Recent content by Lyon McKeil

OK, copy that. I'll give it a try and see what results I get.

Wow, didn't know it would do that! Well y'all know what I'm going to be doing when I get hone. Thanks!!

One of our park districts here is Northern CA has a ban in place for drone operations. It specifically says that the policy prohibits the use of drones on or over any property managed by the district. I would suggest seeing if you can find the policy in question and check the verbiage. With...

Thank you for the warm welcome! Thus far I'm still trying to figure out how to fly it. The only video I have is wandering around my neighborhood, which is rather boring. I did try and catch one of our fire engines heading out to a call but I haven't quite got the hang of keeping the subject in...

Getting the screws back in straight was a challenge, but, I think I got it. I flew it at five ft eye level (I'm vertically challenged :)) with it in C mode and I couldn't detect any variations. I also set it on my bench and started the motors without taking off and watched them there and didn't...

As I'm learning to fly I have had a few close encounters with fixed objects (I'm getting better). Nothing has brought down the Mini yet, but, the propellers defiantly took a bit of a beating. The recommendations out there say that when the propeller blades are showing signs of damage they...

Hello, I'm Lyon from Sunnyvale, CA. I have a friend that got into UAS flying and then did is Part 107 certification. He was telling me about it and I got interested so I started the 107 training from Pilots Institute (I'm almost ready to take the test). After getting about half way through the...