Recent content by GaryFlorida

I just follow a simple test when I am concerned about windy conditions. I launch, ascend to maybe 200 feet and hover. I watch to see if my drone can maintain that position with no drift. It's hard to know wind velocity at elevation... And every situation and weather status is different. If I...

Thanks for the kind words. I don't know if two phones can be set up. But Freddy K has it covered... I would caution using the "older, weaker" phone with the drone. Use your best processor while flying. Video can be flaky at times, a lot of data, NOW. A "faster" phone will be better able to...

Your smartphone might not be able to handle multiple processing demands while droning. Your smartphone is a computer too. It just happens to double as a phone. Make your phone fully committed to the drone. NO "side" computing while droning. Especially if it is an older smartphone with less...

Chaosrider makes excellent points. It's all about GPS reception. The lower you go into a canyon, the less of the sky your drone can "see." You will typically lose radio-com, base to drone, before the GPS fails. Here's the math: You need a minimum of 4 GPS sats in view for it to...

Air 2S user here: Hood of my vehicle works perfectly. Never had a problem with having to recalibrate the compass from metal interference. Super convenient to just comfortably sit in car while flying, unobstrusive to others, if they even notice. Also makes monitoring of landing spot easy...

I have this charger which WAS excellent. Until I now get a "IN-L" error while charging. And then it stops charging. I cant find a manual on-line and wonder if anyone has had this problem. No problem in the "blue light mode" for storage setting. thanks

Aerial Camera. That's it. Brief story: I was in Afghanistan, AS A TOURIST, and had to clear (multiple concentric rings) of security at airports. One day, I got the full-on search of my backpack for one flight. As the courteous airport security guard kept opening more pockets in my backpack...

SECOND ADVANTAGE: let's say you want a certain pixel size, for example 100 micron x 100 micron. You could put twice as many such pixels on the BIG sensor described in previous post. So instead of 10 megapixels, you could have a 20 megapixel sensor: Sharper image, more details, more zoomable.

the final photo will have less noise. colors and detail, on zoom, will be better. Look at it this way to best understand: imagine you compare two sensors, each with 10 Megapixels. one sensor has twice the surface area. Each pixel gets twice as much light photons on the bigger sensor=better...

Our phones are little computers. Some are newer and stronger than others. IF you are using perhaps an older phone, the processor will not be as robust. and THIS might lose video feed, and other comms. I used to have to reboot MavicFly, during a troubled flight, just to get my video back...

Restarting the app might work. But you should consider your "phone" is actually a "computer that has a phone in it." You want that computer to be at max processing power for flight. That means OFFLOADING all other burdens on the phone's processor. I have learned from these forums two additional...

Here is a two step "pre-flight" routine that may help many of you who lose signal, lose video, lose any comms between your smartphone and the drone. The basic principle is this: your smartphone is a small COMPUTER. When you fly, the phone needs all the processing power it has to manage...

I concur with those citing the GPS not having a "fix." I have direct personal experience with this problem while inside a SLOT CANYON. for a proper GPS "fix" one needs at least 4 GPS sats in "view." For a tentative GPS fix, three GPS can do the trick, but not well. When I launched inside the...

Is there a way to BATCH upload "album" photos from smartphone to Skypixel. It's a pain having to "share" and "post" one at a time. I know you can batch download from drone card to iPhone, which is great. Any ideas out there?

Is there a way to BATCH upload "album" photos from smartphone to Skypixel. It's a pain having to "share" and "post" one at a time. I know you can batch download from drone card to iPhone, which is great. Any ideas out there?