get done. I think Paul will successfully power loop the thing. But what I hope is that he doesn't just power loop it and then not go back through the gate. It's like people sometimes forget that a power loop, you gotta finish the whole thing. Look at the angle at which we're flying at. Like, yeah, that's just like, that's just straight in level. Like literally not doing anything on the controls. And it's just like, we're now at the point where the drone wants us to return to home. We're basically at what is like the halfway point of the battery. You just gotta ignore all those warning messages. All right, that's what I'm doing. You gotta go home. Paul's like, no, I know what I'm doing. I ain't going home. They're getting pretty close. Okay, we have to slow down, call restroom and no wake zone. Okay, I'm gonna keep going without you. Bobby, am I going to the right of the dock or the left of the dock? The left of the dock. And I will be standing on a bench, waving my hands so you can see me. I'm starting to finally get some trouble with video. It's not unflyable, but it's less comfortable for sure. Eight minute flight. We are now 5,200 meters from home. Okay, I see the tent now. Oh, I see the drone. I see the drone, I see the drone. Paul, do you see me? Do you see me? Do you see me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. I'm gonna get down from here, because I'm scared. I hereby pass my spotter duties to you, Bobby. I am now the, I have the duties of the fodder. So Paul, you see this? You see this thing right here? Yeah. You see these tents? Yeah. How is that now? How would you do? Okay. Switching to manual mode. Okay, I'm full manual mode now. Here we go. Oh, we have to, oh, I missed it. Oh, I missed it. I gotta go again. Be careful, be careful. I'm panicked. I'm panicked. What happened on the tree? I saw a dog, he's here. He did it. He did it. He did it. Look, he's going away now. He's going back three miles from your way. Okay. I only have 37% left. Drew, I hereby give you the duty of watching the drone. Okay, I've got visual of the drone. It's on me now. He's coming back. We're going help. We did it. Yeah. Three mile power loop. It's at 35%. We just hit a power loop three miles away. I had such bad video, it's not even funny. Dude, he got dangerously close to that tree. He hit the tree. Okay, Paul's a epic pilot, so he got it. Okay, so we are now 4,500 meters out. It's, we'd successfully did the power loop, but we only have 23% battery life remaining. We're 4,000 meters to go. I don't think we're going to make it. So I think we're going to have to go to the contingency plan of landing the drone inside of the boat. Drew, are you guys able to catch me? Okay, yeah, we can catch it if you need us to. Okay, so I'm going to go until I get the 8%. That should give me enough time to do it. But I want to get as close to home as I can. Okay, I'm slowing down, because I don't think we're going to make it. Absolute chaos. He's at 10%. We're getting close. I think you might be able to make it, man. You might be able to make it. No, no way. No way, no way. Vale? Wait, it says battery too low landing. You got to get over here right now. Coming in. He's going to come in hot. Oh no, he's not letting him in. Oh no. It won't let me take back over. It won't let me take back over. This is going to be a crash landing. Be aware. Come on. Slow, stop the boat. Come on. I'm trying, it won't go. Right there. Right there. Come on, come on, come on. A little more. A little more. No. Oh. Just smack it over here, smack it over here. Yeah. Did you get it? I got it. Yeah. I got it. Why didn't you dump it in the boat? You couldn't just disarm it and let it flop? So my plan was to get to 8%, switch it to the manual mode, and then just come in and land. But as soon as I got to 9%, it said, battery low. We're landing now. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm like 40 meters in the air. I was like 100 feet. And I'm like, ah, and it starts going down. I'm like, guys, we're going now. So wait, were you full throttle? I was holding the controller, cranking it. I was pushing it so hard, I thought I was going to break the sticks, because I'm like, oh, no, no, no. But it was still just going down. It was still just dropping. Altitude sticks all the way up, and it's just coming down. So when you're sitting there, just bring it over the boat. Just bring it over, and I'm like, I'm trying. I'm sitting there, pushing it as hard as I can. I think the sensors were preventing me from going over the boat. Eventually it let me go, and it just overshot. I'm like, no, it's going in the water. But then magically, somehow my extra strength on the controller stick brought it back up, and I brought it back over. I'm like, just hit it out of the air. Just keep it in the sky. I'm dunked in. I'm sorry, I got to go. See, one disadvantage, a regular drone, you would not have been cut off like that. Right. I don't know if you could have flown a regular drone that far, and I don't know. I don't know. If it wasn't this windy, I think we actually might have been off a little better off. How was your video when you were over here, though? So when I went for the power loop, on my way into the power loop, it was great. As soon as I got just a little bit low, pretty much no video. Backflip was pretty good, and then as soon as I started getting low again, pretty much no video. But it's OK, because we have a visual observer spotter. latency was good. It was the same as if I was standing right there with you. Really? So there was no additional latency in three miles away? Not that I could notice. That's pretty cool. That had to have been. Not that I noticed compared to video and my level of anxiety.