Recent content by tommycoe

I bought two of these batteries off the Amazon site. Both showed the broken cell warning. When I called Amazon, (You enter your number and Amazon calls you), they said they would replace or give a refund. I told them I would let them know. I then sent an email to the third party seller. In...

The place you speak of sounds like The Nantahala Gorge. Just guessing, but it has similar terrain and waterfalls. Specifically the area between Franklin and Highlands, NC. Again, just making a guess.

It doesn't only apply to hobby aircraft. Private aircraft have to be in an emergency, life threating danger in order to fly there while any POTUS of ex POTUS is there. When Obama visited Asheville, NC on several occasions during his term, I could not even go to the airport to fly my privately...

66 and have been in RC flying since 1966. I built many RC planes from balsa also, covered them with cloth and stiffened the cloth with 'dope', and it wasn't the kind people take or smoke. Monocoat was a blessing for covering RC models. A hairdryer was all that was needed for a perfect looking...

Excellent! I love the views of those 'White Cliffs of Dover'! My dad, after surviving four invasions in WWII, was sent to England to prepare for the D-Day invasion. He never talked a lot about any of his experiences, but he and some Army buddies went to see those cliffs, and he often spoke of...

Three years ago, I got my Phantom P1 stuck it the top of a very tall poplar tree. The GoPro camera was recording. I cut the tree down with a chainsaw, and got it to fall so the Phantom was on top when the tree hit the ground. No damage to the quad, but the video was intresting. No I know what it...

Read the FAA rules. It states that you can fly 400 ft above an obstacle. So, if the chimney is 660ft, you can fly 400ft above that. I live in a valley. The mountains around me are 420ft higher than my takeoff location. I am legally allowed to fly 400ft above those mountians. So, the altitude on...

I have Phantom 1 with a GoPro 3 Camera that I have flown so many hours, I'm on my third set of four batteries, and I've had to replace the motors from worn batteries. From all those hours of flight, I have never had a flyaway, or a crash. I recently bought a P3P, and only hope to get the same...

I got my Phantom 1 caught in the top of a 120' high poplar tree. I cut the tree with a chain saw. I cut so the Phantom would be on the top sidea when the tree fell. I recovered it with one broken prop! The video recorded by the GoPro as the tree fell was intresting!

If one of those bullets came down and hit someone, or someone's winshield, a lost drone would be the least of your worries.