This 8 min clip shows the end of my second day of flying when I nearly lost my new £1000 quadcopter for good (and possibly crashed it on the M25) when I …
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How NOT to fly a DJI Phantom 3 Professional (in strong wind).
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Heart in mouth flight. I bought a Phantom 3 Pro second hand last year, had a few sketchy moments whilst getting used to it. I finally got the hang of it and took some decent footage. Eventually sold it on and got my money back for it but now I'm hankering after another.
Thank you!!!! This video was so professional and well thought out. Editing was great! Good Job!!
all of you perfect peoples comments are pretty harsh…he posted this as a lesson learned. ..no one got hurt and he got his property back in one piece (ish)… i say.. good job…and thank you for this.
wind is like the most important factor when flying a drone, I just got a drone and I am trying to learn from everyone's mistakes! thank you
I think Egham is not the right place, yes it is a huge green but Heathrow is close and also the M25 not to mention the many houses. And I never fly higher than 50 to 60 meters, anyway all went well in the end, so happy days.
thats why everyone should learnt to fly in atti mode
When it first run away, the important thing to realize is wind speeds are much stronger up higher. That is why wind turbine towers are so tall. If you want less wind to fly against, come down lower. When it was still over the field I would have brought it down lower as quickly as possible first and then fly back to you second.
The other major issue is orientation. If the camera is facing you and you are a new pilot, your stick controls are all backwards. Left moves it right. Away from you moves it towards you, etc. This is what was going wrong in the beginning of the flight. The prop protectors are not constantly visible like they would be if they were making the strongest effort to fly back to you. I think you were actually flying it away from you at times, or we would have seen the guards visible at all times. The cure is: when you are flying it by looking at it (rather than POV), have the camera pointing away from you. Now right on the stick moves it right, towards you on the stick moves it towards you. You have logical and natural control. This natural control is very important for landing it manually, because in a bad situation, you want your reflexs to be appropriate. Believe me when I say you can't use logic to overcome reflexes. Maybe hours and hours of training can make new reflexes, but without that, you want right stick to mean right copter, left stick to be left copter, etc. when you are bringing it down. I'm not just preaching. This is exactly what I do. Land with camera facing away for a healthy drone.
What's the music??
Yes I see what the problem was here. You basically had no clue whatsoever how to operate your drone. I think that could be seen as a slight error of judgement there on your part?
“I wasn’t confident enough to touch the dials”. A classic statement if ever there was one as you fly a drone near one of the busiest motorways in the U.K. I had the strangest sensation of pissing myself laughing at this but at the same time praying you didn’t cause a major accident or harm anyone.
was für ein alptraum^^
Tack into the wind like a sailboat?
Checked a few comments in case this was covered. Didn’t see anything about altitude choice.In windy weather, wind is faster/stronger with increasing height. You rather stupidly maintained altitude and essentially did bugger-all to rescue things. If you’d reduced height far before it got over the houses chances are you’d have recovered it inside the field easily.AND biggest lesson is never let a bird get way downwind unless you know absolutely there’s nothing vulnerable in that direction, in which case the worst effect of this would be the long walk to fetch it back. Even in that scenario it’d be bad practice.This was an incident that very nearly could have landed you in the dock listening to charges being read out.The P3 is no weakling in flying ability, but outside Atti mode it’s hobbled. You needed to be more fully aware of flight modes and how/when/why to use them.Making this comment more for watchers who may not know these things.. (I see this is far from a recent clip)
Glad you got it back and she still works. Do you know what the winds where? Had to be like 40mph cuz she couldn't fight it.
This was your second flight and you decided to fly in strong winds, this is exactly why new laws are being introduced in the UK. If the drone had reached the M25, you may have been in big trouble. I hope you have Public Liability Insurance
i never switch RTH when flying back to the home point! why? because i was trained in syma x8c manual flying, watch my videos on my Facebook wall! dont put propeller guards on high winds when flying, that cause a lot of fly away, and a pilot error too! happy flying guys!
Worst part is when your heart starts thumping uncontrollably
I just flew mine for a couple of times, but I reckon that putting it in sport mode and just by pushing the right lever up would've come straight back. What do you think?
Good job.
another case of an idiot trying to run before he can walk, learn to fly without autopilot before you allow it to go automated.
This shitty music sucks why do stupid people put it on the videos
just got one and your vid is a warning to keep it in sight and not go too high i might see if you can fit a tracking thing just incase thanks
Not powerful enough? Yoou put it in rth mode lol its less than 50% power
A silly mistake, but I take my hat off to you for sharing your experience. We ALL make mistakes at some point, this might just save somebody an expensive machine and more importantly a serious accident. An important lesson for all to really understand the capabilities of the machine. Thank you
I lost signal once near 400 ft almost directly overhead for some unknown reason. luckily I was able to see that I could still control it so I was able to bring it down manually without the help of the POV.
DJI Phantom 2 3,3 km distance Flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt7SnH3k8pU
Nail biting.. I lost my x5 in the wind,,, I got that to practice before i got the p4 pro,, I'm so glad I did that,, I had it for 2 weeks and learned total control with it and when it blew away in the wind I was showing off and it cost me 35 quid rather than 1500.. I highly recomend buying the cheapest quad before you fly a good one and do At least a weeks practice..
ohh no!!! maddening! (point to inspire) I have flown with really strong winds and the inspire behaved very well, almost as if it were bolted to the sky, although the power difference can not be compared between one and the other, I do not know if in some videos of people flying in the wind with the phantom, or the mavic, passed to the sport mode, when something happened to them, since in the rth, the power is smaller, perhaps another option is to make it go up or down while you try to attract it, maybe changing the vector may improve the how faces the wind, that going direct is more difficult.
Your choice of backgrounds music sucks
A great share and commentary glad you ended up with a good result and I can imagine the stress you were feeling ha ha its all a learning curve, would you not have been better to drop off elevation and come across the field at a low level… I mean hindsight yeah yeah but a cool video anyway.
I am sure now things are different with experience and flight time… enjoy
Throttle up + Forward Pitch = Maximum power
RTH = Not maximum power