This weekend, I wish I'd had a camera.
About what, 2 months back, I bought a 3rd drone, a NewBeeDrone V2. This is what is considered a Tinywhoop, also known as a Micro drone or Inductrix sized drone.
Well, I'd already had an Inductrix Pro that I'd bought and was fooling around with; It was a lot of fun, but I wanted something with an OSD, which the NewBeeDrone board had and the Inductrix did not, so I dropped a little bit of cash and picked one up.
Well, on Saturday, my wife had a haircut that she had to get that was down by my parents' house, and my mom wanted me to go Xmas shopping with her for my dad later that afternoon (she had a xmas party luncheon when we got there to tthe house).
So, for all of this, I brought down my Inductrix and my NewbeeDrone and I programmed up my dad's Dx8 to fly the Inductrix, while I flew my Newbeedrone on the IX12.
I hear the Inductrix fans spin up as I'm doing flight checks for myself on my drone, and as I turn around, I see the Inductrix slide straight under the sofa, like a vacuum cleaner was turned on and inhaled it.
There was a little bit of swearing, and we pulled it out, cleaned the drone of dust bunnies (apparently, there were some down there that were bigger than the drone itself!), and pulled it back out again for my dad to fly again.
It must've happened 6-7 more times throughout multiple flights, where the drone slid under the sofa, and we just laughed about it. I had to tell him what was happening - he kept trying to fly it as low as he possibly could. That's fine, that's actually MORE challenging than flying it at a normal height, but I pushed him a bit, got him to break the ground effect issue, and told him to work on flying the drone anywhere from waist to head height, and try to keep it in an even hover.
He got bored with that after the first battery, so I had him work on just sending it out from him at an even height, and then back - this was his first time flying a drone, and I definitely had him in Horizon mode, not acro, but the whole purpose of this was to get my dad to ENJOY himself, which he did.
About what, 2 months back, I bought a 3rd drone, a NewBeeDrone V2. This is what is considered a Tinywhoop, also known as a Micro drone or Inductrix sized drone.
Well, I'd already had an Inductrix Pro that I'd bought and was fooling around with; It was a lot of fun, but I wanted something with an OSD, which the NewBeeDrone board had and the Inductrix did not, so I dropped a little bit of cash and picked one up.
Well, on Saturday, my wife had a haircut that she had to get that was down by my parents' house, and my mom wanted me to go Xmas shopping with her for my dad later that afternoon (she had a xmas party luncheon when we got there to tthe house).
So, for all of this, I brought down my Inductrix and my NewbeeDrone and I programmed up my dad's Dx8 to fly the Inductrix, while I flew my Newbeedrone on the IX12.
I hear the Inductrix fans spin up as I'm doing flight checks for myself on my drone, and as I turn around, I see the Inductrix slide straight under the sofa, like a vacuum cleaner was turned on and inhaled it.
There was a little bit of swearing, and we pulled it out, cleaned the drone of dust bunnies (apparently, there were some down there that were bigger than the drone itself!), and pulled it back out again for my dad to fly again.
It must've happened 6-7 more times throughout multiple flights, where the drone slid under the sofa, and we just laughed about it. I had to tell him what was happening - he kept trying to fly it as low as he possibly could. That's fine, that's actually MORE challenging than flying it at a normal height, but I pushed him a bit, got him to break the ground effect issue, and told him to work on flying the drone anywhere from waist to head height, and try to keep it in an even hover.
He got bored with that after the first battery, so I had him work on just sending it out from him at an even height, and then back - this was his first time flying a drone, and I definitely had him in Horizon mode, not acro, but the whole purpose of this was to get my dad to ENJOY himself, which he did.