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LOL, what a day!.....I was sittin on the tailgate of my truck waitin on the UPS guy to deliver my new iPad mini 4 when I got a wild hair up my but that screamed at me to test fly my spanky new Mavic Pro using my Galaxy S8....DUH....Yeah, even after reading about the crashes and flwaways on Android, I decided anyway to use my S8.
I had recieved the new drone last week and completed all the updates to the drone, the controller and batteries using DJI Assistant 2, and watched all the videos on YouTube, and read this forum lots, so I figured what the heck, it might be two hours before the guy in Brown pulls up-SO FLY IT, BOY!-No Balls, no Blue Chips!-FLY THAT SUCKER!
WHEEEEE!.....Wait, back up!-This guy is 65 years old, OK?-And he ain't not never not flown no drone, OK?....LOL! WHEEEE!
So OK, I set the drone on the ground...Fire up the phone and the controller...Then fire up the drone....Watch it all connect, and the app says, "Hey, old man we ready to fly!"
But the old man sez, nope, first we gonna calibrate the compass and the IMU....So I did the silly dance out in the front yard with the grey lady drone-roundy round we went....Then I tossed that grey lady on the ground and flipped her in every position she demanded.....Finally she sighed, and said I am SO calibrated, youda MAN!."
Just tween me n you-not wanting the grey lady to see, I secretly switched it to Beginners Mode and told her, "Hold on to yer bloomers Girl, I'm fixing to send you to Heaven!", and I hit the Take Off icon....And that old grey lady lit up and flapped her wings and hovered right in front of me exactly 4 feet off the ground!...Cool!...WHEEEE!....SHEEEEEIT, I got this!!
Spent about two minutes easing it around the yard tween the 80 foot oak trees....got the yaws and the gees and the haws all fingered out, and the ups and the downs and even the roundy rounds.....CHit, Boy, this is easy!
Now here is the screwy part........With my fingerrs OFF the controlls, it shoots straight up-way, way up, and then heads north...all by itself!!!! AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!....I look at the controller and in the top left it is saying No Connection to Aircraft!...Then it just stops!....Directly above a huge Oak tree....No response from the controlls...just hovers there...Still sayin No Connection.....WTF????!!!
THEN, the controller sez, Forced Landing!, and it slowly start downs toward those tree branches...We talking a full 80 feet up to the top of that tree, and it is slowly dropping toward it....My buttt hole puckered so tight A copper ingot chit thru it would be fine wire!!!!
INCHES above the tree limbs, it regains contact and allows me to guide it as it completes it's forced landing.....Just inches above the tree!
I'ma postin this just to relate my major pucker moment....An hour later my new wifi-cell iPad mini 4 arrived, and I got it all activated and updated and consumated and Apple-lated, and it is all looking good so far sitting on my living room floor at least.....I'm trying to finger out WTF is iTunes and the cloud-looks stupid so far....Yup, looks like soyboy stuff so far...
But Hey, no chit, Friends, that danged Mavic Pro is COOL!!!!!...Yeah, Buddy!!!
So Ok, told my tale, now I'll spend the night fingering out how to download my flight history and try to anylize WTF happened!!!!!
This old man and his old dog and his new drone will soon crawl into his new motorhome and head to the vast deserts of our great southwest for months at a time!....WHEEEE!
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