3DR Iris Quadcopter – 1km altitude10:17

I was a bit to ambitious and pushed the limit of the Iris. Lost full power on descent and made a hard landing resulting in some broken legs and arms. No other serious damage.

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    1. flyboyMaxwell

      Did you do this FPV or a Mission??

    2. Nick Madore

      Mission. I want to get an FPV device that will work with my GoPro. Do you
      have any recommendations?

    3. Nick Madore

      +flyboyMaxwell Thanks for the info. What type of range can you get out of
      it? Is it able to transmit even once the iris transmitter cuts out of
      longer missions?

    4. WildAndLiving

      +Nick Madore Depends on what type of gopro you use some use a differen’t
      conector. The Hero 3 use a usb plug the Hero 2 and 1 use a headphone type
      of plug or plug into the adapter plug in the back.

    5. Curtis Wazny

      lol probably a little fixin after that 

    6. Nick Madore

      Broke all 4 long legs. 3 props, two arms and dislodged the antenna.
      Possibly more damage but I haven’t taken the body apart. Could have been a
      lot worse!

    7. Curtis Wazny

      Ya no kidding ….I find the long legs have a weak point where it connects
      to the arms ….I broke one the other day had an accident where I hit the
      wrong switch and did not realize it was trying to rtl lol flew right into
      my house hahah killed one leg and 3 blades but other than that not much
      else ….was back up flying in 20 mins ….need to order a few spare parts
      in the event it ever happens again.

    8. Nick Madore

      +Curtis Wazny Yeah I noticed that too. It’s probably a good idea to tighten
      it with pliers. I wonder though if its done on purpose. Having “breakaway”
      legs might lessen the damage to the arms and the rest of the body in a
      hard crash.

    9. Jeep Rackley

      +Curtis Wazny I did that too Curtis.. twice on the same arm now.. but fixed
      it both times with superglue and its holding like a champ.. easily 25
      flights on a rigged arm/leg weld 🙂

    10. AKRCGUY

      Checkout our website fro IRIS kits and upgrades.

    11. AKRCGUY

      Are you using the Tarot gimbal or fixed mount in this video?

    12. Nick Madore

      Fixed mounted. I have the tarot but haven’t mounted it yet. Good thing I
      didn’t on this flight or it would have been toast.

    13. R Jones

      Where did you buy the iris? My DJI Phantom 2 flew away and I am leaning
      towards the Iris. 

    14. Ferdinand Loesch

      3D Robotics IRIS Owners
      Page

    15. Dan Seliga

      Were you using stock TX with telemetry to see how far you climbed. I wonder
      if your powered cut out because your battery was all used up. All I can get
      out of a flight is about 8 minutes in 30 degree weather with that crappy
      stock battery.

    16. Nick Madore

      Yeah it’s all stock. I thought the battery would get me around 10 mins but
      with the wind and cold it was less.

    17. C Wong

      Obviously you’re not in the US (400 ft legal limit). And broken arms is not
      minor stuff, that’s serious.

    18. Nick Madore

      It was an easy fix to replace. Just had to remove the broken legs and
      resolder the wires. I won’t be trying that again tho.

    19. cspj12

      not really a legal limit if they can’t enforce it.

    20. Leandro Praxedes Ribeiro

      +Nick Madore I had the same problem and to replace the legs is a little
      difficult because there is no connectors to make it easier….In my case,
      I`ll try install connectors instead resold the wires…My cousin is an
      electrical engineer and I called him to help me…..

    21. Dennis Clark

      nice flight… I guess you were fortunate it came down in a clearing or did
      it have a GPS controller to make that happen..thanks

    22. Nick Madore

      Very lucky. I could hear it coming down before I saw it then when it
      appeared I new the general direction it crashed but I wasn’t sure exactly.
      It took about 20 mins of walking in the snow before I found it.

    23. William Chenoweth

      lol Nick… nice run. It didn’t sound too weak on the way down, it was
      weird how it was spinning.. I guess it was underpowered.

    24. Bill Roberts

      I’m just guessing but he was probably holding the stick a little off center
      when he was bringing it back down.

    25. Nick Madore

      +Bill Roberts It was a complete autopilot flight just after lift off. The
      battery was drained so much that it couldn’t properly descend.

    26. Jeep Rackley

      +Nick Madore That was my thought, you had been climbing for over 9 full min
      when it said to hell with this… that would have been a good time to have
      one of those ballistic parachutes.. 🙂

    27. Volt x

      Dude i can just imagine how bad that was omg

    28. Nick Madore

      At one point I accepted the fact that I would probably never see it again.

    29. Armando Serratos

      What has been the lowest temperature that you have tried the IRIS on?

    30. cspj12

      I flew mine today at about 32 F, with gimbal and got a full 15 minutes.

    31. fall0rn

      I NEED THIS FOR CHRISTMAS!! LOL!!!!

    32. Will Dominguez

      I was wondering how high these could go. Well this really answers that
      question for me. More than enough! Impressed. I really want one of these

    33. cspj12

      going this high is illegal in the U.S., where the limit is 400 feet for the
      safety of aircraft.

    34. Nick Madore

      +cspj12 Yup your right. Luckily I’m not in the US.

    35. Nick Madore

      It’s worth it. Really fun but it can become an expensive hobby.

    36. cspj12

      +Nick Madore Yeah it’s also very time consuming. In a few years you may be
      able to spend more time flying and less time calibrating things. Then
      again, maybe not!

    37. Scott Allen

      why did you loose power

    38. matt g

      Why the hard landing? Pilot or auto pilot error?

    39. Nick Madore

      The battery didn’t have enough juice.

    40. Erik Pikula

      Looks like a km to me at least 2000-3000ft, if not don’t have any doubts
      about achieving 1KM+. Love my IRIS+

    41. flimmay tinstone

      looks like michigan?

    42. dandbincorp

      Could you please explain how can you avoid attitude limit 100m? Because my
      drone stops at this attitude. Thanks.

    43. Jose Sierra

      +dandbincorp You can remove the geofencing manually.

    44. Rom Copter

      Hello! Nice video, great 3Dr Iris introduction .. I am planning to bild new
      quadcopter with “follow me ” feature (this is only reason to use 3DR
      cotroller, Ilike NAZA better) So..please help me to selekt right parts:
      1.Pixhawk PX4 2.4.5 or PX42.4.6 or only PX4-kit-0011 good enough for
      “follow me’? or all of them upgratable?
      2. Wich one u-blox GPS I have to buy: Neo6 or Neo7M or only NeoM8N or only
      new square one???
      3.Radio set- no questions…
      Thank You in advance, Roman

    45. ExitoGDL

      Just great 

    46. Marion Blair

      Thanks, good video. If you are flying a programmed mission with way points
      on board, can you fly beyond the range of the transmitter or is the mission
      limited to a boundary within the transmitter range?

    47. Don Saito

      Just FYI: If this was within the U.S., there’s an FAA 400′ AGL (above
      ground level) altitude limit for this class of UAV. So, operating in what
      is called “controlled airspace” (above 400′ AGL) is actually breaking
      federal law. Now, I haven’t heard of anyone getting busted by the Feds for
      doing this, but if by some small chance you happen to cause interference,
      damage or accident to an airplane or a helicopter, you’re going to be very
      heavily fined and/or go to prison.
      –
      Something to be aware of. Ref.
      

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