Recent content by Surf Island

My Best Buy card is offering 10% off, but I have to pay tax. I don't see the optional accessory packages, though.

Wow, that is kind of scary. Isn't that the basis for FPV and accessing the functionality of the Mavic? I saw a lot of reviews whining about the app. I haven't ordered yet, but I'm pretty excited to push the button. My Phantom I, is definitely behind the times. :)

The government will take away all of your rights if you let them. This is continued tyrrany of regulation, taxation and destruction of our freedoms. Collectively, the quad-copter community could fight against unlawful govt. control. The FAA should protect their airspace, but not decide who can...

Banning guns from law-abiding citizens only give power to the criminals and for government takeover of a country. A government may want to use drones to spy on citizens but not the other way around.

Re: It's Time to Halt The FAA's Arbitrary and Expanding Thre We are in an era of government overreach. Americans should know it is their responsibility to stand up to a tyrannical govt. The enemy is working hard to take away all of our freedoms in America. I believe quadcopter pilots should use...

Re: FAA ‘looking into’ $10K fine for drone recording of torn I call complete BS on the federal government. Every branch as overstepped their boundaries and continue to take away our freedoms. We get fined for flying a toy copter, but armed drones are allowed to spy on law-abiding Americans?

Re: From Bloomberg: "Meet the Drone that shoots stun darts a The only regulation we need is against a tyrannical govt. pointing drones as law-abiding citizens.

This Saturday I was at the First Saturday car show in Plano, TX. 600+ show/modified cars show up each month. I always thought this would be cool to video from Phantom, but not confident enough to fly over everyone's "babies". Aparently I wasn't the only one with that idea. I saw a Phantom fly...

If your goal is to video the "president" or "first lady", then you are wasting your time. You need to fly over a golf course or other vacation spots where they are spending taxpayer money. Since you alrady own a Drone, you are on "the list", so tread carefully my friend. :lol:

I believe that is a very good point. I wanted to start with $400 project to build my skills, then upgrade later to utilize my gopro. I was thinking FPV next, then Gimbal. A gimbal/fpv package, especially a nice plug-n-play would be a logical step for me.

A couple of times I took off too slow and my Phantom skipped across the concrete on the guards. I know it saved me some blades in this instance. Other than that it has flown very smooth with them on.

There is a new version of Pinnacle Studio that just came out. I don't believe many know of this product, but it super powerful for the price. You can check some of their videos to determine difficulty level. http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/studio/

I just got mine for Christmas. I didn't have to do a thing to pull off nice flights in the wind, and I'm pretty new to rc flying. I did nothing in my editing to smooth out the video. hNdqV0vnXxU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdqV0vnXxU&noredirect=1

Law-abiding phantom pilots will be forced to register their drones or go to jail. :x