I've had a few.
My very first p1 I was flying in a large field. There were people in the field so wanted to launch far away and the only place to launch was from under some very large trees. This was perfect for me as I was well out of the way. This was possibly my second or third flight with the bird. Everything went well and I ended up losing signal and the bird started to proceed to head to the home point. I only realised when it was above the trees what was about to happen.
I couldn't regain control and it came down and proceed to cut some branches and get stuck in the tree. Luckily for me the rotors kept spinning g and it eventually cut itself free. Lesson learned right there.
On to the p4 and loads of flights later. Again a return to home landing. Showing my friend how cool this thing was. It started coming down but it never lands exactly where you launch it. It proceed to come down beside my car and the props gave the side of my car a few nice scratches that polished out. Another lesson learned. Again no damage to the drone. It's always little things I forget when I'm too excited to get to the sky.
I certainly have more sense now when setting the home points and heights it returns at. I'm just glad I have several batteries now where I'm not trying to get the absolute maximum flight time out of them.
Probably 200 flights in now and no accidents now to report. Certainly find the p4 much better to control where you can look at the screen and see what it's doing. You didn't have that luxury with the p1. Well I certainly never knew enough to get it rigged up that way.
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My very first p1 I was flying in a large field. There were people in the field so wanted to launch far away and the only place to launch was from under some very large trees. This was perfect for me as I was well out of the way. This was possibly my second or third flight with the bird. Everything went well and I ended up losing signal and the bird started to proceed to head to the home point. I only realised when it was above the trees what was about to happen.
I couldn't regain control and it came down and proceed to cut some branches and get stuck in the tree. Luckily for me the rotors kept spinning g and it eventually cut itself free. Lesson learned right there.
On to the p4 and loads of flights later. Again a return to home landing. Showing my friend how cool this thing was. It started coming down but it never lands exactly where you launch it. It proceed to come down beside my car and the props gave the side of my car a few nice scratches that polished out. Another lesson learned. Again no damage to the drone. It's always little things I forget when I'm too excited to get to the sky.
I certainly have more sense now when setting the home points and heights it returns at. I'm just glad I have several batteries now where I'm not trying to get the absolute maximum flight time out of them.
Probably 200 flights in now and no accidents now to report. Certainly find the p4 much better to control where you can look at the screen and see what it's doing. You didn't have that luxury with the p1. Well I certainly never knew enough to get it rigged up that way.
Sent from my SM-G935F using PhantomPilots mobile app