Blériot53
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Flight distance : 6188465 ft
France
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Oldmaninwva Posted at 2018-3-9 02:20
Yep, could have flown backwards too... I have also considered the turning off of the obstacle avoidance sensors altogether since most of the time I fly open space. I just don't completely trust the bird when there's the possibility of a flyaway. The P4 I have now has over 400 flights on it and in that time it has acted erratic and once when coming in for a land it decided it did not like the geomagnetic conditions st the time and went crazy, ended up 50 ft away flying under a tree, raised itself into the finger branches and tipped itself and shut down... Lucky it fell into some higher grass upside down so there was no damage.. That happened so fast that no thought was given to switch to ATTI.
The only mishap I've had in a year of droning extensively, was just a couple of weeks ago, and that was pilot error. Having taken off from behind a low dam wall (in the lee of the gentle wind) to overfly some local reservoirs, I completed the circuit without dramas and came in to land. As the drone dropped below the level of the wall, the wind effect was cancelled and consequently the drone clipped the wall and broke the tips off two adjacent props. Enough of an impact to eject the battery, and the whole lot dropped a couple of feet onto tarmac. It was an "OH,CR@P!" moment. After a careful and anxious inspection, no other damage was discerned, so I replaced the props and spun up the motors. Had a few minutes testing the controls and all was well. Subsequent flights have been OK.
One thing I did notice - when the battery fell out, obviously the recording stopped instantly, so no video of the crash. But the date stamp on the next video was reset to 1 Jan at 00h00. Subsequent ones have shown the correct date an time, without any input from me. |
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