I knew it would be an interesting day of flying when you have to put it in 4WD to get to the flying site. Four huge Poplars across the road diverted us out to the Yadkin river and back.
After a Deans soldering marathon and Max putting in a lot of work to ready the copter we loading up and moved out. Max had us mowing the lawn again. We imaged about 7 ac in no time as a test. We learned the new 12v BEC interferes with the compass and we need to either move or shield it. We also learned the copter uses about 500 mAhr/min. So every 1 Ahr gives us about 2 min of flight. Oh and MAXOsnapper worked perfectly.
The Arduplane, now called "Catfish" was a little terrifying. It was not set up for the wind and it struggled to make way points. We almost lost it the trees but Max saved our bacon and yelled "Put it in manual". We have some work to do on speeding the camera up as well. Max got some stick time on my little home built Tricopter and the Arduplane. He had a real nice save on th plane.
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