Flying & Crashing the SWAN K1 PRO - This Bird is Tough!

[@dan8402]

The fact nothing broke is a pretty good endorsement honestly.

[@mog59]

Again a great story and video 👏👏. Better than Netflix 😂😉👍👍

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Season 2 will be coming soon :-)

[@sunansilver6147]

It flies exactly like a bird. Relaxing and peaceful to watch

[@Falcon65456]

Except for what I like to call’beginner fpv birds’ cause they go up and down and move so fast it looks out of control. I think their actual name is some kind of sparrow

[@nyclassic4ever130]

All fixed wings

[@SW-Video]

Fun and interesting. I didn't know the Swan AC existed until watching this video.

[@KenKneknaneek]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. Happy Flying

[@45flavius]

after flying with this stuff......do you feel going back with a quad i mean a normal quad motors....and feel asleep with...merry XMAS Captain

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Merry Christmas!

[@Bill14886]

So glad you recovered the swan Pro. Awesome video. & Big thank you and to your wife for sending out my decals. Love them. Have a great & Blessed . Christmas

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Glad they arrived at your location. Merry Christmas!

[@dougcooper4917]

Excellent Review On The Swan K1 Pro Steve! Well Done! I Appreciate What You Do To Educate Us!

[@TruthSeeker434]

Miracle On The Corn Field...great job Cap!

[@Top-Jimmy]

I'll stick with my fleet of $400 modded Disco's. Love the channel so a thumbs up.

[@dhoffman6435]

Nice flight good save. Waiting for a flight using mission planning.

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Enjoy the weekend stay warm

[@TheDroneExperiment]

Glad you were able to retrieve it! Fun video! Thank you!

[@Falasi4]

"Walk of Shame" - I know it all too well although we usually found a pile of balsa toothpicks! That thing is tough!

[@brianchamberlain9630]

Cool! Happy Ending!

[@gregpostdronephotography6499]

Visited the link, impressed with specs. 40 km and 60 minutes flight time. However, your right about needing to be an experienced UAV Pilot. What’s in the box, again impressed. Tons of goodies, plus a case.

[@chrismonsen]

That camera is looking great! I love the footage!

[@vonheise]

I would like to see a tilt gimble like many of the quadcopters have though, so you could fully tilt it to see forward at takeoff, then follow the horizon as you change from vertical to horizontal flight. A left to right movement would be good too since it flies in a straight line.

[@PoliticalUniverse_247]

Hi captain have you ever had a drone fly away and you could not recover? 🤔

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Nope, always recovered them by either controlling them to come back or landed them where I could find them (this is both camera and FPV drones).

[@henrytaaffe7058]

once again captain. class review.

[@mailmescoobz]

Excellent vid as usual 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ModernDayTemplar606]

I’m very happy you got it back. And I quote (This is why you don’t fly them on a super windy day. So I will take her up and fly it 😆. ). It is nice to see they are making optional camera mounts for it. Thanks Captain

[@SkyGizmmo]

Captain can you help me develop or help build the DJI FPV camera gimble into the the Swan. The function is already in the DJI FPV transmitter. The Swan would then be a perfect (not looking only at the sky) quad fpv and then transition to airplane mode. I believe You have the tech savvy sway and connections to get this done. I will gladly pay for this service or help to build up a Swan HD DJI FPV with one axis gimble. Head tracking has kinda been lost in the fpv shuffle; not sure why. Please advise Thanx Gizmo

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

They do make the SWAN K1 PRO with a Camera Gimbal. You should see it next year.

[@lynsmith1096]

Great video Steve. SOS plane out of control help.

[@sdangelo6]

Great job as always!

[@techtonictim]

Great flight & video.. stunning snowy landscape 👌👍

[@pjberens1]

sweet video ... like the info for crashes as well.

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Great video always good review

[@danielscarbrough4363]

"The walk of shame"....you are too funny!

[@TheMr3742]

Best reviews

[@Friskee62]

That was exciting...glad all is well.

[@RobertGlazier]

Still a nice flight. I'm glad that you recovered it. Great video. Thanks.

[@jonathangilpin193]

Not gona lie,when she started to go my heart was racing lol

[@stevepierret2013]

Thank you so much for sharing this video. Very entertaining!

[@FahadKhan_3007]

5:57 Thats impressive... Sawn K1 Pro beeps when no input is given by the pilot? Cooool

[@TK-fp5fp]

How awesome, the controller led you right to it that option right there is worth its weight in gold 👍

[@imager09tube]

Excellent captain!

[@kamentabakov5302]

What was the wind profile that day I'm sure you have checked it out? You didn't mention it in the video. I'm glad that everything went OK at the end.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

The wind gusts suddenly came up and kept blowing for an hour. Wind gusts of 40 km/h during that video.

[@michaelj4254]

Awesome video Cap! Your jeep is super cool

[@rexteevee]

Glad you found your swan and also the camera.

[@julianmclean3869]

Great video !(And very funny Captain) haven't seen that Drone before however reminds me of the Parrott version although probably more sophisticated!; BTW, what brand of shoes do you have on ? (they look pretty cool!!!)

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Boots are Blundstone brand.

[@julianmclean3869]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Many thanks

[@jimanderson4865]

Loved the video. Nice to have a little drama sometimes. Glad everything turned out okay and it survived to fly another day.

[@FPVphilly]

Amazing bird!

[@petermainwaringsx]

Awesome Steve.

[@jeffswope1511]

Seeing it in a real world crash was valuable. Thanks

[@MikeKinney8675]

That was and eventful flight. Glad you decided to make a video of it. Enjoyed watching. While learning to fly fpv , I have had a lot of '"walks of shame"". 🙂

[@Rcludde-39]

Nice it went well, 👍👍🤩🤩to cope with the wind you have to think like a glider pilot, Nice video. Thank you for sharing. wish you a nice weekend Regads Geir

[@mikeseto6827]

Great video and mishaps are internet gold :-). You were so calming in talking to the camera as you went about the recovery operation. I would have panicked and floored it to the crash site as waves of paranoia sets in. My humble DJI drones only go up when the winds are 25 km or less as I am worried about fly ways. Do you have to report these incidents to Transport Canada?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Incident reports are only for damage to person or property

[@Trevor_Fuss]

Excellent Job Steve, Make mental note to self , DON'T fly this bird in high winds.

[@vonheise]

I saved for the Mavic 3 for over a year waiting for it and paid cash, however I added the RC Pro, so in hock again. I will have to wait until at least summer for this, and maybe there will be something that will fly in a hurricane by then...

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Really good channel

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thank you!

[@gondoreplayground]

what are your thoughts about the US ban on DJI?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

That is a very old topic and it only applies to government

[@billtravers3243]

Curious about zig-zag upwind. That’s like tacking with a sailboat, but the key to sailboats is that they have a keel or centerboard in stationary (relatively stationary) water. Can’t quite figure how an airplane can “tack” without one. Can you explain?

[@SW-Video]

I can. It only works up to a certain wind speed. Tacking diagonally allows the aircraft to hit less headwind. This can only work for as long as the motors/props are pulling faster than the wind it's fighting. Once it becomes too much the aircraft must land. At that point the skilled pilot can only try to land where it will hopefully do the least amount of damage to it and anyone else or anything else.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Hi Bill. If you fly a drone in strong winds and point the nose into the wind, then the drone can only move forward if it’s forward speed is faster than the blowing wind. Most times wind is not at a constant speed. The Swan has a pedo tube that detects forward motion in relation to prop speed. To avoid stalling I angle the Swan in a zigzag pattern to ensure forward motion is constant. If I rammed it straight into the strength of the wind and there is no forward motion, it stalls and goes into vertical mode.

[@billtravers3243]

Thanks for the reply. I’m thinking the physicists are going to roast you both. But meanwhile there’s something I didn’t consider - in between the Captain’s lines I’m reading that it might be a GPS thing. The pitot tube just measures airspeed. The GPS speed might force the plane into landing mode. Otherwise, think of a canoe paddling upstream. Zig-zag won’t help. (Unless you’re exploiting eddiies.). Hope this analogy might work. It has a certain Canadian appeal : )

[@SW-Video]

@@billtravers3243 Let them roast. My skin is plenty thick. ;)

[@billtravers3243]

Well, no need for roasting. I see that it's a matter of clarifying wind speed vs land speed. Pitot tube speed vs GPS speed. The trick is that headwind doesn't cause an airplane to stall, but it can cause this Swan drone to lose enough land/GPS speed that it thinks the pilot is ready to land and it automatically goes into vertical mode. That looks like a stall, but is not strictly like a stall due to loss of airspeed. It's just an automated move programmed by the designers, and triggered by approaching a zero land speed. This is very interesting. Something a Swan pilot needs to keep in mind on windy days, clearly. (I would add that zig-zagging to keep up the ground speed is clearly a great strategy with the Swan, but technically it has nothing to do with the physics of tacking upwind in a sailboat. That analogy is very "rough", especially for anyone interested in the physics of sailing.)

[@viknumbers1434]

That could have been a very expensive loss.

[@deltatango3653]

Cool video.

[@mikespeedyfpv321]

Great video

[@mikespeedyfpv321]

Have a great Christmas 🎄 👊🙏

[@BlairAir]

Never would have found it without your CAPTAIN DRONE STICKER! I have THREE THREE THREE of them! FINALLY (last year they were in short supply) My wife looked at me strangely when I got crazy 🤪 😜 excited by an envelope of stickers, LOL!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Glad they arrived safely

[@MrHitman1966]

Great video - sorry for your mishap

[@123windyron]

Pretty cool nice drone crash.have a rocking merry Christmas and a new drone new years!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Merry Christmas

[@123windyron]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 thankyou.

[@quadnator5024]

I can’t belive how this drone flys

[@nyclassic4ever130]

Fixed wing UAV

[@sherwoodp2738]

Does this aircraft have a procedure to check self-leveling while on the bench and props removed?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

yes - calibration

[@EagleEyes88881]

my wishlist😃

[@clints26]

For all the over 250g drones you fly, do you register every one before testing?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Pretty much

[@SussexYank]

Wow, Steve! That was *amazing* ! I'd love to get one of those Swan things -- could be tons of fun to fly. Also, I really like that SUV or truck, whatever it is, that Mojave you're driving. If it's the Jeep Gladiator Mojave, they don't sell them in the UK. Edited to add: Holy Cow! I just checked the range capability of that Swan, and... 40 km!!! What the heck?? That's actually not a bad price (saw $1099 on sale at the moment) for the base version of this aircraft. Out of my budget at this time, but maybe it's something I should be thinking about saving for.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Yes, the swan has a massive range when programmed to fly a route autonomously. You are correct, my vehicle is a Jeep Gladiator Mojave. They are designed for sand dunes and snow, so perfect for my needs.

[@mattmarzula]

If you have to save for this drone, save your money and don't make it your first.

[@alaska_flo3567]

Looks like a star wars space ship ☺️ But surely not easy to control and especially to land.

[@ayCarumbaQueLio]

Actually, they're very easy to fly and they land autonomously. They just don't work well in very much wind. They can handle around an 8 mph wind if it's steady and not gusty. If it's gusty, forget it, you're going to have a bad day and maybe lose a $1,100 - $2,100 aircraft. The higher price is for the version with the Caddix Air Unit and DJI Goggles.

[@djwak59]

Thanks for the video Captain. This done is on my wish list, my wife would freak out if she knew how much it costs ! That’s why it’s just “on the wish list”. 😀 It’s great that the controller has that tracking feature on it and luckily, didn’t end up in a tree. It’s always my fear of loosing not just a drone, but the expensive camera ! You seemed to handle it all well. I’d be a wreck. Is this the same drone I’m seeing for sale at a large Chinese store website ? Happy Holidays.

[@jetmartin9501]

Love the fact that it's a VTOL. Does this have a beginners mode (e.g., self leveling mode) or is this just like flying a FPV where you have to actively fly it to keep it in the air? Does the DJI unit camera have any stabilization built into it?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Yes it has a beginner mode

[@jetmartin9501]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Cool so no FPV skills really required to fly this one. That's good to hear.

[@BrooklynBubbler]

Perhaps I'm crazy, but at 2 seconds into the video, the right (on the side closest to the camera) motor mount looks damaged.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

No damage. Could be light reflections your seeing.

[@TruthSeeker434]

Hello my Canadian Captain. Could you be so kind to do another best drones under 300 bucks. I've bought several from the last video and was wondering if you had any others you'd like to share. Thanks and Merry Christmas Cap!

[@FahadKhan_3007]

Swan K1 Pro is a superb VTOL but we should not fly such VTOL drone which has giant wings that makes it go in the direction of wind on extreme windy days like this one! That's what I learnt from the video. The Action 2's footage is so neat and clear, btw. DJI drones like Mavics, Minis, Phantoms, Inspires, Agrases and Matrices etc are different as their propellers are stronger (obviously, as they are made by DJI- One of the best UAV brand) and they will be stable because they don't have such plane-like fuselage as K1 pro has... That Swan's fuselage worked like a sail of a boat and went into the direction of wind regardless of the strength of the propellers... On the other hand those bicopters, tricopters, quadcopters, pentacopters, hexacopters, septacopters, octocopters, Nonacopters, decacopters (What am I doing. lol ) have a kind of fuselage that is parallel to the direction of wind, blowing, and it makes them stable. Another point is their (drones like quadcopters,hexacoters etc) super powerful motors that ensures the level 5 wind resistance. Overall, Swan K1 pro is a beautiful drone that is loaded with technology that *should not* be taken off in extreme weather conditions!

[@japsterbee]

What u think about ranger x7 plus

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Have not tried or heard of it.

[@MrFrance97]

I"m curious do you need a license to fly this at a non restricted air field... pretty new at this.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

It depends on the country you live in. In most countries it works like this... The rules will apply to WEIGHT when it comes to an unmanned remotely controlled vehicle. So in my country of Canada, the rules state that anything flown remotely that is 250 grams weight or higher, has restrictions to the flight. Such as the pilot needs to be certified to fly (i.e., an on-line exam was written and passed), and the pilot must adhere to common sense rules... don't fly near airports, over groups of people, over moving cars, near building windows, etc.

[@MrFrance97]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 thank you so much Love your content and your guidance hope to fly soon!! San Francisco CA.

[@venkateshwarraopilli4422]

Amazing ❤️👍👍 nice video 🇮🇳👍🙏🙏 keep it up 👏👍🙏 have a nice day 🇮🇳👍🙏 my support from Gujarat India 🇮🇳👍🙏 make more videos 🤩👍🙏 take care ❤️🙏🙏

[@BrianBetron]

I'm trying to place an order for the Swan. Wow, is that a painful process.

[@blueskylake1962]

Great Video, thanks for the stickers, Illinois, US

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Glad the stickers arrived

[@kts8806]

It's nice to know you are not perfect and just a mere mortal like the rest of us!! Lol great video!!

[@twrmoor]

Ha I would get into all kinds of trouble with this...

[@ginoXcaron]

Oh no! Now I want a fixed wing drone. Problem is.... I don't know anything about these. Do I build my own, do I buy a kit, do I buy a built one that comes with everything? This is gonna be a long journey lol

[@BlairAir]

Steve, I think you zagged when you meant to zig. Happens to the best of us! Even more to the worst (me)!! Poor thing looked like the scarecrow after the Wicked Witches Flying Monkeys got through with him 😢

[@allyoucando8486]

that a professional crash by Captain Drone

[@mikew1435]

Thanks for the lesson ! Hahaha And thanks for the stickers!!

[@Pies.]

But if it's TOUGHT... shouldn't it be able to fly in strong winds...? Also how strong is "strong"? 20 Knots?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

It has a Pedo tube to detect flight speed and avoid a stall. Once the sensor detects a stall (slow forward movement) it switches into vertical mode to avoid a crash. It is a device that can’t fly or glide without motors, so like a Shark, it requires forward movement to remain airborne.

[@Pies.]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 ahhh so it's not a "drone..."

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

@@Pies. In my opinion it is a drone with wings. If it were a plane it would fly (glide) for a bit without motor power. If I could shut the motors off in forward flight, it would drop like a rock.

[@Pies.]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 You could make it an RC plane by extnding the wings so it glided... heh...

[@benedict1438]

I've been saving up money for almost 2 years sir and now i have enough money to buy my own low budget drone like in your last video but sad to say i cant buy it anymore cause the money that i've been saving will be spend to repair our house cause we are a victim of a super typhoon and our house is severely damage. I'm still grateful and thankful to god that all my family is safe eventhough we dont have a house now atleast we are all safe 😌. I guess i will save money again just to fullfil my wish to have my own drone. Hopefully it wont take forever hehe

[@goodday5570]

Here in the U S. We talk in miles. F the millimeters

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Yup, do to costs and re-education of the population to the metric system, the US opted out long ago. I think there is only the US and two other tiny countries that did not adopt the metric system in the entire planet. Old guys like me are versed in both since I grew up in the days of the imperial system. Canada switched to the Metric system when I was in grade 6, so for 10 years after we used both systems interchangeable. The young kids today only know metric.

[@ronniematthews3408]

Nice

[@davidellis5135]

Why didn't you just leave it hovering untill you could get to it, or was the wind to powerful. Looks like that drone put the wind up you .😀

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

As it hovered the wind blew it a mile away

[@davidellis5135]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Doesn't the controller tell you what the wind speed is , there are apps that do that, looks like it was too windy, I only fly my hubsan on dry calm days .Which is what the manufacturer's recommend . I always look at the tops of trees if there bending allot then it's going to have too high a cross wind so I don't fly.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

@@davidellis5135 Controller tells you GPS, Speed, Height, Distance as well as your path (route) overlaid on a map, and FPV video view. There are no drones for consumers that tell you wind speed as you would need a sophisticated device on the drone for that and the drone would have to sit very still in the app. I think you are thinking of those FREE apps like UAV forecast which you can have it tell you wind "GUSTS" at various heights above the ground.

[@king-pin007]

Thanks Captain ..twas a very informative video.. reminds me of a crash or 2 lol👍

[@Slithh]

I would love something like this but alas, it's way out of my budget. Oh wait, that infers that I actually have a budget... lol. Anyway, incredible machine!

[@rubinhodrone9204]

Bom dia Passando pra prestigiar aquele super like

[@shartdonhit638]

Fun

[@MammothPaige]

Lucky you didn't destroy it

[@LevelDroneRCX]

You crashed! Maybe you should be busted to Lieutenant Drone? :)

[@TornadoCODM]

first aye aye captain

[@mattmarzula]

Tough? Sure. However, the props tend to come off in flight. Turns landing into crashing. I'm thinking purple Loctite. Enough of that and some strategically placed tape will keep this chonk airborne... Until the batteries fail at least. They're very poorly constructed and will come unbalanced.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

You must be mistaken about the props as the props are identical to the drone screw on type. The laws of physics tighten the props as they spin. Also the batteries don't fail since they are lipo batteries like in every product that flies. Are you just making stuff up... especially since you said to use Loctite (you're gonna get roasted for that one).

[@Heliomation]

Epic! Owo

[@yobrojoost9497]

Epic! ;)

[@pirmansyah-oe1it]

it's not worth for drone mapping, and the price is too expensive

[@starlinater10]

First😊👍🏽

[@peter58murray]

nice machine but way overpriced compared to my £279 parrot disco when it was brand new.....if it was £400 id buy one but £800 plus...forget it

[@SgtJamesRay]

Funny