Recent content by ravenflight

Shooting a bullet through the air is obviously not what anyone is talking about it. If you're going to be pedantic like that, I could just as easily take apart your response by saying that shooting up into the air is not a myth; it's well known that guns are perfectly capable of doing this. But...

There's no way to disable the beeping on the MA2, unfortunately. Flying indoors is a perfectly fine thing to do tho. The vision positioning system is primarily responsible for holding the quad's position and does not depend on GPS. I'm sure there are a lot of inept people for whom it would be a...

DJI's response to my follow-up questions: Obstacle avoidance has limited sensing areas, the object it may collide with also needs to be large enough and have sufficient contrast with the background. There are many more factors which are outlined in the user manual. The sensing size is roughly a...

From DJI: NON-WARRANTY PER DATA ANALYSIS. Misoperation of Intelligent Flight Mode (Active Tracking) FLY008 1. Unit was in P-GPS mode and responsive to RC input. 2. At t=111s, user triggered Active Track via APP. 3. At t=112.8, unit started pitch forward toward object selected via app and...

I at least got a cool shot of the I1R with the MA in manual before the incident. :) I1R by ravenflight posted Apr 11, 2018 at 1:23 PM

I should give you the benefit of the doubt and take you at your word. I apologize for the misunderstanding. Thanks. I really should have had my finger on the pause button. I normally do but this time I had been fooling with the app trying to get it to work and I wasn't expect it to do much if...

I don't agree that I trusted toy technology to handle a dangerous action. I don't agree that equipment malfunction is pilot error. I don't agree with your implication that I'm irresponsible and deserve what I got. What you have felt from me is defensiveness, not hate. But whatever. There's no...

You said what I did was dangerous and should be avoided. You said the crash was my fault. I disagree with all of that and I feel like you're implying that I'm idiot.

It's not just this place. It's the whole Internet. I expect to be attacked anytime I post anywhere and I'm quick to be defensive. Too quick, sometimes. I mostly avoid forums for this reason. The pause button or the sport mode switch would both have aborted the operation had I hit one of them...

I think the drone's profile, particularly against the trees, probably played a role as well. But I wouldn't expect it to do anything more than just lose or never acquire the track.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. If that is the case, I think this problem could arise in situations on the ground too. Say if it was tracking someone on top of a hill with distant trees in the background and it couldn't see much of the ground.

A car can move much faster than the drone can. Some cars even accelerate faster. But that doesn't matter. In my experience with it, running too fast will cause it to lose track. That doesn't mean I shouldn't be tracking running objects.

Reason and logic? The fact that the object was in the air is irrelevant. It wasn't moving so "a relatively slow moving person or car" is still moving infinitely faster than the aircraft I was tracking. Even if it had been moving I have the ability to control the speed at which the aircraft...