GadgetGuy
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Always best to have a preplanned safe ditch point, when unfamiliar with the limits and the area. After 250 flights, you develop a feeling for where you need to be at each battery level, based upon the distance from your home point. Add in your own safety margin. It helps to use external batteries, as they add redundancy, and keep the internal battery from crashing suddenly at the very end. With externals, you even have 30 seconds of flight left, after it reaches 0%. Not recommended, unless you know what you are doing. Take it slow and build up. Baby steps, and always come home downwind if you can, and there is more wind higher up, than low to the ground. If into a headwind, stay as low as you can. Good luck!Thanks for the tip. I tried it once and ended up landing on the side of the road; 2000 ft short of home point. Not sure I have the guts to try it again [emoji14]