Aardvark
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Woe Posted at 2018-7-4 16:36
I haven't updated as of yet. I have two jobs coming up and not going ti risk not being able to fly.
I ask because I feel you will do some in depth testing and give honest feedback.
I hope I didn't come across as rude, and if so my apologies.
I understand now your being hesitant, I would leave any updates until jobs completed, otherwise no matter how good things might be 'sods law' would probably apply.
I flew another four batteries this morning.
It still wasn't quite the scientific test schedule, there were two very minor problems I noticed, neither of which had any real bearing on the flights at all.
The first was that my RC gave an alarm (twice in four batteries) whilst I was operating the gimbal wheel. The second time I noticed the message on the RC along the lines of 'wheel error detected'. In both instances I was slowly moving gimbal up and down, which I did often during the flights without any audio alert or message.
It may be that a calibration of RC would suffice. Since upgrading to 0400 I have not done any calibrations at all.
The second minor glitch that I noticed was directly after take off, both manual and automatic, there was a very slight yaw to right when hovering. On both occasions a slight left stick holding yaw steady for a few seconds seemed to resolve the issue. With the aircraft holding steady after that with sticks centred.
I tried the following with no problems noticed in flight:-
Both Positional & Sports modes tested with OA both on and off.
4k (30 & 24 fps), 2k (30 & 24 fps) & 1080p (60 fps) video modes tested.
Most of the photographic modes tested single shot, multiple shot, AEB, and panoramic (360 & Horizontal).
Intelligent flight modes tested, quickshot (Dronie, Rocket & Helix) all worked as expected, with aircraft returning itself to start point at end of each.
Not in a position to do any meaningful range tests, but flew to about 1000 ft or so with no control or video problems at all. There was not the slightest interruption to the video feed at all using my iPhone 6s plus with latest iOS, which I had in airplane mode to ensure no interruptions during flights.
I've not checked the video or photos as yet, that will probably take a few days to trawl through for any artifacts or aberrations :-)
All in all nothing unexpected other that the two minor points I've mentioned. The weather was clear and Sunny with a slight breeze, perhaps picking up to 8-10 mph at ground level. I had four high wind warnings that I noticed over the whole period, which were probably meaningful at 150-200 ft.
All in all it just seemed to work as we would hope. Time will tell if there are any quirks, I'll give it a thumbs up :-) |
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