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Here's some indoor flying http://youtu.be/VVGFbu_0pnU I encountered quite a bit of drift indoors in atti mode. The compass and accelerometer are trying to keep it level and 'in the air' but the craft will drift in all other aspects. I hope this helps.

Great, I was reading the original post in this thread on my iPhone while I was flying and I crashed! Thanks a lot -- it's YOUR FAULT I was reading your post on the device that's supposed to be showing my FPV feed. I'm returning this to B&H and claiming manufacturer defect....

Mexico has embraced 'drones' -- there are no laws that would concern you. However, the federales may exact a bribe from you. I flew in Cancún a few weeks ago and had no issues whatsoever.

Diirk, nice job! I used to have that exact Porsche, though the steering wheel was on the other side!

+1 on Walgreens photo site. You can even print up to 8x10 to a Walgreens closer to your dad's house, but since this is a gift, you probably want to hand deliver it to him. I print pics for people all the time through Walgreens in other states. They just pick them up. Since this is a gift, I...

I have had a lot less success locking onto GPS sats since upgrading from the Phantom 1.1.1 to the P2V+ -- sometimes it doesn't lock at all in areas where the P1 would lock on sats right away. I've sat there for more than 10 minutes at time waiting for seven sats, before just throwing it into...

I shot this last night in a lightning storm outside the Cincinnati Museum Center, and also INSIDE the former train station. Edited with FCP X 10.1 96050671

The media has found this 'missing drone' poster rather amusing. Not so much for the guy who lost his brand new P2V+ http://recode.net/2014/05/22/someone-in-palo-alto-would-like-their-missing-drone-back-please/ One note: he says the P2V+ will 'broadcast its location when power up' but that's...

With the Vision and Phantom app, yes.

FCP X is buggy and crash-prone, but I LOVE IT. I edit video for a living (24 years in TV, 38 Emmy awards). FCP X is perfect for blending multiple formats and frame rates, plus the color correction and retiming, and great plug-ins. Look for Ripple Training and some of the free (YouTube)...

Go buy a lottery ticket

On my original Phantom, it takes several minutes in my yard and other areas in Ohio to get seven satellites, but when we went to Mexico recently, we got 10 as soon I started it up! It seems to depend on where you are IMO

There's a difference between data rate (12mbps) and the amount of data the sensor is capturing. The narrower FOVs are cropping the sensor to get that field of view, so yes you are leaving pixels 'off the table' until the processor conforms that to the chosen frame size and rate (example...

Interesting -- Parrot foregoes the gimbal in place of a 'electronically stabilized' super-wide fisheye camera. It would seem they're using the 14MP sensor to 'move' the image around the sensor in response to the quad's movements and vibration. Additionally, they're using a digital fix to correct...

The relevant US Supreme Court case law is US v. Causby (1946). A farmer was pissed that his chickens were killing themselves because of low-flying aircraft landing at a nearby airport. The justices ruled "if the landowner is to have full enjoyment of the land, he must have exclusive control of...