Faster landing

[Lakelegobot]

Can you CSC from 600-650 ft and re-CSC at 400 and land safely?

 

[kristian.perkins]

If you're quick enough yea

 

[N017RW]

Can you CSC from 600-650 ft and re-CSC at 400 and land safely?

Not usually.

Tumble recovery is time and altitude consuming.

 

[jwmcgrath]

Some members have had "inverted powered flight to the ground". Makes me wonder what happens if your AC inverts during power down, and how it will behave after power up.

I certainly wouldn't do it intentionally, but I'd try REAL HARD to CSC to restart if I stalled accidentally.

 

[GrammatonxXXxCleric]

My stomach churned just imagining it.

 

[Meta4]

Can you CSC from 600-650 ft and re-CSC at 400 and land safely?

Try it and let us know.
Start out in the simulator.
You're going to need more altitude though.

 

[Lakelegobot]

Ill try the simulator too see if DJI approves

 

[Lakelegobot]

It works in the simulator.Anyone brave/dumb enough to try it?

 

[MacPhantom]

Nigel?

 

[MacPhantom]

BTW,

We should start a go fund me page for Nigel to do some serious NASA type testing for us. The stipulation though is that we need video and lots of it.

 

[Matts175]

What's a CSC? Google says it's Computer Sciences Corporation.

 

[Great_Lakes]

Nigel?

LOL!

 

[Erised]

I would not try that even if you lent me your bird, At 600 feet it's about 6 seconds to splat. I must admit I am curious if it could be done.

 

[Matts175]

Try what? Try what? LOL. Did anyone see my question? I wasn't kidding.

 

[yjander]

Try what? Try what? LOL. Did anyone see my question? I wasn't kidding.

its the combination stick command thing you do when you start up your motors. both sticks down and inward....

 

[Limp Gimble]

I do it all the time and land it my pool to break the fall and then toss it in the dishwasher on dry cycle for 30 minutes while the battery is charging.

 

[Matts175]

Ohh, OK. I do that almost every time I fly My Syma X5SC quad. I take it up a few hundred feet, cut the motors completely and hit the throttle, just before it hits the ground. It's $35 to replace it if it smacks the ground. Not going to try it with a $500 machine. Hahaha.

 

[DBritt8715]

What's a CSC? Google says it's Computer Sciences Corporation.

Combination stick command. When you push them the right direction combination the motors cut off.

 

[solentlife]

Someone ringing my bell ?

My hourly rate is $100 ..... seriously.... with a minimum charge of 12hrs.

Nigel

 

[Oso]

This question has been asked and debated many times. It seems the threads typically have the question itself, the person who did it in the sim, the person who used to do it all the time with a P2, the people who ask why can't it be done and the people who say do the math since it takes too long for a P3 to go through it's start up process.

What I am still hoping to see is a legit video of anyone actually doing it successfully.

My very humble opinion is that yes, I suppose it can work in real life but it would take an enormous amount of luck and an altitude much higher than we really should be flying our drones. My thoroughly unscientific guess is that if someone tried it from a very high altitude with 1000 different P3's that it might accidentally work one time. The other 999 times would result in epic Phantom splatter.