FPV: Diving the Matterhorn - 4474m high 🚁🇨🇭

Diving the Matterhorn with an FPV Drone
Welcome to the scariest FPV Drone flight of my life. Diving the Matterhorn mountain in Zermatt, Switzerland.
A bucket list shot I have been wanting to capture for a number of years now and just last week in February 2024, I got the opportunity to.
Over 3 months of preparation went into this shot. Long Range FPV is an entirely different discipline to normal cinematic fpv flying. It requires meticulous knowledge of battery management, positioning and weather to carry out a safe flight and ensure the drone makes it home. I have been flying long range FPV for nearly 2 years now with 7-9inch quads. Everything you see in the video is custom built; the drone, batteries & camera mounts that enabled me to be able to capture the shot. The Matterhorn sits over 4.5km away (from Schwarzee Gondola Station) and at an elevation of 4474m which makes it a very challenging peak to fly to with a drone.
I used a custom built 8 inch FPV drone with a 6s2p 9000mah li-ion battery that I built for maximum range. The recording camera was the @gopro 12 and the BTS pole cam was a RunCam Thumb Pro.
The flight took around 15mins in total and the maximum speed I reached was 142km/h on the descent. My drone was pushed to the limits as the winds at the top of the Matterhorn were extremely challenging, blowing at over 25knots. BUT I managed to pull it off and get a nice clean dive down to the bottom 😅💪🚁
Be sure to drop a follow if you enjoyed and stay tuned for my next reels from Switzerland 🇨🇭 I’m also on KZbin where you’ll be able to find my full FPV Vlog from this trip very soon 👀🎥
(We even had a drone crash during a summit attempt which led to a bug rescue mission 👀🫣)
Drop me any questions you have about the Drone used or the flight down in the comments 🙂⬇️
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[@PureRodes]

Him at the top going down : " I'll take it easy " Me af: **Max Verstappen** 💀🚘

[@jeremystone2658]

I'm looking at Matterhorn from my hotels balcony, and i get this in my feed. AWESOME ❤

[@noah5889]

Ditto

[@yobananaboy798]

Cool shot of the drone speeding down those peaks

[@jakeventure]

That’s really cool 👍🏻

[@bobmeister74]

Great footage bro 👍

[@fox5136]

Absolutely fantastic , wish I were a fraction as good a pilot as you. Great stuff.

[@Drone_Gambit]

Epic!

[@VinydFPV]

That would be the only way I'd wanna scale the matterhorn... fpv baby!!

[@maven_grandprime]

Wowwwww 😍

[@user-hs3et3kw3r]

Wow!

[@Concordedeyoutube]

Bro that is incredible bro you won a subscriber

[@talonfpv]

So sick!

[@robertpawlusiak]

Great Photography!

[@williamdobson5300]

Wow

[@ishaanmehra9904]

Bro im in Zermatt rn and im viewing the Matterhorn - Great job!

[@Montoya2005]

No way. I’m here too! Off to Gornegratt tomorrow the weather is meant to be better.

[@DroningaboutIreland]

Wow 😮

[@MikesGlitch]

Impressive

[@Tobiasmccabe]

Woah!

[@chriscooke9621]

Ben turner (another fpv drone guy) did this a year ago, looks very similar but you took a much closer line, giving it a much better sense of speed, where his showed more of the mountain.

[@yedriel-tbgaming9225]

New sub

[@ssaajjkkoo]

There is people going whole day to get top of the mountain, and than there are drone whooshing near them 😂😂😂

[@ixography]

bruh that near miss got my hands sweaty haha

[@bentoogood]

Haha, throttle to 100

[@meme_overdose]

Im Swiss but i dont have Longränge Equipment xD

[@pixelfaust7240]

Hey Man, I'm also into FPV and am EU based. As far as I know, Switzerland has incorporated the laws set out by EASA with some minor changes. Thus I was wondering what type of drone license you have. Because BVLOS is obv not allowed in the OPEN category, how do you make sure to keep the flight legal?

[@colt2110]

I'm wondering the same shit. Just started the part 107 course, and so far it looks like you STILL have need VLOS

[@colt2110]

So upon further research, there ARE waivers you can get in the United States, but 98% of requests get denied. It would never get approval for recreational purposes

[@xXxArnyxXx]

It is most likely footage of an ilegal flight. Judging from most FPV videos here on youtube, most pilots seem not to care about legality.

[@ash26300]

Not you .. but the quadricop 😎

[@playlists1168]

You can now literally get the same experience what is feels like to fly like a bird

[@JoshDisher]

It's more akin to a bumblebee jacked up on nose candy... 😉

[@RespectMTB]

Bro almost lost the drone in the first 5 seconds of the dive. My anxiety 📈📈📈

[@rebinred495]

Could you get this performance out of the DJI FPV? I live in Switzerland and I really want to get into FPV to fly up my local mountains in this manner but I don’t have the dexterity to build drones.

[@randomvideos9767]

Why no Matty flip on top of the Matterhorn?

[@bentoogood]

If only! Wind was crazy at the top haha

[@aaronblankenbyl]

Wow amazing shot dude. Which equipment did you use?

[@bentoogood]

Thanks! I used a custom 8 inch FPV drone for this shot 👌 Radiomaster TX16s controller and DJI Goggles 2

[@deeweeuavp]

There goes my vertigo

[@batronic3268]

Quiero uno para subirlo hasta la cuspide del Aconcahua

[@Bananana.yum69]

Only 3k likes 🥲

[@Epic_RC589]

Any restrictions for flying in Switzerland?

[@EPATZ]

*crashes it* Hey Bill, you mind going to get my drone? It's just a little hike...

[@bentoogood]

Haha yeah no recovery out there! Definitely made us a little more nervous during each flight 😅

[@EPATZ]

@@bentoogood I bet it did. Super impressive!

[@kurtmayrhofer2665]

Which drone is that??

[@bentoogood]

Speedybee Mario 8

[@chamonix4658]

get this man to ukraine asap

[@HusseinHamakaren]

Which receiver do you use for this drone?

[@bentoogood]

GEPRC ELRS 2.4 diversity

[@willyhonka]

Please can you tell me what model of drone you are using?

[@bentoogood]

Speedybee Mario 8 custom build

[@bravecougarstudios374]

Any long range fpv antenna recommendations?

[@bentoogood]

Rush Cherry / TrueRC Matchsticks

[@tmalanam]

What is the frame name?

[@danielpinheirocampos4832]

Which drone ??

[@bentoogood]

Speedybee Mario 8 custom build

[@terriw]

❤🏔️🎉

[@dancarter2285]

Poor climbers

[@bentoogood]

What climbers?

[@onewheelisbetterthan2]

Imagine crashing and having to go get it..... Lol passs

[@bentoogood]

No recovery 🥶

[@charlesneely]

Tell me about😅😊

[@Mati_to_mazi]

Lost control💀💀💀

[@PRM0P]

Which frame did you used in this drone?

[@bentoogood]

Speedybee Mario 8

[@GenevaConventionViolator]

@@bentoogood i got the prebuilt for that drone. can you give me you pid setting please I am having a lot of trouble tuning that thing. it would mean and help me a lot 🙏(I know its a custom built but it should be similar enough)

[@bentoogood]

@@GenevaConventionViolator Send me a DM on instagram (@ben2good) and I can help you with Photos

[@legobuildingsrewiew7538]

What exact equipment are you running?

[@bentoogood]

Speedybee Mario 8 with GoPro 12, DJI Goggles 2 with TrueRC patch antennas, Radiomaster TX16S with HM ELRS 2.4 module set at 100mw 150hz packet rate 👍

[@Snake_28]

Which battery du you use?​@@bentoogood

[@bentoogood]

@@Snake_28 custom built 9000mah 6s li-ion 👌

[@lifezap2484]

How you not lose signal??

[@bentoogood]

I had clear line of sight the whole way to the top

[@retro_fpv]

Did you have permission for this flight?

[@bentoogood]

Permission from who?

[@alexanderschwall7090]

4478m not 4474m

[@truereligion26]

Probably crashed on the way down skimming so closely, probably edited out.

[@bentoogood]

Yeah, that’s how I got the footage

[@chronicandironic8701]

how life feels when you drink alcohol my percentage instead of for flavor