A rather interesting (and hopefully not permanent) situation occurred today on the second day of flight.
When I first got things turned on, the iPhone displayed a message that said the router wouldn't connect correctly. I fiddled around with it a few times and it seemed to be corrected, so I proceeded. Next I had an error saying to remove the gimbal lock, so I checked and I had remember correctly - the gimbal lock was in the case with the lens cover. I walked out to the Phantom and looked to see that there was nothing wedged in or otherwise preventing movement of the camera. It was sitting in the grass and there was a chance that the pressure of the grass on the camera and gimbal caused the gimbal to think it was locked. I decided to ignore the message and see it if reset once the Phantom was off the ground.
I wanted to capture the video from the start of take off so I turned on the video (from the iPhone) even though the there was still an error displayed on the iPhone, so I started the video recording from the iPhone. The next error message was that I hadn't inserted the Micro-SD card (I think that is like the third time I have forgotten to do this)! I inserted the card and continued with what I was doing. As the Phantom lifted off I noticed that the image on the iPhone did not change! Now I was concerned. I decided to proceed and at least get some practice flying for few minutes.
I continued flying (this was just off the grounds of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center behind the Visitor's Center) and climbed to what seemed to be a decent altitude to see most of the center. I went through the motions of stopping the video (the screen controls on the iPhone worked fine but the image displayed was still the grass it saw before takeoff) and took a couple stills and continued the video and stopped it again and took a couple more. I landed the Phantom and turned things off and put everything away. I wasn't hopeful that I had gotten any video or stills, but I checked anyway. All the videos and stills had come out fine! (Note: I Corrected the second two stills with the lens correction function in PS CS6.)
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[vimeo]98783777[/vimeo]
When I first got things turned on, the iPhone displayed a message that said the router wouldn't connect correctly. I fiddled around with it a few times and it seemed to be corrected, so I proceeded. Next I had an error saying to remove the gimbal lock, so I checked and I had remember correctly - the gimbal lock was in the case with the lens cover. I walked out to the Phantom and looked to see that there was nothing wedged in or otherwise preventing movement of the camera. It was sitting in the grass and there was a chance that the pressure of the grass on the camera and gimbal caused the gimbal to think it was locked. I decided to ignore the message and see it if reset once the Phantom was off the ground.
I wanted to capture the video from the start of take off so I turned on the video (from the iPhone) even though the there was still an error displayed on the iPhone, so I started the video recording from the iPhone. The next error message was that I hadn't inserted the Micro-SD card (I think that is like the third time I have forgotten to do this)! I inserted the card and continued with what I was doing. As the Phantom lifted off I noticed that the image on the iPhone did not change! Now I was concerned. I decided to proceed and at least get some practice flying for few minutes.
I continued flying (this was just off the grounds of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center behind the Visitor's Center) and climbed to what seemed to be a decent altitude to see most of the center. I went through the motions of stopping the video (the screen controls on the iPhone worked fine but the image displayed was still the grass it saw before takeoff) and took a couple stills and continued the video and stopped it again and took a couple more. I landed the Phantom and turned things off and put everything away. I wasn't hopeful that I had gotten any video or stills, but I checked anyway. All the videos and stills had come out fine! (Note: I Corrected the second two stills with the lens correction function in PS CS6.)
[vimeo]98782304[/vimeo]
[vimeo]98783777[/vimeo]
