Iris + Landing

Posted by Forrest Arndt on April 5, 2015 at 6:14am

Hello all,

I have had the Iris for about 7 flights, 5 were crashes, that is fixed now, but I can be paranoid so I have a question.

I had a hard time getting the Iris to shut down when I landed it today, I assume that with the sort legs the iris was not on a smooth enough surface and it had a bit of motion and assumed that it was not on the ground?  Does this make sense?

thanks!

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  • Forrest Arndt April 12, 2015 at 8:17am

    Ok here is my Log, please remeber that my actions in this log are reactive to the Iris not wanting to follow my direction...

    2015-04-12 08-56-29.tlog

    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3691197894?profile=original
    • Forrest Arndt April 12, 2015 at 11:23am

      You can fly with the short legs especially with all the problems that I have had I prefer it as I would have damage if I flew with the long ones...my problems have been for the past 5 weeks...so I have exhausted all the troubleshooting that I can do..I contacted 3DR today, I hope that they can help me...I have had few good flying attempts...

  • Forrest Arndt April 12, 2015 at 5:39am

    Remember me?  I'm back!  Just had another bad flight I will upload my log a bit later.  I had my Gopro mounted on the front with the short legs...the throttle would not respond as expected, it almost seemed like there was a delay between me and what the iris did..It would go up and down and I could not really do anything about it...seemed very strained with the Gopro.  HTried hitting the land button many times could not get it to land and power down..it would be on the ground and me not touching the throttle and rev up so high that it started t leave the ground.  Everything that I did today was reactive to the actions of the Iris. Trying to get it under control and on the ground, it finally landed and powered down and I disarmed instantly.  BTW I have done all the calibrations.

  • Chris N April 10, 2015 at 1:09pm

    I too have had some issues on landing. I always have issues identical to yours when manually landing in loiter or alt hold . Never an issue when in stabilize mode. When using "auto land" in land mode, or RTL, it always lands great and shuts off right away. I was always a big fan of landing my Hubsan, even bigger fan with the iris+. I try to make the landing as elaborate as possible. Especially now that my flights are more about testing and future commercial applications than just flying for fun. Landing is all I got now. Auto land works great...if you're into that sort of thing.

    • Steve Foster April 11, 2015 at 2:49pm

      Heller, what a beautiful neighborhood! That's got to be one of the neater Iris videos I've seen yet! I'll bet mowing the grass on that hill could be quite hair raising! "NICE"

  • Kris Kitchen April 6, 2015 at 9:23am

    Makes sense. Try to avoid touching the device once you put the battery in. Wait for the red blue light to start flashing and close the cover after that. 

    Also Fly in Loiter, and or get a little UDI 860 and wreck that a few zillion times. Its cheap practice

  • SkyRover April 5, 2015 at 9:41am

    As well as holding the throttle down and left, as soon as i land I also make sure to switch into stab mode so the copter isn't sitting there trying to figure out of its landed yet.

    • Erik Graham > SkyRover April 5, 2015 at 9:55am
      I think that might just confuse the OP. The whole point was NOT to go immediately to down and left (ie "disarm"). First down, until it detects its landed... then dis arm with down and left. Switching to Stab mode and disarming immediately (something I've never done) is kind of an advanced move. He probably doesn't even have stab mapped to his TX as it comes default to alt hold.
    • SkyRover > Erik Graham April 5, 2015 at 11:48am

      Good point. I just don't trust the thing to land itself and don't like at all how long it spins when down. Especially in windy situations. But its a personal thing. I know the Iris can land itself no problem. I also forgot that the Iris+ doesn't come with that mapped. Good call on it being more than OP needs for now at least. Def stick with what Eriks saying and let it recognize its landed first.

    • Erik Graham > SkyRover April 5, 2015 at 12:59pm
      As a relative noob myself I guess I can relate to new users (even those with experience on other drones) :-)

      Off topic, but why does anyone even enable or fly in stab mode? I find it incredibly difficult. Why bother? What's the benefit? I've been practicing on some cheapo drones just to improve my flying, but I don't see myself ever risking it with an Iris.
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