Recent content by Huttcraft

I learned the hard way not to try landing on the small fibreglass deck of a boat. While landing my Phantom 3S on the stern deck of my 16’ Seadoo powerboat, I got it all squared up and settled nicely on the deck. As it sat there with the props still spinning, however, the boat just drifted out...

Hi Bthag — always a bummer losing an aircraft. I hope you’ll post your search progress! Dave

Hi BuckeyeRay - I don’t know what level of quality you need but I’ve done a few orthos completely manually, using DJI Go, eyeballing the overlap and grid, then merging the photos with the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor. I then uploaded the results to Zoomable, also free, to make it ...

Hi Hill Top - in your experience, is there anything OP can do to remedy the resin issues and rough edges? Like brush-on some epoxy or anything? Or are these blades trash?

I got a set of these rubber prop retainers and they do hold everything in place, but the MM won’t fit in the Flymore case with the rear prop retainer installed. So these are good for chucking the MM in my backpack for hiking, but don’t address the case’s rear prop distortion issue.

The prop positioning infographic in the Flymore case is a bit misleading too. It shows the blades of the port side rear props overlapped in a way they don’t go (see pics).

Hi SAR - thanks for your interesting work and patience with all of us. So knowing what you know now, do you plan to make any changes to your own MM (eg hunt down aftermarket carbon fibre props)? Or will you just try to be careful not to distort the props when it’s stored? Dave

Thanks Sli-Woody. Your video was clear and concise. I especially liked your real illustrations of the effects of different ND filters on your camera’s picture. This is a great service to other MM pilots. Does anyone have a video comparing the actual improvement one can achieve using manual...

Looks awesome! Can you possibly post some close-ups of areas where the wrap had to go around corners and the like? I’m interested in how tightly these skins fit the model. Also, any idea how much weight it has added? Dave

That’s how I did it. And yes, after the update I had a list of 3 or 4 alerts advising why I was unable to take off, with incomprehensible error codes instead of plain language descriptions, eg.: After sitting for 5 minutes or so these errors seemed to resolve on their own. I got them with...

I’m sure it’s been a great seller but that doesn’t justify adding features. Anything they do that improves the MM’s capabilities will erode sales of DJI’s other products. The MM is positioned as the gateway drug. I’m not holding my breath.