So I plugged in my PV2V3, upraded everything and went to the beach...

Did the calibration, check, radio, check, iPhone, check, all ready, check... throttle up, damn, no half throttle only.. no liftoff..eeeeeekkkk, horror
Re-check everything, throttle up, damn, half speed, no liftoff, dangerously danglin to one side....
Gasp, could all the horror stories be true?????

My 12 year old son.,..  " Dad, is that not the forward stick? "

Oops, my bad, uhum... Throttle stick, perfect takoff

Laughed my ass off

Ahh, It is only a bad experience if you did not learn anything, grasshopper

I did a way point flight one time, turned on video( I thought everything is good) the flight took 6 minutes. Downloaded the video after I landed to watch, and son-of -a- gun if I only had one minute of video.Gee I was pissing and moaning my fricken camera was bad etc. Come to find out in all my nervousness I mistakenly turned the video off after a minute with out realizing it! Was so happy the next day when I flew again and had ALL the video. I learned from that mistake.

tomwolves585@gm Posted at 2014-12-28 07:12
I did a way point flight one time, turned on video( I thought everything is good) the flight took 6  ...

Good one Tom!
I think we all make small mistakes from time to time, and the weird thing is, we don't even realize it!
Society is pre programming us to shift blame
Me, I just take it on the chin, learn something, and try to be more careful next time. :-)

We have all done something silly in the heat of the moment, the excitement gets the better of us, my personal one was trying to hand catch my phantom in a brisk wind while in ATTI mode, having forgot to switch to GPS before trying to catch it and wondering why the bloody thing will not keep still......