Recent content by Miataguy

From 400 feet, you would have less than 5 seconds from the time it started to fall. By the time you realize it isn't flying and search for the controls to restart it, the game is over.

Every time a memory card is reformatted, it resets the file index back to 1. And each card has its own index. This is the opposite of the way my Nikon works - no matter how many times I format and no matter how many cards I use, the index counter starts wherever it left off. Is there any...

Bought MA2 from Amazon in September. No "r" or "s" here either.

So what *did* work was starting recording, and then stopping. Then I was able to change mode. Methinks that's a bug in the firmware.

Tried that. Didn't help.

So at first blush, it seems like this warning message is obvious. One would expect to get this if you're actively recording video. But I wasn't. I was set to video, not recording, and I tried clicking on the little filmstrip icon to change modes, but that message keeps coming up. What else...

I was at a friends house a few weeks back, sitting outside having cocktails, when I saw aircraft lights that looked like they were coming right at us at a very low altitude. I was a bit frightened as I really thought it might be in distress. I opened my Flightradar24 app, and saw that it was...

What if everyone assumed it had been reported? Just sayin'.

That means you shouldn't head off in a non-vertical direction until you've ascended at least 7 meters. It doesn't mention anything about hovering.

Thanks for the tip on hovering at 11-14 feet. I’ve been hovering at the initial takeoff altitude of around 4 feet under the assumption that it would take a photo of my landing pad. Didn’t realize it needs to be a bit higher. By the way, my last 2 flights returned perfectly to my pad even when...

Thank you for your words of wisdom, but I know my responsibilities and that wasn't the question that I asked. I just wanted to know if there was a way to check to see if the home location updated in the event that I didn't catch the one-time alert. Someone else answered it.

That's the problem - I never hear it. Volume is always too low and I never remember to crank it up before flight.

My first 10 or so flights, the home location was perfect. It would land within an inch or two of the takeoff spot. But my last couple of flights, it tried to land about 5 or 6 feet away. (I frequently take off from the same general area.) Now, this may not be a big deal if its just an error of...

I've been wondering the same thing. In another thread, someone told me to ignore the Airdata calculation, that it was incorrect.

So patchy means I was about to lose signal?