Recent content by amorrison

I think what triggered this was "This office has received a complaint regarding your use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) for commercial purposes referencing your video on the web site Youtube.com as evidence." There are a lot of "Drone Haters" out there. So I think we need to do all...

It sounds crazy but... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2150034 Apparently they are looking at Aerial Videos on youtube and sending letters out... Another story: http://mashable.com/2015/03/12/drones-youtube-policy/

Just do some short range tests first, watch the satellite counts, and have some means to reach the MR with a transmitter if it loses satellite lock. When I get the new GPS Pro Plus I am going to run some tests and see if I get the same problem... Hopefully not.

Have you done a video on the mod yet? If not you should.

I would upgrade to that in a heartbeat. I have already ordered the 2312 motors and new V2 ESCs for the now blind P2V+. I had assumed since the gimbal was fine, and it was so fragile, that the camera would be too.

Great video - the only one I have seen on actual camera disassembly. Thanks for the link!!

I was thinking the same thing. Since the control is 5.8 GHz I might even be able to use the Gopro's built-in wifi which would give awesome control over the camera. Even with limited range it would be useful. I am thinking in the air line of sight one might get several hundred feet. I just don't...

There were some nicks on the camera itself indicating it took a hit from something. I guess I can look inside although I can't imagine being able to fix it myself. At least I will see what it looks like inside. I am good at taking things apart...

I had a crash from 100 ft and thought I just had light damage but upon further inspection the P2V+ camera is now out of focus. Odd, the gimbal still works perfectly but the camera is unusable like this. Anyone had any experience with this type damage? I read that the lenses can be knocked out of...

Well, the IOS Vision App update just posted today 2/6 fixed my app crashing issues. I am good to go now. :)

Yes, I have already sent my A2 GPS module in for the "trade up" program for the new plus module. The problem I had I think was using it with 2.4 GHz ground station. The app predicts positions of the US GPS sats, QZSS, and GLONASS sats. I have QZSS and GLONASS turned off in settings. It also...

One more point (from personal experience) -if you lose GPS lock in the middle of the flight nothing works, not go-home, not home lock, and the mission stops. The bird just wanders around as it hunts for direction. Make sure you have a good satellite count, and a stable one. If it re-acquires a...

After having some GPS acquisition issues with my A2 controller on a BVR flight with ground station (almost didn't get back), I started looking for an IOS app that would show me information on the GPS satellite configuration. I found this "GPS Plan" app for the iPhone that was pretty interesting...

As a test for a longer range flight I planned this test flight - a simple straight 1 mile out and 1 mile back. The UAV is a DJI Flamewheel F650 with A2 controller and E600 motors hereafter called "Buzzard". IPad Ground Station is 2.4GHz. I had the ground end mounted to the top of a light stand...

For the camera update - refer to the link provided above. The just of it is you download the zip file, extract the .bin file, rename it to remove the extra periods from the version number so it looks something like xxxxxx.bin, copy it to the root of the camera's memory card, and power up the...