Recent content by Captmike

I find most birds have a survival instinct that tends to keep them from running into things, they also have very good eyesight and are very good flyers. I fly a light aerobatic plane and I fly low and have noticed ALL birds I encounter dive, so I always pull up. Drones are slow so my guess...

I fly a light bush plane down lots of creeks and rivers, I am really on the lookout for wires, occasionally coming around a bend I have been surprised by them. If you have the room you can pull up hard and get over them but you run the risk of hanging your tailwheel, so it is often safer to go...

Joke or not, something that might help drone pilots. I fly a my bush plane low a lot. I often encounter birds at low levels and near the water. They ALWAYS dive when we have a close encounter. Being low I fly with a bit of up trim, should my attention be diverted for something. I would never...

As with airplanes, new sim pilots tend to over control. For instance, I fly a small aerobatic bush plane, when in the air flying most of the stick and rudder movements are miniscule, unless you do a max G pull up, a hard turn or an aerobatic maneuver, but if I fly a sim (like MFS) I find I...

I have yet to try goggles but am looking forward to trying a good set. I used to make my living as a Ship Captain and on one large yacht we had a Remote Operated Vehicle that had 1000 ft of cable. It was about the size of a quad ATV. I flew it with a large screen monitor on the back deck...

I happened onto the DJI Flight Log Viewer | Phantom Help browsing thru posts. It is amazing especially when you upload the KLM file into Google Earth and look at your flight in 3D. Also, I was way up in the timber country this weekend and found a beautiful beaver pond down in a little valley...

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"And fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my luve, Though it were ten thousand mile." Robert Burns poem...

That is the way the nose wheel works on ultralights... very confusing to a pilot who flys normal planes when taxing. Seems intuitive that when you wish to yaw or turn right, you step on the right rudder. M

Hello, wife and I are both fixed wing pilots, she flies 787's and I fly a little bush plane I built. We are both new to drones, she just got me a mavic mini and I just got her a mavic air 2 pro. I joined this forum to hopefully pick up some good information, tips and advice. Looking forward to...