IslandBarnDave
Well-Known Member
Totally agree. I’ve spent 40 years in the IT industry so far and one thing for sure is that smart software may be written by smart programmers but they are still human and thus prone to error. I currently work in the healthcare industry where software errors could be life threatening. Yet even with sophisticated testing tools, errors do occur. So the lesson is never to assume the software is foolproof.Both drone and remote are computers with pretty smart software. It doesn't much matter what order, though I always turn the drone OFF before the remote on shutdown.
Even in the '70's when there were no smarts aboard the aircraft, I would turn the aircraft on first as a last check that there was nobody else on the same frequency. With no remote turned on, the servos would jump to somewhat random positions, and I knew it was safe to turn on the remote. If the servos responded in an intelligent manner, I'd re check that nobody was on my frequency. Kept me from "shooting down" a guy who had the wrong color flag.
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