Recent content by GVDD scout

I would suggest looking at Drone Harmony. They have a waypoint planning option that I have used to great success. I have not used Litchi or Google Earth Pro, so I can't comment on their systems. Drone Harmony, Android only, in a nut shell has the ability for you to put the bird in the air...

In my first few months of flying, I lost more props that way than by bad landings, crashes, etc. Standard practice for me now is to grip/restrain the motor from underneath, engage the prop from above with the correct twist-push motion. When done give the prop a light back and forth rotation...

As I've noted before, I've had my P4P throw a propeller twice, and it survived the 1st and splattered on the second. DJI warrantied the 2nd. I did not see the logs, but saw the drone pushing hard with three motors to try to get stable as it came down from 399ft. onto asphalt. In both cases the...

The funky, sometimes mushroom like appearance is the result of camera angle with respect to the sloping surface. Higher overlap will help this, but will generate more images. If I were flying a quarry; 50 acres with 70 ft piles, I would program a grid with 75% overlap on both directions, fly at...

I have been flying a P4P not P4P+, but I'm assuming that DH would make note on their website if they did not support the P4P+.

I would look at Drone Harmony. I've been using it for a full year now for all of my mapping flight plans and video work. If you are flying up a river enough to want to correct for constant elevation, DH can do that. Only drawback is that DH is Android only. I assume you have Pix4D mapper? My...

Similar to you, but I've had the whole propeller come off 2 times. First was at 200' just into a mapping grid. right rear prop just came off, and down came the drone. Autopilot was fighting like mad and it landed on the side/one leg. Drone was OK to fly with new props. 2nd time was similar...

I wear a HiViz vest when I'm near construction or think I need gravitas. But if people don't see the caution placards and cones near my LZ, I don't think they will read the lettering on my vest.

I have a friend with a P3 that laughs at anything under a 25mph gust and flies at or past visual range. I don't fly my company P4P if the wind is over 15mph gusts as if something goes wrong, I don't want to try to explain why I had a 20mph tail wind sending the drone to Utah. But 10mph steady...

Similar damage to my P4P cost $395 US from usadronerepair.com. Assume ~$275 in parts. They may have a referral down under.

1.How long has it been since you calibrated your compass? 2. I find that at times I need to fly a survey near high tension power, or crane operations. If I'm not going to be 100' above then, I usually approach this type of obstacle at aprox. top altitute and get close enough to confirm true...

I agree with Just _nick: If you're Part 107 Cetified, you should know better. If not, there are some rather cool rigs shown on this thread. However, do you want to be responsible for someone's cardiac arrest as they mistake your drone for either LGM or a CIA kill mission? Also, drones at night...

To date the best solution I've found is: Plan and fly with the drone in front and the sun behind. wear a dark blue or black shirt. I'm at that point in life where I can easily cast a shadow on a 10.1" tablet, and by angling the RC so I see my navel reflected in the screen, most of the glare is...

I have been using an older LG- VK 700 10.1'" android tablet for the last 16 months. Velcro on tablet, matching on RC and DJI box top. Absolute max size with a protective back shell, but i have never dumped it off the RC or had it fall off the outside of the P4P DJI box. I am leaning towards the...

All of your points are excellent and concise. Just an hour ago i was flying a survey 6.4 miles from the tower, 1.4 miles out of Class D air space, and half way through the grid, i hear and then see a Cessna 172 inbound from the west 'site seeing' at about 1,000' AGL, I'm at 275', so I proceeded...