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Are you an American traditionalist as opposed to an American revolutionary? The Imperial in Imperial units represents the British Empire. Sure the gallons are US gallons now, but the system is a British Imperial system. Are you defending a system imposed by an empire which the States fought a...

Again, most of the rest of the avaition world has moved toward metric. Your list is true for the US, but for the rest of the world the list is: Airspeed: Knots Distances: Nautical miles (nautical miles are a closer match to minutes of arc on a chart) Altitude: Feet (because they give round...

Are there any other clues in the data prior to signal loss that might indicate the cause of the power loss? @sar104, you mentioned, "it may have suffered a battery disconnect or an FC crash." If an FC fails would you still expect the link to stay active? It concerns me that a M2 could just...

Fair point - it is still showing 3 bars on the link signal just prior to disconnect. Far more likely that the problem is a consequence of being at 1500' in strong wind (and who knows what level of turbulence) and then rapidly going full throttle and also switching to Manual mode. It would be...

At 1:39 in the Video, the OP says he gets out of his car to restore LOS. Perhaps this is the simple explanation for the lost connection? Operating from inside a car would cause signal attenuation. The next comment on the video is that, "The control switch has no effect." ... and shortly...

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, Speaking of which, what has the AAUS ever done for us? Genuine question - I'm curious what the AAUS does that might be useful for small drone...

RAAF 83-95

I was out flying this morning getting some practice flying in ATTI mode. So lots of hovering and never too far away from my landing point. I stretched the batteries to get the most practice time. Just read this thread, followed @Bill Ludwig's advice and checked on AirData. I hadn't realised...