High Altitude Droning
1Anybody have any experience flying their drone at high altitudes? I'm going hiking up a mountain in a couple weeks and want to take my DJI Phantom 2 with GoPro so I can get some kick ass video, but would like to first know if I should expect any performance degradation with the Phantom 2 - especially with it being so close to max takeoff weight with the 3-D gimbal and GoPro attached? For reference I have a couple different altitudes I'm looking at taking it to: one that's over 14,000 ft in elevation and another that is only about 7000 ft high. Thoughts?
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Don't have direct experience but you might want to consider some different props. A larger diameter will move more air, which might help when there's less of it around. At lower altitudes larger props might draw too much current, but at high altitudes you may need the extra lift and not draw too much current.
@djslack I think I've already got the largest props available for Daryl, my pet drone. (Like Daryl from Walking Dead.)
Well, if nothing else I'll just wing it and see how well it flies at high altitude and report my findings back here, assuming I don't get arrested for my rogue drone flying.
Well make sure to share your aerials here when you do. ;)
@Hawkward Only if you guys come bail me out of jail if I get arrested for my rogue droning. :)
@pepsiwine I should also make a point to say here, in all seriousness, that where I'm taking my drone is a LEGAL place to fly it. But knowing how finicky people are these days and there are a lot of Nosy Nellies, it wouldn't surprise me if someone else saw me flying Daryl and alerted the authorities just to cause trouble for me.
And since this is such an unsettled (and emerging) area of law right now, it also wouldn't surprise me that if some law enforcement officer got alerted to what I was doing that they would detain/arrest me even if they didn't know for sure that I wasn't doing anything wrong and then just let the judge and courts sort it all out later.
So that's why I joke about possibly getting arrested - because of others' ignorance and not my own lawlessness.
Okay, there's my disclaimer and now we can get back to making funny jokes.
@pepsiwine I got a spare $1.13 that I can donate to your legal fund. It would be more but I'm married with a couple teenagers.
@pepsiwine Wait, I forgot I stopped and got a soda on the way home. I still have 28 cents and it's all yours.