Recent content by rg2020

Obstacle avoidance is nice. However, as Tentoes said, I was flying sideways. If I hadn't panicked, and yawed left or right, I think I would have been able to fly out of the branches. Lesson learned. :)

Yeah, I'm not so good at judging depth through a camera lens. I should have looked left and right with the camera before moving sideways. I was looking to get a cool shot of the rusty old railroad bridge and ran into the trees.

I hiked out to where the GPS marked it as being. However, I don't think I went far enough. The legality of where I was (on Norfolk Southern Railroad property) prevented me from doing more. I'm also not in good shape physically, so I can't do too much hiking. The Norfolk Southern supervisor I...

I'm glad I was able to get the money together to get a new one. I received it on Monday. Did a test flight outside the house and it seems fine.

Thank you so much! It definitely was a learning experience. I'm not a bad pilot. I just made a mistake. My replacement drone was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but it didn't make it to our local UPS depot until after 11pm last night, so I have to wait until Monday.

Had my first drone tragedy a couple of weeks ago. I was flying near a railroad bridge to get some cool video/photos. I was rolling along the side of the bridge and didn't notice in my blind spot I was getting too close to the end of the bridge where there were trees. I hit some branches and got...

Was about to ask about variable ND filters here, but found some existing threads. Your comment about it being only slightly easier to switch the filter with a variable one makes sense. It's pretty easy to pop off a filter and put on a different one. You've got to land to do either one.