Flight Sessions 17 and 18 - Just good flying.

Been kinda rainy here, but managed to work-in two sessions recently. Flying at main-big field a couple of weeks apart. Calm winds (5-10mph), partly cloudy, good sats/hdop.

Took both the Nova and the Hubsan 107d. Flew 2-3 batteries through each on both weekends.

Using the Hubsan as current "warm-up" flier. Getting better with it in the real-life outside winds. Still mainly flying it LoS, but trying to use LCD more.

Getting more confident with Nova. Enjoying flying it and having fun with it ... and less nervous. Practiced manual landings and exploring more modes. Really like flying fast in Alt-Hold mode at about 10 meters (so it misses tree-tops on field edge) and also tried it at 3 meters :-) Then, did the procedure we talked about in Forums ... took it up to 60 meters, switched to Loiter, and dropped throttle to zero .... descent is controlled and very nice (handles prop-wash) ... switch the Land-Mode before it hits ground... pretty cool.

Only recent parameter change is THR_MID,575 (from 570). Seems perfect for the quad in this payload setup (with Mobius camera, stock vibration-dampened camera-mount, and 915Mhz Telemetry radio). AuW with 2700mah battery is 1002g.

Also, I changed the main Mode switch from:
Loiter, Stabilize, Alt-Hold ... to
Loiter, Alt-Hold, Stabilize ... seems to make more "progressive" sense. Now just to remember it, after getting used to it the old way (after all those flights).

On last flight Tower/DP3 was giving me a Telemetry-Low RSSI warning and I was only 3 meters away, still doing pre-flight on ground. Tried switching tablet to Airplane-Mode (WiFi off) but didn't seem to help. Checked a few more things and it got better so flew it and all was fine. Later found out I had forgotten to turn Mobius back on for this last flight (so that's weird) ... 915mhz radios work better with Mobius on ? Still wondering if Tower/DP3 RSSI is accurate or if maybe scale is off? (this issue has cropped up before). Also, turning on some more periodic voice updates (ie altitude) and liking those.