Recent content by vail

Other pilots can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure RTH will always take the direct route. It sounds like you flew around the forest where the military is located, and it returned in a direct line into the NFZ. This is the same software that will fly your drone into a building if you...

The first and only issue here was that the OP thought there were obstacle avoidance cameras on the top of their drone. To the OP, I encourage you to read your manual and watch some of the incredibly made starter videos available on YouTube that will help you know how to enjoy and protect your...

It makes so much sense...

If I read that correctly, you flew it indoors toward the curtain and hoped that letting go of the sticks would cause it to brake and hold its position? I have never flown a DJI drone indoors, but I seem to remember that without GPS you'd need to manually reverse the drone to brake because...

It's so gratifying to research a low-tide day with low winds, and no cloud cover for sunset beach fights. Processing the footage from yesterday and it already looks beautiful!

Are they currently active members who are likely to see and read your PMs?

Thankfully the helo was at ~400, or else if they were at whatever "way higher than the law allows" was for you, it could have been a disaster. If you were at 200 AGL over ~120 ft. trees and a helo tour came by low and fast at 200 AGL buzzing the tree line for the third time this month, you...

Histogram is really all you need. :)

That makes much more sense. Hopefully your drone was okay ;)

Do your nephews run 40 mph? :p

Good advice already. I'll add one: typing in all caps on the internet is obnoxious. Wish you the best, but use some lowercase letters, too. :)

A few things you can do to avoid this in the future: 1. Always take off with a 100% battery. 2. Don't fly with a strong wind over water for a length of time and force yourself to return into the wind. 3. Don't fly so high in strong winds. If you are struggling, get lower and the winds are...

You aren't going to get much sympathy saying essentially "I saw negative things on the interwebs and the internet is always right." There are issues with any company, but this sounds like a case of frustration meeting confirmation bias. I hope you'll heed to the advice of the folks here. I'm...

If you post the flight log, @sar104 can probably give you a better picture. What was the area like that you took off from? Was their concrete/steel nearby?

I haven't tried active track with my MA, because I've seen a few too many active track crashes in youtube compilations. It doesn't dodge or maintain elevation the way you'd expect.