what the hack?

Diving from that altitude was exhilarating.  Most surprising was that it could free fall over 4200 meters and still recover properly.  

Glad they were able to obtain all the proper clearances and authorizations for this astonishing flight.

Crazy that is.  Probably lots up at those heights that could have been passing by.

DowntownRDB Posted at 8-7 03:46
Diving from that altitude was exhilarating.  Most surprising was that it could free fall over 4200 meters and still recover properly.  

Glad they were able to obtain all the proper clearances and authorizations for this astonishing flight.

yes, im very curious what was the descending speed at the end of free fall

fateofangel Posted at 8-7 05:31
yes, im very curious what was the descending speed at the end of free fall

No idea.  But if I had to guess I'd say most probably faster than maximum published flying speed for the drone under its own power.

thanks for sharing...

DowntownRDB Posted at 8-7 13:54
No idea.  But if I had to guess I'd say most probably faster than maximum published flying speed for the drone under its own power.

it would be very simple calculation but air resistance complicate this, never try to calculate something similar

That ix crazy.  

fateofangel Posted at 8-7 21:36
it would be very simple calculation but air resistance complicate this, never try to calculate something similar

  

fateofangel Posted at 8-7 21:36
it would be very simple calculation but air resistance complicate this, never try to calculate something similar

Method 1) Start a screen recorder then take timings and telemetry from the resulting video. Try it with your drone, of course there is a chance that the motors will not restart.
Quite a simple idea I thought.

Method 2) I think the DATs recorded by the FPV's goggle are readable, I am pretty sure mine were. "Were" because I haven't checked since the 'forced' update caused when I accidentally  left the phone's wifi on and connected the phone to the goggles in order to get those logs from the goggles. Checking a reable DAT is also a fairly simple idea.

I have, I think, both the screen recording and DAT,  but certainly the DAT, from a mid air, motor stop and restart, experiment that I did some time ago with a Phantom 3, a pretty strange thing for a "wydygani" to do, don't you think?
But then, I did this over the sea where there was no chance of a drone in free fall hitting someone or something belonging to some one.

Besides I have seen mention of somewhere between 14 to 18 m/s being a typical free fall speed for a drone, I can't be bothered to look up the log for you.

Highly illegal here in NL.