N
Noël
Guest
Today I've had my true 1st really scary moment!
I’m on holiday in Austria at the moment, and today I was following my son up the T-bar lift with my P2V.
No problems, and at the top of the run (about 300 meters away) I rotated the P2V slowly to the right while it was hovering in GPS mode.
Having done this I wanted to get in front of my son to film him coming towards me.
This is when the **** hit the fan!
Whatever input I gave on the RC the P2V went (looking at it) to the left!
As the P2V was 300 meters away, and in front of a mountain covered with snow, it was also hard to see it visually.
(I got really lucky at 12 seconds into the video..)
Facts:
- Before takeoff the P2V had GPS lock.
- The compass was calibrated one day before at the same place.
- At the moment of the trouble the P2V was flying in GPS mode.
- IOC had no effect what so ever!
I am not sure if the P2V had a course lock as it was to sunny to see the green rapid flashes before takeoff.
The only way I could get the P2V back was by going into Atti mode!
Small part of the video.
http://youtu.be/i8uu_6TVSnA
At 1:03 I managed to get back control by going into Atti mode.
I’m on holiday in Austria at the moment, and today I was following my son up the T-bar lift with my P2V.
No problems, and at the top of the run (about 300 meters away) I rotated the P2V slowly to the right while it was hovering in GPS mode.
Having done this I wanted to get in front of my son to film him coming towards me.
This is when the **** hit the fan!
Whatever input I gave on the RC the P2V went (looking at it) to the left!
As the P2V was 300 meters away, and in front of a mountain covered with snow, it was also hard to see it visually.
(I got really lucky at 12 seconds into the video..)
Facts:
- Before takeoff the P2V had GPS lock.
- The compass was calibrated one day before at the same place.
- At the moment of the trouble the P2V was flying in GPS mode.
- IOC had no effect what so ever!
I am not sure if the P2V had a course lock as it was to sunny to see the green rapid flashes before takeoff.
The only way I could get the P2V back was by going into Atti mode!
Small part of the video.
http://youtu.be/i8uu_6TVSnA
At 1:03 I managed to get back control by going into Atti mode.