While doing some tests with my hexacopter at 20 meters of altitude, my incorrectly secured enormous battery failed at being part of the vehicle and decided to plummet down towards earth at impressive speed, the hexacopter of course was trying to catch the battery, but only did it when they where both at the ground.
An excellent example of a face-palm moment.
Secure your batteries properly, and remember to fly safe!
So, I change motors, ESC’s and props to the TEGOv3 frame and did a quick test, only to find out it was way more powerful and uncontrollable… and eventually leading the poor quad to a crash. And very nice slow mo action!!!
New parts:
I recorded the crash @ 100fps, 720p, then use GoPro studio to slow down the video. You can hear the laughs of evil and very strange noises.
Mmmmm, how to begin????…. Well, simply by saying that this is my first flight doing waypoint navigation…
Waypoints are sets of coordinates that identify a point in physical space. Waypoints located on the surface of the Earth are usually defined in two dimensions (e.g., longitude and latitude). GPS systems are increasingly used to create and use waypoints in navigation of all kinds. A typical GPS receiver can locate a waypoint with an accuracy of three meters.
Having said that, I configured a set of waypoints to AlduxQuad and did a test. For security reasons, I did it in a parking lot that is usually with no cars, the only problem is that is close to a heliport, hehehe, I waited to the last aircraft to take off, and start to fly.
I did 3 successful tests, when Alduxquad was completing the last one, I hear a voice of a person (helicopter pilot) telling me I couldn’t fly there, in a very cool and proper manner, so I removed the auto feature and start to get it down to land it, but to be honest I was a little nervous, hehehe, so I lost the reference of the quad (nooooooobbbbbbbbb) and did a rough landing.
But apart from everything it was a successful test.
Well… what did you expect??? any RC pilot eventually has to crash… 🙂
This was a “fortunate” crash, and the most important thing is that nobody and nothing was hurt.
I was really lucky that the GoPro wasnt on top of the quad in that moment 😉