Recent content by Captain Jack

Throttle had been down to lower aircraft, then released at about 6 m above so that I could get into a suitable hand retrieval position. I've moved on from this after trying both companies to admit liability and renew my craft. But the important point was DJI refused on grounds that I was using...

Roughly 6 m above the water and it was hovering as I was moving into a retrieval position. It should be noted that the waters of Macquarie Harbour and Gordon River in Tasmania are renown for their reflective nature being darkly stained by passing through buttongrass. examples Gordon River Lost...

Several months back my bird took a bath after an automatic landing caused it to try landing on water. This happened, so I'm told, because the sensors were confused over calm very reflective water. Guess it wasn't my day as I had only turned the sensors on for that flight after reading that would...

Thank you BudWalker Greatly appreciate your involvement with figuring out what happened. Tragic, and has shaken my confidence as a pilot, which is troubling as a I am a master of ships who is usually diligent and careful. It's a shame that I had just switched on those sensors for that flight...

The boat had been shifted by the breeze (we were anchored) and I was trying to bring the AC to where we were then, and I did. I thought I had cancelled the RTH and as mentioned was moving myself into a clear hand catch position, when I heard "landing." I remember operating the sticks in a last...

Thanks BudWalker, I saw that and brings up the burning question. I did cancel the the RTH on screen by pressing the RTH button and cancelling, and thought I had done that, and started moving into a hand catch position on my foredeck, my eyes on navigating around hatches, dinghy etc and then...

Indeed, a great reward for many hours of work. We had the last known Waypoint and plotted it on GPSU and then put a 4 M radius around it. Made a grapple out of stiff fencing wire with fishing weights on the monofiliment line, then anchored our dinghy as close to the 4 m radius and began chucking...

Thanks BD0G, I was not using GO4, but running a Litchi mission and then switched to FPV Litchi - only see CSV in the flightlogs folder. There is another folder SDK, which has zip files and there are .DAT in that, but they do not load into DATCON, which reports they are NOT DAT files. Mystery...

Yeah that's how it looks to me too, but when I plug the bird into my computer, only the video files come up. Flight assistant shows the logs, but bombs out on download. Any suggestion?

Very remote location salt water inlet - no communications - no humans nor infrastructure. Planned Litchi waypoint mission one third completed when "System Error" reported and mission aborted. Bird stationary. Reloaded mission and bird began to return to first waypoint - not what I wanted so I...

Just to confirm that I have used Namirda's program at least ten times to setup missions, and have be pleasantly surprised at beautiful GE displays it. Mind, I must have an internet connection, which is not possible where I do a lot of flying. Sad final note, my bird tried to land on water and...

Hello Namirda, thanks heaps for the prog update, which did not fire off a false antivirus warning like the previous version. Cheers from a wet Tasmania. No drone flying today.

I got tired of waiting for my virus checker to let this file run and clicked on "Trust this program" and away we went, all ran smoothly - Users Really must read your very helpful instructions found in the HELP tab. Running my mission with your program controlling GE was nothing short of...

G'day from Australia, wishing all great flights in 2018 I have just downloaded the latest edition of VLM 1.0.3 and executed it, but my Avast antivirus put a halt to that, saying it was submitted for interrogation and would get back to me in a few hours. Then it promptly stopped the program from...

I am kinda new to Litchi missions with the first couple doing unexpected moves. And so I can see a real need for an app or program or extra that uses the mission statement to fly in animation - using an icon flying the route in 3D, rotating as instructed, and calling out extra actions as they...