Mike90210
lvl.4
Flight distance : 1183556 ft
United States
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First, @JJB: it's very kind of you to take the time to look into my flight. I must say folks here #ROCK !!!
I was doing a waypoint hyperlapse, trying to capture the highway traffic and clouds from the approaching thunderstorm.
When the 50 mph wind gust happened, blowing my glasses off my face, it left me completely disoriented, unable to see.
I did manage to hit the big red stop button on the hyperlapse.
My failing during the chaos was trying to reverse in sport mode while trying to lower my altitude to get out of the wind.
Obviously, you can drop 100 feet in 4 seconds in sport mode - I FEEL SO DUMB.
In retrospect, had I set the return to home altitude to 100 feet and thought about the return to home feature, that would have been much better, allowing me to find the glasses on the ground and do the final landing manually.
Because I knew I had such a short time before the storm hit, I didn't take the time to come up with a contingency plan in case things went bad.
Because I fly in the city, I always keep return-to-home altitude at 397 feet. So, even if I thought to lower it to 100 feet for this over-river shoot, I probably would have forgotten to change it back since I don't set it each flight like I know I should.
BTW, what tool did you use to create those fancy graphs - so cool !!!
-Mike
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