Recent content by elwyn5150

Mainly responding to @EGS's fictional scenario of people defying common sense and expecting the world to revolve around their stupidity.

Not exactly those circumstances but allegedly in Australia recently, a woman was driving and playing "chicken", posing for Snapchat, crashed a killed herself and another driver...

I was flying in a suburban park on a weekend. Just outside the park was a school with no kids but it looked like it was out of a 1970s scifi film. I've caught all sorts of amazing things while bicycling with a GoPro including: the start of a domestic incident - the guy had grabbed the woman's...

You should hold back the name calling especially if you are new here. It's not endearing, appropriate or welcome. Well, in the space-time continuum, you are 50 years off.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/man-allegedly-shoots-drone-police-search-property-and-find-187-cannabis-plants-20190111-p50qtb.html

That's NOT how to make drones reproduce! You need the drone's air intake to suck in birds and bees.

'Star Trek'-inspired plane flies silently, free of fuel, moving parts I found this article interesting. Powered by Ion wind - Wikipedia Another article: MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts but with video

Get a friend to go to buy it and have the friend turn it on and make sure it's set to RC and not WiFi. Turn on the controller at the same time. Your friend will need to act shocked that there was a fly away.

One with no obstacle avoidance or it turned off.

Stay out of the red zones. Go to where the yellow zones are and the instructions are reasonable but the wording could be improved. I think the gist of the yellow zones can be summed up by 1) if you see an aircraft, land. 2) don't take off when you see an aircraft.

I'm glad daylight saving is coming to an end in NSW soon. I have barely flown my drone since it began because on weekends, I often am in the gym until 5 pm.

I don't think so because I have three batteries. You're legally required to keep the drone within VLOS which the battery is easily able to handle. I've taken it far and done some nice timelapse photography on traffic on bridges.

It's not really for us, recreational pilots. It's cheaper and more portable than this 24/7 tether power system: Buy PowerLine Power Tether System for Drones - Rise Above Australia

Dude, barn door open; the horse has already bolted.