I got my MP yesterday and immediately went to go fly it. Although I knew better, I took the manuals at their word that the various calibrations weren't necessary. The fallacy of this quickly became obvious, as there was a lot of drifting and circling and various IMU and GPS alarms going off all the time.
So today I got up and did the IMU and compass calibrations and went back out, and it was like it was on rails. No drift, no alarms, hovering rock-solid. Very nice.
However, I then almost wrecked it after I got a bit frisky and started to push it a little bit. I've flown a P2V for some years, and one of the fun bits was how tightly it would turn when you crank in a bunch of yaw while moving forward quickly. But to my surprise (and that of a tree) the MP seems to skid through the turns. If I yaw while moving forward, it does turn, but much more slowly--it yaws immediately but the path it follows over the ground turns much more slowly than my P2V did; I managed to panic-stop before hitting anything.
I took a bit more time (while using more altitude) to play with this a bit more, and it just doesn't seem to turn nearly as tightly as my P2V did. Everything else is rock solid.
For those of you who have flown both, do you see the MP as being less maneuverable in this way? Or is there a setting in there somewhere that I missed? (I did read all of the manuals. Several times. <geek>)
So today I got up and did the IMU and compass calibrations and went back out, and it was like it was on rails. No drift, no alarms, hovering rock-solid. Very nice.
However, I then almost wrecked it after I got a bit frisky and started to push it a little bit. I've flown a P2V for some years, and one of the fun bits was how tightly it would turn when you crank in a bunch of yaw while moving forward quickly. But to my surprise (and that of a tree) the MP seems to skid through the turns. If I yaw while moving forward, it does turn, but much more slowly--it yaws immediately but the path it follows over the ground turns much more slowly than my P2V did; I managed to panic-stop before hitting anything.
I took a bit more time (while using more altitude) to play with this a bit more, and it just doesn't seem to turn nearly as tightly as my P2V did. Everything else is rock solid.
For those of you who have flown both, do you see the MP as being less maneuverable in this way? Or is there a setting in there somewhere that I missed? (I did read all of the manuals. Several times. <geek>)