FPV Crash and Recovery

Thanks so much for the the compliment. Getting home with fresh film to edit is almost as much fun as flying for me although i know there is a great deal of improvement to be had. the music is courtesy of the Silversun Pickups "rusted wheel"....if you enjoyed this track you certainly like all their others.
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Well for as much as I give each year in "offerings" to the RC gods or GOD (for the monotheistic RC believers) I should hope they smile on me from time to time and forgive my complete lack of good judgement. Indeed very lucky, although everything in the plane is waterproofed with CorrosionX, I did not feel like going swimming. Now back to a few more "offerings" I need to finalize on Hobbyking (otherwise known as Church).
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Well unfortunately I live in one of the biggest suburban sprawls in the the nation otherwise known as the DFW metroplex. I do not have wide open undeveloped areas to fly in and those areas that aren't developed are cordoned off with barb wire and guarded by shotgun wielding ranchers. I try to make it habit of not flying over populated areas. Being as such I have never gone beyond 3km with helical although I know its good for far more. I have had the TrueRC set out to 2km but video quality was getting a bit hairy (hairy defined as more than fuzzy lol). At some point around 3km the frsky system becomes the weak link, even with 5db tx antenna and dipoles on rx. I refuse to go the 2.4ghz booster route, Next step for me if i need more range will be 433. I have seen guys doing 5km with fairly stock frsky systems but they are typically flying in no mans land, far too much "noise" in a urban setting.
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Well unfortunately I live in one of the biggest suburban sprawls in the the nation otherwise known as the DFW metroplex. I do not have wide open undeveloped areas to fly in and those areas that aren't developed are cordoned off with barb wire and guarded by shotgun wielding ranchers. I try to make it habit of not flying over populated areas. Being as such I have never gone beyond 3km with helical although I know its good for far more. I have had the TrueRC set out to 2km but video quality was getting a bit hairy (hairy defined as more than fuzzy lol). At some point around 3km the frsky system becomes the weak link, even with 5db tx antenna and dipoles on rx. I refuse to go the 2.4ghz booster route, Next step for me if i need more range will be 433. I have seen guys doing 5km with fairly stock frsky systems but they are typically flying in no mans land, far too much "noise" in a urban setting.
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