Whats your max solo range to date?

Solo58216 · Sep 21, 2015

dmassphoto said:
What happens when it goes out of range?

It comes back!

LouGeese · Sep 21, 2015

LouGeese said:
Been taking it easy because just got it flying again after burning out motor in crash (my fault).

So far furthest I've gone is about 2400 feet at 400 feet altitude (stock attenae) before getting into red. Have always stopped before auto RTH.

Here are a couple screenshots from around 2050 feet. Will try to push it later.
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Today took it to about 4100ft at 380ft elevation before getting red (see pic). Still all stock. Confident I can get mile+ because after took that pic shifted my position and got 2 bars back.

jimmyrack · Nov 10, 2015

14884' unboosted with alfas

PdxSteve · Nov 10, 2015

4200' stock.

1.3 miles with FPVLR v2. Might have been able to go further as I was more concerned with being able to make it back since I flew slow to get out there. No signal loss.

pyrate · Nov 10, 2015

stock 2800 in my neighborhood

MIA · Nov 10, 2015

Took my solo to wyoming where all conditions would be perfect for such a test
I got 2 miles with fpvlr and still had 2 bars. Only problem was i
fought the wind going out thinking it would help me on the way back. My battery was down to 42% when I reached the 2 mile mark so I hit RTH I had to ditch it 1500 feet from where I took off because I ran out of battery. I took my phone and took pics of my tablet at the 1.5 mile , 1.8 mile and 2.0 mile marks. I can post if anyone wants to see.....I am putting together a video of my hunting trip to wyoming with my 2 mile flight included in the video and will post that too if anyone wants to see it.

Mongo · Nov 10, 2015

5400ft at an altitude of 250ft with FPVLR. Still had a strong signal.

baldguy · Nov 10, 2015

3,700ft at 275ft using antennas from an old Linksys wireless router. Limited, in my area to less than 1,000ft with stock antennas.

J R · Nov 10, 2015

baldguy said:
3,700ft at 275ft using antennas from an old Linksys wireless router. Limited, in my area to less than 1,000ft with stock antennas.

5738', all lower than home point altitude. Lots of breakup in video feed but good control signal. Out in the boonies with little or no interference. Very fortunate.

Jerry

baldguy · Nov 10, 2015

J R said:
5738', all lower than home point altitude. Lots of breakup in video feed but good control signal. Out in the boonies with little or no interference. Very fortunate.

Jerry

Wow Jerry, I would have said the Solo would have never flown below home point alt. I would have guessed it would have shut off the motors. Thanks for sharing. BTW, congrats on almost a mile.

J R · Nov 10, 2015

baldguy said:
Wow Jerry, I would have said the Solo would have never flown below home point alt. I would have guessed it would have shut off the motors. Thanks for sharing. BTW, congrats on almost a mile.

1.0867 miles. Below home point.

Jerry

Acroduster · Nov 11, 2015

1600' RTH stock, 5000' RTH with FPVLR.

J R · Nov 11, 2015

baldguy said:
Wow Jerry, I would have said the Solo would have never flown below home point alt. I would have guessed it would have shut off the motors. Thanks for sharing. BTW, congrats on almost a mile.

Bald,

Slight correction. The home point is my highest ground. Everything to the east of me is lower than home point at the ground. The bird wasn't below home point all of the ground on the run was. Sorry for the confusion.

Jerry

baldguy · Nov 11, 2015

J R said:
Bald,

Slight correction. The home point is my highest ground. Everything to the east of me is lower than home point at the ground. The bird wasn't below home point all of the ground on the run was. Sorry for the confusion.

Jerry

Got it. That clears it "up."
Thanks

DroneNerd702 · Nov 19, 2015

Max elevation thus far is 311 feet. Max distance was between 1500 and 1700 feet. The specs say max distance is .5 miles which is 2640 feet. There's some places here where I might test that this weekend.

Martin A. Brooks · Nov 19, 2015

In the UK it's a legal requirement to be in direct visual contact with a UAV at all times during a flight. Are the rules different in other parts of the world?

Gary Burch · Nov 19, 2015

Got over6000' at about 260'. Still had 3 bars on signal. Came back because of battery at 40%. I am using fplr with boosters. Only limited to battery power on distance
I have flown over one mile in town.

DroneNerd702 · Nov 19, 2015

Martin A. Brooks said:
In the UK it's a legal requirement to be in direct visual contact with a UAV at all times during a flight. Are the rules different in other parts of the world?

It appears to be the same all over mate.

But, I live in the desert, so I don't think anyone will be in the desert I'll be at, and probably not mind if I bend the rules a bit using binoculars to maintain my line of sight.

Fenderbender · Nov 20, 2015

600' out and 350' up. That's as far as I've let it go. Haven't needed anymore than that so far. I was getting 300' on stock so I upgraded antennas and flew to 600 just to see if I could get more range.

pop · Nov 20, 2015

How do you position your antennas(alpha)?

ChrisM101 said:
8448ft with just alfa 7dbi panels

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