Especially something for realsense, no idea if mine works or not!A clear, concise and up to date manual would go a long way towards avoiding newby errors.
Especially something for realsense, no idea if mine works or not!A clear, concise and up to date manual would go a long way towards avoiding newby errors.
A clear, concise and up to date manual would go a long way towards avoiding newby errors.
My list.........accumulated over time:
1. You will try to take off in Smart or Home mode.
2. You'll think its a great idea to take off from the roof of your car.
3. You will forget to put a card in the camera or forget to erase the files that have it nearly full.
4. You will see your gimbal bracket fall into a pond because you forgot to remove it before you launched.
5. You will watch a prop wrap around a tall weed when trying to take off in a field, flipping the bird upside down and breaking the other props.
6. You will have the best flight of your life and get spectacular video of a once-in-a-lifetime event only to find later you forgot to hit record.
7. A gourgeous blond will come up and start asking questions, you will loose concentration with the resulting embarassing crash.
8. You will discover dead tree branches are immpossible to see 1000' away.
9. You will practice your planned shoot with your first battery only to discover you didn't bring a second.
10. As you are editing your video you will see a group of kids shooting arrows at your bird.
SMART mode nearly screwed me up when the controls didn't behave as expected. The switch lever is easily bumped. So, I've fitted a tiny bit of rubber into the base of the switch that prevents it from moving up into SMART mode. I had no use for that mode anyway. Task modes don't need to be manually switched into the so-called SMART mode.I took off in Smart mode way inside the geofence and had no ability to go backward. I was too quick to get in the air and hadn't noticed the light on the drone. Fortunately experience kicked in and instead of continuing to fly I landed to sort out what I'd done. Keep in mind, the fact that I was in Smart mode hadn't registered until after I landed. I haven't done it since and only take off in Angle mode.
Happy New Year. Lots of new pilots jumping in and more confusion all around. I sense that there are too many quick to point to problems and very few taking any personal responsibility. It's always the H at fault. Perhaps some here would care to share how they were humbled by their own mistakes that at first glance seemed caused by the H. Later, upon further scrutiny, there is then admission of mistakes made in piloting and it is was not all the manufacturers fault. I see a lot of good advice being ignored also like having 100' of clearance around you at launch. I know this thread may not go anywhere but sometimes anecdotal stories help others not repeat our mistakes. Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to "come clean".
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Pat, are you saying to keep the ST16 away from these objects?I learned about rail road tracks the hard way...with two different machines. I wanted to get some "running down the tracks" footage from about 8' above the tracks. Both machines, the H and another, ran straight and true until a distance of about 200' was achieved. At that point both machines, with me being stubborn and trying it with the H twice, shot off on a tangent to the intended course. Since the tracks were bordered closely on both sides by dense pine trees (part of the reason for the shot) things got pretty tense. All I could do was to delicately bring them back. Up close to chain link fences and close to steel hulled boats can be challenging also. Keep the -16 as far from them as you can.
I learned about rail road tracks the hard way...with two different machines. I wanted to get some "running down the tracks" footage from about 8' above the tracks. Both machines, the H and another, ran straight and true until a distance of about 200' was achieved. At that point both machines, with me being stubborn and trying it with the H twice, shot off on a tangent to the intended course. Since the tracks were bordered closely on both sides by dense pine trees (part of the reason for the shot) things got pretty tense. All I could do was to delicately bring them back. Up close to chain link fences and close to steel hulled boats can be challenging also. Keep the -16 as far from them as you can.