Wind: Ground Speed Out & Back and the Return Reserve
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You work out the ground speed with and against the wind, the time and energy for a round trip to an inspection site in five wind scenarios and flag the scenarios in which the trip no longer fits the usable energy of one pack.
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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