I've been practicing in an open field this summer. Flying mostly in angle, going around the jogging track, keeping line of sight, etc. The few times I started getting video lag or loss of video I hit the home switch and it came back.
A couple of weeks ago I went into the mountains, planning to fly a ways along a river. I couldn't get GPS, and a message said that I would have to fly in manual mode (something along those lines.) I thought, well, heck, I know how to do that. To make a short story even shorter, right after take-off the drone started acting wonky. I let go of the controls but it still seemed to have a life of it's own. It did at one point get behind a tree, but it was just one tree! At the end of the day I spent a couple hours crab-walking/crawling up a pretty steep mountain through very uncooperative bush towards the general area where we saw it go down. Never would have found it if it was beeping.
Vertigo Drones has it, and hopefully soon I'll have it back, albeit $300 lighter due to a broken B Arm and landing strut.
I assume the first thing I did wrong was leave the ground without a GPS signal. That won't happen again.
What I want to know, though, is if I want to get flyover shots of densely treed woods (in North Idaho), what do I do? If I leave the ground in the woods (say I start in a meadow) and get above the trees and fly any distance over them, how badly are they going to be blocking my signals?
Thanks!
A couple of weeks ago I went into the mountains, planning to fly a ways along a river. I couldn't get GPS, and a message said that I would have to fly in manual mode (something along those lines.) I thought, well, heck, I know how to do that. To make a short story even shorter, right after take-off the drone started acting wonky. I let go of the controls but it still seemed to have a life of it's own. It did at one point get behind a tree, but it was just one tree! At the end of the day I spent a couple hours crab-walking/crawling up a pretty steep mountain through very uncooperative bush towards the general area where we saw it go down. Never would have found it if it was beeping.
Vertigo Drones has it, and hopefully soon I'll have it back, albeit $300 lighter due to a broken B Arm and landing strut.
I assume the first thing I did wrong was leave the ground without a GPS signal. That won't happen again.
What I want to know, though, is if I want to get flyover shots of densely treed woods (in North Idaho), what do I do? If I leave the ground in the woods (say I start in a meadow) and get above the trees and fly any distance over them, how badly are they going to be blocking my signals?
Thanks!