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Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

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Re: Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

#3
The Phantom 2 are pretty great drones ... but they're also prone to "fly away" where they decide to take-off on their own - ignoring your commands. There's a bunch of videos on YouTube showing people's Phantoms flying away. Like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ

This video purports to help prevent that from happening, though it's not guaranteed to prevent your $1000 drone from making a break for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bxjL7wFyb8

Re: Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

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post #3

The Phantom 2 are pretty great drones ... but they're also prone to "fly away" where they decide to take-off on their own - ignoring your commands. There's a bunch of videos on YouTube showing people's Phantoms flying away. Like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ This video purports to help prevent that from happening, though it's not guaranteed to prevent your $1000 drone from making a break for it…

Drones are getting pretty incredible. This one is almost indestructible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2Z9N4Q82g

Re: Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

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Footage got better by turning the sound off. I wonder if editors in general have poor taste in music or are simply trying to convey their excitement thru dub step background music.

Just curious, which music would you use? This happens to be important to me, so some analysis would be appreciated.

EDIT: Assume only a visual feed was available, no audio.

Re: Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

#8

Footage got better by turning the sound off. I wonder if editors in general have poor taste in music or are simply trying to convey their excitement thru dub step background music.

Just curious, which music would you use? This happens to be important to me, so some analysis would be appreciated. EDIT: Assume only a visual feed was available, no audio.

I would frankly like to hear the sounds of a spewing, gushing, burning volcano, even if it's underneath the (also very fun to listen to) sound of the drone itself and all the wind noise. It doesn't seem like a huge leap in intuition to realize that this would be exciting to hear even if the environment is noisy.

Re: Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

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Footage got better by turning the sound off. I wonder if editors in general have poor taste in music or are simply trying to convey their excitement thru dub step background music.

Just curious, which music would you use? This happens to be important to me, so some analysis would be appreciated. EDIT: Assume only a visual feed was available, no audio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4777565.stm !

Re: Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]

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post #3

The Phantom 2 are pretty great drones ... but they're also prone to "fly away" where they decide to take-off on their own - ignoring your commands. There's a bunch of videos on YouTube showing people's Phantoms flying away. Like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkQ9eB7M7iQ This video purports to help prevent that from happening, though it's not guaranteed to prevent your $1000 drone from making a break for it…

That was rather spectacular. I couldn't help but think that someone else controlled it, it was so many times close to run into power lines. Are there any believable theories as to why that happens?
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