First action shoot with airplane

Zzz · Feb 16, 2017

I make bush flying films, am new to quadcopter flying but had avoided pulling the trigger on a drone until the Best Buy deal appeared. I'd never even heard of Solo before. But I love this thing! I'm excited to learn about the extensibility and open source projects underway that I've seen reference to. I found this guide via the development area here. Is there a guide somewhere on here as to what open source projects exist and the transition to community contrib?

Here's my second flight and first action shots of an airplane; little rough but I'm learning. I'm lucky to have friends who will burn gas for me while I experiment.

Had some jello result in some of the footage, whereas most was jello-free. In some of the shots there was about a 6 knot crosswind, depending on the orientation of flight. I assumed perhaps this caused additional vibration, hence the jello?

The auto takeoff and auto land function is pretty nice, and I got cocky about it boasting to my friend how easy it is, so the last scene is an outtake of accidentally taking off again as I fat fingered it.

RichWest · Feb 16, 2017

That was wicked....you have some good friends that trust you....

Zzz · Feb 17, 2017

RichWest said:
That was wicked....you have some good friends that trust you....

Thanks! Yes, I do have good friends. We are all pilots who've been flying together for years, so there is certainly trust. We're also in radio contact 100% of the time for operations like this.

RichWest · Feb 17, 2017

No doubt on the communication.

My nephew flies, was taken "under the wing" of many older fliers. Seems a band of brothers from the stories that he tells. I do recall him saying tail sitters were tough to fly on the ground....but you learn.

Again thanks for the share, it was an interesting perspective that will be rarely seen.