or Karpalo! 
Early of next year I have fixed wing fpv platform, with that it is much easier to do long ranges without suck a risk compared with quad/hexa. If some1 breaks 20km it is big cheer!
I wont be going 17km but will be going a fair distance cant wait to get the system
in practise 5km or 17km is just matter of minutes, but you know that aircraft have a value, and that creates problem 
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Tom if you go the 60kmā¦please record it record it record it.
In fact if you have any long range tests, recording it and posting it would be great
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I have pixhawk 4 blackbox recording all the time, but I think with current setup 60km is out of range. Itād take almost 30-40 minutes flying, and back. In practice impossibleā¦
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At what altitude AGL?
150m, it is under safe zoneā¦
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Yea Tom and Rick I get 17 mins flying with my we 7 onch quad on a 6250 li on batt and thats a bit of reserve in it
quads just canāt do it. Fixed would make a differenceā¦
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wow! vtol and 3-4m ? Not bad, there is flying time measured in hoursā¦ 4 maby?
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Yeah I am working on drawings right now. My wife and I are moving house next year so this may get put on teh back burner. Plus I have my SAR drone to finalize as well.
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have you looked at https://www.foxtechfpv.com/ ? they have pretty good answers for long range systemsā¦
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yes very familiar with them
I like to design and build so itās way I never bought a bird from them.
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I like about vtol Nimbus design from them, it keeps developing all the time, and size of it isnāt pretty large. Also Nimbus without vtol-features is just great as well
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Congrats Tom for your results, I saw that quads has more interferences than fixed wings so with that distance on a quad we have lot of fun , Im waiting less wind to take of with an airplane and have a crazy idea to push the unit to limit without risk.
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Yeah, Quads are great while props have rotation and power, after that flying characteristics are comparable with falling stone;D
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I have a friend that fly real gliders, I speak with him to carry a unit connected to a pix and a servo and check response and read rssi, I stay far from Him and check with the radio and mission planner, I need suggestions to show skydroid and community that my results are thrue
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how to actually show results are true ? it is pretty mission impossible. It is very easy just to fly unit far away from you and notice the distance. But in practise how to demostrate it in videos ? What about if there is stronger signal currently blocking the tests, 100mw is very weak signal so you have to have LOS all the time.
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Everything works in Hi Def now, so yours and mine fatsharks are a bit of an anachonism, but there is a hell of a lot of 5.8 GHz goggles out there, so I guess the across the board answer is a tiny dongle that fits onto the HDMI port and generates a low power 5.8 GHZ 4.3 or variable formatted signal. However if they simply supply 3.7v and composite video via a 3.5mm plug a DIY 10$ solution becomes easy and possible for those of us with fatsharks and nice and neat for those with a 3d printerā¦
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