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so we're here in the NCIX parking lot doing a bit of a range test on the parrot ar.drone so I got my iPad here you can see the front mounted camera view and actually that is well why don't I show you guys the settings in here as well can you see that at all no hope if I go up this way can you see it now okay cool okay so I'm just going to turn on outdoor hall and outdoor flight or both on okay so it looks like we're ready to go already so I'm also going to switch on my alternate camera which is right here okay so that's my downward facing camera and I just want to show you guys for the sake of interest but it's a little bit windy out here today so you can see that drifting I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna take off with the ar.drone and I want to show you guys how little it actually drifts even in the wind check that out so it actually controls itself using the bottom mounted camera to keep itself from drifting away see it got blown away a little bit and then corrected itself and brought itself back pretty cool like so we're gonna do a bit of a range test here I'm gonna go ahead and fly it down the parking lot keeping it nice and low no need to put it up high especially on a windy day like today so do do do do do remember this is Wi-Fi controlled so here I'm gonna go ahead and stop for a second here there we go so just for scale guys so the drone isn't fouled gotta be at least about 50 60 meters away at this point and I still do have my video feed and I still do have control of the drones so here I'm gonna turn it around and point it at us let's see if we can see ourselves here oh it's getting oh it's pretty gusty right now so you can see the drone struggling a little bit but it is managing to hold itself in place so I'm just gonna bring it back hopefully this way tilter that way there we go oh okay I couldn't figure out if it was coming back or not because it's going kind of slow cuz it's in the breeze here there we go come on mr. drone so there you go we can comfortably go about fifty to sixty meters away without any difficulties so I brought it back now let's go for this card and move along and then we'll we'll pick this up again in the second so we're back we're gonna take the drill all the way down to the end of the parking lot but first let's go harass our our HR manager over there he's all like WTF and I'm all like hello and I can't see it behind that tree right now but I'm gonna go ahead and bring it back over here I think fantasy mystery around I lost my orientation oh I hit the tree oh here well I'll show you guys what happens so this is a cutout emergency so what happens is what the blade here come come check this out because this is a great demo of how durable the AR Drone actually is a cutout emergency occurs when one of the propeller strikes an immovable object and what the AR Drone does is it actually turns off all four motors before immediately before the AR Drone even hits the ground in order to minimize the amount of damage that can be done to it now the propellers are made out of a very flexible material they're very difficult to break I've crashed it like this a couple dozen times at this point but what you can see here is that so yeah we've got that flex to them and if they all turn off when one of them encounters an obstacle then you dramatically reduce the risk of serious damage to the drone so in this case we hit a tree and that was bad but let's go ahead and take off again here and see if we can do another little range test here we go there we are let's go ahead and wow it's getting pretty windy though I gotta say this is definitely not the optimal conditions for for flying a small RC aircraft like this so let's go ahead and take it down to the other end of the parking lot and see how far we can go I'm flying into the wind right now so this represents pretty much my top speed into a strong headwind really here realistically you're gonna lose control of the AR Drone in terms of your visual ability to determine what's forward and what's backwards before you're going to lose control of the AR Drone from the iPad so you can see it's getting blown around quite a bit over there but I guess that pretty much wraps this up there's my range test on the AR Drone thank you for checking it out don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech x4 unboxings reviews and other computer videos so here's cameraman trying to fly the AR Drone he approves of this product because he's using the iPad to control it I'll just zoom in on his his drone flight here please don't hit the car cameraman so we're quite far away at this point I'm gonna max out the zoom of my camera here wow I think I can actually see it better to the zoom than I can with my eyes oh please don't hit that car yeah this cameraman flying the drone something's cool is that if you actually do manage to go outside of the maximum range of the drone what it does is it just switches off and goes into hover mode so there's no risk of it damaging itself by like flying away or anything like that so yeah