Recent content by UTR

  1. U

    UK pilots: The CAA and my potential £2500 fine!!

    After contacting the http://www.ico.org.uk they have no issues about flying with cameras. Also the Metropolitan Police guidelines about recording in public is that it's perfectly legal even recording police officers exercising their duties. If you're not sure about the rules all of these...
  2. U

    UK pilots: The CAA and my potential £2500 fine!!

    The Law Thanks for your message, it’s good to hear that you are taking a responsible approach to your flying and I hope that I can answer your questions sufficiently. I’ve attached a short briefing note which covers the basics of the regulations in (hopefully) simple terms, plus a pointer...
  3. U

    UK pilots: The CAA and my potential £2500 fine!!

    Unless you have a battery failure/motor failure/radio failure/operator failure/GPS failure. Imagine your Phantom with 3 motors spinning dropping onto a person uncontrollably from 500ft up. Not withstanding being hit buy just a stalled Phantom falling imagine being hit by out of control rotors...
  4. U

    UK pilots: The CAA and my potential £2500 fine!!

    I emailed the CAA before I started flying and the data protection website about flying with a camera. The CAA were brilliant basically the rules boil down to if you want to fly a drone less than 7kg for non commercial use you don't need any permits even with a camera attached. The CAA guidelines...
  5. U

    First real flight .... more or less ...

    Yes if it's windy and you're in gps mode your battery will run out faster as your Phantom will constantly be pitching into the wind I have some great footage of my Phantom doing exactly that on a windy day that being said 5 mins is a little short. And I wouldn't worry about the 2000m limit you...
  6. U

    Best OSD for Phantom

    I made a little battery monitor with a 3.3v arduino for $3 and 6 leds that light at different voltages and flash under different conditions whole thing cost $5-$6 with a 6 led status display which I just position in the field of view of my camera. I can et you have the circuit diagram and...
  7. U

    Tilt output on NAZA board - servo compatible?

    Yeah I ordered some small servos to plug into the outputs. With a simple pan and tilt mount from hobbyking totalling about $36 with an anti vibration mount from ebay.
  8. U

    Phantom Lost & Found. What went wrong?

    In your video it definitely looks like the home point isn't set as you actually have control over the phantom when you move the controls (you just can't see it moving from the ground). When you pull back in HL mode the Phantom flies backwards exactly what it would do if the HL wasn't working...
  9. U

    Losing GPS lock in flight

    My phantom looses gps lock for a second or two if I climb really aggressively but they it immediately reconnects this is pretty normal. As for it drifting do an advanced IMU calibration your system might say it doesn't need it but do it anyway. Depending upon how windy it is remember 80 feet up...
  10. U

    GoPro HERO3+: Black Edition

    The don't recommend flying with the wifi on as it can interfere with the radios so from what I can see the camera is 5g lighter (the water proof case is lighter than the old case but the camera itself is barely lighter and in a gimbal you won't be using the lighter case) with a slightly better...
  11. U

    Anyone having success flying w/Firmware v4.00?

    All good here no issues
  12. U

    1st post - another TX and RX range question FS

    Haha well if you have any of those cable ties left my wallets suffering from the same affliction :-D
  13. U

    reciever PPM no longer works

    Do firmware update Load the config file Calibrate your compass (first pass light is yellow, second pass it is green and then goes off/starts flashing when complete) Connect to your PC re-enable IOC Calibrate your Tx Do advanced cal on your IMU ignoring the message that says it does not need...
  14. U

    Need some help/advice very short flight times

    Three blades increase speed but lower your battery life but it shouldn't be that low. Have you checked the actual battery voltage after each flight? Might be interesting to see what they are.
  15. U

    DJI software for MAC.

    What can you do I guess Apple's just not that big in China I have loads of stuff that PC only telescope etc but then I have all Windows so... Still have they done Android support?