Originally Posted by
The Saylors
That's awesome. I have been wanting one for filming rc as well a dirt bike riding on my dad's track. Also i could use it for work as i do real estate and having some elevated pictures are great attention getters. I never really considered speed when looking but having it is a good idea for sure, can't film it if you can't keep up. I'm becoming more impressed with it every time i talk to an owner of one (or in your case two). The main concern i have had is that i don't want to have to buy a dam*** ipad or a new phone. If they had one that came with a mounted screen i would prolly buy one now lol. You said that you have put over 200 mi on it, does it keep stats like that? Pretty neat little extra feature.
The range factors in to that speed as well. Going ~55 MPH you get far away very fast. I took it across the lake and hit 16,500 feet which is a little over 3 miles and then back and landed with 25% still. Could have gone farther I guess but didn't want to push it too much. Nobody else besides DJI has lightbridge, everyone else is just WiFi which is significantly shorter range. It works with anroid or ios. I bought an Ipad pro 9.7 for it just to fly with as its the biggest screen it will fit and works great with third party apps such as Autopilot. The ipad also has a barometer so as I go up and down a hill while its following, the drone will also adjust elevation up and down. You see people crashing their drones into something because they climb up but the drone stays the same elevation from takeoff. I use my android phone for FPV flying, I put my phone in a set of virtual reality goggles and fly that way sometimes. Its a neat perspective and no sun glare on the screen. You angle your head up and down and the camera on the drone follows. It keeps tracks of all the stats and I use a third party called healthy drones, which all my flight logs get uploaded to, and they provide a nice visual graph/map/stats to look at.