gnixon2015
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not true nrg... in an academic sense, with no air resistance and no prop wash it would certainly continue with momentum. but this thing is designed to 'stay in one place' (not from a gps sense from a stability sense, the angles of the craft, motors, everything). if it werent then even in gps mode (which is only good for a meter or so at best) it would constantly be drifting around and correcting and that correction causing drift in another direction until gps kicks in, it would be like a pinball in space bouncing around in a tiny little 1m square box. and it doesnt, because it is designed to, without gps, stay fairly static.
so what does this mean? if you went 35mph and let go of sticks (assume no wind as everyone agrees that will blow it in atti) it would continue a fair distance b/c of the speed it was going, but it would gradually slow down and settle in a spot becuase of the air resistance, the prop wash angles and the design of the craft.
but drifting some is normal in atti just like flying small quads. but that certainly doesnt qualify as "...until it crashes into something or you give it a new directional command..." as you stated above. it is more like, yes it continues, but it isnt flying away, it will drift a bit here and there depending upon how you are flying and wind but you correct it. its not heading off to crash on you because of momentum that it naturally is designed to counteract. |
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