Recent content by Appalachian Aerials

Just keep in mind that if you crash, you may want to do to the Refresh FIRST. Refresh, as you know, won't cover any accident where you can't recover the drone. In my case, I would have been better of paying an extra $200 (roughly) for a collision damage but keeping the option of no-recovery...

State Farm, based on my experience, will likely just take your word for it as to what needs to be done, and just pay you enough money to cover whatever you say you're going to do.

Your Personal Article Policy should be separate from any other insurance. If you make a claim before a year, you will get dropped. That happened to me (claim in one month, especially bad luck). I would claim lost drones and serious damages, but not minor damages, with that in mind.

I don't understand why you all haven't revolted and hung your leaders yet.

I can understand that view (I got really bored of flying after a while, and had to start playing with photography to keep it interesting), but that IS the point of the drone. Literally just a flying camera, ideally one that stays perfectly stable under all conditions.

Just be warned: the motion blur the filters will cause will ruin still images. Can't fly with them if you're going to take pictures of people/animals.

So, I'm not sure if this is the best section of the forum for this, but I have a weird story I thought I'd share. The other day I went flying on my university campus (knowing full well that it was against the rules). I started off from one end of campus and flew it forward a ways, then set it...

I had a $60 premium until I was dropped for making a claim. Is there any chance I could get a policy with a different agent? I assume they'd look up customers before signing off on it, but I was hoping I could maybe find an agent who's stupid enough to just sign off and not ask questions.

Where do you live? In the US, it's only $1250 with another $360 (thereabouts) for the Fly More.

Nice. Is that a normal price for selling, or did you just get lucky? I'm probably going to try to sell my old Mavic (if I get it working) and my new one so I can buy a Zoom. I'd need at least $1200 total from them for it to be worth my while.

What's the best firmware for me to use for trying to deal with a drunken gimbal? I've been through all four of them, but couldn't really tell much of a difference.

I don't see what the laws have to do with that.

People call ND filters "jello filters" because when you use them, you don't get jello. That was the case for me (I got new filters, and almost never had microvibrations/spasms/jello). A few days ago that changed (to where I was getting problems like I did before the filters), and when I looked...

I didn't catch that, is he a professional photographer? I'd agree, in that case he'd ought to be careful, since I'd imagine professionals are under more scrutiny.

Just fly illegally. Nobody will catch you, and if they do, you play dumb. The laws are ******** anyways. As for people, there's always the possibility that local culture (Midwest vs Appalachia) is different, but so far, people have reacted positively to my drone. Basically, every time somebody...