How to lose an fpv drone.

Long range fpv is hard, its even harder when your gps dont work.
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[@BonesFPV]

Damn. That goggle battery beeping had my asshole tightening right up.

[@shredder.mp4]

Thank you for being a real fucking human, and just making life and the FPV online community so much better.

[@jeffparisse4202]

There are two things that every long range FPVer needs. Number one is a Moonlight chair from Nemo equipment. Number two is a Thermacell mosquito repellent device. You put the mosquito device under the chair sit down, relax and fly.

[@Fly_High_FPV]

I was gonna say a ViFly Buzzer 😂

[@jeffparisse4202]

@@Fly_High_FPV If I loose a FPV ship… it will be miles away… Like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear.

[@NikG603FPV]

Thermacell is a definite necessity this time of year for flying.

[@Fly_High_FPV]

@@jeffparisse4202 I'm a hiker, climber, and a hunter with S.A.R. experience. No quads left behind...I've recovered em 5.5feet deep underwater in a swamp, buzzer still going off under the mud 🤣

[@tacticalFPV]

But that’s the thrill of long range, signals dropping, batteries dying, oh holy shits am I gunna make it back??? That’s the best part, but going out without gps from the get go is more than I’m willing to do 😂

[@RickJamesFPV]

I already know... You are gonna have that van fully decked-out by the end of the year.😁😁

[@BOTGRINDER]

hahaa

[@bitterrootfpv2207]

Dude! That gave me the long range anxiety like I was flying my own. 🤘😅

[@dieterweik6858]

"What was the other lesson? Shit, I forgot. hahahaha!

[@user-tp3dg5ym6u]

i really think you are the person who keeps ''fun fpv videos'' alive. Seems like almost everyone run out of new ideas

[@nater-tater]

BOTGRINDER MY FRIEND, on your last vid I commented my mobula 7 was almost in and I was excited to rip, I've done it! I did immediately break a motor and have to order a new one but I'm whooping daily around my house/outside now. Thanks for everything you do for the hobby and teaching me a ton.

[@BOTGRINDER]

awesome!! in the future when order a new set of motors order 5 at a time not 4 for just that reason haha.

[@LehtusBphree2flyFPV]

I've learned the transmitter antenna needs to be up and down not left and right out makes a big difference watch xjet he told everyone on that video that the position needs to be vertical. But keep a DC charger on hand. Keep them coming I LOVE all you do for the community.

[@darkwingfpv]

I love long range, not everyone can enjoy it.... you can tell from your voice you're comfy and enjoying it! Love it!

[@riggermortisfpv526]

Tat's : Check, Anxiety : Nope, 5 inch freestyle motivation : check. I find truly not giving a fuck about a lot of stuff eliminates the anxiety. Close call, cool vid as always man. Im closer to charging packs than I have been in a couple years, thanks for the motivation.

[@Yannick.FPV.]

Okay, yeah, that long range, cool, but nobody is gonna talk about that NOT WOONKY AT ALL tiny whooping through that forest bit? Hats off!

[@yancybright4141]

When are you going to try flying on Salvia again? The first video was effing Hilarious! That did look fun AF, though! Great vid!

[@talonfpv]

Dude every one of your edits is so damn good and engaging. Thanks so much for the content!!

[@Gowieee]

To help you get sats make sure your goggles are off until gps lock is acquired. View the number of sats on your radio.

[@MnPaul1]

you made it back, that is all that counts

[@anthluci]

We want a video with all the quads!! And boat and dude on bike, maybe a rc offroad buggy being chased by a fleet of drones!!

[@davidanderson6222]

Long range gave me too much anxiety. Especially over water. I just fly in my yard these days lol

[@JetJockey_RC]

Glad you guys are having a great time in the summer! It's over 100 outside for us right now.

[@lolmetyuri]

Did you watch the video ?

[@JetJockey_RC]

@lolmetyuri Yeah, what do you mean?

[@lolmetyuri]

@@JetJockey_RC you edited the comment 🤡

[@The_G_Mike]

Bro love your channel! Long time watcher. Want to let you know you inspired me bro. I bought a tiny whoops and I post my videos. I F ing LOVE this hobby! Can't get enough! Thanks man keep up the great videos.

[@gsestream]

try 3d sewn cross chassis from continuous carbon fiber, yep its without the epoxy laminate binder, but instead like carbon fiber layers sewn together in 3d.

[@gilowens5785]

Love your content my man

[@leonardothillet6423]

Badass! I laugh when people say long range is boring, LR keeps you at the edge of your seat from the moment you plan the flight till you finish the flight… It is an addictive nerve wrecking drug…

[@jiatan_fpv]

Long range is only boring if you've done your homework and checked your equipment :)

[@BOTGRINDER]

Haha

[@edrone_]

Risked it for the biscuit! Sometimes you get them back...sometimes you dont. Glad you got some favor on this one homie!

[@whoopsquad]

That was fun! Looking forward to more FPV travels!

[@circleofconfusion8951]

Next time you're out that way, take a look at Chickies Rock near the next bridge crossing to the north. Since the park is high up over the water, you can fly fairly far and still stay low against the water for a couple of miles. You can either be lazy and fly right from the park, or hike in a little bit to another rock outcropping over the river.

[@InsideTheMindOfMatt]

The wires feeding the gps unit need to be shielded and the shield should be grounded if they pass over the vtx because it will pick up rf interference

[@JeffWok]

All these years still killin it! hell yeah

[@MrStevegibb]

You should always run the Gps off 4v5 or 3v3 that way you can plug usb power into your flight controller wait a few minutes and get easy gps lock when the drone is completely noise free and then when you plug in your drone you will have almost instant lock. I literally never wait for gps lock when doing this. That location will be harder as you are only seeing about 50% of the sky but its doable with pre locking the gps.

[@BOTGRINDER]

Yeah I usually do that but I forgot my micro USB cord lol

[@CDRaff]

3:23 This is why I like the artificial horizon on a long range. It's a really quick way to visualize the orientation of the quad when you're flying higher where it's harder to intuit your orientation from your surroundings. The goggle battery thing has happened to me before too, but I was new to FPV at the time so I didn't know what the beeping meant. Luckily when they died I was close enough to just take off the goggles and fly LOS.

[@TheRealRoopertFPV]

Bro butthole definitely tightened a bit on that one lol and I wasn’t even flying… can’t wait to rip some long range in the Appalachian mountains after castle crash!!

[@CasperskullsAdventures]

Gotta come to York County sometime

[@fpvkevlar8101]

Great video Bot

[@AE0NFPV]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaym bro, that was sick!

[@jhendyy]

I live in Pittsburgh and there’s a sick bando spot about an hour and half from the city( going towards Philly) that I just flew at in my recent video. My buddy who I fly and film with his cousin owns the property and lets us fly and film there. It’s a giant scrapyard with big open factory like buildings you can fly through with a bunch of excavators and old cars to fly around. And it has power/outlets to charge your batteries and shit. Literally looks like a sim map. It would be SICK to have you out and shoot a video together at this place if you’re up for it.🤙🏽

[@BOTGRINDER]

oh dang! hit me up [e-mail]

[@samcacc..03]

saw your Volt value in the OSD, i was dying inside😂😂😂

[@xyic0re714]

super cool long range, real cool watching it. Just so you know the HDzeros will keep working down into the 5 volt range - I run mine permanently on 5v from one of those cheap cell phone charging packs. I just turn off all the warnings

[@Chiefbabyjolo]

Let’s whoop in the most forbidden city in americaaaa!!!!

[@tofemaster]

Came for the cannoli, stayed for the long-range

[@Mupshot]

Best camping trips are unplanned

[@DroneWildFPV]

enjoyed the video and had something similar happen. I managed to get it back line of sight.

[@EscapeWithMia]

That intro.. stop calling me out lol

[@chrisalexthomas]

I wonder if a custom DC 5525 barrel plug to parallel xt60 connector would allow you to hook up one battery and if it tries to die on you, you just ask your mate to hand you a new battery and plug the new battery in and unplug the one which is dying without killing your googles in the process?

[@jessehoffman5302]

If you are ever up by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area hit me up. I got a couple dope spots. Concrete city, which is an entire bando town, and the Tunkhannock creek viaduct, the largest Concrete bridge in north America.

[@lambo_drives]

9:33 Do IT , DO IT!!

[@JoshKetchum]

I love it.. 10 years later we all still have the same problems lol

[@LobstersLobsters]

Have you thought about adding RSSI dBm to your LR OSD? Between that and LQ you'll have a better indicator of when your RX link is going to fail. LQ is alone great until it just drops out but RSSI dBm tends to fall off slower ime. Link failures become a bit more predictable. The difference btwn the two can also give you an indicator of why your link is dropping (Was it interference or was I at absolute range?) Happy flyin

[@keepfly5771]

Kp-index might have been an issue? Probably a way to check but I dunno.

[@unRealityFPV]

botgrinder IS physically a fully charged battery. think about it, have you ever seen botgrinder and a fully charged battery in the same place??

[@artifixprime]

Have you thought about putting iNav on your LR rig? It's worth it just for that time you get Position Hold to work and you look at your home built quad just hanging in the air :) Oh, and return to home really works!

[@RIGHTEOUS_RAGE]

Philly!!! What's up botgrinder!!!! Great video, you seem like an amazing dude!!!!! Curious, do you like LAMB OF GOD???? My all time fave metal band..... have a great 1.

[@ChrisQuadFPV]

No lost drone 😢

[@wulfffpv]

Title wrong

[@Geckatron]

While it was a shame to click the like button on 737 (Boeing bad joke related to title in my head - sry) I'm hoping it pushes forward to 747 because I'd really love to live in one of them, in a big field in the country by the sea. Cool video man 😁 Though took me a couple of days to watch as didn't wanna see a loss 😂

[@testpilotian3188]

The link qualify info you mentioned, the 2 means you are in 50hz packer mode (the best one to be for LR) the other number is the percentage of link quality (so 100 means 100% of packets are getting through), I can’t remember where failsafes triggers in, think it’s in the 70’s range. I had my google batteries go flat during a flight a few weeks back, worst thing ever but was glad we were in a big field miles from anywhere so I could bring it back LoS.

[@BOTGRINDER]

ahh ok thats simple thank you.

[@squirrelynutz1]

Hdzero messes up with gps. You need to separate the gps and antennas.

[@snviper]

Yeah I had issues too now my gps is on the front arm as far away from the hdzero gear as possible and I get 20 sats.

[@chickwithstick7695]

Merica

[@BigKahunaFPV]

Your videos are 100% entertainment 🫡

[@RizHassan]

Long range on a quad...Ha!...get a wing and go at least 10 miles.

[@BOTGRINDER]

That's too easy. Wings go for days.

[@mean78mashine]

RESPEKT!

[@Niloc33567]

No GPS madness

[@jeffparisse4202]

No face tattoos but the rest pretty much the same. 🙄 I’ve been flying FPV LR before drones or 2.4GHz transmitters were invented. Seriously more than 25 years… I used to fly 72MHz with a homemade J Pole antenna over 8’ tall. Bot… I love to share some old school shit with your followers… You have my phone number.

[@skree_fpv436]

I'd actually love to see some of that!

[@Gillybearuk]

Going to do "RC BUTT STUFF NOW"

[@scooterdoo1]

Harrisburg Statue of Liberty 🗽

[@baggszilla]

Awesome Bot!

[@w1llyFPV]

Usually, when I come to a spot, I first connect the drone to my phone with a USB cable. Before I connect everything, the drone already has 20+ satellites. But when it comes to HDZero and GPS, I always have these modules mounted on the front arms. Works every time. Regards

[@BOTGRINDER]

yeah i do the same thing with a battery bank but i brought the wrong usb cable lol, good looks on the gps ive been hearing that so ill switch it up.

[@lolmetyuri]

Like we needed a tutorial 💀

[@Katz_fpvchannel]

Hey for real if you make it out to colorado hit me up to go fly. I work all the damn time, so advance notice would be good.

[@Krash_fpv]

How do you get the phallic images for battery icon?

[@snviper]

He made a whole video about that some months ago.

[@funeralatpizzahut]

how do you waterproof the FPV stuff for your boat? i just ordered the proboat jetstream and would like to put a setup on there.

[@BOTGRINDER]

I dont, i kinda just hot glued the shit out of the vtx and prayed but so far so good.

[@cptncannoli]

GPS is for lames.

[@1337flite]

The bean bag is gernius.

[@crumbled_fpv]

try a update on gps

[@paulgeorge1069]

Today were flying a 4500 volt drone 🫤

[@GalileoUAS]

Blood Fart FPV Bot

[@xenonelement42069]

Great video Bot! Doing LR you definitely gotta have some biiiig balls cause at least with freestyle you can, most of the time, recover your drone but if you're 8km out... Edit: You got soooo lucky you turned around when you did 🤣good shit brother

[@derelictfpv]

CLiCkBaiT !! 🤨🤨I came to see BotGrinder crying over a lost quad! 🤪🤪😂😂

[@bretttaylor225]

Yo bot I have a bunch of sick places to fly and a place for u to stay I can even send u back with a bunch of lumber to build stuff at the fpv park

[@GiantAntCowboy]

Yea dawg, long-range fun. Your signal should be better at only 5km. Also does your gps acquire satellites and then drop them after you take off? Or is the GPS just not working?

[@BOTGRINDER]

Bro something was up at this spot all our quads got really bad rx and video even the 5" we where right next to a giant power plant so that may be something lol. The GPS I usually plug in with a power bank and let it get sats but I forgot my micro USB so I was relying on lipo power and my shit was getting hot so I just took off.

[@GiantAntCowboy]

@@BOTGRINDER yea, I saw that wall of power lines across the river, I’ve experienced similar issues before. Not sure which GPS you’re using but a few month back I installed an HGLRC M100 (not the mini version) and it gets tons of satellites quickly even with my HDZ VTX powered on. Only like $15, worth a try.

[@lolmetyuri]

@@GiantAntCowboy plugged in with the lipo right? Doesn't it get hot? Love your videos btw

[@GiantAntCowboy]

@@lolmetyuri yea, I literally just plug in the LiPo, get my goggles powers up and boom 10+ satellites. When flying around I often have a solid 15-20 sats. I have the M100 mini version too, but haven’t had great performance with that one for some reason…

[@lolmetyuri]

@@GiantAntCowboy m100 good to know!!

[@BadwolfFPV]

totally illegal in the uk with vlos rules sadly

[@jeffparisse4202]

Only sad if you follow the rules…

[@BadwolfFPV]

@@jeffparisse4202 lol following or not the rules does not make it less sad that you break the law by doing so.

[@BirdRunHD]

Most things from Poland is questionable bro.

[@KOrnhOliO1]

I also have to deal with anxiety and stress. For that reason, I do not put myself into these predicaments where I do not know if I will make it back with my $500+ drone or if it will sink in the RIVER! These long range flights are also boring AS FUC% because we are flying way up in the open air with nothing to fly around, under, inside of, or weave through. THINK ABOUT IT - What did we see when flying long range? Not a damn thing worth losing our $500+ drone over! LOL If you wanna fly long range, go get a reliable Mavic! With great Return TO Home! Because of the stress and anxiety (I'd rather smoke a bowl and chill & relax - Not just the opposite!) I see no point in this long range thing. BEAVIS: "Let's fly our drones as far as we fuc%ing can and see if we can lose $500+ bucks!" BUTTHEAD: "Ahh, Right, let go!" haahaaherrherrheehee BEAVIS: "I feel stupider than I ever have before because I am so nervous I just peed my pants" BUTTHEAD: "haahaaherrherrheehee, but at least you didn't crap your pants like I just did - It's running down my fuc%ing leg! BEAVIS: "But this is soooo fun???" 🙃🤬🤯

[@BOTGRINDER]

ok

[@DVN_FPV]

Your HUD is totaly wrong... if u are still in air with low voltage it should get bigger xD

[@slowvoltage]

🙌🏽❤️✈️

[@ferocious_r]

Lol bestest clickbait ever botty

[@jlarson42]

All that water was giving me anxiety. Then the fuckin goggles start beeping. 🫨. 🐦💖 😂

[@lolmetyuri]

Word I would freak out. Maybe use lion for goggles aswell would last ages

[@crumbled_fpv]

scam

[@darkwingfpv]

😂😂😂

[@TailSpinRCSpain]

#vanlife

[@OShaneHaleO]

@BOTGRINDER... hey brother i signed up on the $6.66 tier on patreon app it still shows I'm in free tier. ???

[@BOTGRINDER]

Hey shoot me a message on patreon or [e-mail] and l take a look for ya. Thanks for signing up!