I just completed the second day of my trip and have flown 8 batteries in 3 location totaling 1.5 hours. Video looks OK, but I won't really know until I can load them onto my desktop with PP.
And, as I was flying my second and last battery at the second location today I had my first OH SH!T moment. I was translating downward while viewing an abandoned building about 900 feet away from me and did not notice a tree -- I caught a glimpse of it in the life feed video and quickly climbed about 20 feet and noticed it was wanting to come back down so I knew something was wrong. I was able to fly back and land without incident and when I powered off I discovered that 1.25 inches of the tip of one blade of the back left prop was missing. Color me embarrassed AND lucky...
I expect to stay in the same location a couple days as I have a couple locations and one of them I plan to do a morning and an evening. This location is in northern Arizona at the Diablo Canyon Railroad Bridge near Winslow Arizona. The location where I had my incident was the abandoned "Two Guns" theme park very near the Diablo Canyon Bridge.
After I leave here in a couple days I'm heading toward Durango Colorado to shoot the steam train as it winds along the Animas river.
I have an additional 5 locations between there and Moab I plan to hit in the next 5-6 days.
Of course, this all depends on if the bird flies as it should with new props -- I brought one complete set of spare props so I should be good.
My first flight yesterday was about 260 miles south of my home and when I checked the sensors the MOD value for the compass was right at 1400 -- that's borderline so I re-calibrated and the new value was just over 1500. Both locations today were at 1500 +/- 25 and these locations were about 130 miles and 200 miles from yesterdays location.
Brian
And, as I was flying my second and last battery at the second location today I had my first OH SH!T moment. I was translating downward while viewing an abandoned building about 900 feet away from me and did not notice a tree -- I caught a glimpse of it in the life feed video and quickly climbed about 20 feet and noticed it was wanting to come back down so I knew something was wrong. I was able to fly back and land without incident and when I powered off I discovered that 1.25 inches of the tip of one blade of the back left prop was missing. Color me embarrassed AND lucky...
I expect to stay in the same location a couple days as I have a couple locations and one of them I plan to do a morning and an evening. This location is in northern Arizona at the Diablo Canyon Railroad Bridge near Winslow Arizona. The location where I had my incident was the abandoned "Two Guns" theme park very near the Diablo Canyon Bridge.
After I leave here in a couple days I'm heading toward Durango Colorado to shoot the steam train as it winds along the Animas river.
I have an additional 5 locations between there and Moab I plan to hit in the next 5-6 days.
Of course, this all depends on if the bird flies as it should with new props -- I brought one complete set of spare props so I should be good.
My first flight yesterday was about 260 miles south of my home and when I checked the sensors the MOD value for the compass was right at 1400 -- that's borderline so I re-calibrated and the new value was just over 1500. Both locations today were at 1500 +/- 25 and these locations were about 130 miles and 200 miles from yesterdays location.
Brian