While waiting for the return of my Breeze for warranty repairs, I decided to make a landing pad. I had some 1/4" acrylic that I wasn't using, so I made (2) 24" diameter landing pads (one is intended for a friend). The first pad I painted Candy Apple Red with a White circle and White H. The second pad is Dark Green with a White circle and White H.
I got my Breeze back from the repair shop, and it works great. I decided to use my new Red landing pad because the grass is a little long and I am tired of cleaning my props of grass stains from landing in the grass. After my first flight with my repaired Breeze I attempted a landing using 'Land Now' after lining up the drone with the pad. No joy. The Breeze appeared to drift forward and landed approximately 18" from the center of the landing pad directly in front of the pad (between the pad and me). Long story short, I landed on the pad once out of thirty (1 / 30) tries! And 90% of the time, the Breeze drifted forward and landed approximately 18" from the center of the landing pad in the same direction.
I could not figure out the problem, so I decided I would try again the next day and run multiple tests with both the Red and Green landing pads. I even tested turning the landing pads over - They appear all White as I had applied a base coat of White to both landing pads. Same story - a success rate of 1 / 30 with the persistent drift problem.
The day I did these tests, the winds were calm. I tried many different methods of landing including:
- 'Land Now' from different altitudes. I did this by eyeballing the drone as it hovered over the landing pad.
- 'Land Now' from the lowest altitude I could get by throttling down (approximately 12" - 18" over the landing pad), and turning the camera straight down to try to line up.
- 'Return to Home' from different locations and altitudes. (Return to Home never landed on either landing pad).
- Attempted landings on the Red pad, Green pad, and the White pad.
A couple of questions for the community:
- Do you use a landing pad?
- What level of precision are you experiencing in landing where you took off from (proximity)?
- What is your success rate in landing where you took off from or where you intended to land?
- How close does your Breeze land to where it took off from when using 'Return to Home' (proximity)?
- Could the infra red sensor be causing a problem landing on the acrylic landing pads?
- Could the color of the landing pads be a problem?
- What else could be causing the drift I am seeing?
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
I got my Breeze back from the repair shop, and it works great. I decided to use my new Red landing pad because the grass is a little long and I am tired of cleaning my props of grass stains from landing in the grass. After my first flight with my repaired Breeze I attempted a landing using 'Land Now' after lining up the drone with the pad. No joy. The Breeze appeared to drift forward and landed approximately 18" from the center of the landing pad directly in front of the pad (between the pad and me). Long story short, I landed on the pad once out of thirty (1 / 30) tries! And 90% of the time, the Breeze drifted forward and landed approximately 18" from the center of the landing pad in the same direction.
I could not figure out the problem, so I decided I would try again the next day and run multiple tests with both the Red and Green landing pads. I even tested turning the landing pads over - They appear all White as I had applied a base coat of White to both landing pads. Same story - a success rate of 1 / 30 with the persistent drift problem.
The day I did these tests, the winds were calm. I tried many different methods of landing including:
- 'Land Now' from different altitudes. I did this by eyeballing the drone as it hovered over the landing pad.
- 'Land Now' from the lowest altitude I could get by throttling down (approximately 12" - 18" over the landing pad), and turning the camera straight down to try to line up.
- 'Return to Home' from different locations and altitudes. (Return to Home never landed on either landing pad).
- Attempted landings on the Red pad, Green pad, and the White pad.
A couple of questions for the community:
- Do you use a landing pad?
- What level of precision are you experiencing in landing where you took off from (proximity)?
- What is your success rate in landing where you took off from or where you intended to land?
- How close does your Breeze land to where it took off from when using 'Return to Home' (proximity)?
- Could the infra red sensor be causing a problem landing on the acrylic landing pads?
- Could the color of the landing pads be a problem?
- What else could be causing the drift I am seeing?
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
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