Recent content by Starfighter

I love your analogy to the oncologist here. My sister actually fired one (At Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville for being a cold fish.). It worked out, but some of the most gifted oncologists and are highly gifted technicians, who do their magic magic, save lives, and happen not to be warm and cuddly...

I'm afraid I've seen mention of things similar to this but not nearly as catastrophic. On my Mavic Pro 2 w/ the Hasselblad canned, I'm seeing a live picture, and the recorded image on the SD card, be a solid pink/orange color. It can turn good for a little while, then it returns. It...

Great job and your service is very valuable. I sent you a question Visa your online form which should be a straight forward question. DJI seems to have a customer service reputation that you'd have to try hard to get one so BAD. If they have a side to the reason for this I'd be curious to...

Nope. A mere spec still counts! As long as no binoculars are used. Do you have to be able to FLY it from a VLOS point of view? I don't think it says. If you look away from the spec, or blink, and take 10 seconds to find the spec again, you were illegal for 10 seconds. If you crashed...

I'm guessing it's a kenetic energy caution game. The speed at which you crash is with the tailwind included (of course), which is why with a light manned aircraft, or glider, landing into or with the wind can easily be a life or death differences. 65 knot landing speed, 25 kt wind. 90 kt vs...

If I caused a crash and was set 400' 1", I'd never sleep again, go to hell and maybe go to jail! 399' 11", and all's good. Is this why Catholics have purgatory? Yes, the Mavics both sticks down and in, and and down and out WILL stop the motors in flight. The standard both sticks down and...

There were 3 power (common four three phase power), arranged in a triangle as they went from pole to pole. I flew my brand new Phantom 4, between all the lines in sport mode (TOTALLY BY ACCIDENT). I was not pleased. Lucky.

I forgot to mention the one BAD experience in the park. I had gotten some big head tracking goggles, but no DGI GO info was shown anywhere. So I was letting people try the goggles, and flying strictly by LOS, and it's not really my strong point, so I stayed very close, an inadvertently...

This is a pipe dream, and I can't imagine it being cost effective but helicopters have airbag like floats that are barely noticeable until you hit a switch and they rapidly inflated. Kind of similar to a ballistic parachute, which could actually be combined with this. Lose a prop over water...

I'll post my video of the powerline flip on YouTube, and come back with the title. I don't think there is anything that could get me in trouble. It's quite a dramatic video, and DJI should really get it in their collection because it's a superb demonstration of the robustness of the bird...

Many people have told me I was far too kind. If I had just moved in I could have been kicked out after being labeled a pervert, and they never considered that. But two 55 year, booked into the county jail, for being paranoia. Also I knew how wide the FOV is. For 30 seconds it was stationary...

not Not hand catching and launching would be madness. I figured this out years ago on the beach. The winds had reached the point where a landing tipover was a given. Sand in the motors. Bad news. The first time, I landed it in the condo parking lot, sheltered from the wind. Then I...

Stunning. Love it. I'm going to puruse this thread further because while hand catching from a moving boat is rather obvious, I was wondering about power up and initialization on a very unstable surface. Everytime I've done so it's been calm. Also the Mavic doesn't really care that it's...

I'm just curious. Had you owned the Mavic 4 days after you bought it new? The Gimble going nuts shouldn't affect how it flies. You hit return to home, and it came back? From how far, and what's a "death spin". Was it trying to land itself? Was it descending with power like it was...

It cost me between 5 and 10 Mavic Pros! NO HEALTH INSURANCE GAMBLE GOES AWRY! I had let my Obama Care policy lapse through pure plain and simple negligent non-payment, and was going "naked" (No Health Insurance), until the next open enrollment period when this happened. NO HEALTH INSURANCE...