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To: excalibur21

I have yet to take this one outside. But the weather is supposed to be nice for a few days, probably tomorrow.

Also, I ordered the crash kit - some extra propellers, and additional stuff.

This is a very small unit indeed. I think it weighs less than an ounce total.

But I can tell you from the speed that it has and it’s unpredictablity, I WOULD NOT fly a bigger unit inside!


5 posted on 12/29/2014 9:14:25 PM PST by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: djf
But I can tell you from the speed that it has and it’s unpredictablity, I WOULD NOT fly a bigger unit inside!

You goof… you shouldn’t be flying this one inside either! I have a Rotor Concept HP-Q1 Quadcoptor and like you, I started indoors because I thought it would be easy to lift off, move it over and set it back down. What I did was promptly do some drastic and unplanned pruning on one of our long standing tall house plants. Then I recalled the words of the fellow I bought it from at the tradeshow in Vegas… “When you try this for the first time, only do it outside in a windless day in a place that has lots of wide open spaces.” “Well”, said I, “there is a football field down the road so I’ll use that.” “Not enough space, you need much more room” said the sales guy…. and he was right. I ended up trying it outdoors for the first time in a park that has two back to back baseball fields and within minutes, the drone was caught up in a tree about 200 yards away. How did it get there so fast? Easy when you don’t yet have a good handle on how deceivingly sensitive the controls are. And so at 8 am on a Saturday morning in a public park while people were out walking their dogs, I was hauling along a 20 foot long extension ladder (that pulls out to another 20’) to climb up and pull the drone down. Fortunately, it was undamaged but it frankly was amazing that I even found it.

14 posted on 12/29/2014 9:31:28 PM PST by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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