Hello guys. This post is not directly about the Typhoon H itself, but it's related to my experience with it.
As some of you may or may not know, I purchased my Typhoon H as my very first UAV and I thought I would be able to learn easily on it. (I thought, the H practically flies itself, how hard can it be?..) However after my first crash last year (a few days after getting it) my mindset changed drastically.
Still to this day I feel responsible for that crash and, even though it was attributed to a GPS malfunction (which was addressed in firmware updates), at that moment I didn't know how to react, I panicked and simply froze.. Everything happened in a matter of seconds, and I did close to nothing to try and fight what was happening and it crashed.
I decided I wanted to practice a lot to avoid "freezing" like that again. I didn't want to fear a GPS loss every single time I flew the H, and if it did happen some day mid-flight I definitely didn't want the H to simply "fly away" with the wind, with me behind the controler, just as a witness, not knowing what to do.
I decided to purchase some toy-grade hexacopters to practice, my thought was that I should practice with aircrafts as similar as possible to the H to get used to them; the way they perform with 6 rotors, and also how they look like at long distance. My objective was to get used to all of it at the same time (I thought if I purchased white quad-copters the "reflexes" or "muscle memory" developed might not translate as good when flying them and the Typhoon H)
So, 5 months have passed since I purchased my first practice toy hexacopter. Up to this date I own 4 toy hexas, and I've been using all of them to practice indoors and outdoors. (as much as I wanted to practice with the H itself its too much of a risk.)
I definitely feel much more confident now! A few days ago I went out and tested flying the H without GPS, and I've got to say, the practice with the toy hexas delivered. At first I was a bit over-cautious because I hadn't used the H in 3 months so I kind of lost the feel of it.. But a few minutes later I was comfortably flying the Typhoon H, with GPS disabled and without the fear of it suddenly flying away. I felt in complete control. (This was the same day I tested the IPS flight mode)
So, anyway, I wanted to share this experience with you, since this forum has given me a lot of useful lessons and information. I no longer feel like an absolute newbie when operating the Typhoon H, and I hope this motivates new users to go ahead and practice with simpler, non gps aircrafts; among a lot of other things, losing the fear of that "GPS lost" message mid-flight is one of the things that I value the most from this.
I went ahead and documented the "comparison" between the day I got my first toy-hexa and 5 months later.
I hope I didn't bore you with my personal development story
, as I mentioned this isn't a specific Typhoon H topic, but its definitely related.
Greetings!
As some of you may or may not know, I purchased my Typhoon H as my very first UAV and I thought I would be able to learn easily on it. (I thought, the H practically flies itself, how hard can it be?..) However after my first crash last year (a few days after getting it) my mindset changed drastically.
Still to this day I feel responsible for that crash and, even though it was attributed to a GPS malfunction (which was addressed in firmware updates), at that moment I didn't know how to react, I panicked and simply froze.. Everything happened in a matter of seconds, and I did close to nothing to try and fight what was happening and it crashed.
I decided I wanted to practice a lot to avoid "freezing" like that again. I didn't want to fear a GPS loss every single time I flew the H, and if it did happen some day mid-flight I definitely didn't want the H to simply "fly away" with the wind, with me behind the controler, just as a witness, not knowing what to do.
I decided to purchase some toy-grade hexacopters to practice, my thought was that I should practice with aircrafts as similar as possible to the H to get used to them; the way they perform with 6 rotors, and also how they look like at long distance. My objective was to get used to all of it at the same time (I thought if I purchased white quad-copters the "reflexes" or "muscle memory" developed might not translate as good when flying them and the Typhoon H)
So, 5 months have passed since I purchased my first practice toy hexacopter. Up to this date I own 4 toy hexas, and I've been using all of them to practice indoors and outdoors. (as much as I wanted to practice with the H itself its too much of a risk.)
I definitely feel much more confident now! A few days ago I went out and tested flying the H without GPS, and I've got to say, the practice with the toy hexas delivered. At first I was a bit over-cautious because I hadn't used the H in 3 months so I kind of lost the feel of it.. But a few minutes later I was comfortably flying the Typhoon H, with GPS disabled and without the fear of it suddenly flying away. I felt in complete control. (This was the same day I tested the IPS flight mode)
So, anyway, I wanted to share this experience with you, since this forum has given me a lot of useful lessons and information. I no longer feel like an absolute newbie when operating the Typhoon H, and I hope this motivates new users to go ahead and practice with simpler, non gps aircrafts; among a lot of other things, losing the fear of that "GPS lost" message mid-flight is one of the things that I value the most from this.
I went ahead and documented the "comparison" between the day I got my first toy-hexa and 5 months later.
I hope I didn't bore you with my personal development story
, as I mentioned this isn't a specific Typhoon H topic, but its definitely related.Greetings!
