For those of you contemplating the purchase of a Quadcopter as a platform for aerial photography, this video shows you a few things you should try to avoid.
This past Sunday was a beautiful day so I packed up my Phantom 2 Quadcopter and headed to the open fields and woods at the hilltop of the Hinckley Reservation park system in Medina County Ohio.
Technically this was my 3rd time flying the Phantom. The first flight was just a few hovering maneuvers in my wooded backyard that ended in a crash. The second was another test flight of limited scope. So, in a way, this was my first true flight in a wide open space. I'm still getting the "feel" of the controls. It takes just the slightest amount of "stick" to get rapid yaw (rotation) movement. The same is true for the gimbals tilt control. This will come with more flight time and practice.
At the start of the flight there was hardly a puff of wind anywhere. But by the time I brought the Phantom down we were getting some high wind gusts. I also had to cut the flight short when I started to loose my FPV flight video and data link. This later turned out to be a problem with the FPV transmitter antenna. It had come loose and became electrically intermittent. But it was a great day to fly.
I suggest you set the video to HD resolution and watch it full screen.
This past Sunday was a beautiful day so I packed up my Phantom 2 Quadcopter and headed to the open fields and woods at the hilltop of the Hinckley Reservation park system in Medina County Ohio.
Technically this was my 3rd time flying the Phantom. The first flight was just a few hovering maneuvers in my wooded backyard that ended in a crash. The second was another test flight of limited scope. So, in a way, this was my first true flight in a wide open space. I'm still getting the "feel" of the controls. It takes just the slightest amount of "stick" to get rapid yaw (rotation) movement. The same is true for the gimbals tilt control. This will come with more flight time and practice.
At the start of the flight there was hardly a puff of wind anywhere. But by the time I brought the Phantom down we were getting some high wind gusts. I also had to cut the flight short when I started to loose my FPV flight video and data link. This later turned out to be a problem with the FPV transmitter antenna. It had come loose and became electrically intermittent. But it was a great day to fly.
I suggest you set the video to HD resolution and watch it full screen.
