Recent content by GreggR

I had puffed battery that I had not used for a year ( didn’t dispose of it). Yesterday I noticed that the puffing had disappeared - I have lots of LiPos for RC planes and never saw that before. So I charged the battery and at rest it looked just like a good battery; the voltages were a...

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This afternoon I powered up with my iPad mini at a nearby field ( no Wi-Fi) and Quick Shots was not on the flight modes menu. I turned on personal hotspot on my iPhone, connected to it with the iPad and Quickshots appeared, and functioned as advertised. Now I’m really confused o_O

I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t have Quick Shots after updating my MP. Then I discovered that Quick Shots appeared when I was at home and my iPad mini was connected to Wi-Fi. So it appears that Quick Shots is only available when Wi-Fi is available for Go 4. Am I missing something?

I'm in AZ too (Tucson area). The summer monsoon season with high temps are not very conducive to flying but do produce some great sunsets. Here are a few of mine:

The Taranis radio, which is popular with RC flyers, lets you upload voice, sounds or music that can be configured to play when certain conditions exist, such as a preset battery voltage. Seems like the controller or app could be set up similarly since memory is cheap. I would love to have a...

Here is one of mine - a microburst in the Catalina foothills outside of Tucson. Composite of 2 exposures in Efex Pro.

I found the TFR posted by sar104 above (not circular), but it does include the park mentioned in my original post. NFZ restrictions certainly make sense in this situation...

I went to fly my Mavic in a park where I have flown before, but this time I got an NFZ message with some verbiage about firefighting aircraft in the area. This park is about 15 miles from a wildfire near Tucson AZ, but the water tanker helicopters were reloading about 3 miles away! I was...