Recent content by Felix le Chat

I know that quite a few Scots are keen on making the break from Britain, but unless Scotland has become the 51st State over the last few days: American regulations don't apply north of Hadrian's wall. 😁

As a foreigner, I'm finding this fascinating. Firstly, the wording clearly suggests that Tennessee State Law supersedes Federal Law, then goes on to suggest that a National Asset (airspace) directly over a set area of land has become privately owned Sovereign Territory. In Britain, a local...

'quarry racing' isn't a derogatory term, it just means flying hard and fast... something that draws a massive amount of energy out of a storage unit that isn't designed to cope with it for more than ten seconds at a time. And as you'll find out, DJI is a bugger for advertising options that are...

You're welcome. You end up finding the limitations of DJI drone tech with personal experience. With the early firmware: I've had a similar experience with my mini 3 pro. DJI have addressed the 'excessive battery draw' problem by tweaking firmware in their newer mini drones, so it has become...

Yes to interstellar walnuts... but in the little green anything stakes: I'd throw the suggestion of a low-flying alien pistachio into the mix.

Li-Ion batteries can't handle heavy draw for protracted periods... you will get low battery warnings and low battery reactions if you push a Li-Ion battery hard (sport mode). Lithium-ion Polymer (Li-Po) batteries will handle this kind of treatment... that's the Li-Po's party piece.... ...ten...

Hit the nail right on the head.

Well said. The Game is definitely rigged in favour of 'proper' aircraft and 'proper' pilots. If there were an even playing field, drones would have an individual ARN (tail number). Instead: we have to display the OP-alpha string that identifies the owner and not the airframe - which argues the...

...two weeks of tumbleweed... I'm still fascinated to see those extra 20 seconds of footage. Await with genuine interest.

Just to interdict with a fact check here concerning my own home turf. Regarding the "Gatwick Incident" (2018). It was proved that there was not one single "rogue drone" piloted by either a bonehead or malicious individual that set this incident off. The only drone discovered to have been flown...

Landscape, although I'd tend towards a tighter vertical crop to make it a bit more 'widescreen'. Nice Golden Hour shot there.

...well, I suppose that might be preferable to a long rubber glove and a flashlight... which might have explained why Rudolph's nose was so red

There's something that's been niggling me... That Canadian border crossing of yours - did they pat down your sack for contraband? and what did they do about the reindeer?

Yes. In the camera menu tab you can set the gimbal to follow (keep horizon level) or FPV.

RTH does have a delay before activation. Then the first thing the drone does is stop dead and hover (first three to five seconds) then it climbs to the pre-set RTH altitude (another five or ten seconds, then it turns to orient itself for a line-of-least-resistance flight back to the set home...