First Solo flight and video

steveak · Feb 7, 2017

First flight with the Solo.

Weather was calm, sunny with low scattered mist patches and 20 degF. I did experience a little icing on the props, but nothing that caused any problems. Everything worked as expected and no crashes!

I recorded the video at 1080/60fps/wide and then edited it in iMovie.

pyrate · Feb 7, 2017

drop box mangled your video dude
put it on youtube or vimeo

steveak · Feb 7, 2017

pyrate said:
drop box mangled your video dude
put it on youtube or vimeo

Thanks for the heads up. I changed it to YouTube.

I think the problem with DropBox is that it streams the 1080p version but doesn't automatically adjust the quality if the network connection can't keep up, so it ends up looking mangled.

Acroduster · Feb 8, 2017

Nicely done. A suggestion - use medium instead of wide. It does a far better job of keeping the props out of the picture.

steveak · Feb 8, 2017

Thanks Acro. I did read about that on this in some other threads on here and I think I will switch the setting to that next time. I'm also going to see how much effort it is to crop the video so the props aren't visible.

I'd also like to say that I relied heavily on info and advice from this board before that first flight and I think that definitely contributed to it going so smoothly.

Acroduster · Feb 8, 2017

steveak said:
Thanks Acro. I did read about that on this in some other threads on here and I think I will switch the setting to that next time. I'm also going to see how much effort it is to crop the video so the props aren't visible.

I'd also like to say that I relied heavily on info and advice from this board before that first flight and I think that definitely contributed to it going so smoothly.

Smart man...