Recent content by Rod Cambridge

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    How to add a remote channel & power port to Phantom 3 & 4

    Very nice work JonE! Yes, I also wish DJI would add a spare channel or two. How hard could it be for them? I think of all the cool options it would bring to the aircraft. I've been working on adding sound via a direction mic hanging from the landing gear.
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    First Drone Aircraft Collision? Ahh Nope

    In a world filled with morons and drunks, rule breakers and anarchists, there still have been no drone aircraft collisions. This must be due to all the fine work done by our congress and the FAA. They are paid to make rules and they have made a boat load of them. I, for one, have not bought a...
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    Phantom 3 Pro FPV with SkyZone Goggles

    Hello Pilots, SkyZone Goggles and P3P? Since DJI has decided, we, the P3 Community, don't rate high enough to get support for their new goggles, we have to find our own way. How often does this seem to be the case! I'd like to connect my SkyZones to my P3P and don't want to spend a month...
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    Following the rules

    Do you guys want to fly or study rules? Most countries I've flown in tell you to use common sense. Those countries would be Iceland, New Zealand and the Azores. It's only here that you have 1000's of rules and never really know if you're legal or not. And some of you sound like you can't wait...
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    New DJI Goggles don't support Phantom 3's ?

    I consider this a major insult to P3 Owners. This also means that anything else DJI puts out will probably not support the majority of DJI's Customers. We, the P3 Owners made DJI successful. We, the P3 Owners have been the major cheerleaders of this Company. And they shut us out of their new...
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    Why Sound is Important and how it COULD be done.

    Remember silent films from 100 years ago? Well that's where our DJI products are today. So you fly over a beautiful waterfall with birds surrounding your plastic bird but you have to imagine what it sounds like. Or you can go thru the tedious process of syncing an audio file to your video...
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    That is an amazing number, (169,856 ), far more than I would have guessed. And true a Phantom battery is heavy and dense at 365 grams, or 14 ounces, a full grown goose weighs 14 lbs. Which would I rather hit? Neither.
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    Wow, looks awful. But hopeful we'll all have collision avoidance systems to keep this from happening.
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    I appreciate the logical dialogue. And I have some further thinking to do. I think sar104 used a key term, "conservative" meaning it's better safe than sorry. But my problem is I'd rather it be conservative the other way. Rather that bow to some hysterical notions that life and limb are at...
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    sar104, Thank you for your comment. I'm going to read it a few more times and think about it. But to be clear, you think all the regulation is justified.
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    Hi BigA107, Just so you know I'm also a Private Pilot and received a 333 exemption. I thank you for your input. But I'm perplexed by you not seeing the obvious. With 1000's of objects in Controlled Airspace that have brought down commercial aircraft compared to the small number of drones in...
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    Back in the air

    Hi Northern, Good news! Can you tell us what the problem was? And if you don't mind what they charged you for the repair? Thanks!
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    What to do with dead phantom

    Hi Dazz, Sorry to hear about your aircraft. I've been thinking about converting an old Phantom into a wheeled or track vehicle. The video link from the Phantom hardware would be awesome. I'd use the DJI GO app and have a cool ground vehicle.
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    Hi daveisim, All the waterfowl in those areas 1 mile from the airfield have advised me that they will indeed follow the circulars clear guidelines. Thanks for using big words like nonsensical! So you tell me dave, do you think drones are a bigger threat to aircraft than geese? How many large...
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    FAA says Geese are Safe within 1 Mile of my local Airport?

    Yo, to be consistent yes we need wetlands further or drones closer. My point is the FAA thinks Geese are really not much of a hazard. But they want to make our Lawmakers think our drones are. That is not consistent. And if you want to point out that Terrorist also need to be kept away from...