Originally posted by TaoMaas What jib are you using, Lauren, and how long does it take to set up? Do you have a grip to help you? Thanks. LOVE your set-up, btw.
I use the Kessler Pocket Jib Traveler.
Using it and a K3 camera, I come under the weight limits of the Kessler slider, and I get cool motion control.
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Originally posted by kadajawi Hm, I was thinking of using one of those VR headsets (as in Google Cardboard, where you slide in your phone), and just running the good old DJI app on the phone while having it in front of my eyes. Not sure if that is a good idea though, as I just realized that the screen is split into two... one half for the left eye, one for the right. Might be a bit confusing. :-/
Won't it be enough to have the video feed on the phone sitting above the remote, and concentrating on that? What's the difference, apart from being a bit more immersive?
Couldn't you have pushed the come back home button?
How long did you fly until you have that level of control? I'm a bit stunned.
Hopefully I'll find the time to practice enough.
What is really neat is that the HDMI/720p for the FPV goggles comes from a different port on the back of the remote controller - so you get a direct feed from the Lightbridge interface/signal. What that does, is give you close to zero latency for flying. With looking at the tablet, the tablet has to interpret the signal, before it's displayed and while the lag is not that bad, it can make the difference when you are moving pretty fast.
As for the home button, when you hit that on a Phantom 3, the flight profile tends to be "rectangular" in that the drone will pop up to the return to home altitude, then make a bee line to home, and then make a direct descent to the landing. In my case, I have the Return to Home (RTH) set to 98 feet. In my example above, I was close to 397 feet, so my drone would have dropped
down to 98 feet before making a beeline to me. Now, 98' when there is a castle...is 98' from where the home was...not relative to where the drone would be at a given point. So if I had done a RTH, I probably would have lost the drone into the trees or the castle.
Also, it's better to make a diagonal flight path than a rectangular one - especially for battery life.
For me RTH is a last resort. I would much rather fly my drone to it's demise than to test out RTH in a stressful situation.
A case in point was Dolwyddelan Castle.
Dolwyddelan Castle is the last castle in this video, and they must have built it on an iron core or something magnetic. I took off, and when I got close to the Castle, my GPS/IMU and flight controls went CRAZY. I had to fly my bird in manual mode and it was another scary point. It took everything I could do to regain control and land the bird safely. Of course you can't really tell based on the footage!
So when possible I make sure that I am in control and the flight failsafes that exist are nice, but in the real world, you need to be able to fly the bird.
So where did I get the skills? Dunno. I have never flown anything before August of last year. I think because I play video games, and I have done a few space/flight sims, I understand how to "fly". I also think that when I fly - I am flying for cinematic reasons - so I concentrate on what I am capturing instead of what the drone is doing at that moment.
I go into the "zone" when I fly, that, and I am a freak I suppose.