Flying my quad into my camper van...

[powerlord]

hmm... so was flying my paramotor yesterday, and after the flight, took my ardufly based quad out for its first FPV flight.

All went well - I even tested land, rtl, alti and loiter mode and all are working well (though RTL and loiter do a bit of going around in circles - but I understand that';s easily fixed).

so got a bit braver, and flew a bit more aggressively - then the video cut out.

I upped the throttle, but it took me a few seconds to find it in the sky - get orientation and fly it back - and I was a bit worried about battery going flat at this point.

Now of course - switching it to RTL mode (the one I had just sucessefully tested) would have been a good idea... but that did not come to me... no I decided to fly it back to me as quick as I could....

it';s funny how when it';s far away you don';t really get a feel for the speed its going....

by the time I realised it was ';coming in hot'; I just had time to watch it ';nearly'; clear the top of my campervan at full speed (40mph+ ?).

it munted itself off the skylight, and distributed itself into a selection of parts over the next 20m or so....

the gopro, battery and back all in different areas.

amazingly only a leg and 2 props knackered so easily fixed.

campervan got off worse off - the plexiglass skylght cracked down one side.... however could have been worse if it had went into the side of the van rather than clip the top.


hey ho - all in a days flying 

[Gav]

Wow lol but where';s the vid O0

Oh yeah you said video cut but was that live feed cut from gopro going flat?

[powerlord]

Alas no - it was my old gopro hd. And for some reason it just stopped recording half way through.. Then again I suppose it would look like that if it hasn';t finished writing the file...maybe I can recover it - ill gave a go