Recent content by AlanL

Fully agree - I bought an RC Pro for my Mavic 3 and am using it now with my Mavic 3 Pro. I really can't imagine going back to the RC-N1 and have two of them sitting on a shelf collecting dust.

The RC-N1 was the first controller that DJI included in the box when I first bought my Mavic 3 Fly More package. All of the above comments about the display being hard to see in bright sunlight are entirely correct. Yes it will work with the 3 Pro but it sucks IMHO.

I love the light on the spires in this shot. Beautiful color show to start your day. HNY!

Fake news - it was the hairdresser's dog who said that. :p

Maybe a little simple minded but if I was trying to use a drone to spy over sensitive places why in the world would I not mask out the lights on the drone? The lights are screaming "Here I am" to anyone looking up which isn't exactly stealthy.....

The more technical answer comes from some calculations of the kinetic energy of impact for an errant drone. Bullet points copied from the Pilot Institute Pt. 107 lecture notes. In the case of a Category 1 drone: Category 2 for drones over 249g (0.55 lbs): There are more categories than...

I did post a link which gave the answer in post #3 but I guess no one bothered to read it. A summary from the link above which goes to an article in Aero Corner. The article link if you are interested in the rest of the info. TLDR – Helicopters are so loud due to blade-vortex interaction. The...

Looks like a good start to the snowpack for the winter but still quite thin compared to what this will look like by March. Nice views of Mt. Jefferson from up there.

Helicopter sounds

It's good to have dreams..... :cool:

Retired after 37 years in Systems and Network Administration. Started out with DEC systems (DECSystem 20/60, PDP-11, VAX) in the late 1970's with serial and current loop communications and moved to Sun Microsystems SunOS unix with ethernet in the mid 1980s - all at the University of Utah. Spent...

Simple question no one has asked yet - what model(s) of drone are you flying? Does it have built in RID and do you have current firmware installed?

Correct. I have been using this technique since film days 50 years ago.

I generally do exactly what you mentioned - shoot the photos individually turning the drone to get the next shot in the sequence. Whether the stitch has a rounded shape is a function of the gimbal angle. If you are shooting something at the same level as the drone it will appear mostly flat but...

My first drone was a Mavic Air 2 so I never got to use the GO 4 app from the older DJI drones - just the DJI Fly interface. I do have the RC Pro for my Mavic 3 Pro and set it up so I could use one of the rear buttons to switch between the 3 lens/sensors. Don't give up on the 24mm micro 4/3 - I...