I really did know when I got this that it was meant for the summer... but it's just too tempting to get out whenever I have the chance. While the sport is new to me, I'd rather stay in daylight, fly LOS as much as I'm comfortable with, all that good "rule following" stuff cause I don't wanna be a moron, so that's pretty much limiting me to weekends... and if it's cold on the weekend, so be it.
But it's a different game. I had to bring something to throw down on the parking lot to take off and land on, so the camera isn't in the snow. I forgot to bring something, so the best I had was a Home Depot bucket lid... Hit it dead center on a manual landing too!
You have to watch battery temperature, which I completely forgot about at the time but have come to rely on being warned when necessary.
But it's not just that... iPhones HATE the cold. I had an external battery connected, and even that couldn't keep up. By the end of a 16 minute flight, my drone battery was low, remote battery was low and phone was 17% and dropping fast.
I have those mittens that peel back away from your fingers but my fingers were freezing and I had to cover them up again. Good thing I just got a lanyard... I'll never get over the cool factor that the drone just hovered at 280' while I covered up.
My ears were frozen.
And I still LOVED every minute of it!
Looks like the kids had some fun with donuts in the high school parking lot last night!
-oddly enough I was getting virtually non-stop "interference" warnings but I have flown often there before and never had one til now.
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But it's a different game. I had to bring something to throw down on the parking lot to take off and land on, so the camera isn't in the snow. I forgot to bring something, so the best I had was a Home Depot bucket lid... Hit it dead center on a manual landing too!
You have to watch battery temperature, which I completely forgot about at the time but have come to rely on being warned when necessary.
But it's not just that... iPhones HATE the cold. I had an external battery connected, and even that couldn't keep up. By the end of a 16 minute flight, my drone battery was low, remote battery was low and phone was 17% and dropping fast.
I have those mittens that peel back away from your fingers but my fingers were freezing and I had to cover them up again. Good thing I just got a lanyard... I'll never get over the cool factor that the drone just hovered at 280' while I covered up.
My ears were frozen.
And I still LOVED every minute of it!
Looks like the kids had some fun with donuts in the high school parking lot last night!
-oddly enough I was getting virtually non-stop "interference" warnings but I have flown often there before and never had one til now.
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