Happy new IRIS+ pilot

Posted by Christoph on June 17, 2015 at 8:46am

There are so many posts about problems. After ordering an IRIS+ I almost got worried that it will not work as shown on the nice 3DR videos on youtube.

The last two days I could do my very first 4 test flights. Unfortunately all at night (too busy at work and getting dark too early).

I did not dare to try to much due to the low light conditions.

However. Stabilize, Pos. Hold and RTL works fine. As advertised...

I will try soon follow me and auto missions and I am confident it will work out as shown on the 3DR videos.

To all who hesitate and are wondering if it's worth to get an IRIS+

YES. It works!

PS.: Having experience with model aircraft and being able to fly them manually (stabilize mode, land, take off, fly nose-in, etc.) will help a lot. I could imagine totally newbies might have more challenges.

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    • Christoph > Christoph June 20, 2015 at 7:00am

      Is it maybe normal and if I would increase to the max of 20mW I would get the suggested 200-300m range? However where I am only <10mW is allowed.

    • DavidFolts > Christoph June 20, 2015 at 7:06am

      Isn't that limit for Continuous Wave Signal output on a given channel/band? I'd max it out considering the modulation scheme is digital FHSS and you are spreading a tiny signal over a broad (relatively) piece of RF band.

      You should be able to get 50% signal @ 500 1km.

  • Adair Hermosillo June 18, 2015 at 8:50pm

    I think at the beginning for me it was a kind of similar, but on my case i had a lot of troubles trying to put my Iris in the air, and certainly things goes very different as are shown on 3DR videos, the only thing that i can say of Iris +, is that most of their materials even if don´t look fine or with detail care,  they're for sure very resistant, 

  • Christoph June 18, 2015 at 7:32am

    Update:

    Had a chance to try the first auto mission. Very successful. Works as shown on the 3DR videos.

    I saved it from its first potential crash: The second time I tried the same mission I forgot that I armed the Iris close to the car...

    So the typical mistake described at many places. As I had a RTL at the end of the mission the IRIS was intending to hit some trees to reach the location where the car was parked and were I armed and took off the first time. Before the auto mission I landed at a different place, from where I started the auto mission without re-arming.

    Luckily I managed to switch to stab and saved her before hitting the trees.

    • Gregg > Christoph June 18, 2015 at 8:03am

      How do you perform follow me? Im using tower and droid planner on a nexxis tablet and I do not see the button to select follow me. I see selfie, arm and take off but no follow me. Help.

    • Gregg > Gregg July 10, 2015 at 7:23pm
      Figured it out. you dont see all the flight options until you arm and spool up the motors. Then i see follow me. Still chiken tomtry it!
    • DavidFolts > Gregg June 18, 2015 at 8:31am

      Take Off First.... then do the "Guide" mode setup.  Be careful with your "Cone" around the follow/guiding subject... and don't walk under trees or you may lose clean GPS data.... critical for the mode to work.

      The faster you go..... I'd suggest the wider the cone/cylinder boundary.  Experiment with it.  I have a video out on youtube showing my first attempt. My wife had the tablet in her bike basket... she heard all the errors and status.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSr9Ta0CHyg

  • DavidFolts June 17, 2015 at 10:26am

    Enjoy it! The posts are for help.... not everyone needs support, but its great when you do to use this forum for answers

    Relating my personal experience.... bought my Iris+ from a retailer (Fry's) along with about any extra part/option they had on the shelf, plus a carry case and FPV kit....etc.

    Unit could not fly out of the box, so I spent a LOT of time calibrating compass, IMU's, accelerometers and ESC..... then it flew very well for about a month and a half..... until I had an incident during a guided-mode test.

    Suffice to say, if you keep using Drone-share and use the Tower app to auto upload your flight logs etc, 3DR can check on any incident you have.  Mine was a gyro glitch that caused a lock-up of the Pixhawk....and resultant fly away.  And damn the Iris can cover ground fast when its lost its mind!  BUT, I used the Tower app to locate it in a forest, and recovered it within a few feet from displayed location.

    3DR is in process of replacing my unit. I expect to be flying again with new FPV display, gimbal, quad-copter, android tablet, mount for Soto Action Cam, GoPro 4 Silver and a couple new payloads I've been working on whilst grounded. (based on Canon P&S cameras)

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    • Gregg > DavidFolts June 17, 2015 at 5:54pm

      Same with me on my x8 and Iris. Flew bad out of the box but as soon as I calibrated everything they seem to fly okay. Still not impressed with altitude hold even after doing a auto tune on both crafts.

    • Richard Kennedy > Gregg June 18, 2015 at 4:42am

      If the props are balanced REALLY good you can get a 1m accuracy. You might have to balance them yourself perhaps they didn't ship as good as hoped. 

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