Recent content by flatline42

I inspect them every flight but they're far more sturdy than the Mavic Mini/SE props were. Those things deform really easily.

I've read multiple times that for batteries you should tend to store them between 80 & 20%. I'm sure the firmware errors on the side of caution for the batteries so I'd probably store at 50% or less if I have the option. I know that HP over the last 2 years has had a heck of a time with their...

Finally got mine out last week. Flew great, the sound pitch is much lower and I'd say that most people would not notice at over 50 feet distance. I could focus on it to about 75 feet or so but if I wasn't listening for it I'd lose it. I didn't notice much of a flight time difference as I only...

He recorded a video of himself explaining that he was trying to film an "orbital shot" of a fountain and that it was going "too far and too fast" for him to stop. I kiiiinda feel like that's ******** because you can interrupt the orbit pretty easily unless he was like in sport mode and doing a...

On their website they have other colors but those haven't dropped yet. It looks like their original Air 2 shipment had some manufacturing defects that they've since fixed so that might have delayed the color props. I've got a set on the way to experiment with and if I like them I'll probably...

If it's Mt Saint Helens then it's not like pouring lava or anything but it is technically active. Every 10 years or so it has a small dome building event but hasn't blown catastrophically since the early 80's. But it does have glaciers on it.

Having read books like Young Men and Fire, if you're in a situation where you need a drone to navigate out, you probably don't have enough time to get the drone in the air. I remember the fire in Redding CA literally advanced like 5 or 10 miles in as many minutes. And if you do manage to get...

There's was an option in the settings for tweaking the flight model so that the forward sensors cheat to one side as much as possible by rotating and pitching the drone while it flies to maximize how much the collision forward and top sensors can see and get a little side obstacle avoidance. In...

I forgot what drone I got a few years back that didn't even have a spring-loaded control stick for up & down. You had to manually center the SOB if you wanted to hover and had to manually tweak the controls if there was any wind to keep it from careening off. That plus manual trim adjustments...

I heard the Air 2 batteries are compatible with the Air 2s? If so then that might be an option. It's worth researching.

Seems like a pretty standard timeline. A full year almost for the Mini 2's SDK is pretty painful. I'm expecting similar for the Air 2S, so probably some time first half of 2022. It's odd that they take so long to release it.

Yeah but you were answering another person's question so it's great you did it anyway but that doesn't fix that you gave someone bad information. I don't think that makes me a Karen. I didn't like report you to the FAA.

This is from the TRUST website: How to fly a drone recreationally: If your drone weighs more than .55 lbs, register your drone through the FAA's DroneZone Pass TRUST Follow safety guidelines on the FAA website or of an existing aeromodelling organization Passing TRUST has nothing to do with...

If nothing else, it means once the grace period is done, that "I didn't know that was a rule" isn't an excuse any more when someone does something monumentally idiotic.

I used the boy scouts of america. I am deeply amused that the confirmation number is BSOA#########