rdonson
Premium Pilot
When you run without the camera, you will not have certain visual tools, such as the green arrow. Unless you are very comfortable in flying the H on sticks alone, I would not recommend trying to fly GPS off, w/o a camera.
Good thoughts!
I will be flying tests after I've calibrated the gimbal, the accelerometer and compass. I will also let is sit on the ground without props to populate the GPS almanac for 13 min in a clear area.
I will NOT be flying with GPS off.
For the test flights I'm quite comfortable flying VLOS without the camera. The flights will be short tests where I don't go above 50' up and no more that 50-100' away from me with my controller. If everything looks good then the camera will go back on for more extensive flying. Of the two Typhoon Hs I have this camera is the sharpest and best. I don't want to jeopardize it unnecessarily.
If I get queasy about flying without the the camera I'll put the other camera on and bind to it.