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Sunrise... I'm an Idiot... oooh a rainbow!

DebianDog

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Storytime:

I woke up this morning to my puppy crying. We are crate training and apparently "Monster" slept long enough and had to go outside.
I dragged myself out of bed after the puppies business was done I noticed the sky was looking very pretty.
The sunrise was happening right now.
Make coffee OR launch the drone take some pictures real quick?

Mmm.. I need coffee

OK let me do it "real quick" since the drone is sitting upstairs ready to go.
No preflight checks! I am burning daylight!

I am new to Litchi and was using Litchi on my Smart Controller as I planned to also set up some waypoints for sunrise shots as needed in the future
About the time I hit the edge of the River near 1500 meters away a stupid window pops up!

"Drone wants to return home. [OK] [Cancel]"

Cancel!

(clicks cancel)

WTF would I want to return home. Stupid new software...

(many seconds pass)

?

(Looks at battery level)
OH SHIP!
RTH RTH fly fly fly !!!!
(spins aircraft)
Hey there is a storm coming and a rainbow.

(snaps pictures while flying full speed back home)
I also would have been flying in the rain if the battery was full
Landed with 13% battery

Forgot I was playing with Litchi in the yard, last night, setting up waypoints in flight then editing them in the online mission hub. :rolleyes:

Lessons learned: Plan, Pre-flight, look at the weather, don't skip coffee

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You're great story teller followed by amazing pictures and pet. Really good post.
 
Since you got good pictures and did not crash the drone, very worth it. Just shows we may need to trust those return to home pop ups a little closer.
 
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