Who flys in the winter?

[solentlife]

You guys are really making me feel bad ! Stuck 000's miles from home working - no model to fly .....

But really nice to see people get out there and show how great winter can be through the lense.

Cheers and Happy Xmas to all ...

Nigel

 

[QuadcopterCrazy]

Took my Phantom out today, was 13F with -3 below windchill it flew fine, just my fingers started to sting less than 10 minutes in so I had no choice but to cut the flight short.

 

[Vega]

I've been experimenting, flew yesterday at 2 degrees fahrenheit. ( That's -16.6667 centigrade) The craft and battery are warm from the inside temps before flight. Only 10 minute flights. I make sure that before I return inside, I place the drone in a small plastic garbage bag. This will prevent condensation in the inside and corrosion. I learned this from cold weather astronomy. VERY IMPORTANT to prevent circuit shorts and gremlins!

 

[PHANTOM3_BZ_RO]

I fly in Romania at 2...3 C not problem in wind about 18km/h


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[FrankAVCam]

Any of you guys fly in the winter or do you let your bird rest until it warms up again?

Thanks,



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8 degrees F, this AM and not technically 'winter' yet. Short flight video over lake.

 

[Nickster]

25 degrees F this morning. Worked great!

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[kosmik]

This from today's morning at -29C. No problems with quad. Two things to consider though:
* Fully charge mobile device used as screen. It took 10 minutes for Galaxy S2 tablet to go from 30% to 1% charge, also on low battery it seems to go into power saving mode, reducing performance and making video feed almost unusable
* Start and warm up your car periodically, we couldn't start it today without another car as a power source.

 

[BourgeoisSJC]

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This from today's morning at -29C. No problems with quad. Two things to consider though:
* Fully charge mobile device used as screen. It took 10 minutes for Galaxy S2 tablet to go from 30% to 1% charge, also on low battery it seems to go into power saving mode, reducing performance and making video feed almost unusable
* Start and warm up your car periodically, we couldn't start it today without another car as a power source.

Where is this??

 

[kosmik]

Where is this??

It's near this ski resort in Finland: - Tahko

 

[Spiderpig]

Did a flight this morning

 

[solentlife]

Today was -15C with a further -2C wind chill ............... frozen river ... etc.

Excellent flight. Argtec did its stuff with solid 1km raduis area flight ...

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Video still uploading so please be patient !! Interesting soundtrack ... just to be different !

Nigel

 

[Banksy]

I love flying in the winter! Here's a recent snap. It's a balmy 4° here in southern Wisconsin today. Supposed to be -14° tonight.

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[usbp481]

It dropped below 50F here last week...thought I was going to need to use the battery warmer prior to flying.

 

[kosmik]

I love flying in the winter! Here's a recent snap. It's a balmy 4° here in southern Wisconsin today. Supposed to be -14° tonight.

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How do you shoot against the sun? Filter?

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[BourgeoisSJC]

It dropped below 50F here last week...thought I was going to need to use the battery warmer prior to flying.

Stop bragging!!!!! Hope you were wearing lots of sun screen...
Down to -21 tonight. Think I'll stay home. Next week though. +2 Time to bring out the shorts

 

[Banksy]

How do you shoot against the sun? Filter?

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Yep, used nd16 filter, iso 100 shot in manual mode.

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[usbp481]

Stop bragging!!!!! Hope you were wearing lots of sun screen...
Down to -21 tonight. Think I'll stay home. Next week though. +2 Time to bring out the shorts

We have had three days this week of rain, Winter Storm Watch 2017!

 

[usbp481]

The rain finally stopped. Great flying today.

 

[pynkstyle]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1227171520651558

P3 standard , crash from 34m, -18C snow and windy, so no good conditions but I risked ... the good is that no damage to the drone and it`s working OK
I will not try this again

 

[DanD2]

^^^^^^ Did you dub in the sound?