Recent content by Jim Padgett

Is there a way to reprogram the gimbal thumb wheel from UP/Down to Down/UP? Same for Zoom thumb wheel from IN/Out to Out/IN. After four years I still can't stop doing it backwards every time I try to use them. I'm to the point of cracking open the controller and swapping the wires on the knobs.

Your CAR is probably gathering more data on you than your drone is. But did you get a Privacy Notice from them? Professional Hacker Reveals How Car Industry Spies on Drivers

Counterfeit cards will do the same thing, I learned the hard way. I had a 64GB SanDisk from Amazon, that was in fact only 16GB. It looks just like all the others. And worked fine at first (until I filled it past 16GB). You have to use an SD card test program, but it won't just tell you the...

1/4 of a foot is 3 inches, 1/3 of a foot is 4 inches, whole numbers, making Imperial friendly for the Trades to do fractions without a calculator. Fractions of a mile are also whole numbers in feet down to 1/32

I had trouble that turned out to be a counterfeit Sandisk "64gb" card that was a slow 16gb card instead. It was slow to load, and when you paused recording, it ground on for several seconds before it would finally "close" the file. When it gets full at 16gb, it just goes on overwriting the...

putting up "CB radio towers" just so they can get a 150' ceiling.... Several years ago the FCC regulation regarding antenna towers over 60 feet high was quietly changed to 20 feet. Also the term ‘tower’ was replaced with a rambling description ‘any structural part of the contiguous system at...

With a controller/ ipad (or iphone), I 'Mirrored' it to the Win Laptop using Reflector 3 on the laptop. It's not rock solid but it works. There may be better Win Mirrors out there for the Laptop. Mirroring to a Mac or Apple TV would likely be solid. You need a common wifi hub, which is how they...

The government had to have its nose PULLED OUT of the Telecom industry by Reagan and deregulation, otherwise we still might not have cell phones. If you like your smart phones -thank Ronald Reagan.

I wanted to fly my sisters farm well out in the country, but just inside the Five Mile of four private airstrips. I had to spend all day physically hunting down ALL Four. One was NO Number, two NO answer or message and ONE was an office M-F 9-5 (no help on Saturday which is likely when HE is...

A couple screws in the wood? Well, what about these 'Magnetic' detachable USB Cables? Like the ones recommended to help save the fragile Power Port on the controller. I don't even like throwing those into the same bag with anything they could kill.

Yup, mine was doing the same thing, after optical sensor Calibration, it hasn't done it since.

Yes it might seem a bit off topic , but it's an example of how the government and the FAA/FCC extended it's floor of regulation from 60 ft, now down to 20 ft.

1) Does anyone know what the new regulations will be? Or is everything total speculation at this point? It will be draconian. I spent the last 40 years answering to the Federal Railroad Administration FRA. For the last eight years, we have been installing Positive Train Control PTC. It is a...

I'm NOT a lawyer but it seems the chicken farmer ruling didn't really address Private Property Air Space. It keeps coming up because it in fact reaffirms that Navigable Air Space is Public Right of Way. The constant noise and disruption, day and night, with no end in sight, made it imposable for...

The file on the card is 4k (unless you lowered it to 1k) so yes that difference will be visible. To be fair, you'd need the set the onboard to 1k then compare that to the 1k down feed cached file. As mentioned, there will be transmission anomalies introduced and reduced bit rates, so a less...