 Welcome to Rotor Riot. Today, we're doing long range, but I'm gonna show you guys how to do it the safe and the legal way with spotters And keeping communication lines open and just to help us really push our limits We got one of Daniel's toys from X hover. That's right We have the Batmobile in the desert to chase with mini claws. What is this thing? It's the tumbler Hey, how's it going guys Daniel Sandoval here owner of X hover and when I'm not designing FPV frames You'll see me out in the desert with this. This is one of my other favorite hobbies to do This is a Can-Am XRS has a 172 horsepower turbo Big ol 35 inch tires tons of travel Which means you can go through anything at over 80 miles per hour and today We're gonna take it out to the desert see if the Rotor Riot guys can keep up with it So let's go have some fun. I Gotta go to the top of the hill because I'm the long-range guy me and Justin are gonna hop in this deathmobile We're gonna get on the phone with bot grinder Who's gonna be in the buggy him and Jeff are gonna be our spotter What our goal is for today is to take our mini quad fly it in one direction as far out as the one Battery can possibly take it Land have our crew replace the battery plug it back in set it up Take off and fly that same mini quad back to us We wanted to see where that point was and what it takes to actually accomplish that in a legal and safe manner We have to comply with all of the requirements of part 107 and one of those requirements Is that we operate with visual line of sight of the craft? We can't do that with the two of us sitting on top of the hill. So what we're gonna do We're gonna use Daniel's dune buggy death machine to go at top speed with the mini quad I'm gonna have bot grinder in the can now maintaining communications with me So that he can be my visual observer that is maintaining line of sight Let's talk about the requirements for that visual observer the remote piloting command and the visual observer must maintain Effective communication with each other at all times I'm using a Bluetooth speaker that's kind of hung up in the bushes next to me so that I can talk to him We have positive communications He's on the phone call on a Bluetooth headset so that we can talk back and forth And if there's any hazards like an aircraft that we run into Another car that I need to avoid he can alert me to those hazards be me as the piloting command It's my duty to stay close enough to the can am so that bot grinder can maintain that visual line of sight for the entire flight See me flying FPV. I'm gonna be using that video feed in order to scan our airspace For any potential collision hazards meaning cactus trees and bot grinder is gonna let me know about any upcoming hazards as far as our Safety protocol we've established that if for some reason the phone call gets dropped or he says hey I can't hear you anymore that my job is to now land the the drone by the road so that they can recover it now If they lose visual line of sight I'm gonna bring it back close to the road and land it immediately And then they're gonna have to search the road to find it now that we've gotten all of that out of the way Let's get back to the fun stuff and go do some flying How's that sound? That's pretty good. All right I will maintain visual line of sight per FAA regulations. I'm coming down the hill for you now Can you still hear me DJ I got you. I'm so good. Keep going Split the I split the antennas I'm gonna have to set it down. Are you guys ready? All right Wow, no video no control week As soon as I touch down, I lost everything. I will try to get you a little higher up Maybe we'll put them on the roof. Yeah, I probably just said on the roof of the car. It'll be fine That was sweet. I just see dust rising in the sunset We're gonna jump in the car real quick and I'll let you know once we're buckled in and we can start thank you Do you want us to turn around before we take off towards the place? Yeah, still facing the way I can barely keep up with this thing. Yeah, we're all like I was full throttle like just riding in the dust of it Like that's all I got That was like all right, this is what a mini quad can do full out like that was Cruising mostly out there on the way back. It was all I could give it probably going into the wind The phone call worked out really well. I can't dude. I can't believe that And the replug it worked I I want to look it up on a map and see how far we went because as soon as I touched down It was like telemetry lost failsafe no video just gone I was expecting thank you everybody that watches episode if you liked it press the like button If you didn't press the like button, too, and you can check out quad camp online. We got upcoming dates Yeah, we are out here for the quad camp hosted by ex hover Gracious host had a great event this weekend and now we're just out here in the desert point be sure to check out quadcamp.com because we are gonna be at race day quads in Orlando, Florida tickets are available. You can get two-day pass or one-day pass both available at quadcamp.com We'll see you guys there a couple times a week. I do a part 107 test prep stream. My man does trick breakdowns. I do I do flips What I'm doing now I've we're done. That's what we do Cool and he got silent and and I'm here