So I bought this drone fairly cheap from a guy that I work with because it'd been wrecked. I like fixing stuff and thought a drone would be a good challenge. Even though I'd flown rc heli's years ago, I didn't and still don't want to keep it, basically wanted to make a small profit. That said, I don't want to sell a faulty drone and want to fly it at least a few times to make sure that I actually fixed it. And the obvious problems it had were 2 of the gimble arms/mounts, gimble yaw motor, top shell, and a new case for one of the batteries. All done and looks good as new and camera point in the correct position. Yay. But the **** thing has so far refused to do anything other than take off, hover for a few moments and then lose its freaking mind, roll over on its back and then play the lawn dart game.
But I'm pretty sure that my assumptions that if I can fly a completely unstable heli no problem, then surely flying a drone would be a walk in the park, might be slightly off the mark and that these things are a bit more complicated than I thought. But if we're being honest here, a quick search on YouTube on how to fly these as beginners doesn't yield the most informative results. Not a single one of them (that I watched) mentioned magnetic fields, which from reading this thread, Compass calibration issue in port is probably my issue, but I went to all the trouble of downloading a few programs and gathering the log files, and figure that I should probably ask the experts here to take a look at the files and tell me what ya'll think before I go assuming again and destroy the **** thing. Luckily, after 4 attempts of repeating the same thing over and over again, and only after damaging one of the landing struts, did I realize my insanity. Yay, I get to separate the two clam shells again, what fun! Not really.
Anyway, at this point , I have zero doubts that I did anything right as far as where the drone should be placed to correctly take off and then fly. Every single time was either from a concrete sidewalk, right next to one or even worse, a concrete pad covering what I believe is storm drainage. All of it within maybe a 20 foot perimeter and only the concrete pad being level and away from trees. Sorry, really did believe that these couldn't be hard to fly, or at least not so **** sensitive. Back in the days I only ever had to worry about the gyro...
Attached the .txt file and this is the MEGA link to the DAT file from the drone: 62.5 MB file on MEGA
Thank you in advance,
L Hall
But I'm pretty sure that my assumptions that if I can fly a completely unstable heli no problem, then surely flying a drone would be a walk in the park, might be slightly off the mark and that these things are a bit more complicated than I thought. But if we're being honest here, a quick search on YouTube on how to fly these as beginners doesn't yield the most informative results. Not a single one of them (that I watched) mentioned magnetic fields, which from reading this thread, Compass calibration issue in port is probably my issue, but I went to all the trouble of downloading a few programs and gathering the log files, and figure that I should probably ask the experts here to take a look at the files and tell me what ya'll think before I go assuming again and destroy the **** thing. Luckily, after 4 attempts of repeating the same thing over and over again, and only after damaging one of the landing struts, did I realize my insanity. Yay, I get to separate the two clam shells again, what fun! Not really.
Anyway, at this point , I have zero doubts that I did anything right as far as where the drone should be placed to correctly take off and then fly. Every single time was either from a concrete sidewalk, right next to one or even worse, a concrete pad covering what I believe is storm drainage. All of it within maybe a 20 foot perimeter and only the concrete pad being level and away from trees. Sorry, really did believe that these couldn't be hard to fly, or at least not so **** sensitive. Back in the days I only ever had to worry about the gyro...
Attached the .txt file and this is the MEGA link to the DAT file from the drone: 62.5 MB file on MEGA
Thank you in advance,
L Hall