Recent content by Deanster

OP, I'm just baffled by your posting. Mavic has different optics than P3/P4. If they're not well-suited for your specific needs, then get something that works for you, or if Mavic has other features that are valuable, figure out how to make it work with Mavic's optics. Your notion that...

I actually think that the combination of the 200' ceiling and the graduated distances (2 miles from heliport, etc) is a VERY reasonable approach, and one I hope comes to Part 107 and/or recreational sUAS operations soon. The current 5-mile notification requirement for every private heliport...

Hi all! I've been working on a series of 'Little Planets' panorama shots with my 13 y/o son as part of his 8th grade final project. We bought Litchi, and installed it on the iPad Mini 4 we use for flight control. We've tried flying our photo missions, but once we have the P3P in position and...

I'm really sad to discover I'm already spoken-for during the Seattle event, otherwise I'd be there in a heartbeat. Thanks for posting this opportunity!

All the time, but with LOTS of open space, and we start with VERY small controller movements. I usually have people just use the left stick first. Right thumb TOTALLY off the right stick! Rotate right, rotate left. That gives them a very good idea of the stick response, without endangering...

Vegas seems like a super-bad place to fly, IMHO. The red areas of the NFZ map posted above tell the story well. As noted above, the airport is RIGHT there, with low-altitude jetliners and private aircraft in the landing pattern all around the Strip and outer areas. Then there's the Nellis...

Round trip Seattle-Maui in December with P3P and 3 batteries in DJI hardshell backpack inside a 22" Costco rolling suitcase just for convenience, as we had our laptops and personal stuff in our normal backpacks. I was pleasantly surprised that the X-ray techs knew exactly what it was on their...

Two - one P3A at Makena/Big Beach on Maui this last year, while I was swimming. The other was a big pro hex on a test flight in a local park, several years ago.

I really like 'UAV Forecast' for NoFly Zones and TFR/NOTAM's, as well as local weather. I was just on Maui a month or so ago, and my primary observation is that especially on the coastlines, Hawaii is quite windy, with routine 20-knot winds with higher gusts. There were several situations...

The thing you have to remember is that most people are ****ing morons.

The nature of technological products is that features get added on the high-end models, and what was previously high-end moves down the price ladder until eventually it's standard on even the cheapest models. You're dreaming if you don't think that the 'full price' ~$1400 Phantom 7 (or...

I, too, would love to see the logs. I don't have a P4, so no dog in the fight, just curious as to what went down. Lots of ways for things to go wrong with a free-flying RC aircraft with GPS, complex sensors and limited autonomy.

Given the insane penalties for an unregistered sUAS, the potential consequences of flying unregistered don't make any sense to accept, even if the likelihood is low.

2011 i7 3.4ghz iMac, 12 gigs of RAM. It works just fine, though it's not fast. By contrast, my 2010 i5 17" Macbook Pro *really* struggles with 4K... It's generally a pretty capable machine, top-notch when it was new, handles HD very nicely, but even playing 4K video or attempting to compress a...

Ummmm... which other drones ACTUALLY AVAILABLE TO BUY will do what the P4 can do, or will self-rescue as shown in the video? Not to say that it'll work 100% of the time, but a P3, or any other drone on the market would IMHO have never been seen again. Even a 50% success rate will bring a lot...