Awesome flight today - Also Disco flies much better with Flight Planner than with the SkyRemote 2 :) and Linear Landings are the best landing approach

[Jerry Normandin]

Hi,

I've been flying my Disco with Flight Plan and landings are much more predictable, actually all my linear landings with Flight Plan have been perfect.
Here's a video of the flight my Disco made today. You can see from my club's airfield windsock that the wind was blowing. The linear landing was on the money.

 

[Drone_guy]

I wish I had a nice place like that too fly from! We have trees EVERYWHERE!

 

[Jerry Normandin]

At the time of flight I check the air sock and optimize the landing approach in flight plan. During the flight, the wind direction can change. It's not uncommon where I fly for the wind to shift from S, SE, and then all of a sudden gust out of the east. I have videos of where you can see the Disco landing in a cross breeze because the wind direction abruptly changed. The flight controller handles it well. Just be sure you do a full calibration before flight.

Here's another flight where I shot video of the Disco Landing in a slight crosswind.

 

[Jerry Normandin]

Here's a Video of the latest flight of my Parrot Disco.

 

[Jerry Normandin]

I wish I had a nice place like that too fly from! We have trees EVERYWHERE!

Yes it's a great place to fly, I hope we don't loose the location.

 

[Jerry Normandin]

Yes. I used Flight Plan for the entire flight and landing. I was also connected with the SkyController 2 to take over the flight if there was a problem. According to the flight plan logs the flight altitude was 20m. , that's 393 ft. A top speed of 46mph was reached during the return flight, there was a strong tailwind. There was a strong headwind during the flight out, the flight speed was 33mph. Your estimate was pretty close!

Flight Plan records logs for every flight.

I prefer a linear landing approach. In flight plan I can specify where I want the Disco to touch down.
I just need to optimize the landing approach for the current wind conditions before the flight. If there's a slight crosswind when landing, the current firmware on C.H.U.C.K. seams to handle it extremely well.
I prefer to use Flight Plan with the Disco over controlling it with Sky Controller 2. Since I'm used to flying
r/c and fpv r/c model aircraft, the lag with Sky Controller initiated landings throws me off a bit.
Also if I use a circular landing approach I would not know where Disco would finally land. It's not predictable. Where I fly I have a grass airfield. If I land outside of the airfield I could land in a marsh, wetlands, smash into trees, or a cornfield. I prefer a nice predictable linear slope to the center of the airfield. So far Flight Plan worked perfectly for every flight.

 

[Jerry Normandin]

I also have one of the last Discos made. My first Disco had an issue after a firmware update. Parrot was great .. they read the flight logs and said the SONAR may have been defective. They sent me a replacement Disco.


I have been flying the replacement since March 2019. All flights have been with flight plan.

I wouldn't add a camera. The PIDS are optimized for the stock DISCO. I know of some people who modified the fueslage to carry a 5500ma battery..
Landings were not predictable. Someone added a downfacing Garmin Virb. Not sure how they made out.