Recent content by hawk3907

I’m not familiar with the media drone rules. Are they the same as ours? Or can the media get a permit (or some kind of special permission) to fly over crowds?

Thanks for all the input. Hopefully this will help some people out.

This is pretty interesting. They looked like they were moving at a descent speed too and still pulled it off. I cant imagine a hand landing would have been possible without the string.

I always hand launch from a boat. I also always land the drone on my wifes hand. We have practiced this several times in the yard to get her comfortable with it.

Can you elaborate on this a little? Are you saying that the hiccup the drone was experiencing only existed in GPS MODE, and if he was able to switch to ATTI MODE that the problem would have stopped immediately and given him normal control back? Does this only work if the drone is within a...

Thanks for the feedback. I am adding the tips to the top for easy reference to anyone reading the thread.

I have actually never done this. Would that indicate a compass malfunction and be resolved by calibrating the drone?

I agree. Especially if you are flying with the wind and don't realize it until you are coming back home. I have done this a time or two from my back porch. The house was blocking the light breeze, but at 200 feet there was a descent wind that I flew with and realized there must be wind when I...

Can you elaborate on what you like more about the Marco Polo? Its it just the size? Longer charge? More accurate? Easier to view location?

That is solid advise. It would defiantly be good to know that in advance. Added to the list.

Its my understand that the average cell phones get signal from cell towers and GPS gets the signal from satellites. So its reasonable to assume that you could get signal from GPS and not your cell. I have flown in areas with no cell service and after contacting DJI, I was told to use the map to...

I have been flying drones for 4 years now and I have not permanently lost one yet (knock on wood). I had a fly away once because I did not wait for a GPS lock and flew it out of range and it just floated around until the battery got low and safely landed itself. Lucky I was able to keep eyes on...

That makes sense. I had not taken that into account. I have not had my app crash, yet. If the app crashes and you are a fair distance away, will it reconnect when you start the app back up or is there a reconnect range limitation? I’ll look into a tracker just in case.

Doesn’t the MP give you a location of your last GPS location if it goes down through the screen? Does an additional tracker only come into play if you have a battery failure? Can you give me a couple of examples of where a tracker would come into play more then the built in version? I have...

This is a pretty interesting concept and seems to make sense. I would imagine the birds don't want to mess with something that is oddly reflective. I have had 4 birds impact my drone. Always from behind, so I don't have any footage. But every time I held my breath, especially when above water...