Recent content by AeroJ

Firmware updates have always been something of a mixed bag - sometimes adding useful new features, but more often than not, changing things, and restricting more things either at the time or later. For that reason I am unbothered if these updates stop. Not installing those is the reason I can...

Yeah, you won't catch me actively recommending it ! But very rarely, there is perfectly lying low cloud around my closest big hill, where the line between fog and cloud get much more... foggy, and then you can get away with flights like this one I did, 13 years ago (when the clouds rule didn't...

Well, if you're taking off from 300 ft below the top of a hill, then over here you would be legally able to fly to the top of that hill, and then 400 ft above its apex, as long as you follow the contour of it and are never more than 400 ft above the ground under the drone. Perhaps that is only...

Perhaps OP means 500 ft above take off point rather than AGL ? If that was the case, then it is possible to be in this situation without having done anything wrong ! :) Flying from the bottom of a hill to the top of one, through some low-lying cloud is not in and of itself problematic if you...

I've done threads like this myself, and spent a fair bit of time wondering about it, but over the years I have come to accept that no matter how high that number, we pretty much don't need to care what KP is doing.

Sorry to hear that - both of those issues quite concerning, not to mention flight disturbing ! Very difficult to trust a drone that is sporadically doing that sort of thing... I would get the logs off the drone initially, and see if they offer additional clues about what is going wrong. You...

It IS absurd. Whilst I can accept that the 'magic' figure of 250g was arrived at via some sort of collision testing it must be obvious to everyone involved that a couple of grams either side of that makes a negligible difference. And when a few grams is added purely to satisfy another one of the...

The most viable workaround I can see is also the most obvious. The police won't see where your drone is until they have found you, stopped, got out of the car, and then located it in the sky. In that time, I will be turning recording off, so that by the time they arrive by my side there are my...

Yep, my mini4P also remains unlimited. Looks like only updating firmware when it offers some functions you actually want has some advantages...

There have been several more videos from these guys - it's turning out to be quite an active channel ! This video demos some new sensors and stable Atti mode flight without a GPS connected; good that they are focusing on features DJI consumer machines don't have, and the option to choose to fly...

A lot of the DJI boards are conformal coated to a large extent, so it is always possible that it hasn't got to a lot of vulnerable circuitry. And whilst any corrosion that has occurred cannot be fixed by rinsing, it can be halted from doing it further if the damage is not yet interrupting vital...

Yes, it's not often mentioned that adding a new gimbal requires a factory-level calibration that only DJI and a few 3rd party developers can arrange and deploy.

Yes, one of the few losses of DJI slowly moving everyone from Phantoms to Mavic-based kit was that we lost the ability to manually force Atti Mode along the way. As it is we have to wait for GPS problem to occur, and then persist occurring until the system notices and disables it for us. I found...

I'm not on YuneecPilots anymore, but when I was even the H520s had a long list of weird stuff they did ! And it was very hard to have any faith in a company that constantly looked as if it was on the very brink of death or bankruptcy !

For me it was my Yuneec Hexacopter, the original Typhoon H. Despite being one of the nicest control surfaces to work with, and the machine itself being astonishingly stable in high wind, and its 'Yuneec' 360 degree gimbal (as yet unmatched by anyone including DJI, whose gimbals can't quite...