Recent content by jlehet

I flew today, launched from an Autel branded 3 foot pad with the launch button (pad on snow, with drone case next to it, no obstacles near), let the drone hover for I’d guess at least 10 seconds, or more. Didn’t launch until after the drone had GPS. Had a good flight, but at the end pressing the...

So I'm doing OK after my fall/head injury. My brain seems to be working fine; the concussion wasn't as bad as might be expected considering I was knocked out and had amnesia. Autel seems like they were great... we'll see. Fedex on the other hand was horrible. The drone spent a week stuck in a...

Thank you very much. I am hopefully usually smart enough to listen to people with more experience than me, and I will try to listen to this! I won't promise I won't ever do it at all, but I will take this warning very seriously.

So in the other recent thread we see I crashed my drone on its second flight and hurt myself trying to get it back, and the crash was because the propeller nicked a hemlock branch trying to get back into a wooded area from an open area. I understand that ideally you'd fly in the open with...

Thanks. Getting closer to normal every day and less and less afraid I've done real damage to my head. Definitely don't do crazy stuff to get the drone back! In retrospect it was probably risky to walk down that ice even with micro spikes on, but at the time it seemed like the kind of normal...

If I thought there was much chance of falling and having an outcome like this I would have absolutely have let the drone down there. But man, I had no idea: set out, walking comfortably with my microspikes on my boots, and then wake up probably 50 yards away. Last think I remember is walking...

I have never seen another human being in there. Once I saw a very large great horned owl flying through.

Yeah, definitely, and I'd already had an adrenaline rush from the hydro dam RF. I think the only way to fly the drone properly in there would have been to climb down a bit (which is where I fell). Just a few feet off the cliff on the "trail" down it's open above and unobstructed. It's not really...

Well, the new Evo II Pro drone is on the way back to Autel. Bad crash. It was my second session with the drone, first one took off and landed a handful of times flew around line of sight over my property and neighboring land. Went well, but I should have learned from it: namely if there are...

I have the V2 6k. It says V2 right on the top. As I understand it, the V2 was developed with a new chipset because Autel couldn't get the chips they needed to make the drone in this current time of supply chain disruption. I think I remember that they are making their own chips for it? I think...

By the way, my Evo II pro came with the "low noise" propellers. Still surprisingly loud to this newbie.

Yesterday took my first flights with Evo II V2 6k. After studying a bit before flying, it went quite well. Took off and landed off my back deck, which was a bit cluttered for the drone's taste in terms of landing. I kept moving the landing pad around, and I guess 1 out of 4 times it landed on...