Kirtus
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Last night I wanted to try to get some night shots of Grand Rapids, MI. After practicing outside of my own house I decided to go closer to downtown and get some cool shots of the buildings and streets all lit up. The first place I stopped was looking into downtown over the main highway and I got some pretty good shots. Then I decided to see if I could get some good shots of the merging of 2 major highways.
So I moved to a side street that cut through the confluence of exits and onramps that I wanted to shoot. And this is where things get a little dicey. The road that I choose is an over pass perfectly situated to pretty much launch streight up and take the shots. The part I did not think about was the interference that all the metal that the bridge was made of would have on the calibration of the compass. I do the calibration and it seemed to be fine, but the second I launced the P4 started to move irattically. I was only about 4 feet off the groud but I was near the edge of the bridge with a curb for the sidewalk, the railing and of course a 30 foot drop to the highway bellow. Oh yea and did I mention that this was a active road with occasional cars driving buy? Well it was...is. Anyways I had a really exciting few seconds as I imediatly attempted to land without taking out any of the roters or worse. This was harder than mearly reading it sounds as the P4 kept drifting. After several terrifying seconds I was able to land it safe and sound.
Things that I learned:
Don't calibrate on large metal things
Don't trap yourself in an area that is to small to land
There is a happy/meh ending though. I was able to find a good location to launce and then fly over to where I wanted to take the shot. And here is the meh part; what I thought would be an epic shot was actually pretty unimpressive as you can see by the attached picture.
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