Recent content by Felix le Chat

Refer to post #3.

Very interesting article - a modern reflection of a lot of the work I'm commissioned to do (inspect & survey heritage buildings to determine state, condition and disposition). Well written.

Good idea in theory.... but I was always concerned about the stress this would put on the Li-Po cells - forcing them to generate heat without power being drawn from them.

Fly my drone(s)? Yes. Every time I send one up. What I don't like to do is abnegate control to 'automated' routines. I think I've only ever used one of the DJI waypoints functions once (out of idle curiosity). But responding to the core of the original comment: I have noticed that the DJI FLY...

Mavic 2 Enterprise self-heating battery Temperature Range: Self-heating can occur when the battery temperature is between -10°C and 6°C. Charge Requirement: The battery must be above 50% charge to activate self-heating. Manual Activation: Hold the power button for five seconds to start or stop...

The photographer didn't have a wide enough wide angle lens for that shot, otherwise he could've got the 747 in frame as well. 😁

Concur with both replies. It's a DNG (RAW) shot - the digital zoom is never present. If you want a tighter image: you're better off trying one of two options: a) carefully fly the drone in closer to target, or b) crop in on your original shot using a versatile photo editing suite (you'll get...

Unfortunately, it is increasingly difficult to separate the two: especially within the US (this is, after all, an American forum that just happens to have international members who aren't affected by the political interference Americans are suffering) We could all have a nice chit-chat about...

Do you have the controller on a lanyard around your neck? If so, let it dangle on your midriff, hold the drone up with the one hand, reach down to the control sticks with the other and use thumb and little finger to cross control sticks. With the motors spun up, thumb the throttle, taking the...

Yeah.... Nothing like dressing up like Jason Voorhees to put the public at ease... 😁

Since they've become active: they're standard yellow 'warnings', not full-on red TFR's. Reading through the NOTAM text: it shows they're active between 08.00hrs and 16.00hrs. I'm just about a mile and a bit outside one of their borders myself and I find I'm thinking along similar lines - does...

That sounds more like GPS jamming. First time I noticed it was during a long drive back from a gig in Wales, everything fine & dandy, until the "...take the next left..." voice prompts started to send me on a Magical Mystery Tour - then the map was blank and it became old school navigation. Had...

By any chance, do you mean it's getting more expensive for the average user to afford?

The new design of gimbal seems to be the real Achilles heel of the Mavic 4 Pro. Numerous reports of problems with this and other forums.

As a 'newbie': the first time you encounter a forced drop into 'ATTI' mode, you will have panicked and over-compensated with the sticks, inadvertantly creating most of the problems you experienced, this isn't something new. A lot of new drone fliers find the same. There may be a number of...