its all quite confusing and typically ill thought out.. can the ST16 cope with negative altutude eg flying off and down a cliff? off the top of a hill? down a big pothole?
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The altitude readings are accurate to a point. It's not perfect and you will see deviations even in flight. It's about maintaining VLOS more than anything else and if you can see it, you can pilot through many elevations up or down. There is a height restriction in latest AP firmware that geo fences to 400'. It's caused a lot of hub bub here. When I tried to check the limits post firmware update, the H ignored my settings and stopped at 397.3' above me. I could not deal with being robbed of 2.7 feet and rolled back to AP 1.29.
This is not recommended for new H users. Learn what it does now and perfect all the other skills you need to handle this thing as its not something you can ever do casually- that's what those little flipping toys are for - no care and fun and whatever if it breaks - not so here.
People carry on about flight time but I'm here to tell you that anything over ten minutes is a lot too concentrate on and you can never relax once airborne. Stick panic is the lead cause of most crashes when orientation gets confused to the pilot. The H being a hex a camera you can point anywhere also can change your orientation relative to POV. RTH is not a guarantee of return if you flight past radio range.
I practice cruising out in straight lines, setting my subject and then do a pull back. I can drop down or up on that horizontal line by watching the drone relative to the ground. I don't care about the monitor. I glance at it occasionally to make sure camera angle and color are what I'm going for. I practice descending turns and pans, rotoscoping by eye and not with the pre-sets, and learning how camera angles do or don't work depending on subject, light, and background.
I may need a high shot for someone (but quite honestly I find it boring as I've seen google earth and I've looked down from a plane) so I prefer not to be height restricted but here's the thing...400' is pretty high and you could easily loose VLOS even at that altitude if you glance away for even a second.
Remember the lessons you learned from losing model rockets, balloons, or kites as a kid and that's how you will feel when you loose your drone by pushing past your own skills and comfort level.
And I can't even imagine jumping in cold with the real sense...way too much technology and that video of the H zipping around cactus and behaving like a terminator with its optics for collision avoidance is way misleading.
Best collision avoidance is you piloting with no GPS as you have 100%
of the sticks and nothing else is going to change the H and it won't fly away if you know how to keep VLOS relative to H orientation. There is no gyro off mode so if you let go of sticks it will just hold hover and only move with wind. Steadiest shots are zero wind and no GPS. After that is some wind a GPS to help hold in place. Good shots with possible jello or motion blur is stronger winds with GPS.
No two flying conditions are ever the same even in places you've flown multiple times. The technology built into the H is there to help you decide what to do so it takes many many hours of flight to get competent at all the features. I still have not touched the wizard and may never as I'd prefer a second real controller over a TV remote.
For what it's worth, I crashed a breeze the first time I tried it's Orbit feature as I was too close to a building and did not get how far it was going to go out from me to start circling. And it's sold as anyone can do this...it has IPS and that's taking some getting used to because that has its own issue as well (indoors on a mono chromatic warehouse floor is no good and it needs a lot of light to get the infra red to work) and despite the cool video, it's not that simple.
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