4,000+ Miles Flown---Anyone Have More?

GadgetGuy · Jan 8, 2018

4,000+ Miles Flown---Anyone have more?

Yooper · Jan 8, 2018

Wow. I have a ways to go

davideo0 · Jan 8, 2018

GadgetGuy said:
4,000+ Miles Flown---Anyone have more?
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6.4 miles per flight is some average!
VLOS?

With The Birds · Jan 8, 2018

davideo0 said:
6.4 miles per flight is some average!
VLOS?

You suppose he may have flown out half a mile and did a bit under two orbits and returned? I think you know the answer to this question.....

With The Birds · Jan 8, 2018

Nice work gadget guy!!!! I don’t know how far I have flown total but it would be a long way short of this....

How many AC failures have you had. If none it’s a great indication of hiw reliable out toys can be.

OldBlueHeron · Jan 8, 2018

You are a Phantom OG obviously. I bow down to your superior aura. Nice job.

Speedmeister · Jan 8, 2018

4000 miles on same batteries still?

GadgetGuy · Jan 8, 2018

davideo0 said:
6.4 miles per flight is some average!
VLOS?

Most flights are now averaging over 10 miles completely stock, in an isosceles right triangle, 3 miles to a side, and a 4.25 mile hypotenuse. My vision has improved with age!

GadgetGuy · Jan 8, 2018

With The Birds said:
Nice work gadget guy!!!! I don’t know how far I have flown total but it would be a long way short of this....

How many AC failures have you had. If none it’s a great indication of hiw reliable out toys can be.

Two AC failures, one when a duct taped motor mount crack completely separated, and a second due to battery shutoff in midair during overhead testing. One additional AC drowned due to pilot error, while flying under a low bridge and ascending too soon. All were avoidable, had I been better pilot, knowing what I know now.

GadgetGuy · Jan 8, 2018

Speedmeister said:
4000 miles on same batteries still?

I rotate about a dozen batteries, landing at 7-10% remaining, which is still over 3.65V per cell.

DaveD · Jan 8, 2018

GadgetGuy said:
I rotate about a dozen batteries, landing at 7-10% remaining, which is still over 3.65V per cell.

How many charge cycles on your most used battery? Just curious.

Raptorman0909 · Jan 8, 2018

I'm at 298 miles in 114 flights and 27:46:22 air time. I do not think I'll come anywhere near 4000 miles on my P4P before it's retired. At about 45GB/hour 182 hours would require somewhere around 8TB of storage with no redundancy and I try to maintain 3X redundancy.

Brian

GadgetGuy · Jan 8, 2018

DaveD said:
How many charge cycles on your most used battery? Just curious.

Right around 75. They almost seem to get better with age! Not seeing much degradation.

GadgetGuy · Jan 8, 2018

Raptorman0909 said:
I'm at 298 miles in 114 flights and 27:46:22 air time. I do not think I'll come anywhere near 4000 miles on my P4P before it's retired. At about 45GB/hour 182 hours would require somewhere around 8TB of storage with no redundancy and I try to maintain 3X redundancy.

Brian

Redundancy is good. 6TB Seagate drives were $119 at CostCo just before Christmas. I have 5 of the 5TB ones, and picked up two more of the 6TB ones. Desktop now complains that have exceeded the maximum number of USB 3.0 devices supported by the internal hub. Can only use one 6TB at a time with all the others hooked up.

Raptorman0909 · Jan 9, 2018

GadgetGuy said:
Redundancy is good. 6TB Seagate drives were $119 at CostCo just before Christmas. I have 5 of the 5TB ones, and picked up two more of the 6TB ones. Desktop now complains that have exceeded the maximum number of USB 3.0 devices supported by the internal hub. Can only use one 6TB at a time with all the others hooked up.

In my desktop I have two 6TB drives -- one for drone videos and audio, and the other for non-drone video and all my still images. At present my drone drive has just under 2TB of data on it whereas my other 6TB drive has close to 4TB. My next step will probably have to be 10TB or 12TB but hopefully I can get another year out of my current set. Of course I have externals with copies of all that data, but there to I'll be playing catch up. My externals are a collection of 2TB and 4TB drives.

4K video and my Nikon D800E's sure do eat data at a prodigious rate.

Brian

GadgetGuy · Jan 9, 2018

Raptorman0909 said:
4K video and my Nikon D800E's sure do eat data at a prodigious rate.
Brian

They sure do! However, the quality is worth it, and storage keeps getting larger and cheaper every year! My first 250 MB hard drive was $850! Look at us now! 6 TB for $119! 24,000 times as large, for 12% of the cost!

Raptorman0909 · Jan 9, 2018

GadgetGuy said:
They sure do! However, the quality is worth it, and storage keeps getting larger and cheaper every year! My first 250 MB hard drive was $850! Look at us now! 6 TB for $119! 24,000 times as large, for 12% of the cost!

My first HD was 20MB in an IBM PS/2 Mod-50 back in about 1988 if I remember correctly. A single RAW file from my D800E is about 45MB. A 20MB HD would hold about 1.6 seconds of 4K video at 100Mbs.

Brian