I had been ill for over a week and was desperate to get out so went for a short drive. It was really windy but took my mini 4 with me anyway. Saw this place on the OS Map so thought I’d chance it!
From the moment I took off I was getting strong wind alerts but no stranger to these as the drone is less than 250g wet! Persevered with the flight though, but kept getting gimbal jerks as the drone fought against the wind; and at times in normal mode with full stick, it wasn’t going anywhere!
Still, I think I got enough for an entertaining 3 minutes. This happens a lot to me in strong winds but the drone is man enough to RTH manually in sport mode so wasn’t really worried about a flyway. Let me know in the comments what you think … should I have stopped straight away?
Personal I think the footage doesn’t show any jerky movements so gimbal did it’s job, did you check the wind speed prior to take off or just chance it🤣
@Dren Thx Adrian. I don’t have an anemometer so relied on UAV app and the movement of the trees and bushes. I took it straight up to 119m and checked for drift. I could see the compass horizon angle was moving about but I’d had worse.
I brought it lower down but was getting strong wind warnings still.The gimbal worked fine until I tried to yaw anticlockwise against the wind direction, at which point it stalled and the angle went beyond the maximun gimbal movement.
I obviously cut the worst footage out of the video and the rest of the dodgier bits were sorted by Davinci Resolves stabilisation software (which is ace). I think I had about 10 seconds or so footage left over after editing that I didnt use of about an 8 min flight.
Didn’t have to use sport mode to retyrn it as I was downwind so no probs getting it back.
and was desperate to get out so went for a short drive. It was really windy but took my mini 4 with me anyway. Saw this place on the OS Map so thought I’d chance it!
