Drone Experience

[Professor Marvel]

Big learning lesson here. When you hear any type of beeping, let go of the controls which will put the Drone in hover mode, review the screen to analyze the beeping, then proceed. In your case I think you ran your Drone low on battery and it did RTH just as you think it did. First thing that happens in RTH mode is it elevates to whatever altitude you have preset. If you are amongst trees when that happens your Drone is going to crash trying to elevate.

Don't be hesitant. Just be diligent about "listening" to your Drone.

You are exactly correct. Which I figured out too late. For some reason I saw the last 4 seconds of countdown and was too stupid/confused to react in time. I hit pause but that sucker jammed upward fast as can be and hit the tree limb in no time. I was lucky the ins co was good to their word. I will try not to find out how many times they will accommodate me.

 

[bunyip]

Just checked that it wasn't the manage videos link, it wasn't so I am at a loss as I have posted these before.

 

[stuckmotor]

I bought a cheap drone to look for a cow. Took the drone outside to practice flying. When last seen it was about twenty feet above the road by my house going like a bat out of Heck. I found the cow, never did find the drone.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Just checked that it wasn't the manage videos link, it wasn't so I am at a loss as I have posted these before.

They worked fine for me. I am a very low tech redneck so maybe the cyber gods took pity on me.

 

[LouNY]

bunyip,
your videos played for me.Interesting quite the artist on those silos.
I'm assuming dry grains in those silos.
And a bunch of black Angus in the one field.

My wife got me a DJI Phantom III haven't flown it much a little bit here and there just no time to really practice with it.
I did do enough that I could takeoff and land on the tonneau cover of my pickup.
But as forested as it is around my house I'm a bit leery of where it's flying.

I like your signature line "too many daughters" I raised 5 girls myself, no wonder I'm almost bald.
My youngest is going on 30 hard to imagine.

 

[TractorGuy]

bunyip, I couldn't get your videos to play.

May be my computer.

They played on my computer fine. He lets it sit stationery for long periods so you have to watch a while before seeing any movement. Surprising how dead steady they are!

 

[Jstpssng]

I switched to my chrome browser and they worked fine. Nice videos, I like the silos. (?)

 

[MNBobcat]

I'm sorry but you are sorely mistaken on a few things. First, airspace is public meaning you as a property owner have no rights and any aircraft (including a drone) can fly over any time they want. A drone is considered an aircraft. Shooting one down is a Felony. Florida has no legal authority to make any laws controlling public airspace meaning someone can fly a drone over and film you and it's perfectly legal. Only the FAA has authority to make laws controlling airspace. Its only a matter of time before that law gets shot down (pardon the pun)

What a state can regulate is the ground and aircraft taking off or landing. Once the aircraft is a foot off the ground the State has no authority

Read this:

Press Release – FAA Statement–Federal vs. Local Drone Authority

You can go back and forth until the lawyers win but you folks that want to argue you have the right to infringe on another's privacy while you play with your hobby are the problem. This is why I praise folks like Richard that are conscientious about the rights of others.

There are legal precedents that indicate a property owner does in fact own and control the air space over their property to an extent. In 1946, the Supreme Court issued foundational guidance as to what extent private property owners actually own and may control airspace over their property.

There are also state laws to protect property owners from any invasion of privacy.
Specifically in FL: Florida State Drone Law

"Chapter 2015-26 (SB 766) - Surveillance & Privacy
Effective July 1, 2015

Prohibits a person, a state agency, or a political subdivision from using a drone to capture an image of privately owned real property or of the owner, tenant, occupant, invitee, or licensee of such property with the intent to conduct surveillance without his or her written consent if a reasonable expectation of privacy exists"

In FL law enforcement can't even fly a drone over my property without a warrant.

At any rate if I see a drone flying over my property within shotgun range that is not being operated by myself it may not make it back to it's owner.

 

[bunyip]

bunyip,
your videos played for me.Interesting quite the artist on those silos.
I'm assuming dry grains in those silos.
And a bunch of black Angus in the one field.

My wife got me a DJI Phantom III haven't flown it much a little bit here and there just no time to really practice with it.
I did do enough that I could takeoff and land on the tonneau cover of my pickup.
But as forested as it is around my house I'm a bit leery of where it's flying.

I like your signature line "too many daughters" I raised 5 girls myself, no wonder I'm almost bald.
My youngest is going on 30 hard to imagine.

Silos are wheat and transported by rail, the artwork is sponsored by the wheat board and there has been a lot more since I took those, makes for an interesting drive when driving through the massive wheat areas, silos are rather plain and drab and this has really put them on the map, google silo art Australia and I'm sure you will find plenty.
Lots of Angus around us for beef, not so much dairy anymore as the prices offered by the processors dropped and became a lot of work for little return so they just switched to beef.
Cattle don't seem to worry about the drone but the horses hate it.
I have landed on a tonneau but it's a bit hairy with the raised ridge in the centre but a good option when the alternative is mud.
Daughters, yes, I take your point, eldest in her 30's and at home, at med school and can't afford to move out until she graduates and finds a rich professor to marry.
Losing hair at an accelerated rate.

 

[ovrszd]

I'll try switching to Chrome. I really want to see those videos.