First and foremost... Thank you gentlemen for your knowledge and assessment it is most helpful! I tried to tinker with MP today and I certainly couldn't ascertain pretty much any of that info from what I was seeing. I suppose I need to spend some quality time with MP to really grasp its full potential.
10,000' x 45mph x -100' is kinda just how I roll around here. I have been practicing so that I can do this flight backwards, and film a skier/rider shrapling the gnar. If you like that I've got a pretty crazy flight from when a storm cell rolled in real quick on my Solo at the top of a neighboring mountain and I had to escape the snowstorm ASAP with rapidly deteriorating visibility (I was basically just flying by feel for a few seconds until I could see it again. I guess what I'm saying is that I have to use Stabilize mode on these flights just for the descent rate otherwise my subject would turn into an ant really quickly.
With that in mind, is there any way to change the parameters of Stabilize mode so that I cannot totally cut power to 0 with the throttle stick? That would be awesome and is further explained by the next paragraph.
A couple things about this flight: At the bottom of the "smooth reduction" when the drone lost power, and dropped video signal and I could no longer control it... I never actually bottomed out the throttle. I have done some drop and catch tests with that feature in stabilize mode before, so I understand exactly what you are saying. I guess it's possible that I went just a little bit further down on the throttle than I had been the entire descent, however it felt pretty smooth on my end, and it seemed to simply drop signal on my controller and then I pinned it hoping to regain altitude and signal. Whether this was because it went behind the trees and had no signal or another failure I cannot say. Also what about the intermittent loud squealing noise? It sounds like a failing motor to me, but maybe the logs say something different.
Would it be possible to elaborate a little bit more for me on the EKF failure?
As a final FYI we recovered the drone within 30 minutes of the crash. It was upside down in the snow with just the feet sticking out. I dried it and flew it again today on a bike ride. I was going to do a sweet little follow of my roommate through a fun section, but I could not get any video feed from the go pro. Initially the gimbal was blinking yellow light but totally dead. So I pulled the gimbal and reset the molex and Micro HDMI then the gimbal came back but no video. So tomorrow I'll pull the tray and check the other end of the HDMI, I'm hoping that simply came loose from the crash and all will be well. The drone flew fine though and it seems fully functional besides that.
10,000' x 45mph x -100' is kinda just how I roll around here. I have been practicing so that I can do this flight backwards, and film a skier/rider shrapling the gnar. If you like that I've got a pretty crazy flight from when a storm cell rolled in real quick on my Solo at the top of a neighboring mountain and I had to escape the snowstorm ASAP with rapidly deteriorating visibility (I was basically just flying by feel for a few seconds until I could see it again. I guess what I'm saying is that I have to use Stabilize mode on these flights just for the descent rate otherwise my subject would turn into an ant really quickly.
With that in mind, is there any way to change the parameters of Stabilize mode so that I cannot totally cut power to 0 with the throttle stick? That would be awesome and is further explained by the next paragraph.
A couple things about this flight: At the bottom of the "smooth reduction" when the drone lost power, and dropped video signal and I could no longer control it... I never actually bottomed out the throttle. I have done some drop and catch tests with that feature in stabilize mode before, so I understand exactly what you are saying. I guess it's possible that I went just a little bit further down on the throttle than I had been the entire descent, however it felt pretty smooth on my end, and it seemed to simply drop signal on my controller and then I pinned it hoping to regain altitude and signal. Whether this was because it went behind the trees and had no signal or another failure I cannot say. Also what about the intermittent loud squealing noise? It sounds like a failing motor to me, but maybe the logs say something different.
Would it be possible to elaborate a little bit more for me on the EKF failure?
As a final FYI we recovered the drone within 30 minutes of the crash. It was upside down in the snow with just the feet sticking out. I dried it and flew it again today on a bike ride. I was going to do a sweet little follow of my roommate through a fun section, but I could not get any video feed from the go pro. Initially the gimbal was blinking yellow light but totally dead. So I pulled the gimbal and reset the molex and Micro HDMI then the gimbal came back but no video. So tomorrow I'll pull the tray and check the other end of the HDMI, I'm hoping that simply came loose from the crash and all will be well. The drone flew fine though and it seems fully functional besides that.
