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Gunship9 Posted at 3-6 18:28
Ah, your posts made it look like you watched videos of touring at long distance ranges with drones and wanted to try it. People saying it was okay as long as you took responsibility. Not true, in my opinion.
I didn't know you had already lost your drone and therefore you thought the part about how people lose their drone wasn't actually advice on how beginners can avoid losing the drone. Instead, you thought I was ragging on the way you already flew it and lost it. I didn't know you had lost it the way many others have lost it.
Gunship9 - Yes, I read it as you ragging me, when I really want to learn and share advice. I never "lost: my drone. Maybe I mispoke. It was up in my front yard, and I was using the phone as the controller(beginners mode). I was videoing my granddaughter, and foolishly flew backwards. You guessed it, stuck on a branch. Got it down no problem, no damage, and learned not to fly backwards, especially while focused on a stupid phone.Easy lesson, I feel I learned the responsible way, since it wasn't very high, and was in front of my house. As far as the winds yesterday, I was never above 8 feet up, and only zipped around my back field until the winds started whipping, in which I bought it home and parked it. Yes, I saw your post as an attack that I was some drone nazi, but I assure you I want to learn the safest and most controlled methods out there from people who know. That;s why I am here. I literally have thousands and thousands of acres here, of old farmland, to test it out with, at fairly low range(100ft), with no possibility of hurting anyone or anything but drone, which is nothing compared to an injured person. Not even a tree for 500 acres, then a treeline, then 500 more open acres. At least if it drops, I can ride ATV to retrieve. However, my new controller doesn't seem to have the range I've seen virtually everyone else has. First flight was at 5.8ghz. Barely got 600 feet near my neighbors house who was watching for it, and as I hovered in his driveway, I got a weak, and then lost signal.. I'm talking only 600 feet away. It raised to 100 feet, and came right home due to battery going to 30%. I then changed to 2.4ghz, and went up 350 ft, and just shot across all the open farmland. I got more distance, about 1260 feet, but it seems I need to figure out some other settings. I am using the OTG cable fyi, not wifi to controller. Everyone else claims to go a mile +. I have plenty of farmland to go approx 2 miles, so I'd like to figure out which, if any setting I need to try to achieve max distance I may never need it, but If my friend is willing to pick up Visual sight, if I can get to his field, and confirm, I know it's dialed in, and RTH. I mainly want this for aerial photos, of the beaches. I am in Maine, near walkers Point\Kennebunkport where President Bush lived. I want to learn to take nice cinematic video of the local beaches, however the 600 feet I got earlier wont even go the length of the beach. I apologize for taking your post personal. It's just at that time it really struck me that way. Old news now.I want to learn, not become an old yahoo chat room, lol. |
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