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pylon · 07-20-2014, 10:26 PM

Good call on the Vision +.

I was at my folks place for dinner tonight, and let my dad take the controls. He has never operated anything like this in his life, and he managed to takeoff, fly it around and land it, all on his first try. I was quite impressed.

Your best resource is this forum, I have learned SOOOO much there:

http://www.phantompilots.com

Also, remember, always, whenever you have a panic situation, just switch off your controller, and it will come back. It saved my ass in Hawaii when I got disorientated about a km out over the Ocean. Just make absolute sure you are in GPS mode before you kill the controller.

I have tinkered with NAZA mode a couple times, but it is pretty much pointless to fly NAZA since you bought a craft with a stabilized gimbal. The whole complaint about GPS mode was the jerkiness on the 1st gen Vision, that didn't have a 3D gimbal. With the gimbal it settles that issue. I did have a compass error once on my Vision 1, and it went into manual mode at about 300 feet. It was a miracle I managed to land the thing, that was spooky.

07-20-2014, 10:26 PM	#22
pylon NOT Chris Butler Join Date: Jul 2007 Exp:	Good call on the Vision +. I was at my folks place for dinner tonight, and let my dad take the controls. He has never operated anything like this in his life, and he managed to takeoff, fly it around and land it, all on his first try. I was quite impressed. Your best resource is this forum, I have learned SOOOO much there: http://www.phantompilots.com Also, remember, always, whenever you have a panic situation, just switch off your controller, and it will come back. It saved my ass in Hawaii when I got disorientated about a km out over the Ocean. Just make absolute sure you are in GPS mode before you kill the controller. I have tinkered with NAZA mode a couple times, but it is pretty much pointless to fly NAZA since you bought a craft with a stabilized gimbal. The whole complaint about GPS mode was the jerkiness on the 1st gen Vision, that didn't have a 3D gimbal. With the gimbal it settles that issue. I did have a compass error once on my Vision 1, and it went into manual mode at about 300 feet. It was a miracle I managed to land the thing, that was spooky.