Recent content by Civil 68

Sorry, already have a buyer.

MUST SELL – Phantom 3 Advanced w/ extra battery, Koozam carbon fiber case (large, fits P3 w/ prop guards), gimbal saver installed, extra battery w/ two LiPo bags, 3 extra prop sets, controller. 42 flights, 4 hours 11 minutes total flying time, never crashed, no stress cracks. $800 cash for...

I've been using the IPad Mini 2 with the P3 for the past ten days. Near perfect! With the one exception (as I suspect will be the case with any phone/tablet) of glare from the sun. Get yourself, or make yourself, a sunshade to cover the IPad screen. Incidentally, some folks have reported...

It looked a bit like the idiot managed to pull all four props into a vertical plane. Could that fact have caused the flyaway, I wonder, since the P3 was temporarily in a plane at right angles to what it is programmed to be?

OMG. Forgot to mention that I still have my slide rules left over from engineering school, and the very first computer I worked on was an IBM 1620 needing punch card input with programming in Fortran II. Damned computer probably cost WPI a million or more, and didn't do one one-hundredth as...

Still have my Commodore 64, although my TRS80 is long gone. P3 is the new toy, and I'll be 69 in November.

The one thing I don't know how to do on this forum is send a PM, and an Excel .XLS file can't be uploaded. So .o.o . . . I'll be back on this forum in about 5 hours, and if anyone wants to clue me in about how to get a .XLS file to you, I'd be happy to do so.

Yes, it's an Excel File

Just a quick note on record-keeping for those so inclined. Attached is a quick Pilot's Log I developed which may serve as supplementary material for filing an FAA 333 exemption. Also makes a record of where you were and what you were doing (photography, training, irritating neighbor's dog...

Yes, you can ! Just go to the advanced settings and scroll to the bottom as shown. My P3 doesn't arrive until Monday, but I plan to fly it as "out of the box" initially in an open field at low altitude, then see what settings need to be adjusted or turned off. Definitely no "over-water" to...

Sometime in the last day or so Amazon changed the P3's "release date" from May 15 to June 15 !

Also from Holden and am awaiting the new P3. Have flown an AR2 around Holden Center, but will need practice with P3's control sticks. I Plan to play with simulator quite a bit before any real launches.

Just completed my avatar for a first post. F4C pilots from the Vietnam era might recognize the main character or some variation of it.