{"id":918,"date":"2015-09-01T17:41:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T21:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/?p=918"},"modified":"2015-11-19T22:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T03:16:17","slug":"first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"First flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my first quadcopter I got stuck at the top of my neighbor&#8217;s tree the second day after I got it. I tried to build a pole to get it down but it was too high to reach. I waited for a storm\/wind to see if it would knock it out or lower. Finally last Sunday it did and I was able to extract it from the tree. It had been rained on a few times but surprisingly still worked fine with zero damage. Below is the video of my first flight.<\/p>\n<p>Syma X5SW<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-918-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150901163828.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150901163828.mp4\">https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150901163828.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>While waiting for the quad to fall out I ordered a second one and some additional parts. I practiced a lot and got fairly comfortable with it. It is a very fun quad to fly. Very durable. Only problem is that with it being so light wind can affect it easily. I find trying to fly it high presents a very real possibility of losing it as the wind is faster and you lose control and go out of range easily. Below is a video I did yesterday where it got caught in a wind and flew out of range landing in the front yard of a house the street behind me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-918-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150917181741.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150917181741.mp4\">https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150917181741.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=imnotallowed-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B013WLW2WC&#038;asins=B013WLW2WC&#038;linkId=A7GMU76RPRZVCLEC&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Update, this is the quad I have and having now owned this a couple months it is a nice beginners quad. The camera quality is not great but I normally fly without it. I bought a small tool box from harbor freight and some spare replacement parts and batteries. Replacement parts normally ship from China and can take awhile to get. So if ordering for Christmas, I would suggest ordering now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my first quadcopter I got stuck at the top of my neighbor&#8217;s tree the second day after I got it. I tried to build a pole to get it down but it was too high to reach. I waited for a storm\/wind to see if it would knock it out or lower. Finally last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/?p=918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First flight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imnotallowed.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}