caplanner
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I’ve had the mini a couple of weeks now I guess. Christmas Eve I Extended my distance to 1,400 feet and took off.I'll be the first to raise my hand. I got my new drone today and was excited to get out and fly. It's my first drone and we had perfect weather, mid 60's and no wind. Prior to flying, I've been watching countless youtube videos on the mini. I knew to go slow and low. I went through a couple of batteries practicing at my home. Feeling quite confident in my limited ability I walked up the street to a neighbor's house and launched with a fresh battery. All was going well as I flew around his house capturing photos of his house at different angles. I was in the back yard at about 30 feet in C mode. I backed up to get a little wider shot. There was a row of trees across the back property line. No problem, I was watching the drone and not my screen as I backed up slowly with what looked like 20 to 30 feet between the mini and the trees and to my horror, it clipped a branch fell out of the tree onto the grass. No real damage other than some grass stain. The lesson I came away with is my depth perception sucks. I was about 80 feet from the trees I was looking straight at it and felt it was safe up to that point. Other than that snafu, I really like the drone. Very stable and easy to fly. I've got much to learn. OK, I can take the arrows now.
Dennis
Started to lose sight of it, got nervous, so started to bring it back by bringing it straight back in reverse - except I’m pulling back on the left stick... imagine my surprise when I hear “landing”.
panic ensues, jump in the car and drive to end of dirt road. No signal so “find my drone” not working. Walk up and down the fields and finding nothing. Look at the flight map, straight line up the road but nothing.
finally looking at my log I see satellite view and see that drone was less than half way to where I thought it was. Talk about bad depth perception!
found drone landed nicely on a pile of rocks with no damage at all. Probably would never have found it otherwise because map didn’t have dirt roads on it.
phew! Learned a couple of lessons with that one....