Sigmo
Second Officer
United States
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Mine had never been flown before, and I updated the firmware before initially flying it last night. It did seem to drift at times. At one point, it drifted far enough that when I looked up from watching the controller (phone) display I could no longer find the drone (I was wearing earmuffs due to the loud mechanical noise in the area I was filming, so I had no good audio cues to track it).
The drone had drifted perhaps ten feet from where I'd had it "parked", and when I couldn't find it, I had a momentary panic thinking it had crashed into the water filter I was filming, and gotten sucked under! It turned out to be hovering over near a wall, and when I made a control movement, it immediately crashed into that wall and tumbled to the grating about ten feet below it. Fortunately, not falling into the water.
Thank goodness for the prop guards!
The thing is, the area where I was flying it at the time would very likely prove highly challenging to any optical system. The filters have gently moving water in them, and the floor is a grating that you can see through down to the next floor down where the bottoms of the filters are. That grating pattern would seriously confuse any pattern recognition that I can imagine being used to hold position (indoors, with no GPS available).
So I still rate the unit as amazing for "station keeping" performance indoors. But I'll keep a closer eye on it when filming indoors in the future! |
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