My first post here. Hope I’m following protocol and if not please accept mky apologies.
I finally got some decent weather and a little availability to take my M3 out to try some of the new flight modes. Although i saw several youtube videos of guys trashing their M3s i figured they were pushing limits and frankly might have been looking to crash their drown for click bait (who knows). But i thought I’d take a deep breath and give it a try today. My first flight was some higher altitude flying above the trees and my second test was me on foot with some slow walking and APAS did a decent job. Decided to try to bike and had 3 prop strikes in a nine minute flight with the final strike causing a crash which pretty much killed the drone.
So question is what this within the expectations of the APAS expectations and this becomes DJI’s problem or was it PIC error on my part? The more i think about it the more it seems that I had unrealistic expectations of how APAS could detect “twigs” on trees and its my bad. Good news is i have the care refresh so its covered, but its a hit on my ego.
Appreciate your thoughts.
Video showing the prop strikes: New video by Steven Wells
Flight telemetry:
I finally got some decent weather and a little availability to take my M3 out to try some of the new flight modes. Although i saw several youtube videos of guys trashing their M3s i figured they were pushing limits and frankly might have been looking to crash their drown for click bait (who knows). But i thought I’d take a deep breath and give it a try today. My first flight was some higher altitude flying above the trees and my second test was me on foot with some slow walking and APAS did a decent job. Decided to try to bike and had 3 prop strikes in a nine minute flight with the final strike causing a crash which pretty much killed the drone.
So question is what this within the expectations of the APAS expectations and this becomes DJI’s problem or was it PIC error on my part? The more i think about it the more it seems that I had unrealistic expectations of how APAS could detect “twigs” on trees and its my bad. Good news is i have the care refresh so its covered, but its a hit on my ego.
Appreciate your thoughts.
Video showing the prop strikes: New video by Steven Wells
Flight telemetry: