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    AMann replied to the thread I hit a power line with my Air 3S!.
    As a kid, one of my friends was flying a long-tailed mylar dragon kite and… well, you know what happened. The police came and said it even affected their station power a couple miles away! The arc buzzing sound was really loud, and the spark and...
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    AMann reacted to Felix le Chat's post in the thread I hit a power line with my Air 3S! with Like Like.
    In the UK - maintenance teams working on or near live HT power lines are trained not to approach any closer than 27'... in the right(?) conditions: that's how far the current can arc from one of the load bearing cables. You also find that in...
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    AMann replied to the thread I hit a power line with my Air 3S!.
    Remember the member a few years ago who hit a high tension power line with his Mavic and it got stuck up there by the front arms? Saddest site ever as there was no way for him to retrieve it and it looked like a dead bird hanging there. I almost...
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    AMann replied to the thread Dat to KML software.
    Thanks, I’ll share the .exe file (and Python code if anyone wants it) once I debug and test it. Right now it does read the GPS coordinates from the photos in a directory and makes a cvs text file out with them, but there’s a lot of other flight...
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    AMann reacted to GadgetGuy's post in the thread Dat to KML software with Like Like.
    Cool idea! I may try that with Waypoints on a newer aircraft where Litchi wouldn’t be necessary! DJI always recommends a manual recording of Waypoints first, rather than relying upon creating them with the inevitable imprecision of the crappy...
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