Recent content by wco81

So here's a scenario to get another clarification of how AGL would be defined. I considered flying from here to the hill across the bay as pictured in this photo: I am at a turnout on a coastal road so near sea level. The hill across the bay is maybe 30 meters above sea level and there's a...

Ran into wind on the last 3 days of my trip to Greece. First was on the island of Santorini. I didn't attempt to fly because I had to contact the airport and coordinate with them anyways. If the conditions were better, I would have jumped through hoops. This morning, my last day before...

But the Dual Lock still has some kind of adhesive to attach to the drone?

I visited last week. I targeted all the high cliff areas, which mean driving through a lot of winding and narrow roads. One place I didn't try to go was Porto Vromi, which in many ways may be the most scenic but it just seemed too difficult a drive and then I didn't see where I would park and...

That's under the one law which was used to impose broad tariffs, even though the law specifically doesn't mention tariffs. There are other laws which could be used to invoke tariffs, as is the case with steel and aluminum tariffs, which is using a national security claim. Same claim could be...

OK, quick search brings up something like this, suppose to improve radio performance...

OK this seems to be the manual about orientation of the antenna on the RC-N3 controller. https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/neo/20240905/DJI_RC-N3_User_Manual_v1.0_en.pdf So basically point the top of the phone holder as directly at the aircraft as possible, meaning tilt it at different angles...

true. But what good is an expensive flying camera without interesting subjects to capture? I've never been but I've heard people talk about the oppressively flat dullness of places like Kansas and other Plains States.

Let us know what DJI says.

My question was whether radio waves propagate widely. The obstacle between the drone and the controller was maybe 20-30 feet diameter at the base and 5-10 feet towards the top. If it would operate with a range of 1.5-4 kilometer in an urban environment, meaning high rise buildings all around...

Wow, that's good to know. I flew today from this coastal area which had rocky cliffs jutting out towards the sea, well beyond the beaches below. There's a monastery up at the top. I flew about a kilometer away from Home and it started to complain about weak signal. I guess the radio waves...

I noticed those available on Amazon refer to 3M Dual Lock mount. What is this, it's some adhesive to put the mount on the drone and the strobe itself slides or snaps into the mount?

Currently visiting Greece, finding a lot of scenic locations to fly in the Ionian Islands, which are off the western coast of Greece. I've chosen to visit and fly in locations with dramatic cliffs dropping down to the sea. So I would take off near the edge of the cliff and fly out and record...

Flew on the northern coast of Corfu Island today. It's close to Albania to the east and to the west is Puglia, Italy. It's about an 30-60 minutes by plane to the north of Zakythos -- though like 5-10 hours by ferry I believe. No sea gulls seen or heard. Plenty of pigeons in the main city on...

By contrast I'm in Corfu now and there are pigeons all over the place. They don't bother flying away when you approach them. Maybe the heat but they're waiting for food to be thrown down on the ground. Hell there are cats around but apparently the cats don't bother. Yeah no pigeons in...