Above the Fog from Jason Short on Vimeo.
This is a video of me loosing my plane into the sun and fog for almost 5 minutes. I was just testing my AP that i've been working on over the last month and a half and it was my first flight with working waypoints. I tuned everything way down, but it was working ok so I let it run loops around the T3 course. One thing I turned off for debugging was altitude control. In hindsight, that was a mistake. I could have just dampened it down more, but I shut it off entirely.The plane slowly climbed the entire time and before I realized it was pretty high. Eight minutes into the flight she turned right into the sun and fog bank and I didn't see it again until four and a half minutes later. I was panicking I couldn't take over manual, because it was in the fog. I even thought about running to the car and chasing it until I realized I had no idea where it was. Last I saw it was headed out to sea. I had nothing to do but wait and count the $ to replace it.I stared at the sky for what seamed ten minutes and all of the sudden I saw it gently doing the T3 above me. I put it in FBW and brought it straight down. Enjoy the video, I edited out the 4 minutes of circling. You can hear me fussing with the radio, and I one point I put it in Manual and turned it left in a futile effort to find it. I just put it back into AP and hoped I did a good job. The plane will fly again.You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!
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Yesterday's drop was pure fun. I love the sound it makes when it goes 80+mph. My new plane parts were waiting in the wings so I spent the day building it. I was just hoping to get some more life out of this one because the new plane is pristine.
I just can't believe how many chips flew off of that Ardupilot board. The Mino is still working; It's a tough bastard.
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