Hey folks, I'm new here. I was looking around at other people's flyaway nightmares and I couldn't find a consolidated thread of Fly Aways so I thought I'd start one. Mods feel free to combine if one really exists.
I'll start with mine... its taken me a week to get over being a *******, but I'm ready to share.
I upgraded my P3S with an ITELITE DBS Mod and was pretty happy with it's first flight exceeding 3000' easily since I couldn't go past 2000' prior. On my second flight it was almost dusk and I rushed back from dinner out to get a flight in. It was thundering and lightening in the north but it looked well off in the distance. I took off from the beach and crossed 10,000 ft west from an island to the mainland and the wind started to pick up and it was getting dark. I turned around and headed back to home at just about 10,500'. The wind speed increased and it started to rain and my drone was at about 2500' from home. Going as fast as I could I had to direct it north into the wind to fly east toward home. At 1200' from home the wind was blowing the rain horizontal and I now had a drone heading south out to sea as I was full throttle to the north. I ran down the beach for about 1/4 mile until I lost visibility over the open ocean. I tried everything from increasing and decreasing altitude to avoid the wind... I watched the FPV footage as the lights from shore went dim and everything went black as the battery dropped to 0%
As I type this I have a new P3A running the software upgrade so I can head out tomorrow. This is tons of fun, though a little expensive if you act like a ******* and ignore the weather.
I'll start with mine... its taken me a week to get over being a *******, but I'm ready to share.
I upgraded my P3S with an ITELITE DBS Mod and was pretty happy with it's first flight exceeding 3000' easily since I couldn't go past 2000' prior. On my second flight it was almost dusk and I rushed back from dinner out to get a flight in. It was thundering and lightening in the north but it looked well off in the distance. I took off from the beach and crossed 10,000 ft west from an island to the mainland and the wind started to pick up and it was getting dark. I turned around and headed back to home at just about 10,500'. The wind speed increased and it started to rain and my drone was at about 2500' from home. Going as fast as I could I had to direct it north into the wind to fly east toward home. At 1200' from home the wind was blowing the rain horizontal and I now had a drone heading south out to sea as I was full throttle to the north. I ran down the beach for about 1/4 mile until I lost visibility over the open ocean. I tried everything from increasing and decreasing altitude to avoid the wind... I watched the FPV footage as the lights from shore went dim and everything went black as the battery dropped to 0%
As I type this I have a new P3A running the software upgrade so I can head out tomorrow. This is tons of fun, though a little expensive if you act like a ******* and ignore the weather.
