Maybe drones aren’t for where I live. 🙄
- Thread starter slozukimc
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Oh they will for sure. I have had some serious fun playing in the wind and waves around the lake. I am probably more cautious about the wind than I really need to be. I am still pretty new to drones having flown for just a few months.
I’ll tell ya what though! Launching an S900 Hex in 15mph winds with 43mph gusts was super exciting. That thing was a beast in the wind until the A2 messed up, lost gps for some reason and before my novice self could figure out what to do it went crashing into a high tensile electric fence.
Mike
Hey, just checking… in case you don’t realize that the forecast you see will vary depending on the wind, gust, etc, values (for your drone) that you enter in settings.
I don’t really pay attention to the fly or don’t fly part. I look at what it says and decide for myself. I do suppose it would be easier if I just used the settings though.
Mike
I have been soooooo tempted to try hang gliding!!!! I wanna be a bird. LolTake up hang gliding. Windy - fly hang glider
Not windy enough to fly yourself, fly the drones
Mike
Only mentioned, because “deciding to fly” could change depending on what you are willing to accept for the specific drone, or the recommended limits if you follow manufacturer advice. The values in the app were just defaults when you installed it. For example, I can be out in gusty conditions with Mavic 3 but would never go with Mini 2.
Jagerbomb52
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Exactly why I don’t bother with the fly or don’t fly. It varies depending on which drone I want to fly and what my goals are for the flight. Do I want to zig zag and play in the wind or do I want to take a nice video of the sunset over the lake?
Mike
It’s windy here all year long. Not just April. It is worse in April though.
Mike
If both the sunrise and sunset are later than some other place, that’s a function of east/west location (longitude), not north/south (latitude). In the winter, the further south you go the earlier the sunrise and the later the sunset. The opposite happens in summer, when the far northern areas (think Alaska) hardly have any night at all. Happens in both hemispheres, except that north/south are reversed, and summer and winter are as well.
On my last day in Kitty Hawk I went to a hang gliding school to take my first flight. After the three people in front of me all flipped over due to wind, they canceled the rest of the day’s flights.
Well then. Maybe I’ll pass on that too. I think my son and I may go parasailing this summer. Our daughter Sam and our son Dakota went skydiving together a couple years ago and loved it. What a cool thing for siblings to do together!
Mike
Sometimes I hate drones. I jst went to the lake to fly my new Spry+. Flew one battery and had a blast skipping around the water and playingnin the wind. Launched on the second battery. Drone hovers at about 5 feet. I push forward on the right stick to go out across the water and it flies straight up at about mach 5. I pulled down on the left stick to bring it back and it started coming back to me and then just fell out of the sky and smashed in the dirt. What the actual bleepety bleepety bleep?
There’s a grand smashed into junk in one trip out.
Mike
There’s a grand smashed into junk in one trip out.
Mike
Well I have it all torn apart. I can crazy glue the broken plastic back together. I found a broken wire to the camera that I am hoping is all that is wrong with that. I think I may have found the problem with it. I think it was trying to do a return to home because of messed up signal. The rear antenna has a rubber nipple it appears it should go into. It is in the chassis with other wires to the right rear motor. I see no other use for the rubber nipple as it is empty now. So I think what happened was weak signal triggered rth and when I held down on the stick for over 5 seconds it cut the motors and free fell to the ground. If it landed three feet to the left it would have splashed down in the water.Sometimes I hate drones. I jst went to the lake to fly my new Spry+. Flew one battery and had a blast skipping around the water and playingnin the wind. Launched on the second battery. Drone hovers at about 5 feet. I push forward on the right stick to go out across the water and it flies straight up at about mach 5. I pulled down on the left stick to bring it back and it started coming back to me and then just fell out of the sky and smashed in the dirt. What the actual bleepety bleepety bleep?
There’s a grand smashed into junk in one trip out.
Mike
Mike
Jagerbomb52
Well-Known Member
Hope you get it fixed. In my early days I had a couple fall and smash on the ground becuase of ESC problems. Not a nice feeling watching your investment smash all over the ground.
Thanks man. I have had some pretty bad luck this week. I think I am going to take my time over the evening and glue it back together and go sit and watch tv with my wife. That seems safe.
Mike
stevie gee
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