Index skyrocketed as of about 9a est, so if you flew before then, wouldn't've been any effect...I flew yesterday without any issues of any sort with my old "crappy" RevA.
Sorry, thought I'd made the relevance clear....I'm not sure how piloting a UAS means you're in control 50% of the time....you set up the flight regardless of the mode (including a RTL), you choose the takeoff, surroundings and environmental conditions. Pilot is 100% responsible for operating their UAS 100% of the time.Yea but that's a lot of aviation that frankly isn't going on most of the time with a Solo. My last problem was a straight line shot, at about 5 mph when it "corrected its position" by a few feet vertical. Also comparing a fully in control airplane pilot to a maybe 50% in control drone pilot is a non starter for me. I'll take the blame for not leaving myself more room above the power lines or paying more attention to the video feed than the actual craft. Oh and my unit suffered a momentary loss of power according to 3DR. The voltage suddenly dropped and recovered in a second but not fast enough unfortunately.
As I stated before, I had an actual fly away, verified by 3dr and a controller lock, also verified by 3dr. It's easy to blame the pilot, GM tried that when their ignitions were failing. It didn't work for them and it won't work here either. There are inherent problems with this platform. The GPS module and weak radios being two of them. Luckily, both of those problems are relatively easy to repair. It always strikes me as funny that the same guys that jump up every time any one says anything negative about the Solo have the most modifications on their own units.
I agree 99%. I don't believe it's perspective. It's fact.Sorry, thought I'd made the relevance clear....I'm not sure how piloting a UAS means you're in control 50% of the time....you set up the flight regardless of the mode (including a RTL), you choose the takeoff, surroundings and environmental conditions. Pilot is 100% responsible for operating their UAS 100% of the time.
Different people have different perspectives I guess. ..
Was around 1PM CST...in the thick of the solar storm.Index skyrocketed as of about 9a est, so if you flew before then, wouldn't've been any effect...
Android app UAV Forecast provides this info and moreOkay I completely admit my ignorance. Where do you find the kp level info?
Sorry, thought I'd made the relevance clear....I'm not sure how piloting a UAS means you're in control 50% of the time....you set up the flight regardless of the mode (including a RTL), you choose the takeoff, surroundings and environmental conditions. Pilot is 100% responsible for operating their UAS 100% of the time.
Different people have different perspectives I guess. ..
I flew yesterday without any issues of any sort with my old "crappy" RevA.
A Quad would not fly without some type of Flight controller assistance. Have you flown in ACRO?Oh I'm not talking "responsibility" I'm talking control. The AI does most of the actual flying in my opinion. A lot of guys talk about flying "manually" but it's not true manual flying. I've flown honest manual drones/helicopters where you have to control x, y, and z using throttle inputs. It doesn't just hover when you let go of the controls, it hits the ground! Hahaha! I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. Unless you know something I don't, it's my belief that the Solo, along with most other modern drones, maintain their altitude regardless of flight mode. So when the craft maintains its x, y and z autonomously, without any input from the "pilot", I have a hard time considering that complete control of the craft. Then when you throw in site scan or tower and the thing just goes wherever you touch on a screen... Yea, not my idea of complete control or "piloting".
A Quad would not fly without some type of Flight controller assistance. Have you flown in ACRO?
No Kudos necessary. But Thanks. There is a reason why Multi Rotors started appearing after the Nintendo Wii came out. Its all about the sensors.
If simply looking for the Kp Index: Planetary K-index | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction CenterAndroid app UAV Forecast provides this info and more
If simply looking for the Kp Index: Planetary K-index | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
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