DIVING THE TALLEST BUILDING IN EUROPE :: 462 meters :: Lakhta Center FPV Freestyle

Music: KRANE x Alexander Lewis – Fall Apart
Kudos to RotorRiot team for featuring this video in Community Spotlight June/July 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V11js-w4H9o&t=268

Building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhta_Center (462 meters)

To be fair, Lakhta is relatively boring place to dive – no other buildings around, tower looks pretty much the same all the 460+ meters way down, dive takes too much time (around 15 seconds), only two climbs were safe to do with 1300mAh lipo. The coolest parts were the tower cranes dives and acrobatics around supporting constructs. Sadly, those cranes are disassembled already. One more interesting thing I noticed there – the tower is high enough to notice quad getting out of tune because of too low PIDs coefficients (maybe somebody will implement altitude sensor based PID attenuation some day?).

On safety: whole complex was under construction, it was relatively safe to fly there - normal safety rules were applied for skyscraper construction workers (helmets and so on), little 500g+ drone can't cause serious damage there. Even diving speeds were not as fast as I expect them to be - quad reaches terminal velocity in about 3-5 seconds and pretty much stops accelerating. I also used reliable TBS Crossfire connection (LQ 99% at ~700 meters) and 500mW 5.8Ghz vtx was enough for crystal clear video.
Gear:

== Kamikaze build (last season's stuff) ==
Armattan Chameleon 5" frame
CL Racing F4S v1.4 flight controller
BrotherHobby Returner R4 2206 2300kv motors
DalProp Cyclone T5040С props
Airbot Wraith32 35A BLHeli32 ESCs @ DSHOT1200
Foxeer Arrow V3 2.5mm 600TVL CCD camera
TBS Unify Pro 5G8 HV vtx @ 200mW
TBS Crossfire Micro receiver
TBS Triumph vtx antenna
380g + 1300lipo = 548g + gopro = 619g

== Other stuff ==
TATTU R-Line 1300mAh 4S 2.0 100C HV lipos
FrSky Taranis X9D+ radio with M9 gimbals
TBS Crossfire Micro Tx module
Fat Shark Dominator HD3 FPV goggles
LaForge v2 receiver + Pagoda-2 RHCP antenna
LaForge diversity module + TBS 5G8 5dBi RHCP patch antenna
GoPro Hero 5 Session onboard HD cams
Xiaomi Mijia Mi Sphere 360/VR camera
iSDT D2 chargers
iSDT BG-8S battery checker
TS100 soldering iron
Dakine Gemini 28L backpack

Location: 59.986984, 30.179148, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Видео DIVING THE TALLEST BUILDING IN EUROPE :: 462 meters :: Lakhta Center FPV Freestyle канала Alexander Shvedov