AeroJ
I have been flying things for fun for about 6 years now, and joined the multirotor hobby fairly early on, when I built my first DJI Flamewheel quad kit and strapped a GoPro2 to it. Terrible quality footage, jello everywhere, but I persevered with various models and variations over the next few years, which would see upgrades to the Flamewheel to make it a hex, then an extended power-lifter hex, and it was that that did a flyaway on me the first time, and then again a year later after the rebuild. DJI were no help whatsoever on any occasion, so my trust in them was fading fast.
After the last crash, I decided to give DJI one last go, so I built a TBS discovery Pro, with a Naza 2M FC, which I used to great effect and zero problems for about a year, with a GoPro4, which finally got me the sort of video results I was looking for. It really was a superb and reliable little flyer and I loved and came to trust it more than any machine before it. Until one day the IMU in the Naza 2 went nuts for no appreciable reason, and it accelerated off, then tumbled from the sky before I had time to even try and rescue it, and smashed itself to pieces on the ground...
Well, that was 3 non-pilot-error flyaways, and I was put off / had zero trust remaining in DJI, and flying in general, and I grounded myself for about 3 whole years while I saved up for 3DR Solo2, which of course never came !
It was only years later I saw the Yuneec Typhoon H in action, and after a lot of research, the pull back into the hobby grew exponentially until there was a TH sitting on my doorstep. And then I set about re-learning to fly. I am now about 50 flights into my return to the hobby, and I'm really enjoying it, now I am over the stressful first few flights where you don't really know the craft very well yet. Indeed, now I have tweaked all the rates and settings to my liking I am coming to really enjoy flying the Typhoon, despite its various flight 'eccentricities', it is my hope that it proves more reliable and long-term safe than my previous UAVs did.
Whereas when I was first in the hobby it was my mission to overfly castles, interesting buildings etc the tightening of rules and world-awareness of drones makes that largely impossible except in a few lucky circumstances, so wishing to remain safe and legal, I've had to alter that plan so that now I am all about the clouds, the sunsets and the countryside
After the last crash, I decided to give DJI one last go, so I built a TBS discovery Pro, with a Naza 2M FC, which I used to great effect and zero problems for about a year, with a GoPro4, which finally got me the sort of video results I was looking for. It really was a superb and reliable little flyer and I loved and came to trust it more than any machine before it. Until one day the IMU in the Naza 2 went nuts for no appreciable reason, and it accelerated off, then tumbled from the sky before I had time to even try and rescue it, and smashed itself to pieces on the ground...
Well, that was 3 non-pilot-error flyaways, and I was put off / had zero trust remaining in DJI, and flying in general, and I grounded myself for about 3 whole years while I saved up for 3DR Solo2, which of course never came !
It was only years later I saw the Yuneec Typhoon H in action, and after a lot of research, the pull back into the hobby grew exponentially until there was a TH sitting on my doorstep. And then I set about re-learning to fly. I am now about 50 flights into my return to the hobby, and I'm really enjoying it, now I am over the stressful first few flights where you don't really know the craft very well yet. Indeed, now I have tweaked all the rates and settings to my liking I am coming to really enjoy flying the Typhoon, despite its various flight 'eccentricities', it is my hope that it proves more reliable and long-term safe than my previous UAVs did.
Whereas when I was first in the hobby it was my mission to overfly castles, interesting buildings etc the tightening of rules and world-awareness of drones makes that largely impossible except in a few lucky circumstances, so wishing to remain safe and legal, I've had to alter that plan so that now I am all about the clouds, the sunsets and the countryside
- Location
- UK
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Musician / 3D Artist
Contact
- aerocamUK