Westside Osprey
lvl.4
Flight distance : 95915 ft
United States
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I completely agree. You need to know how to fly in atti mode in wind.
Today I was flying in gusts on the surface up to 20 mph, this is officially recorded. It was interesting to fly in. I found it was safer to land in atti than GPS mod, the P3P was being knocked about 6' all around in GPS mode, In atti I could hold it better than the GPS near the ground.
I have flown drones for 5 years now and my non phantom drones all have manual mode, now that is interesting. Just like flying a model heli, you need to constantly correct and never let your eyes wonder from the model even for a second or you may loose it.
But flying these models makes you realize how easy the phantoms are to fly even in atti.
I can easily see if a new pilot takes off in gps and the wind is 10 mph or so on the ground, not really windy, but then you climb to 300' and the wind may be 30 mph. Now if you loose GPS lock or happen to flip the switch by mistake a lot of pilots would call this a fly away. But if you are comfortable and can feel the wind it is a piece of cake to deal with.
I highly recommend flying around in mild wind to start in atti mode to get the feel of the wind. Just drifting with the wind is a great way to shoot video as well. Before I had good gimbals the brushless ones we had servo driven gimbals that were very slow reacting, so wind drift shooting was the best way to get smooth video. Or just get up to speed and then drift in calm wind was also a great way to shoot. Now we are all so spoiled. Until something goes wrong that is. Then we are often confused and unable to cope with a simple situation really. |
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