Recent content by noiseboy72

Yeah... Be very careful, as you are probably just the wrong side of the law. Stay Safe!

Just to clarify, 2 houses could be considered as a "congested area" within the rules. Certainly a small housing estate would be.

It's quite simple, so here goes... Your flight must be safe. This means you should be able to see your quadcopter and be in control of it at all times. You must not fly over or within 150M of a congested area. This means anywhere where people live, are working or playing. You must not fly within...

The Irish rules are not dissimilar to the UKs, with limits on flying over congested areas and out of site of the operator and with all sites conducted in a safe manner. Quite honestly, I never fly more than 300m away, as I cannot see the quad clearly at more than that distance. I would never...

You will need to use a male antenna. There will be virtually no connection on a female antenna and you risk burning out the TX.

I would imagine the wires touched at some point and it has blown the protection inside the Phantom. Do you have a multimeter to check this? I would insulate the wires before connecting up. use some sleeving or worse case, insulating tape.

That will be a crane or jib shot. Looks like it was then digitally edited to remove the jib from the shot. Even now, you would use a jib for a shot like that. Drones are more used for inaccessible areas too high for a jib and too low for a helicopter. I watched a shoot for some opening...

There is no point going for a really high powered TX. Better antennae will give more range and you won't drain the flight battery so quickly. 2W does not sound like a lot of draw on the battery, but the efficiency is only about 30%, so you are actually requiring up to nearly 1 amp to drive the...

A slightly different church shoot... This was my first trip out with my P2 early last year.

Depends on what you are intending to do with the footage. If your end goal is Youtube, then 30FPS (NTSC) is better, the same for anything PC based. PAL is more important if you intend to use footage for broadcast or burning to PAL DVDs.

Yep, not only are there park regulations and restricted flight zones covering most of London, but they come under the Congested Areas rules if you fly with a camera. You really cannot fly in Central London at all. Not a great place to own a drone!

The CAA said today that they have no current plans to change the rules, but will consider enforcing them more strictly if problems persist.

I just hope you have some serious money! You might be able to get a "toy" FLIR for a few hundred pounds, but a decent unit with 640 x 480 resolution, good quality visual and a data link is thousands, possibly tens of thousands!!

Can't help on the Wifi, as I have a P2 with analogue video link, but sounds like you have the compass dance wrong. I hold the Phantom flat level - in take off position, and turn my whole body through one and a half turns, then hold the ' bird with the top towards me - so the legs point away...

Possibly, as the windings can be distorted by over torque. TBH, your issues are more likely due to the need to carry out a full IMU calibration following your mishap!