Pre-sunrise flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-24-18 (1080p) (1).
Flight took place in the airspace over an empty lot near the intersection of Ellinor Ave. and Olympic Hwy. N. in Shelton WA. USA at 7:29am PDT on 10-24-18 (or, "2018-10-24T07:29" or, "2018 24 Oct." or even, "October 24, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were cloudy with very light intermittent sprinkles in the vicinity, temperature was 51°F (10.6°C), and winds as measured with my stupid "rotten boar pi$$ yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls those things even though those things actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were clam at the surface.
The music that you hear is the song, "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
I angled the camera down approx. 12° and moved it backward approx. 1.3" for two reasons.
*1:* By moving the camera back, it should be more centered and give the motors a bit less of a workout -- this might also extend flight battery life anywhere from slightly to fairly significantly.
*2:* By angling the camera down slightly, I should see a bit more land and less sky (and no propeller blades!); since this is not a race drone, it really doesn't make sense to have it exactly 90° perpendicular with the drone's fuselage.
The downside here is that the landing skids will be more prominent; if this is unacceptable (the video itself will be the acid test here), I'll have to return to my previous camera mounting position. :-/
(Now in post): The landing skids are in an unacceptable position (well within the frame!) and battery life increased only negligibly (by less than 30 seconds), so I'm going to move the camera back to its original position and find a lightweight shim to angle it down between 10° to 15° from perpendicular (this serves to not only get more "ground" in the frame, but totally eliminate the props and almost eliminate the landing skids from the video).
Miners do not appear in this video. Whether they're mining iridium, indium, gallium, cadmium, sodium, iron, selenium, mercury, liquid neon, strontium, californium, gadolinium, calcium, unobtanium, solid chlorine, etc., you ain't gonna find em here folks! (YouTube has this thing about miners appearing in videos for reasons as-of-yet unknown) ;-)
It's beginning to look like the flight battery may have gone to pot right from the get-go; I should be hitting close to 10 minute flight times now (because I've run the battery through no fewer than eight {8} complete charge/discharge cycles) but I'm still getting flight times of less than six minutes. :-/
Flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-23-18 (1080p) (2).
Flight took place in the airspace over a new home construction along the 1740-block of SE. Holman St. in Shelton WA. USA at 12:54pm PDT on 10-23-18 (or, "2018-10-23T12:54" or, "2018 23 Oct." or even, "October 23, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were cloudy, temperature was 58°F (14.4°C), and winds as measured with my stupid "strong walrus poddy yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls those things even though those things actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were generally clam but with occasional gusts out of the SE to 1mph (1.61kph) at the surface.
The music that you hear is the song, "Let You Go" by the German electronica group Monkey Zound.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
I flew to an altitude of 121 meters (~397 feet); this is the highest that I've flown any drone -- beating this morning's flight! :-)
Miners do not appear in this video. Whether they're mining iridium, indium, gallium, cadmium, sodium, iron, selenium, mercury, liquid neon, strontium, californium, gadolinium, calcium, unobtanium, solid chlorine, etc., you ain't gonna find em here folks! (YouTube has this thing about miners appearing in videos for reasons as-of-yet unknown) ;-)
It's beginning to look like the flight battery may be weak right from the get-go; I should be hitting close to 10 minute flight times now (because I've run the battery through no fewer than seven {7} complete charge/discharge cycles now) but I'm still getting flight times of less than five minutes. :-/
Flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-23-18 (1080p) (1).
Flight took place in the airspace over an empty lot near the intersection of Ellinor Ave. and Olympic Hwy. N. in Shelton WA. USA at 7:53am PDT on 10-23-18 (or, "2018-10-23T07:53" or, "2018 23 Oct." or even, "October 23, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were cloudy, temperature was 49°F (9.4°C), and winds as measured with my stupid "strong puppy micturition yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls those things even though those things actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were generally clam at the surface.
The music that you hear is the song, "Tron Dancer" by the German electronica group Monkey Zound.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
While flying my drone, I "heard" the jingle for the Silver Shamrock commercial from the movie, "Halloween III: Season of the Witch".
{sound of a calliope repeatedly playing two notes}
? Eight more days to Halloween! ?
? Halloween, Halloween! ?
? Eight more days to Halloween! ?
? Sil-ver-Shamrock! ?
I flew to an altitude of 94 meters (~308 feet); this is the highest that I've flown any drone. :-)
Miners do not appear in this video. Whether they're mining neodymium, plutonium, solid chlorine, sodium, ruthenium, copper, palladium, gallium, hassium, cupric oxide, barium (for making radioactive enemas), carbon neutronium, etc., you ain't gonna find em here folks! (YouTube has this thing about miners appearing in videos for reasons as-of-yet unknown) ;-)
***NSFW!!!*** Cool weather* very brief NIGHT** flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-22-18 (1080p) (2)
Flight took place in the airspace over the 1020-block of Ellinor Ave. in Shelton WA. USA at 7:11am PDT on 10-22-18 (or, "2018-10-22T19:11" or, "2018 22 Oct." or even, "October 22, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were cloudy with moderate fog in the vicinity (visibility ~184 feet (~56M); IFR for real pilots, VFR for low-altitude R/C pilots), temperature was 49°F (9.4°C), and winds as measured with my stupid "strong doormouse poddy yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls those things even though they're actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were clam at the surface.
The music that you hear is zax from the Commodore Amiga computer demo, "Software Make The Dance Foam Oil" by Epidrena and Rave Overscan Network.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
I prefaced the title of this video with, "***NSFW!!!***" because the music has some naughty bits in it -- the F-bomb gets dropped several times.
The drone crashed (and was briefly stuck) in a tree, but I was able to swat it down with a conveniently-placed poal saw.
* Cool weather in this context means an ambient temperature of 33°F (0.6°C) to 50°F (10°C) at flight time.
** Very brief *NIGHT* because I simply wanted to see how my Fitfort 4K Action Cam (used as the drone's flight camera) dealt with very low lighting levels -- quite feeble lighting in this case. I didn't need to make a full flight in order to determine this.
The fog kinda put the kibosh on seeing any lights beyond 55 meters or so; though the lights on nearby houses, nearby streetlights, and nearby automobile headlights can still be seen.
As a result of the fog, I may well perform another "nite" "flite" in clear conditions in the near-future.
Cool weather* brief** flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-22-18 (1080p) (1).
Flight took place in the airspace over an empty lot near the intersection of Ellinor Ave. and Summit Dr. in Shelton WA. USA at 11:11am PDT on 10-22-18 (or, "2018-10-22T11:11" or, "2018 22 Oct." or even, "October 22, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were cloudy with moderate fog in the vicinity (visibility ~197 feet (~60M); IFR for real pilots, VFR for low-altitude R/C pilots), temperature was 45°F (7.2C), and winds as measured with my stupid "strong cat pee yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls those things even though those things actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were generally clam at the surface.
The music that you hear is the song, "The Laundromat of Sin (Evil Underwear Mix by Soggy Potato Chips)" by the Rochester synth electropunk comedy act Worm Quartet.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
Miners do not appear in this video. Whether they're mining neodymium, plutonium, solid chlorine, sodium, ruthenium, copper, palladium, gallium, hassium, cupric oxide, barium (for making radioactive enemas), carbon neutronium, etc., you ain't gonna find em here folks! (YouTube has this thing about miners appearing in videos for reasons as-of-yet unknown) ;-)
* Cool weather in this context means an ambient temperature of 33°F (0.6°C) to 50°F (10°C) at flight time.
** Brief because the drone inexplicably went into LVC (Low Voltage Cutoff) just 4½ minutes into the flight despite my having charged the flight battery as indicated in the instructional materials. :-(
I believe that my flight times will increase as the flight battery undergoes a number of full discharge/charge cycles.
Brief# flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-21-18 (1080p) (1).
Flight took place in the airspace over an empty lot near the intersection of Ellinor Ave. and Olympic Hwy. N. in Shelton WA. USA at 2:16pm PDT on 10-21-18 (or, "2018-10-21T14:16" or, "2018 21 Oct." or even, "October 21, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were mostly sunny, temperature was 55°F (12.8°C), and winds as measured with my stupid "rotten earthworm poddy## yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls those things even though those things actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were generally clam at the surface.
The music that you hear is the song, "Light Sticks" by the EDM group Far Too Loud.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
*THE VIDEO RUNS TWO TIMES IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE LENGTH OF THE MUSIC!*
Miners do not appear in this video. Whether they're mining iridium, gallium, cadmium, sodium, iron, selenium, mercury, liquid xenon, strontium, californium, gadolinium, hassium, calcium, unobtanium, solid chlorine, etc., you ain't gonna find em here folks! (YouTube has this thing about miners appearing in videos for reasons as-of-yet unknown) ;-)
# Brief because the drone inexplicably went into LVC (Low Voltage Cutoff) just a couple of minutes into the flight despite my having charged the flight battery as indicated in the instructional materials. :-(
## Earthworms (all annelids) do not piss like most mammals do (by storing their uranation in an expandable sac and then ejecting it through the urethra when the bladder is full); therefore there is really no such thing as earthworm poddy. ;-)
That large black thing to the right of the frame is the starboard landing skid; the amount of "skid" seen was not intentional -- the camera (an action cam) is simply taped onto the underside of the fuselage and had apparently (unnoticed by me) shifted pre-flight.. :-/
Cool weather* low-altitude** brief*** maiden flight of my Global Drone X183 WiFi FPV GPS Drone 10-19-18 (1080p) (1).
Flight took place in the airspace over the SW parking lot of Shelton Floor Coverings along Ridge Rd. between Ellinor Ave. and Fairmount Ave. in Shelton WA. USA at 8:14am PDT on 10-19-18 (or, "2018-10-19T08:14" or, "2018 19 Oct." or even, "October 19, Twenty Stick-Infinity-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were partly cloudy with dense fog in the vicinity (visibility 100 feet (~30.5M); IFR for real pilots, VFR for low-altitude R/C pilots), temperature was 43°F (6.1°C), and winds measured with my stupid "strong leopard seal poddy yellow" portable digital "windometer" (as JD from JD Quad in the UK calls them even though those things are actually called, "anemometers") ;-) were dead calm at the surface.
The music that you hear is the song, "80s Hi-NRG" by an unknown artiste.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
Miners do not appear in this video. Whether they're mining neodymium, plutonium, liquid neon, sodium, ruthenium, copper, palladium, gallium, hassium, cupric oxide, barium (for radioactive enemas), carbon neutronium, etc., you ain't gonna find em here folks! (YouTube has this thing about miners appearing in videos for reasons as-of-yet unknown) ;-)
* Cool weather in this context means an ambient temperature of 33°F (0.6°C) to 50°F (10°C) at flight time.
** Low-altitude for three primary reasons.
1: The OEM camera was defective (it appears to be missing most of its circuitry), so I used my Fitfort 4K action cam taped to the undercarriage.
2: I wish to avoid a flyaway -- I've lost several drones this way and I'd rather not lose another -- especially with that action cam on it; it's my only action cam so if the drone flies off with it I'd be effectively boned. :-O
Flying my maiden at low altitude gives me a little more time to try and save it if something were to go horribly wrong.
And if the drone vibrated and the camera subsequently fell off, damage to it should be minimal at worst.
3: The fog was rather dense; not having FPV means that I could easily lose the drone in the fog and subsequently end up in deep doo-doo.
*** Brief because for reasons as-of-yet unknown LVC kicked in much more quickly than expected.
When it landed, I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to stop the motors; it skipped along the ground until it hit a curb and flipped upside-down which stopped the motors as was designed to occur.
Reading the instructional materials more thoroughly (I feel like such a total barnaclehead!) quickly revealed to me that there's a button on the radio labelled as Auto-Land, which would very probably shut the motors off shortly after touchdown. :-O
(Edit, 10-19-18):
I took it up for its maiden voyage this morning (as you see in this video) without any significant issues.
But when I went to fly it this afternoon, big trouble in little Edo {obscure Digimon reference here}.
The drone appears to successfully complete its prelaunch initialisation sequence, and pulling both joysticks on the radio down and outward starts all four motors in idle. But giving it throttle now does nothing! The drone stays on the ground at idle speed.
Almost immediately after power-on, all of the LEDs in the drone blink the following in unison (I believe is a fault code):
*Two brief flashes, pause for ~700ms, longer flash*. Cycle rep]eats until the drone is powered down.
I ensured that the flight battery was fully charged (the radio's display indicated 8.4 volts) and I power-cycled the drone multiple times -- still no joy.
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