Flight Time from Power Draw & the Cost of Payload
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You turn usable watt-hours and the average power draw into flight minutes, add the fictional power cost of extra payload, chart flight time against payload and work out the largest payload that still meets the target flight time.
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Lessons in this course
- Battery Energy: mAh, Volts, Watt-hours & the Landing Reserve Locked
- Flight Time from Power Draw & the Cost of Payload Locked
- Wind: Ground Speed Out & Back and the Return Reserve Locked
- Range Under a Battery Budget & the Visual-Range Limit Locked
- Ground Sampling Distance: Centimetres per Pixel & the Right Altitude Locked
- Mapping Grid: Overlap, Line Spacing, Photo Interval & Photo Count Locked
- Mission Time: Flight Lines, Turns & Battery Swaps Locked
- Pre-Flight Sheet: A Limits Panel with Red–Amber–Green Flags Locked