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After having my H480 since 3-2017 I decided to purchase a used H+,
I was rather impressed and then horrified, but only for a moment.
Weather was perfect 68° slight wind.
I watched @Ty Pilot video on the characteristics of the ST-16S Interface and Smart Mode video, menu navigation. very very helpful!
So I only flew for 15:22 minutes. battery went from 100% to 48%.
Turtle mode, yea that was interesting! On the H480 Turtle mode I can just take right off no issue, not the H+, I needed to increase ¼ to Rabbit mode in order to lift off manually.
Ok, I'll have to get use to that. Yes there is the auto take of mode, but hey, I like flying old school.
Hovered for about 3 minutes 10' agl with gears down, then forward speed V1, V2 rotate up to 86'. Yea yea I try to think I'm flying fixed wings. Which I have!
I headed home and in range for a landing, left downwind, base then final, that's when I noticed what I thought was an issue, (do not panic) ok what and why am I not descending???
Hmmm, so I decided to hover and think things through, I able to ascend, yaw, and roll, why can't I descend??
So I decided to toggle to home mode (auto pilot), once I was about 15' I selected angle mode to hover, I wanted to see if I can descend manually now?
Nope, noda, back to home mode, just an ok auto landing. I can do better!
I shut down everything, then restarted, lifted to 7 feet, same issue!!!!????
Then I realized, yes you might have guessed it, I WAS IN FULL TURTLE MODE! Turtle mode is so slow and from a distance it very difficult to see the descent.
I should have been looking at my new glass cockpit altitude indicator... geeezzzzz! But I had fun!
I like the new glass cockpit, but lots to learn before I really go cross country..
I'm bad where and when punctuation should or shouldn't be.
I was rather impressed and then horrified, but only for a moment.
Weather was perfect 68° slight wind.
I watched @Ty Pilot video on the characteristics of the ST-16S Interface and Smart Mode video, menu navigation. very very helpful!
So I only flew for 15:22 minutes. battery went from 100% to 48%.
Turtle mode, yea that was interesting! On the H480 Turtle mode I can just take right off no issue, not the H+, I needed to increase ¼ to Rabbit mode in order to lift off manually.
Ok, I'll have to get use to that. Yes there is the auto take of mode, but hey, I like flying old school.
Hovered for about 3 minutes 10' agl with gears down, then forward speed V1, V2 rotate up to 86'. Yea yea I try to think I'm flying fixed wings. Which I have!
I headed home and in range for a landing, left downwind, base then final, that's when I noticed what I thought was an issue, (do not panic) ok what and why am I not descending???
Hmmm, so I decided to hover and think things through, I able to ascend, yaw, and roll, why can't I descend??
So I decided to toggle to home mode (auto pilot), once I was about 15' I selected angle mode to hover, I wanted to see if I can descend manually now?
Nope, noda, back to home mode, just an ok auto landing. I can do better!
I shut down everything, then restarted, lifted to 7 feet, same issue!!!!????
Then I realized, yes you might have guessed it, I WAS IN FULL TURTLE MODE! Turtle mode is so slow and from a distance it very difficult to see the descent.
I should have been looking at my new glass cockpit altitude indicator... geeezzzzz! But I had fun!
I like the new glass cockpit, but lots to learn before I really go cross country..
I'm bad where and when punctuation should or shouldn't be.
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