Finally!

More than a month since I flew my Iris into my house on it's maiden voyage (thanks to my forgetting that altitude hold really tries to hold altitude, and therefore dropping power to idle for a couple of seconds doesn't do anything), I finally had a successful "first" flight!

As I had broken off nearly all the props, I started by running Iris without props to check for vibrations by feel. I checked each arm while at half throttle, and did not feel one being different from the rest. I was concerned that I might have bent a shaft in a motor.

I attached the new props, and this time stuck with the tried and true stabilize mode. It was a bit gusty in my back yard (8 knots gusting to 20), so my hover skills were not immaculate. The Iris performed as I expected through some very simple maneuvers (most below 10 feet).

A few questions:

1) Replacement props - where is the best place to get them? 3DR? Somewhere else? They appear to be from a different vendor anyway, and not created by 3DR. Might they be cheaper somewhere else?

2) A few times as I was starting up Iris, I would get the chime that I think signifies a problem (dum dum dum DUMMM). I would disconnect the Iris battery and reconnect, and all seemed fine. Any ideas what would cause this? Maybe too much movement of the Iris after connecting the battery?

That battery connection is a pain to connect and disconnect. The connector needs larger ridges on it for a better grip. 

I was very concerned that I had really damaged things with my previous crash. Now that things seem OK, I'm anxiously looking forward to next steps!

John