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Dedicating this thread to ways I found to potentially lose/damage my neo (but so far luckily hasn't happned)
Hope others can share some of their interesting observations too. (If some information seems at odds with you, please correct)
1. Flying with mobile out of wifi coverage
- Drone will hang until battery drains
2. Flying in dimming light
- Starts something called attitude mode and the drone just behaves like a drunken sailor
3. [RC-N3 + drone] - Flying beyond radio signal
- The drone begins it's RTH (Return to Home) but the first thing it does is goes to the RTH altitude that you set. This means that if there is any vertical obstruction, the drone is doomed. (Mine got stuck on a tree)
- After attaining RTH height, it goes through a directed path, but does NOT do obstacle detection. (Mine was about to hit a building)
4. [Goggles 3 + MC3 + drone] - Enter settings for MC3 mid flight
- This was the dumbest/freakiest way to lose my drone and I hope a software patch fixes this. If you are mid-flight, and for some goddamn reason decide to go to the MC3 tutorial in settings ( I did it because I forgot one command and wanted to quickly take a look), the goggles stay on the tutorial screen but the tutorial will not start because you are mid-flight.
It's crazy! I could not see through the goggles, and my drone was somewhere behind a big building. I did a RTH and luckily there were no vertical or horizontal obstructions so the little guy returned. Then I could "start" the tutorial for MC3 on the goggles and my view reappeared! So stupid but scary.
5. Flying in gusty wind
- I've been pushing the drone against strong winds and at one point it sort of flipped but realigned itself. I think it could have just as easily flipped out and would have "gone with the wind"
Bonus: An eagle snaps your drone
- They think it's easy prey and attack it. Just a poetic way to say goodbye.
What are your freaky neo stories?
Hope others can share some of their interesting observations too. (If some information seems at odds with you, please correct)
1. Flying with mobile out of wifi coverage
- Drone will hang until battery drains
2. Flying in dimming light
- Starts something called attitude mode and the drone just behaves like a drunken sailor
3. [RC-N3 + drone] - Flying beyond radio signal
- The drone begins it's RTH (Return to Home) but the first thing it does is goes to the RTH altitude that you set. This means that if there is any vertical obstruction, the drone is doomed. (Mine got stuck on a tree)
- After attaining RTH height, it goes through a directed path, but does NOT do obstacle detection. (Mine was about to hit a building)
4. [Goggles 3 + MC3 + drone] - Enter settings for MC3 mid flight
- This was the dumbest/freakiest way to lose my drone and I hope a software patch fixes this. If you are mid-flight, and for some goddamn reason decide to go to the MC3 tutorial in settings ( I did it because I forgot one command and wanted to quickly take a look), the goggles stay on the tutorial screen but the tutorial will not start because you are mid-flight.
It's crazy! I could not see through the goggles, and my drone was somewhere behind a big building. I did a RTH and luckily there were no vertical or horizontal obstructions so the little guy returned. Then I could "start" the tutorial for MC3 on the goggles and my view reappeared! So stupid but scary.
5. Flying in gusty wind
- I've been pushing the drone against strong winds and at one point it sort of flipped but realigned itself. I think it could have just as easily flipped out and would have "gone with the wind"
Bonus: An eagle snaps your drone
- They think it's easy prey and attack it. Just a poetic way to say goodbye.
What are your freaky neo stories?
