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[thoneter]

I'm starting to think all you old farts are just coming up with excuses for the loose nutz on the controller!

 

[PatR]

Bet that was a helluva climb !!

Could be worse tho....... I er.......somebody I know managed to hit a lightpole at a football field......how the **** do you clip a lightpole in plain sight??

Same way you descend 40’ away and clip a power wire with a prop...

 

[PatR]

Loose nutz? Someone running around commando?

 

[Steve Carr]

Bet that was a helluva climb !!

Nope. The tree canopy was 80' above the ground. It made the descent on it's own.

Could be worse tho....... I er.......somebody I know managed to hit a lightpole at a football field......how the **** do you clip a lightpole in plain sight??

It's not difficult. Like a 75' flag pole only 50' away. July, 2016. Two opposing props shattered, 5 rotor mode kicked in and landed with no other damage.

 

[CSI]

I only lost one.........one of the motor pods just barely clipped the pole, and caused the H to spin. That, along with the broken prop was enough to bring it down tho, from about 35 feet. Had I been three inches further away from me (I was passing behind the light pole), I would have completely missed it. Lucky for me, it landed in some deep grass next to the football field, and did no damage. Learned a lesson tho.......don't put alot of faith in your depth perception when flying 200 + feet away from your position.

 

[DCH]

...it's not nice to laugh at old guys who can't see well

Weren't watching your rear view mirror were you?

Yeah.....and all I needed to do is rotate the camera. But I was watching the bird not the screen.

I'm just catching up on this thread and LMAO! Having the camera pointing forward didn't help me the other day. The H was approaching a pair of tall fir trees not too far from me at treetop level. I had the camera pointing forward, but I was watching the bird like always (I'm not an FPV guy) and as I approached I gave it some throttle to gain altitude to give me a safe 8~10' of clearance as I flew over their tops. However, when I watched the video later it told a totally different story!

I'm thinking to myself "Here come the trees time to pull up. Time to pull up. Pull Up! PULL UP **** IT!!! It wasn't until a second or two after nearly clipping the tops with the camera it finally climbed to that "Safe 8~10' clearance!" ...So much for 71 year old depth perception! That wasn't 1st my wake up call, but I sure hope it was the last.