i am fairly new to this hobby,
but there is one thing i wanted from the beginning ,that is LONGRANGE.
I live in iceland and my favourite thing is to record videos and pictures from the nature here , especiallt waterfalls (of which we have a ton of )
so my main purpose for fpv will be cinematic.
after getting started,i soon realized that cinematic freestyle will be my new favourite thing to doo,since i really like the freestyle part of fpv, learning new tricks and progressing my "obsticle evation skill"
so i will be building my fleet of durable batteryefficient long range quads.
i looked into crossfire,but crossfire is quite expensive for what it does, and also is already quite an "old" ecosystem, yes i know it works very well, but i am that kinda a guy that likes to do things different,
so when everyone says go crossfire i think to myself there must be another system out there :-)
so i jumped on the ghost "train".
tiny recievers,tiny antennas (they look so good :-) )
The installation is quite simple (although it wasnt for me (since i am still learning the very basics on uarts and solderpoints)
but if you got that down it is pretty simple.
with betaflight 4.3 the Immersion rc ghost will hopefully become "fully activated"
Which means you can choose the ghost protocol under the reciever tab and hopefully more settings will become abailable.
I still have to do a testflight on my quads
will hopefully do that in a vouple of hours :-) (fingers crossed the weather will be in my corner ๐ค)
Will post future progress and issues of my ghost experience here.
Also would be great if anyone on here has experience on immersion rc ghost protocol and could share as well .
(just thought i start a small progress thread for my long range .)
Have been flying some longrange the past few days and was able to get some nice clips with gopro . this one is sjot with the gopro 7 mounted on the diatone Roma F4 with a 1500mAh 4s lipo (amazing that this tiny drone was able to handle the weight like it did:-)) And the LQ was between 80 - 90 (enough left ) was about 3 -4 km out at times. Really liking the ghost protocol so far. still have to build my 7" longrange drone to test this further though :-)
So i did a couple of testflights Iflight cidora 4s i have to say so far the penetration is way better than on any Frsky reciever. Range , well i was unable to reach the limits of the reciever ,due to video &@"@missi@n los@ ๐๐ฌ but was able to reenter reception . so my next mission (7" long range build ,which of course i will be sharing on this forum.) with hopefully everything i need to get a long video range ๐ง and more stability in windy conditions. keep u posted :-)
yes the full size pckage is really nice to start with , get one free reciever :-)
I am waiting for 4.3 before I buy the ghost lite module. I wish the lite version offered a 3 receiver pack like the full size does.
This is a good one! Iโm excited to follow your progress as I am about to start the same journey in search for long range fun! I have been considering Ghost over crossfire but still leery because I am so green. Excited to see your progress.
Thanks for sharing. I am very interested in the ghost hardware too! Keep us updated.