Sky High

Well, if you want to experience a really interesting sensation while flying your DF, just try a remote take off and/or landing while standing well above it at around 25 ft or higher. I have done remote take offs and landings from 50 ft before with and without a fence between me but that was with me on the ground. That was a strange enough feeling because of the distance and reaction time perception. But what I did the other night was kind of nauseating. I went to the stadium where I usually fly alot and prepped the DF on the parking lot. I then went to the top of the stands and slowly took off. That is the strangest feeling in the world because at first you can't really tell if you have lifted off and when you finally do it is so strange controlling it from that POV because of the lack of spatial distance perception betweem the DF and the ground. It's like having a bad case of vertigo. One cool thing about it is that you get to see what the DF sees if you fly it close enough to where you are and look down through the airframe. Everyone needs to try this at least once!!

laceycopter

I fly off a 2nd story deck down into my back yard sometimes (about 15 ft up) and your right.... first few times it felt very weird and hard to judge landing and take offs. But you get use to it after awhile and it's kinda cool watching it come up and fly past you or looking down at it and flying around.

intrim

Hi All!

After I became bored with the simulator I started trying all kinds of weird stuff. I know the simulator is not all that real because you can fly inverted and we all know that cannot be done with a fixed pitch copter but I practiced taking off with the df about 50 or more feet below me and experienced the same thing you did sky, but when I did try it for the first time I knew what to expect so for that the simulator really did it's job. I have complained like many others about the simulator but I can say first hand that I probably did at least $50,000 in crashes on it so with all that being said, more people should try it because there is more in there than someone who just looks at it a couple times will find. I didn't realize I could even get directly above the Df looking straight down until I discovered it by accident one night


see ya

Michael

Sky High

It's probably the closest thing were going to get to an air to air POV above the DF at any altitude above 6 feet.