Hehe...yesterday I learned to not fly in the house anymore after hitting my 5K pool table, 10 ft ceilings don't matter if it goes sideways. Anyway, today I went out and braved the wind, afterall the manual states Cat4 winds are OK, yeah right...I had the drone on GPS mode and it had a hell of a time down low with swirling gusts. I raised it up to about 60ft and it caught wind and flew downwind. I had a difficult time getting it down. You can tell by the pitch of the rotorguards that it was fighting the wind. I switched to "Failsafe and it worked hard to stay in one spot. It would only hover at 60ft and would not descend. I switched the controller back on to regain control and was able to bring it down in the pasture. It sat there for a few seconds and while I was on the way to retrieve, it took off again and shot up to 60ft again and continued to "Go Home". I finally got it landed. I've only been doing this for a little over a week. Having some hard learnings but that's part of the fun.
This was really stressful considering the cost of the drone and my lack of skill. Needless to say, it took a few minutes to calm down. :shock:
http://youtu.be/V_XFZJTnKsk
There are some interesting points at 3:30 (Nuke plant in bkgrnd) and 5:36 (Close calls with the house...big gust)
Any input is greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
Joe
This was really stressful considering the cost of the drone and my lack of skill. Needless to say, it took a few minutes to calm down. :shock:
http://youtu.be/V_XFZJTnKsk
There are some interesting points at 3:30 (Nuke plant in bkgrnd) and 5:36 (Close calls with the house...big gust)
Any input is greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
Joe