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❗DVR OSD in Miles, not Km❗With only two long range flights with a max distance of 5 Km/3 miles under my belt, I needed to build confidence in my ability to hit some farther steep narly terrain views this spring & Summer. What better way to shrink your world than an 8kilometer/5mile flight? After searching for a Liion battery and a mountain line on Google Earth that would fit the bill, I packed my bags and made the long journey there. Before sending it, I had to walk 3 km/2 miles through the cactus field to get the best LOS for the lines I was looking at.
I sent a test pack to see how the wind was and RX/TX. Surprisingly, my Video TX was very poor only a mile out. However, the signal was consistent, and I had already walked 3 km/2 miles through the snake pit without water and wasn't returning. This was one of the most nerveracking flights of my life. As I approached the summit, my video feed dropped to 34mbps and was hanging on by a thread. If you go back and pause the video as I start the initial dive, you can see I was at 1mbps. On the way back, I lost the video twice due to losing LOS by mistake.

After landing, my world instantly shrunk, and 3km became a fart in the wind; the feeling was incredible! After getting back and inspecting my SMAU.FL adapter to the air unit was slightly bent, leaving me to believe this was the cause of my poor video. I’ve flown out past 3 miles since replacing the adapter with nominal Video TX operation. BTW, my Betaflight, the battery voltage warning was set to Lipo, not lithiumion, from previous flights, hence the premature warnings; however, my heart was still pounding, trying to race back home across the desert floor under 3.2 V.

I recently won $20 on a "longrange challenge" to fly 1.5 km/1 mile away at a meetup. But that was before they saw this video, LOL.

Gear:
Frame: Foxeer Mega 7
Motors: XNova 2806.5 1300KV
Stack: Speedybee F7 (betaflight 4.4)
VTX: O3 Air unit
RX: Crossfire Diversity
Goggles: DJi G2's (Locked at 20mbps ch 7.)
Antenna: Lumeneir XII Pro 2, CRXF Bardpole, CRXF Immortal T
Props: Gemfan 7'' TriBlade 7X3.5
Power: Upgrade Energy 9000Mah Dark Lithium (RED) 6S Lithium Ion
Camera: Hero 11 Mini
Radio: Boxer Max
Module: TBS Crossfire micro TX module V2 (1 Watt)

Vlog Setup:
Canon R5
Canon RF 2470L
iPhone 15 Pro Max
Seinheizer MHK 600

Editing Software:
Davinci Resolve (edit & color)
After Effects (motion graphics)
ReelSteady (stabilization)

Upcoming: I have a pair of 6 Turn Helical Antennas coming, which I'll compare to my TrueRC Patch antennas on my goggles 2 in an upcoming video! Stay tuned!

Ask me any questions in the Comments and I'll be sure to answer each one!

Love: Gemfan & iFlight! Love to my Subscribers!!! And my spotter, Jesus.

Shout out to @VISMAFPV and @FalconRadFPV! Who's longrange channels I recently discovered. Their videos inspired my build and pushed me to break 8km only a month into my longrange journey!