Recent content by roykirk

Some great comments and discussion. Even from the suggested self destruct option. ;) I would definitely go with a tracker as well, and I've even got one bookmarked that I'll be buying at same time I buy my Phantom. As I was saying earlier, locating a lost Phantom would be secondary for me...

This is more in line with what I was thinking: http://www.marsparachutes.com/mars-mini/ At 3.6 ounces, it seemed like something that could fit as far as weight anyway. But as Meta4 noted above, mounting might be the biggest issue.

The one commercial product I found earlier advertised that it did just that. The operator could manually kill the motor and deploy the parachute and it also had certain auto settings where it would shut itself down and deploy based on certain programmable parameters like sudden loss of...

Very good point. I just know I have seen videos of Phantoms outfitted with parachute systems and since the added switch to kill the batteries would weigh, at most, a few grams, I thought it might be doable. But those Phantoms may have been stripped down models too. I didn't look that closely...

Sorry, I should have been more clear what I was thinking. I'm envisioning a switch/transmitter completely separate from the quad's control transmitter. That's what could be the beauty of it if it would work. Your Phantom may be refusing to accept any input for whatever reason and is trying to...

I'm a long time UAV enthusiast, but only little manually flown devices. I've been seriously considering moving up to the Phantom 2 in the next few months. One thing that keeps giving me hesitation is the fear of the much debated "flyaway." That's actually secondary to my concern about whether...