Recent content by Noonan

You can see the reason it's called Jell-O in my Ar.Drone video here: It has to do with osicallations in motion that are similar in frequency to the effective video line rate, so that you see the difference between the 2 freqs in the image. I did fix the Jell-Oing on AR.Drone by balancing...

Something people don't mention is that when you're out in the country, there's also a lot less radio frequency interference. When you're in the 'burbs and every house as a WiFi network, it will affect your range on both 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz. When you're in the country, with no competing signals...

I bought at $399 mid-December on Amazon, Wal-Mart had them at $499 same time. Poke around, you'll probably find a deal. But add my vote to the go-for-P3S tally. It's an awesome bird, very stable, good range, eats wind for breakfast. If you want an intro to the hobby, it's perfect. I bought an...

I was watching videos not because I'm naturally fastidious, but more because the weather sucked and I couldn't fly. Here's the forum post that probably became the video in question: TOP 10 common pilot errors

I took somebody's advice from a forum post I read and simply started the bird on the ground, and counted "alligator-1, alligator-2, ..." and let motors run before take-off for 1 minute. Twice this solved P3's complaining about cold battery, and it's pretty much a good idea anyways, being what we...

I juat watched a DJI traning video last week about the "X things newbies do to crash their copters" and assuming that self-tightening props didn't need to be snugged was one of the things. It was one of the videos one can access from the app.