Recent content by retrodog

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    Crash = Max Motor Speed Reached

    I was out flying the P3S yesterday and a tree got in the way. Actually just the limb of a tree. I saw it before contact but couldn’t alter course fast enough to avoid impact. Well it wasn’t the impact with the tree that was the problem so much. It was the subsequent impact with mother earth. The...
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    P3 Standard "HIDDEN" SD card inside battery tray??? :S

    It is a mandatory backup BiOS created by Cyberdyne Systems. That's all I could extract from it. Carry on, all will be fine.
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    RC Signal Lost

    I too have a new P3s. Installed update yesterday. I get the same message right off. Have never even attached props. Update: well I synced my controller and that got rid of the problem. Now I just have to wait for this 25-30 mph wind to end so that I can do a range test.
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    Are you a member of AMA and why?

    AMA, all of the cost of the NRA but with none of the teeth. J/k
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    Houston Fliers are ya out there??

    Friendswood here. Looking forward to playing down at Brooks. Nobody to piss off except for disc golfers. And I've been playing there since 97 so I probably already know most of them anyway. There's also a really nice flying area there for RC stuff. But it has mandatory AMA membership...
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    Dogs and drones.

    Personally, I would have probably sat down on the ground and played with the dog for a few minutes, until the owners made it over there or called him back. But I'm a dog person. My view on it is that all dog people are my friends until they make themselves enemies. A lot of people know nothing...
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    Can non-US flyers register drones?

    No, but you are free to buy as many guns as you want here. j/k I think it's going to take them a while to work all the details out on these new rules. Case in point: Colorado legalized recreational marajuana use, but then took a year or two just to work all the details out before it went into...
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    Rules when flying

    If the sea rules carry any precedents then yes, the drone would be at fault. I have a sneaking suspicion that at least for the near-term future, the drone will always be at fault for just about any conflict or accident.
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    Do you own any cheap drone

    I started with a UDI U818A-1. Very safe and will take a pretty good beating. It's a sail boat in the wind though. A buddy of mine has a Syma X8c that his wife got him. It's really nice. So I got irritated by all the wind and how much it impacts my 818, so I took the cover off. That almost cut...
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    Drone registration

    Sort of the same way cars got their start. No licensing or regulations in the beginning, but problems and abuse made it necessary. I just got my P3S last week and then heard about this today. Yay, me.
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    P3S Size and Other Similarities/Differences Impacting Accessories?

    Thanks guys (and/or gals) for the responses. I appreciate it. I was getting all ready to fly this weekend and now it looks like a washout, with rain both days. maybe there will be some dry times I can experiment with.
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    P3S Size and Other Similarities/Differences Impacting Accessories?

    I hate to start a new thread but my attempts at searches get a lot of threads that don't have the information I'm looking for... Just got a new P3S. After getting home, I started checking out accessories on Amazon. I noticed that many of them are listed for the Professional and Advanced, but...