Am chuckling over here in God's Own Wind Tunnel. Your first three or four paragraphs (below) will require more study. I am anything but techie, so it startled my two sons that I even dreamed of plunging into the science of aerial photography.
Am pretty much a raw rookie pilot, so I have zero knowledge of the following: 1. TK 105; 2. loading it with call-back phone numbers; 3. mounting the tracker unit to a "post"; 4. fpv hub. It all seems a foreign language. Seguro que si.
I did, however, fully grasp your 'graph as to being careful with the bird. Confidence in my flying capabilities remains shallow and fragile. Not without reason. When gusty winds recently made my descent erratic and barely under control, I had a mini-crash in the caliche dust of an oil/gas drilling pad, my first such assignment.
Cracked a prop but replaced it and otherwise, everything is A-OK.
Am hopeful of flying a local nature preserve tomorrow, pending the wind velocity. It will be the first time I fly with a properly functioning FlySight monitor, seeing what the camera sees. After that, I must learn to edit video footage and lay down a music bed.
This newbie is a long, long way from proficiency.
(signed,)
Amelia Earhart
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"The tracker unit I purchased is the TK 105. I will look up the vendor I purchased it from, but believe it was on Ebay. You will need a sim card for it as well. That is what allows it to receive "calls". You can enter up to 5 different phone numbers for it to text back to/or rather respond to when called from that number. I've got mine, my wife and all 3 kids numbers programmed into it. That allows any one of them to call it and get a location. (In case my phone dies or out of cell phone contact) Course they wouldn't know that until I contacted them. But, if one of them is with me, it's a backup. My son had an extra cell number that wasn't being used, so it didn't cost me any data plans as he had unlimited data on that number. It will also send out an automatic text when the battery is getting low. I learned this the hard way as I started getting texts at 2 & 3 in the morning telling me to charge it !! Needless to say, I'm keeping it charged up for sure!! ha ha
As far as mounting it, I placed it on top of one of the landing skids up against the "post". I zip tied it to the post, as there is a "loop" on the top of the tracker, then placed Velcro on the bottom of the tracker and the top of the landing skid. So far it's been a tough/strong connection. The tracker does add a little weight, but I haven't had any issues with the motors working overtime to compensate. If you have looked at any of the photos I've posted, I'm up there pretty high on some of them.
Just curious but are you using any sort of fpv "hub" to route your video through? I finally went to the DJI fpv hub and it's been working like a charm, plus no soldering on anything so far."