Anyone Shut off Drone in Flight and Recovered?

[bkushner]

In the flight simulator I can take the drone to 400 feet, cut the motors and while it's dropping restart motors and recover. Anyone tried this in real live?

 

[FlashBuddy]

I saw it done in a YouTube video

 

[OOO]

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[bkushner]

900 feet...I figured you need to be high.

 

[OOO]

900 feet...I figured you need to be high.

I do not have the courage to try it myself!

 

[Pharm]

Nor I. I don’t see this as a useful maneuver.

In other words, why?

 

[SRJ_Phantom_4_Pro]

900 feet...I figured you need to be high.

You would really need to be high to try this! As in that happy kinda high!

 

[jwmcgrath]

I’m subscribing, specifically to see if anyone ever posts “tried it, didn’t work, parts for sale”.

 

[Newbieguy]

Sometimes I will shut the motor off on my Harley and coast into the garage. That’s about as close as I get to that sort of nonsense.

 

[jwmcgrath]

I was thinking about going skydiving this afternoon and cutting off my main chute just to see if the reserve works.

I mean, it SHOULD, right?

 

[Dirby]

they make all kinds of pieces when they hit the ground straight in.

 

[SRJ_Phantom_4_Pro]

they make all kinds of pieces when they hit the ground straight in.

Que the music.... Tiny pieces........

 

[Hjastro]

I once was flying my P4 and the craft was about a mile away, and for whatever reason my iPad went blank and wouldn't boot back up. I was really concerned about losing my craft but luckily it came back and landed next to it's GPS starting point.

 

[Deleted member 1555]

I was thinking about going skydiving this afternoon and cutting off my main chute just to see if the reserve works.

I mean, it SHOULD, right?

It does. Got the t- shirt.

 

[Sharpshooter7]

Sometimes I will shut the motor off on my Harley and coast into the garage. That’s about as close as I get to that sort of nonsense.

Yeah, it's not like we have to go looking for adventure with these things. There are enough gremlins lurking without manufacturing them

 

[Chrislaf]

Would never try it with my P3S, but have tried it with my Syma X8G and recovered without any problem. $500 with good camera and delicate gimbal vs $100 with cheap, cheap camera and no gimbal to distroy.

 

[P4PCommander]

I was thinking about going skydiving this afternoon and cutting off my main chute just to see if the reserve works.

I mean, it SHOULD, right?

Depends on who Pack your Chute!!