Recent content by RussT

After perusing the new rec regs I went & had a look at the sub 2kg commercial regs and noticed a change there - see para 4 ...

I'm SE Tas but I fly over a lot of the State. All I can say is beware of the wedge tails and the sea eagles, peregrines, plovers. They are the main threats. Lots of other birds have a look but seem to present no danger ... Happy flying in a beautiful part of the state!

Nice but ... Whales doomed to starve inside coral reef escape

Hit from behind by a Wedgetail Eagle ... Mavic limped home all over the sky for a hard landing

What part of TAS are you in?

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Mate of mine has recently returned from there and has a lot of amazing footage. Tips - be polite, engage the locals and you shouldn't have any troubles!

I talked with Parks here in TAS and the answer is a definite no to CASA sub 2kg permit. They require a full CASA licence and even then it is on a case by case basis. I know of an overseas film crew that came here and were knocked back on using a drone with a fully ticketed pilot. They did the...

Released today 28th Mar 2017

I'm at ~ 43deg south and I get those warnings now after the last update to 500 ... no problems before ...

I am now really tired of the whole Mavic experience ... it started off exceptionally well but the device has degraded to being unreliable with a dodgy camera ... it really is now not fit for purpose.

After just on 200 flights with no issues apart from the camera 'warm spot' - don't start me on that one - the gimbal decided to pull this one out of the blue .... It had several more episodes on the bench when testing but seems to have settled down ... not perfect though ...

I haven't shot any stills but the video has turned to rubbish. WB - sunny, shutter abt 1/100, ND8 polar pro ....