Recent content by TS_Thomas02

Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous. Good to see it took in such Hi-Rez at YouTube. It looks like your color balance is nice too.

I know the feeling. I logged out for about a two month period to focus on other things. It's good to be back. Tom

I have both Litchi and Maven. I'll have to look at possibilities for importing points. I'm using a 1st gen Mavic Mini and a Mavic Air 2. The MA2 seems to be the smoother of the two when flying a waypoint flight. Along those lines, flying faster introduces more jerks and jitters. I've had...

I keep a file called If_Found.txt on my SD card and also in my Dropbox drone support files. After pulling off pictures, I’ll usually just do a quick format of the card so that I know it’s got max capacity, then put my info on it. Then before I forget, it goes back in the drone.

I believe it defaults to brake, and I’ve flown many flights that way, but lately I’ve set it to bypass when I remember to change it. It hasn’t made any difference yet. Mainly I’m big on keeping VLOS with the drone and I know the height of my trees when flying. I add about a 30 ft buffer on to...

I thought that it was just a corporate-level decision that it wouldn’t be sold in the USA market. It’s ability to be legally used in the US didn’t seem to be in question (at least by me, I could be wrong). As far as promoting BVLOS flying, I have to admit that there’s a little voice inside me...

If it’s working well, then it’s probably going to be a good solution. Try flying a little way out, and if you start to see signal interference at a closer range than what you believe it should, then I’d attribute it to the tape. However, if it’s truly just polymer based, your experiment will...

Or maybe use an old phone that doesn’t have a SIM card?

If I may provide a little input here. There’s no way that it would affect internal systems or even GPS, so, as probably presented by the mainstream media, it seems absurd on its face. As a pilot, I’m an end user of the equipment, but I can tell you what I’ve been told about interference, not...

I was flying today with quite a lot of wind present and found it somewhat helpful to position my right thumb down around the base to get larger inputs quickly. However, this was AFTER drawing the green spotlight box around a target, then getting the drone maneuvered around a child on a bicycle...

59. Not ready to retire yet. I have type ratings and certificates for manned flying but not the part 107 yet. This is recreational for me and getting smooth panning video of kids and grand kids is a wonderful reward for me. Getting shots of my kids helping others learn to ride new bikes today...

Yes, this would be worth archiving or pinning for people to review principles of sensor imaging.

You could try testing the Air2S with the Air2 props just to see.

I agree with the postings here about jerky inputs. However, worst case seems to be a point of focus close to the track while the drone flys by and camera azimuth angle has to track it. High speed makes it tough too. On the other hand, 2-3 mph, or slower, with a focus point further out, perhaps...

I can tell you that I’ve enjoyed trying both Mavic Maven and Litchi on my Mini-1 and Air2. While the virtual stick input can be less than cinematically smooth, it does ok if the speed of the drone is kept slow enough and the angle between the flight path track and the camera azimuth is such that...