Recent content by fingers284

I flew my drone out into the back 40 couple weeks ago and there were a couple of deer feeding in the field, I was surprised they did't even lift their heads from eating when I flew over. The deer around here are usually very aware & skittish of anything unusual, we like to keep our wildlife wild.

Thanks man ...no mention of military use in the bio but in the "pre 63" section , mentions numerous movies (stands to reason, being location it's in) made there 1920- mid1950's so that might explain the trenches , they dont seem to be where any drainage or water flow might be responsible &...

Cool vid...I'm interested in the old trench looking cuts at various places in the hills, was that a WW I training site by any chance.

This is sort of an add-hoc test that arose from my introductory post to the forum. Being a kind of red neck country bumpkin & the fact that an advertisement for the bird i bought had a "no license to fly" statement , I never even gave any other regs a thought....until I was jacked up in that...

Welcome from Alberta Canada....what does "around Athens" mean, my wife's ancestry is from the Kalamaki area.

Hit one line and prob just crash the drone.....no PHZZZTTTT but if the drone flew up between lines and created a jumper across the two then a big PHZZTTT will certainly happen and drone cost will be insignificant to the cost of line shut-down & repair.

I am at Alix, a little less than 2 hrs straight south on 21 hy.

I will be checking out the video's link Robert T. Y. I just did my first vid an hr ago...went fairly well but trying to keep track of the bird and videoing a bunch of moving machines at the same time was a "learning experience". The neighbor's were harvesting just down the road so...

Doknow what happened there but things kind of got combobulated in that one.

Absolutely not man, I'm soaking this up like a sponge as I'm sure some others are. The VLOS parameters are something I will take seriously when flying high-wide & handsome BUT I will also use Augustine's regs as a guideline when using my drone for the reason I bought it for....probably...

Concerning the "practice & safe place to fly" just yesterday evening had an open fire BBQ cooking fire going in the back yard & thought I would get a few minutes flying in while waiting on the meal ....fired up the bird and hit the "go up stick" and flew the dang thing right through a flock...

My daughter just bought and moved into a property 15 mi south of Caroline (1/2 mile of James River frontage). She and her man have a few nags on the place to ride regularly. In my younger days I spent many weeks riding the pack trails from Caroline area to the National parks boundaries....know...

I just went thru the same process and firmware download took at least 15 minutes, I thought it was jammed as well but eventually patience won out and it finished.

Thanks man. I knew about the max height regs but did not know about the VSOS regulation....will pay more attention to that from now on. I actually did just have an eye exam yesterday and the optometrist made a comment during the visit that "My distance acuity is that of a 20 yr old " ....but we...

Yes on both realized early in my research that more batteries would be a good thing....also with the re-fresh option but am waiting for a reply from DJI over an issue with the contract, they entered the ser # with an error. My machine # ends in a 9 but contract has a p instead. I got a...