I was hired to do a little work for a local film being made here in town.
I was on a straight stretch of road flying in Course Lock backwards in front of a Jeep (about 20-30 ft in front). And no matter what I did I could not get that PH4P to go faster than about 8 or 10 mph. After fooling around with and disabling a variety of obstacle sensors it seemed to make no difference and would not stop beeping and showing the front obstacle warning. Anyway after about 45 minutes of this I put it away and pulled out my trusty PHP. Nailed it in 2 takes.
As I am sure this is pilot error, I am going to start scouring the manual for what sensors might be the issue, but in the meantime wondered if this sounded familiar to anyone.
BTW: if my description of what I was trying to do was not clear, here is a very short ungraded 8 sec clip of the successful PHP footage that I could not achieve with the PHP4
Thanks a bunch.
R
I was on a straight stretch of road flying in Course Lock backwards in front of a Jeep (about 20-30 ft in front). And no matter what I did I could not get that PH4P to go faster than about 8 or 10 mph. After fooling around with and disabling a variety of obstacle sensors it seemed to make no difference and would not stop beeping and showing the front obstacle warning. Anyway after about 45 minutes of this I put it away and pulled out my trusty PHP. Nailed it in 2 takes.
As I am sure this is pilot error, I am going to start scouring the manual for what sensors might be the issue, but in the meantime wondered if this sounded familiar to anyone.
BTW: if my description of what I was trying to do was not clear, here is a very short ungraded 8 sec clip of the successful PHP footage that I could not achieve with the PHP4
Thanks a bunch.
R