Howdy, y’all! New member from the Republic of Texas.
A Drocon Cyclone was given to me as a gift about a year ago, and I’ve been hooked on quadcopters ever since. The Cyclone has neither GPS nor altitude hold, so flying it means you’re on the sticks all the time. It’s a zippy little flyer in sport mode, but in learning I’ve flown it into fences, trees, chimneys, houses, dunked it in my neighbor’s pool and dropped it out of a tree into a lake. It still flies; it’s quite resilient.
Having gotten all those crashes out of my system, and after spending a little time on Realflight 8, I decided it was time to move up. I settled on the Anafi because of its flight characteristics and photography capabilities. It went on sale so I made a move on the extended configuration. I am a structural engineer and the lightweight carbon fiber airframe is not only an engineering marvel, but, to me, it is a thing of beauty (sidelong glance from wife).
I’ve had it about 3 weeks but haven’t flown it yet because of weather conditions and constraints on my time. So, I’ve read the user manual front to back a number of times; I think I’ve reached the end of the internet searching for Youtube videos on all things Anafi and I devour any tidbit of information I can find on it.
Then I found this forum – full of intelligent people who are extremely knowledgeable about not only the Anafi, but also piloting and aerial photography. Some of the photos and videos posted here are stunning and give me great hope for things to come.
I’ve connected the copter, controller, and my “device” (as the manual likes to refer to my iPhone X); impressed with the way the three components integrate to form a fairly sophisticated flight system. I’ve kept up with all the updates and examined the Anafi Webserver page. I just haven’t hit the “FLY” button yet.
I realize that many of the posts on forums such as this are primarily complaints seeking revisions and problems seeking resolution. As such, they are a tremendous resource for which I am grateful. However, I think I’ve overdone it. I’ve gone too far; I’ve read too much. I am afraid that when I finally get to fly it, a number of bad things could happen:
More to come…
A Drocon Cyclone was given to me as a gift about a year ago, and I’ve been hooked on quadcopters ever since. The Cyclone has neither GPS nor altitude hold, so flying it means you’re on the sticks all the time. It’s a zippy little flyer in sport mode, but in learning I’ve flown it into fences, trees, chimneys, houses, dunked it in my neighbor’s pool and dropped it out of a tree into a lake. It still flies; it’s quite resilient.
Having gotten all those crashes out of my system, and after spending a little time on Realflight 8, I decided it was time to move up. I settled on the Anafi because of its flight characteristics and photography capabilities. It went on sale so I made a move on the extended configuration. I am a structural engineer and the lightweight carbon fiber airframe is not only an engineering marvel, but, to me, it is a thing of beauty (sidelong glance from wife).
I’ve had it about 3 weeks but haven’t flown it yet because of weather conditions and constraints on my time. So, I’ve read the user manual front to back a number of times; I think I’ve reached the end of the internet searching for Youtube videos on all things Anafi and I devour any tidbit of information I can find on it.
Then I found this forum – full of intelligent people who are extremely knowledgeable about not only the Anafi, but also piloting and aerial photography. Some of the photos and videos posted here are stunning and give me great hope for things to come.
I’ve connected the copter, controller, and my “device” (as the manual likes to refer to my iPhone X); impressed with the way the three components integrate to form a fairly sophisticated flight system. I’ve kept up with all the updates and examined the Anafi Webserver page. I just haven’t hit the “FLY” button yet.
I realize that many of the posts on forums such as this are primarily complaints seeking revisions and problems seeking resolution. As such, they are a tremendous resource for which I am grateful. However, I think I’ve overdone it. I’ve gone too far; I’ve read too much. I am afraid that when I finally get to fly it, a number of bad things could happen:
- I hit the “Fly” button and nothing happens
- I hand launch it and it hits the ground
- It will go up and fly away
- It will go up and “fall out of the sky”
- It will go up and a motor will quit
- The controller will lose connection with the aircraft
- My “device” will lose connection with the controller
- The HUD will go blank
- My videos and photos will be blurry while zooming
- The HDR shots will be dodgy
- The camera gimbal won’t calibrate
- The video recording will stop prematurely
- The software will stop reading the uSD card
- The gallery will disappear from my “device”
- There will be a new update released after I’ve taken off
- The aircraft won’t start up
- The aircraft won’t shut down
- The smart battery will go dumb
More to come…
