Nice camera and platform, I thought it was a 4K camera too? I really do like the look of the Inspire and if money was no object or I was doing this professionally then that would be what I would have gotten.
Yesterday was a bit of an disaster, the P4P was delivered at about 11am and just had time to check everything was ok with it and start to charge the batteries I got a spare battery with it as well as a set of ND filters, I live about 3.8km from the end of the runway of the local airbase and the F16s are turning on finals when they get to my property - as a foreigner in this country I keep my camera well away and don't, as a rule, talk about aircraft movements though I have seen some great sights here
I know one of the C130 pilots that comes over and he has been known to waggle his wings if he sees me in the garden.
Anyway, the F16s were doing BFM up high yesterday so no flying for me, but at lunch time they all came in and stayed in so... Ah Ha! Ali can get a few minutes flying in
Grand kids are in bed as I was ASS yesterday (Ali's Sitting Service) so P4P out and into the garden I go, calibrate the compass and get GPS lock so now I can fly ... I get the aircraft up about a meter or so and it gets dark all of a sudden, that is the point at which I took the above picture, then there is a bright flash, a deep rumble and a drop of water hits me... aircraft down, grab it and run, just got inside the door when the heavens opened.
That was my flight yesterday
Dinner time, weather has improved but not so much that I want to take the P4P out so I grab the X8-HW and go outside with the two of my sons and the grand kids and we have a play around with the aircraft, the Syma drones have built in flip function, you press the button and move the joystick and the aircraft tumbles in that direction but it does need a bit of height to do it, so up she went and a forward roll and... oooh the wind has caught her ... wind is too strong... away on a tour of the village goes the X8-HW with me running behind trying to regain control she is heading for a big construction crane so I command her down and she drops, missed the crane Phew! but have lost sight of the aircraft now. My youngest son and I start looking around the area but don't see it, I tell him to drive back and I'll walk back looking for it.
As I'm walking past the construction site of the new house I see the little drone sitting as proud as punch upright on it's feet on the path between the houses Oh the luck of that I think to myself! Then the owner of the house that is getting built comes out "Ah Men'eer, ..." He had seen the aircraft coming over close to the crane and then descend to it hit the gable wall of the house next door and land in their tomato plants, he had retrieved it and set it on the path for me to find. I thanked him and we looked at the short bit of film on my phone before I lost contact with the aircraft when it went out of range. The memory card has the full flight on it right up until I pick the aircraft up from the path
So all's well and we can have a laugh about it now but at the time I was really worried that it could have done serious damage.