Dirty Bird
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Flight distance : 41442379 ft
United States
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DJI-Ken Posted at 2016-7-18 09:44
WOW, did you guys follow the aircraft?If not, that's some crazy range and flying behind the building and not losing signal is great.
This is a Litchi mission I created & ran with my two P3 Standards. I programmed, tested, & tweaked the initial mission numerous times to be sure it was reliable. I also time-tested each bird several times to ascertain if one was faster than the other. "Darth Videous" is ~1-2 seconds slower than "Miss Ruby" over the 7.2 mile mission so that one is in the rear. Pretty amazing over a 7.2 miles mission how accurately the two birds follow the program.
Once I was confident the mission was reliable I duplicated the mission, adjusted the chase bird mission start point back 25' & the end point slightly off to the side so they would not collide at the end. Then I adjusted each waypoint for the chase bird +10' for vertical separation. When I was ready to launch I prepped each bird, paused them start point, then released them in unison. "Follow the Leader" is the result. It was me alone handling both birds. I had a curious friend along with me observing (the security vehicle you see), and another friend downtown spotting at the base of the World Trade Center (the building that gets spiraled several times). You can see him in the video on the final spiral. I deliberately left all the lights on for both birds so they would be visible & uniform from the ground. My friend spotting at the WTC said it was the coolest looking thing watching them approach, spiral the building, fly off, then return back again. Wish he had a camera recording it!
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