Recent content by dixiefla

I don't fly in real windy conditions (nor do I fly in sport mode), but I have flown in 10-15 knot winds a lot, and I haven't noticed any difference in performance of the drone due to the pontoons. I think they are awfully good insurance given that I am otherwise risking upwards of $1500 in...

I fly a lot over or near water, and so I got a pontoon package, which has the sideline feature of securing the battery also. So 2 advantages, it keeps the battery from possibly falling out; and were I to have a crash in the water, the drone will float on the surface and either be reusable, or...

I'll try that next time, as my recollection is that forward and back stick don't make the drone go forward and back, and I'm sure that right stick, left stick did not make the drone go sideways--that would be logical, and would be "normal" stick movements. But I'll check it out next time and...

What I expected was that you could control to aircraft's flight normally, just that the yaw would be disabled because the drone keeps the camera aimed at the subject. That is not what is happening. I've tried it twice now. The left stick still controls altitude, but the right stick is completely...

I'll have to practice a couple of these variations, see what works best

Well I've seen that method in videos. But with landing protection turned on the drone tends to rise up to avoid your hand. To avoid this, one guy just grabs it between two fingers near the front with the drone facing him to avoid the down sensors. He grabs it very gently and then gives it down...

Well I have now programmed my C2 button to quickly turn off obstacle avoidance for the landing situation I originally mentioned in this thread. But now I have a variation of the issue. I'd like to quickly turn off landing protection because in videos about hand catching most seem to agree that...

I use Mode 2 for my control sticks. I just tried Spotlight mode. Obviously orientation with the left stick is disabled because Spotlight mode keeps the camera oriented toward the subject. But with the right stick all of the stick movements are different. Forward and backward flight and...

Yeah, 7-10 meters makes sense. I just assumed the pause is good, maybe not necessary. But I still have the problem of missing the pad once every 4-5 times even when doing this, with nothing changed.

Well, again, it takes several clicks to turn everything off, so how do you assign several clicks to C2?. Or do you mean assign "sport mode" the C2 button? It would seem this isn't necessary as sport mode is right there on the controller front.

Can't you update the "RTH to controller" during flight? I haven't tried it (I will today) but think you can. If so, just update it just before clicking RTH

OK, I think that would work for grabbing it out of the sky, but in the landing on my dock or boat cockpit, it was not just warnings--the unit refused stick inputs. When it was about 2 ft off the dock, I could only make it go up or down, and it almost struck a prop on a step close by. I tried to...

I need to manually land on my dock, between pilings, and in the cockpit of my boat. When I tried this I did it successfully, but at times when trying to fine tune the exact landing spot the aircraft balked and wouldn't move. This was because it was sensing the pilings as obstacles, and it...

Thanks for all the input, guys. I agree there is no way to "turn precision landing on or off". I used the method suggested in the manual, to ascend vertically right above the landing pad to 7 m and hover there for a few seconds, to allow it to "see" the surroundings. I'll try the suggestion to...

I have a new M2P with all the updates. I recently took several videos on my river. They are out of focus, both in distance shots and in close shots coming to landing. Because it is just practice I ran 2.7k 30 fps instead of 4k. Shooting wide angle, using a Polar Pro 4PL ND filter on a sunny...