A while back I decided to take my Skydio 2 drone up over the house to do an inspection of the roof. I wanted to see how bad the roof really looked to see if I could get by with just having the area underneath of the live oak tree patched with those panels being replaced instead of the entire roof.
Well, no joy there. LOTS of rust on those metal panels, and it looks like quite a few of the screws holding those metal panels to the decking are rusted as well. Matter of fact, the holes punched through the metal panels look like they are rusted as well. Substantial rust all around the cupola, and I honestly can't think of any reason why it would be like that.
So anyway, here is the video I took. Or at least just 12 minutes of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aElp1tzIBE
I used the controller with the Skydio 2 drone. It was designed to be pretty much a "selfie" style drone to follow the operator, and as such has some pretty sophisticated obstacle avoidance programmed into it. Using it like a normal drone with the controller, I found that it seemed to fight me quite a bit, as it acted like it had it's own mind about where it wanted to go, regardless of what I tried to do with it. Not real bad, but not as smooth as I would have liked it trying to get the video I wanted. But on the other hand, it does take a lot of worry out of flying a drone when you know that it has a good bit of idiot proofing programmed in, in case you make a mistake with the controls and head it towards an impending crash with something. I guess if there were a way to make the protection zone a bit smaller it would be easier to control in situations like I put it in, but that does not appear to be an option. As it is, I can't get it to go through a stand of bamboo when the culms are 5 ft. or less apart. 3 ft. would be a LOT better. Perhaps there will be an update whereby that protective zone will be proportional to the speed of the drone. The slower it goes, the more time it has to react, so the protective zone could be a lot smaller. Not that anyone has asked my opinion for the design, of course.
Oh, the roofers are supposed to be out here on Monday, June 21. Coincidental with a tropical storm blowing in, of course.