 We're out here in California and Sean has never flown mountains before you flew mountains yesterday But today we're here again, and I live in California, and I haven't even flown the mountains. I can't believe you live here with this This is so awesome. And like you've never flown this really. I just haven't thought to do it. I don't like gosh This is so cool. Yeah flying mountains. It can be a lot of fun And it's very different from a lot of things that you might fly on a regular basis So there are some particular things that you might want to do a little bit different So we're gonna walk you through some of the things that we're thinking about where we're gonna be flying longer Flying further flying a lot more elevation and flying in places where it's gonna be a little bit hard to even get home So there's some things that you can do to prepare for this to maximize your range maximize your signal and make sure you know where you're going I'm gonna wait like let all you guys play first Because last time we did something like where you could lose your drone You you crash your drone then Alex crashed his drone in the water. Yeah, but this is different I'm also like a little sketch about my setup because like this quote this quad is the only just like actually flying right now like that You know that's you're making a legitimate point is that you really this is really a trust your gear situation And your drone that you've been sending into concrete walls while trying freestyle trick I don't know. Maybe it's not the thing that you want to trust for flying really far away over a big chasm I was leave one setup where I don't rip it around Bandos, I don't crash it into things because I want to be able to trust it if I'm flying over the ocean Or up into the mountains you want a quad that you can trust all the parts on it So, you know try to keep if you can you know if you've got multiple drones try to keep one that you have So this is Bobby's best condition drone. This is the best condition Bobby has to offer today And I'm sure it's fine I'm pretty sure it's fine I mean if you could stay at basically grass level the whole way down and just shoot gaps the whole time I'm trying to just so you're basically planning out Yeah, like that one works like oh if you could hit that from the start to yeah, no start over Sorry, you got to hit that gap at the very top. Okay. Yeah, nice run up. Okay Seen opens right at the top. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah That wasn't very smooth real steady bro. Yeah steady real steady for the win. That's us. You're heading for 14 to now Okay, yeah, perch the van perch the van Yeah, that's fun. That's sick man. Thank you. That was sick. I'm gonna have to real city go that like that So when you're choosing a control link you want to think about what environment you're going to be flying today It seems like most control links are either gonna be a 2.4 or 5.8 with the DJI system, right? Or 900 megahertz most all these modern control links perform very well Even the DJI system, which is a 5.8 gigahertz control link can have very impressive range Like way more than you would expect but in general the lower frequency you go I mean the longer wavelength is going to give you a Longer range if you go all the way down to 900 megahertz as is the case with this crossfire We should have the capability to just fly miles and miles miles, right? We should be able to go as far as we want to go I mean these things are rated for like 15 miles. I think it's ridiculous So if you got a ready-to-fly drone a lot of them are built a lot of the ones that we build are with the DJI system Which is on 5.8 that system is really really capable But if you really want to get the most range and switch to a control link system What that entails is adding a separate receiver to the drone So rather than relying on the air unit to be the receiver as well as the video unit you would Install another receiver. So in this case, we've got crossfire receivers installed in the aircraft And that's going to enable you to link up to a separate radio So you'll need a receiver on the drone. You'll need a separate radio Possibly even a module that has crossfire built in it is a lot more complicated But there's a lot of information on how to do it But if you follow that sounding overwhelming you totally can run the DJI system just keep an eye on your Your OSD and it'll tell you kind of what you're it'll tell you what your reception is It'll be like the bars and even goes red to like say hey dummy and turn around come back You know, and you need to do that anyway No matter what you're on right switching to a certain controlling no matter what people say on the internet is never going to be 100% guarantee you can fail save crossfire It's possible you can fail save anything if you fly behind things if you fly too far if your antennas aren't set up right No matter what link you're using no matter what gear you have you want to exercise best practices and keep an eye on your RSI indicator So in this airplane, I actually have two 1800 4s batteries and the reason I did that I'm actually gonna be running them in parallel Where I can actually put both batteries together and it'll turn it into a 3600 milliamp hour battery gives me a lot of extra flight Time in theory this plane should fly for about an hour with this much battery the Decals add an extra 10 horsepower. That's true So this thing has GPS return home if I get into a sketchy situation To where I don't remember where I'm at or even if I lose signal if I flip a switch or if it goes into fail Save it'll automatically spiral up and climb to that altitude That was the maximum altitude that I flew and it'll come back to us and it'll just circle above us the plane A lot of it just come back That was awesome. That looks so cool line of sight coming down I gotta say like this is definitely long range for us freestyle pilots, but like hardcore long-range pilots will go Miles and miles miles out. They probably laugh at us. No, they they're gonna be like this is medium range. Yeah Oh We're still good the GoPro still on or who's getting it. I have to get it Yeah, they're really very loose brat and that thing just slid Man if you need I wouldn't do that to don't go down there. Yeah, then how are you gonna get back? Don't go back there. If we had a rope that we could do we have we do have a rope We do have a rope seems like another episode of pilots just breaking Sean stuff. Yeah, it's been a while actually we kind of needed this Yeah, I'll try to grab the plane We got it teamwork makes the Pixar this thing is fine though. It's fine. This is the outlaw I designed this drone to be a sub 250 gram very lightweight drone to conform to certain Regulations that different countries have and this quad is actually perfect for doing long-range because it kind of checks all the boxes That we need for long range. It's super light. It has big propellers So when doing long-range efficiency is something you really need because we want to get as long as battery life as we can And this thing flies for a pretty long time, right? Yeah, when we flew this in the episode We actually flew it with tri-blade props and we got about nine to ten minutes of flight Wow, one of these big batteries. Yeah, so if you switch that over to buy blades You should get an even longer flight time. This is the HD one XR we sell these in a road right store and When we were flying these drones originally we noticed that we could get really really long flight time on a seven inch prop with A 4s battery and I thought why not use that for a long-range rig I figure if we get a lot of flight time out of this it would be awesome for long range But the one thing that scares me about flying in the mountains is losing my stuff So I went ahead and I added this GPS antenna to the back And this allows me to in beta flight assign a function called beta flight rescue mode And what that basically is is sort of like return to home with Inav So it'll automatically try to come back home if we get into trouble And you came out yesterday you tested this out already, right? So you already you know Yes, it'll work. I know I can go all the way to the top of that mountain I know that I can go all the way to the top of that ridge over there at least the first bridge I haven't tested the very far mountain yet. I'm kind of excited to you, but I'm also really nervous. Well, let's do it Dude, this is so crazy. I can't even hear the drone. Shoot. Where'd he go? I am holding 50% throttle Okay, slow down a little bit. I lost it. Just get good footage on Shoot it actually went into GPS rescue mode did it yeah, that's scary. What's more scary is that? I don't know where it's going. I don't know where we are. Well, it's coming towards the arrow Okay, is it so it is working. I just don't know where we are. I haven't seen us yet So far I'm trying to get home. I'm a goner 10 volts now. We're gone bro. 9 8 we're gone. No No It's gone. Where are you? Oh my gosh. Wow It's so hard Well that went so bad. I hear it. I hear it. Well, I have I didn't I didn't actually put it in GPS rescue It did it on its own Because it fail-safed slowly. Are you in? Oh, oh, are you're getting control? This is some scary stuff man, why and you're still only one bar of controlling Really just think that the DJI radio was not up to this task. Yeah, the video seemed fine though, right? Yeah, I didn't lose video, but I lost radio. That's the first time I've ever fail-safe with the radio Well, I mean you were forever away That's it on a successful fail-safe. Yeah, I learned something new today. It works Did you have any idea where you crashed to get it? Uh, yeah, you see this hill right here? Basically in the middle Yeah, so it's gone, right? Yeah, I mean unless you guys want to go on a 10-hour hike to get it Well, this is the first time I've ever lost a drone and like and it's like as bad as I feel like It's not my drone. I'm almost like a dental filler Like I'm just being truthful with you guys I'm not too worried about it. I wouldn't have brought it if I didn't if I cared about it Yeah, exactly. Don't bring stuff on Rutterette shoots that you think it's gonna get lost cuz it could get lost This is fast what of the drone. Yeah, it's a land on the freaking car I'm weeding it out. Oh, no, what's your dress slower? Oh, it's coming up. All right I could have done this with a car Are you on it? No, no, I can't go too fast. I'm going so slow