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      10-22-2014, 08:17 AM   #124
Rotorocious
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Originally Posted by ddk632 View Post
Interesting. That's actually one of my concerns, or at least somewhat similar; having never flown yet - flying out of range and losing ability to control/fly back.
Most systems have a failsafe, return to home. It doesn't always work. GPS can be affected by solar radiation etc. I had one time where it didn't work and it flew off. Pretty sure it was due to all the wifi networks that were around me (College Campus). I hit the return to home and it took off in another direction. I looked forever for it thinking it flew into traffic. It actually landed itself not too far from where I was. The failsafe worked, it just didn't return to where it took off. It didn't register the take off point until it was already in the air far away.

I never want to fly out far enough to worry but I've got an OSD, on screen display that overlays my video. Basically shows all the vitals, battery consumption, signal strength (rssi), direction to home etc. You can see when you start to get out too far.

If you plan to fly somewhat far with FPV video, just go ahead and plan on a UHF system for control over the 2.4g crap. I mainly did it so the video transmitter frequency wouldn't bother my control frequency, ~433mhz vs 1.3ghz.
I use the EZUHF, which ties in easily to the EzOSD system. Kinda overkill for what I use it for (It's never really out of my sight) but better safe than sorry. I plan to get a long range plane (a lot cheaper in case of a crash) to go out further for longer cruising flights and fun. My hex is mainly for recording smooth video so it hovers around pretty slow most of the time.


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