Kneepuck
Second Officer
Flight distance : 275105 ft
United States
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Yeah, battery life may be right on the edge there, but if you did it, say 3 miles away it would work, so long as you had good gps coverage. You would also have to either have someone at the initial launch point to send it off, or have a clear line of sight to send it off because of radio limitations. I have flown my Phantom over 3 milkes before, but that was with enough altitude to have line of sight for the radio. If you launch the Phantom, then jump in your car and outrun the Phantom that might work.
But the easier solution is to just tell the Phantom to land at the last waypoint instead of creating a new dynamic homepoint. I am not sure if you can do this on the Dji-Go app, but you can with the Litchi app. One of the nice things about the waypoints is that you do not need a constant connection with the r/c. But you do need to make sure all your altitudes and travel lines are clear of obstructions. I think you might also need to go to the final waypoint and establish for sure the exact ground altitude above the initial home point. A fun experiment to try, but maybe costly. I am thinking, even if you set a new homepoint dynamically, that point is best set a bit above ground level. Because the Phantom uses the barometric altimeter from the initial home point to as the reference point for altitude. Maybe another user has tried this and has a better insight.
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