Recent content by MikeyP

I use Litchi exclusively. I'm getting that GPS message on my screen also. I click it away and it just pops up again. But I get plenty of satellites and it flies well enough. I've never gotten it before but in the last couple of weeks It pops up every time. I figured it was a trick to get me...

In Lake Havasu City, AZ, I have no problem with the heat on my Phantom 4. Have flown it in lots of heat, but I have to fly illegally because if I step out into the 110 degree heat my Ipad only takes about 4 or 5 minutes before it quits. Doesn't efect the P4 but I can't see what it's doing so I...

Living in an area where the temperature is well over 100 degrees F every day for weeks on end, one just gets used to it you learn to deal with it. Before I retired, I worked an outdoor job and realized that the Pioneers that settled Arizona had to live with the heat and by staying hydrated and...

I wonder how they found out who was piloting the drone. Do you suppose the drone pilot called the authorities and reported that a helicopter struck his drone? Was no blood on the prop all they needed to know to conclude that it was a drone? I always wonder why stories like these have so many...

Have you seen that airplane? How would a drone get through that spinning prop? And then that tempered plastic shell?

Things are changing very fast in this industry. I believe that in the very near future all of the inspection of power transmission facilities will be done by drones, not piloted aircraft. Just because of the difference in costs. When the investors learn that they can make more money by saving...

I spend a lot of time walking in the desert. When I see a rattler, I see what? A threat. It could kill me! IF it were to bite me, I am far too far away to walk to an area where I could get to a phone. IF this, IF that's! What IF it had been rushing toward me with hate in its eyes, trying to...

"I spent a month with a major operator’s aviation department, having them look at the last years’ worth of my flight logs, my operating procedures, and my emergency contingency plans, before granting my company authorization to fly over their facilities. All because someone had flown over one of...

I have been following a fellow from Canada who has a vlog on the YouTube channel. his name is Alan Yu, and he has been posting daily about the Canadian Drone Laws for quite some time. He lately had a problem with his gimbal on his Mavic malfunctioning and sent it in for repair in California...

Altho I had read of concerns that people have of flying over water, I forgot about it the first time I flew over water and I never encountered any problem. In this video, I flew close enough for my props to ripple the water I made no changes in any settings and have made other flights...

Here's a follow up on my problem. I decided to get another controller. I think there is no balance charger wire because each of the two single cell batteries feed into the plug that connects them to the controller inside the controller case. THAT is where the balance magic takes place, and...

Sorry again-- now I show that you can watch it 3 times. Still, it's pretty entertaining[emoji16]

Doggone it, The link I put in there was just to the ad that was playing. see if this works.:. Sorry about that. Sorry to waste your time. If this link doesn't work, I wrote in the title that I got in the search, so you can use that. Dissecting DJI phantom 3 remote repair BBC Outdoors Mostly RC

Well, you all have certainly given me a lot to look into. Here's a link to a dissection of a P3 controller that I found most interesting. This guy is way farther out on a limb than I would climb, but watching the things he did and what he learned saved me a bunch of learning. Dissecting DJI...

Thanks DanMan, thanks David I may have gotten a little ahead of myself, but I went to Youtube after I posted this and watched a guy dismantle his p3 and am now watching a guy opening a p4. Very helpful, but then it occurred to me to look on ebay for a battery and found a simple device that...