Recent content by Felix le Chat

Reply #7 sums it up in a nutshell.

An electric golf cart? EMI from the motor windings. Just as an example, I can't boot any of my drones up anywhere near one of the freezers in my kitchen because the one interferes with the compasses and knocks them totally out of whack... happens every time.

I don't use ND's at all, I find that they introduce too much digital noise in the shadows for my liking, I'll drop the E.V. or adjust the shutter speed instead and leave the lens as clear as possible. The auto mode in modern digitals is very good and more than up to the mark for spur of the...

Welcome. By the sound of it: you'd be interested in the older thermal and multi-spectral phantoms as well as the mavics. Both the thermal and the m/s phantoms are used in agriculture (crop health analysis) and by archaeology surveyors (identifying sub-soil structural footprints). Handy bit...

You could try a simple stick calibration first, this will determine if the yaw stick (or any other) is operating correctly. Start with the simple things first.

What you describe concerning the 'front leg struts' is consistent with the drone either being dropped to the floor more or less nose-down, or it having been flown low and either hit a horizontal obstacle, or bellied-out into the ground at a downward angle. In both cases, the ribbon cables &...

It might be worth trying LDM (Local Data Mode) in the app: there are a number of options you can disable, including allowing the drone to communicate data to DJI servers (which it does)... fair enough, you lose the little map in the flight screen but one by-product is that the drone no longer...

I agree 100% with your sentiments. There's been a continuous and escalating knee jerk reaction to general drone use in a lot of the euro-countries for a couple of years now. Spain and Portugal seem to be leading the pack... I don't think you're wrong in thinking it's down to regional government...

These flaws aren't 'assumed'. They are actual. Speed is a factor and subject tracking is passably okay, but not reliable. Since the original Mavic, buyers have watched the marketing videos with camera drones flying wingtip to wingtip and playing fast chase through the trees of woodland trails...

Or you could divide the target area into four, or six discreet grids, shoot a manual panoramic sequence for each with the camera set to 48mp mode, construct each individual grid section pano.... and then make a super-pano from those pano's. Use this technique frequently and apart from occasional...

If you really need to get the bird up into the air, as a TEMPORARY fix, you could strip a little of the yellow insulation off the wire and then try welding the bared wire to the pad with a tiny blob of C/A glue (super-glue). C/A is conductive. But afterwards, you'll need to clean off the...

Shame. I was hoping a bit of basic troubleshooting would shave the possibilities down and sort the connection problem out.

Grabbed some really nice shots there. Dry, sunny and as still as a millpond here in the west mids as well. Hope this marks the start of a decent month or so.... I'm up in North Wales the tail end of this month to survey an estuary island and the landscape is to die for. All three of my birds...

The only answer I can offer to your side question is based on personal experience. I shoot quite a lot of interiors in very old buildings (which, because of their age, have very small windows and are gloomy), I use prop guards on both my Mavic 2's and my mini 3 pro and fly in tripod/cine mode...

Which controller came as part of the sale? Double-press the drone power button. Does the drone go through the power-on-self-test? (rotors twitching: gimbal dance). Is the flight app auto-loading after you have powered up the drone then the controller? or are you opening the app and trying to...