I’m wondering if there is a graph availeble of wind-speed against drone-speed.
What I’m looking for is the optimal speed to use for max battery time.
Regards.
That is an unknown quantity, which is going to change per flight as its going to depend on the main flight direction and the wind direction in relation to flight direction, for instance if you are flying into wind you’re not going to get good battery life, whereas if you’ve got a tailwind you’re going to get a lot longer, if you use an app such as airdata, you can see what the winds were like on a flight, they also show battery reports
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Hallo Martin, thanks for your reply.
Lets stick to a head wind.
What I expect to see from such a graph is what speed to fley against what winh. If we plot the two speeds on opiste y-axes and use x-axis af battery, I expect the two graphs to cros, which will indicate the possible battery life.
If we plot different flight speeds for a combination of wind speeds, we get ‘sets’ of intersections , each point showing a differet battery life. Getting complicated?
Regards
Yeah, but if you stick to a head wind, then you have a tail wind on the way home, experience tells me I can get about 20 minutes out of my mini 2 batteries, so I normally head for home and battery swap at about 15 minutes of flight time, I normally fly with software other than Litchi which will fly the drone back to where it left off after the battery change
Thanks Martin.
True, Better to start up wind. “Glide” home.
I normally fly with software other than Litchi which will fly the drone back to where it left off after the battery change.
Interesting. What are u using?
Regards
I generally use Dronelink, find it easier and more intuitive than Litchi
Thanks Martin
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