Recent content by Torque

I often fly with 2 to 3 other "pilots" and never had an issue with transmission problems. However we communicate our positions verbally with one another constantly. A couple of near head on collisions made us realize we need to call out our positions as we tend to shoot a lot of gaps. Not...

I agree with Hank970 above. Healthcare professional for 40+ years here and I can just picture the scenario in my mind: Mother is told by paramedic, EMT or MD; "The impact of the drone to his chest was like a shock to his heart." Mom hears "The Drone electrocuted his heart."

LOL, I remember back in the Phantom 1 days when this forum was brand new, I suggested pilots learn to fly patterns like circles, squares, ovals, etc. and I was met with a lot of arguments from forum members who claimed the Phantom was "an out and back unit" and claimed there was no need to learn...

The news says the plane was only in the air about 40 seconds, "a catastrophic event on take off."

You should be able to suss out from what you've read that the FAA does NOT do research on Drones, new planes, new propeller designs, etc. Studying and "researching" ways to keep the sky safe is not product research.

I tried stabbing my arm with a piece of straw, didn't even leave a scratch. Yet I've seen tornadoes bury a piece of dry straw several inches deep in a tree trunk. That must really hurt the heads of the armchair physicists here.

Loved Iron Butterfly in my youth! For many years growing up I just took it for granted that God was named Harold. I heard it constantly; "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name..."

Walmart is currently doing drone deliveries in select markets. They contract with Drone Up for the service.

I'm sure this will be just as devastating to the drone community as you predicted RID would be...

I commute 28 miles from my home to work in Seattle each day, I work 12 hour shifts, so half of they year I'm driving both directions in the dark. Each morning, but especially in the evening, I see a long line of lights strung out like street lights as far as I can see - planes lined up to land...

Yes it was shot in normal mode.

I helped a friend set up this bowling alley/mini golf/cafe fly through. My buddy teaches a HS photography and this was a done for his students. Not very crowded as we shot right after opening. No actors - they were all prepped on what was happening, and those bowling and playing golf were...

My 3s arrived from DJI without a glitch over a month ago. At that time there were several who had their's stopped at customs, including Ken Domo's. It seems like the problem with those orders is that they were coming from the port of entry in Miami. Here on the west coast, the drones...

I have prop guards for almost all of my drones, and rarely use them. However, living in the Pacific Northwest, I'm often flying in a forest - and prop guards have saved my drone several times from being taken out by those tiny terminal branch tips. So when planning a new path through the...

This is only when flying without a controller (including the phone), so yes, just when doing automated quick shots. I've flown mine beyond VLOS using the RC2