Recent content by RGallant

Out in Mission still check in regularly

@RussOnTheRoad thanks for taking the time to post that, I do have a question and it something I think many of us struggle with. Interest and composition, I have read a great deal and looked at a large number of photos, but in your experience how do you draw the eye to something that may be...

I might be in the minority here, but along with telling a story and framing, try less altitude. The temptation is to always go high, but I think you can get a much more dramatic shot by being lower down in many cases. Your last image, to me at least, would have been more interesting lower...

@slup Coming from the old R/C Helo world where swelling, charging and flight times were all we had. I have to say Airdata is great, I upload after every flight and check my battery performance, see if there are any deviations, check temps etc. Along with a post flight and pre-flight physical...

There is one thing you can try, run the battery right down sub 20%. then recharge see if it normalizes. I had one on my used Mavic Air 1 that showed a similar odd pattern. After the process above it has not re-occurred, however keep your 1st flight after the recharge low slow and close. The...

@LA 2020 rules are very strange up here in Canada, and where @MrCalvano is in Ontario there seem to to be a ton of float plane docks. It is no uncommon, and rarely a hard no fly but rather they expect common sense. The recommend not flying, but it really depends on the air traffic. National...

@MrCalvano welcome to drone flight in Canada, you can fly in the yellow but this site gives a bit more information : Nav Canada drone map The relevant text is : Areas filled with yellow require additional caution due to other air traffic. Clicking on a yellow circle gives you more detail...

I had the local eagle circle in, when I went up to get a view of my roof, and I have strobe. I put the drone down on the flat of the roof. Not sure there is anything that will work well.

Read through all this, glad on I am one the west coast of Canada and outside of Vancouver. Drone flying is pretty straight forward. To get some really great stuff I have drive, maybe 10 minutes maybe an hour or so, more if I want the ocean. But the same applies to my handheld camera...

@slup thanks for clearing that up

@BudWalker sorry if I am asking a lot of obvious questions, but I am big of a dog with bone when it come to troubleshooting. l like to understand processes. In post 13 the 1st log file he posted starting at 6m 50 Secs, I have cut the basics out of the log, it looks odd to me. This may be...

@BudWalker @slup cool thanks for the all the info that was my gut feeling when I looked at the 1st data, something was wonky in the internals. There was also a odd battery voltage event. Voltage was dropping steadily as would be expected but then went back up, it was about .1 of a volt in the...

@slup thanks for your continuing work on this, I am learning a lot about troubleshooting flight issues

@slup just to ask a what maybe a dumb question: If he took off at a level point the two altitudes should generally be the same correct ? In the image below you can see a very sudden change in the IMU VS VPS altitude. Based on your information he would have had to flown over a fair...

@dondroneson seeing we are on the subject, does your product operate offline ? Download to device prior to trip and work without cell or Wi-fi. Cell is pretty spotty in a lot BC and having an off line reference would be handy. Location can be picked up via GPS, so that part is "simple" for me.