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I would like to share a recent post by Marco Robustini, someone I have a great deal of respect for in this industry. He does a lot of code writing for the Pixhawk/APM platforms and testing on various other platforms. Must of us here know this already, but like I have been saying about BB selling the Solo and customers buying on impuse, users must be able to fly in manual mode and not have to rely on GPS regardless of who makes the drone.
Marco is highly respected by his piers and lives in Italy (you can almost hear his accent in his writing). I recommend his you tube channel where you can see some of his work. https://www.youtube.com/user/erarius
by Marco Robustini 36 minutes ago
Greetings to all.
I can't leave you my feedback about "Solo" because at this round 3DR it decided to not send here a unit to do some tests, but i'am certain that this quad uses most of the "APM:Copter" code, which reached an incredible level of stability, i can safely say this.
Talking with Chris i told him did not like the choice of the "Neo 7M" gps because for over a year i've been usingthe M8N, certainly higher as performance and slightly more expensive (few dollars), my YouTube channel is full of videos showing his performace.
Regardless of all of this i believe that relying too much to automatic is dangerous, those who use these aircraftshould always know how to fly in "Stabilize" mode (with only self level enable) for recovery because the gps and barometer can fail, and the gps unit "series 7 and 8" are very "picky" when you fly close to buildings or major obstacles that can create annoying rebounds signal, tested and verified here a lot of time.Even with my "DJI Phantom 3 Pro" yesterday i had a "strange" behavior, i was in gps hold and began to flyawayto 4m/s with both sticks to center position (classic "flyaway" caused by gps glitch), i switched to ATTI mode (alt hold) and i regained control, switched still gps hold and the aircraft stopped as it should do.We should not consider these aircraft as toys, still require a fair amount of experience of driving, although theoretically can fly alone is said to be trusted too.
The perfect machine does not exist, and when you fly you have to know this concept, to be able to better manage any eventuality.
My two cents...
Bests, Marco
Marco is highly respected by his piers and lives in Italy (you can almost hear his accent in his writing). I recommend his you tube channel where you can see some of his work. https://www.youtube.com/user/erarius
by Marco Robustini 36 minutes ago
Greetings to all.
I can't leave you my feedback about "Solo" because at this round 3DR it decided to not send here a unit to do some tests, but i'am certain that this quad uses most of the "APM:Copter" code, which reached an incredible level of stability, i can safely say this.
Talking with Chris i told him did not like the choice of the "Neo 7M" gps because for over a year i've been usingthe M8N, certainly higher as performance and slightly more expensive (few dollars), my YouTube channel is full of videos showing his performace.
Regardless of all of this i believe that relying too much to automatic is dangerous, those who use these aircraftshould always know how to fly in "Stabilize" mode (with only self level enable) for recovery because the gps and barometer can fail, and the gps unit "series 7 and 8" are very "picky" when you fly close to buildings or major obstacles that can create annoying rebounds signal, tested and verified here a lot of time.Even with my "DJI Phantom 3 Pro" yesterday i had a "strange" behavior, i was in gps hold and began to flyawayto 4m/s with both sticks to center position (classic "flyaway" caused by gps glitch), i switched to ATTI mode (alt hold) and i regained control, switched still gps hold and the aircraft stopped as it should do.We should not consider these aircraft as toys, still require a fair amount of experience of driving, although theoretically can fly alone is said to be trusted too.
The perfect machine does not exist, and when you fly you have to know this concept, to be able to better manage any eventuality.
My two cents...
Bests, Marco
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