Well just to make everyone else jealous, i've just returned from a nice morning of flying. Wind was starting to pick up as I arrived so it got progressively worse.
I tried to do some AP shots today, or aerial videoing. Not just random whatever I capture but specifically to try stuff out. Wow, I learnt a good lesson today, with all these wide angle lens you need to get close to objects.....
I'll be posting a very short video later today as I might just have 1 min of okish footage out of nearly 25 mins of aerial footage.
I missed my best shot which was a random dog trying to jump up to the tricopter, would have looked magic looking down but I forgot to turn the camera down - was busy keeping the tri high enough so the dog couldnt reach it but not too high (6-10m) as it was around the time the wind picked up even more..... I was in stabilise mode as the owner approached to within 5m of it, I had to say "hold on let me move it well away from you". I'm sure if the tricopter had been at 3-4m the dog would have reached it and taken me down, and ate it for breakfast (he was a decent size)
Also did some more automated missions, I had a very happy grid pattern thing going on, I've done those before so nothing major there. I also did a circle around a location facing it, it did reasonably well considering the wind, although I was surprised the turns where less smooth than I thought it would do. The ROI test didn't work at all, what I've read was you fly to a waypoint and then plug in an ROI, then fly to the next waypoint it should remain pointing at the ROI, it should point at that location but mine flew to the location instead, so somethings not right there.. I'l have to look at the logs to work out why.
Oh another thing is I'm used to the mission showing at AUTO on the OSD, for some reason it was only showing AUTO when I had it set to a standard waypoint, if it was a circle (LoiterT) then it displayed at LOITER, had me confused for a minute. Guided still displayed as GUIDED.
My lemon receiver arrived while I was flying, holy crap they are tiny. I'll post a pic later on with a ruler next to it. I'm rethinking my sbus solution as it's is so small it isnt funny. The satellite is even smaller, hmmmm, I may put it on the quad to open up the extra channels, oh damn this is making the decision so much harder. Sigh.....
Chris