Crash number two in the books

cplmac · May 13, 2017

As some of you may remember the day after I got my MP I crashed it indoors with minimal damage, well feeling a need to balance things out I crashed outdoors today. Fortunately There is no damage, nothing even needs to be calibrated amazingly. I had to back my truck up to the tree to climb up and get it but no problems. I have the crash and the rescue on video.... I brought this one on myself, I turned off obstacle avoidance in an effort to test the actual top speed. I simply lost focus bringing it back in and zigged when I should have zagged, the changes in flight characteristics between OA on and OA off are substantial even when you don't crash. Also I'm a little disappointed in the top speed honestly, but I also found the settings and made some changes to the distance I could fly. That was awesome! 2300' and not even a hiccup, the only danger I was in was not being able to see my display well for the return flight due to the sun. I also saw you could change your altitude limit, if you changed your altitude limit to 1000' would it allow that or does the software always impose a hard 400' ceiling? I would love to go to a state park and get a massive overview. I'm learning fast the easy and the hard way, can't thank you all enough for the information, tips and general good will.

Spot01 · May 13, 2017

It's bound to end in tears your luck won't hold forever

Slayerstwin · May 13, 2017

cplmac said:
As some of you may remember the day after I got my MP I crashed it indoors with minimal damage, well feeling a need to balance things out I crashed outdoors today. Fortunately There is no damage, nothing even needs to be calibrated amazingly. I had to back my truck up to the tree to climb up and get it but no problems. I have the crash and the rescue on video.... I brought this one on myself, I turned off obstacle avoidance in an effort to test the actual top speed. I simply lost focus bringing it back in and zigged when I should have zagged, the changes in flight characteristics between OA on and OA off are substantial even when you don't crash. Also I'm a little disappointed in the top speed honestly, but I also found the settings and made some changes to the distance I could fly. That was awesome! 2300' and not even a hiccup, the only danger I was in was not being able to see my display well for the return flight due to the sun. I also saw you could change your altitude limit, if you changed your altitude limit to 1000' would it allow that or does the software always impose a hard 400' ceiling? I would love to go to a state park and get a massive overview. I'm learning fast the easy and the hard way, can't thank you all enough for the information, tips and general good will.

National parks are off-limits I do believe state parks are off-limits also but I'm not 110% sure it may go state-by-state your best bet would be to call ahead to the place you're going to be flying in and ask . That way they don't take the drone and footage

mkp2020 · May 13, 2017

There is a hard altitude limit but not 400 feet. I believe it is 500 meters above takeoff point.

cplmac · May 13, 2017

500m is pretty high, that's over a quarter mile. I'm trying to render the crash footage in Davinci right now but I can't seem to find a format that can be played on VLC or WMP. As soon as I get it working I'll post it.

cplmac · May 13, 2017

So after uploading the 3.8GB 4k video to youtube (which took almost two hours) I'm left with a 720p video. Anyhow, here is the crash. I used to have a channel on youtube that I can't access anymore since google bought youtube, sucks I had 800 subscribers on that channel.

Just realized I also lost the 120 or so videos I had hosted there, these mega-tech companies really know how to suck the joy out of life.