Ice_2k
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Flight distance : 1132575 ft
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Dirty Bird Posted at 9-7 22:19
There is a point of maximum efficiency, what equates to miles per amp. Balls-to-the-wall in Sport Mode is like driving your car with the accelerator pushed to the floor. It's faster, but it won't go as far.
I'm not saying that's entirely wrong, but the car analogy is definitely lacking. With cars, the equation is much simpler, air resistance increases with the square of the speed so the impact on fuel usage is clearly greater the faster you go. But, with drones, there is also gravity to take into account. Every second the drone stays in the air, it's using up energy simply to not fall down. If you're flying flat out in Sports mode, you will be using more energy per distance (or less miles per amp) for the horizontal component but you'll be in the air for less time (roughly 60% if comparing to N mode) meaning you'll spend just 60% of the energy you normally would for the vertical part, the "not falling down" part. I tend to think these two factors might balance themselves out. |
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