Finally. After endless mornings of fog, rain, drizzle, wind and ever lower temperatures, we finally launched the fussy little bugger. It would have been a lovely flight, too, if
- battery (old battery, I imagine) didn't decide to drop drastically in mid-flight, causing all kinds of screaming alarms
- connection wasn't lost due to the phone getting disconnected, consequently erasing the memory of the return-to-home location
- a fucking ultralight plane didn't fly directly over us at some point ...
... But I stayed calm, focused, bringing the thing home manually, landing it flawlessly on a doggy mat in the middle of a grassy field. No planes crashed, no parachutes needed to deploy. The General nearly shat himself, but that happens almost every time I suggest an adventure. Now all I have to do is get used to the controller and learn how to take nice video. (Also photos, but that's just one click. My problem is not the settings, it's not yet being able to smoothly get cool shots. Course, it's only been ten minutes.) :D
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