Recent content by akdrone

Go to the UAF Geophysical Institute and you'll find links to the Poker Flats Aurora cam. That's what we keep an eye on and you can get predictions at Product Subscription Service. Sign up for Warnings for KP 4,5,6. That will give you a heads up on when an aurora is forecast. 4 is OK...5 is...

If -40F sounds chilly, we've had -70F at our home but thanks to global warming that never happens anymore, so please, continue burning fossil fuel as much as possible and consider raising cows :).

yer tougher than me! :

That is generally the case here too. I hadn't thought about that but I have told many people that when it's -40F it's never windy so thanks for bringing that up. Quite the oddity.

OK...not really -40F for the picture of the mountain.... Here's the "rest of the story" as Paul Harvey used to say... I was heading down south toward Denali Nat'l Park (which I didn't make it to) when I saw this pre-sunrise mountainscape in the distance. It was 9AM, well before sunrise. I got...

I had to do something like 5 takes to get that reveal positioned properly. I was shooting with my 6x tele and had to get it lined up properly with the trees the way I wanted so when I would rise up it would be where I wanted it to be but keeping it nice and smooth and raising the gimble a bit...

Sunrise about 10:30, Sunset at 2:53 PM. Those images were shot when I was on my way to get some sunrise images. Didn't get them :)>

I've seen little about how it is controlled. By where you look? I see trailers with people holding there arm out. I can't do that. Thus I wait to understand better how the drone is controlled.

Good point. That and always flying from the same place are probably two of the most important tips for waypoint flying.

Thanks. I have to work to get them. That little bit involved roughly 12 hours of driving on two trips to that area. I have a slightly longer version coming. If you haven't seen some of my other little shorts you might want to check out my youtube channel (small, unmonitized but still get ads...

Not so cold for these parts - about 0F. So far it's been pretty mild. It never gets seriously cold like it used to. Years ago we had -70F at our house but now -50F is considered extremely cold and the coldest it got last year was -55F. I've found my Mav3 or Mav 4 series drones will fly just...

Note that in some instances it may appear that nothing is happening or it may fail. That happened on several attempt to pair my RC 2 with my Neo after it had been paired to my Mini 5 Pro. A further attempt saw a prompt for updating the firmware and after that it paired. Upon returning to the...

You make a point which is why folks are concerned about ebay sellers overseas and ebay sellers in general but at least the 102_store has a very solid track record and has been trustworthy to numerous people. There is nothing illegal about buying from overseas like this if the dealer itself is...