Quads, Drones

gookah said:
It's definitely not all me. The DJI program is the impressive stuff. It also has First Person View so I can see exactly where the camera is pointing and what it's looking at, in real time, as I fly.

The first part take-off is me flying/ pointing camera, then you see it hover at 35 seconds in. That's where I switch to Point of Interest and it circles around and points at the selected spot afterwards.
However, before I started recording where I took off from, what you don't see is that I had to go directly above that point of interest in the middle of the building, select it as a reference, then come back to where I took off from and hover there with it still running, then hit record, take off again, and that's what you see afterwards.

The unnerving part is when it sometimes drops out of GPS and the wind takes over.... now that is scary trying to get it back and land it.
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Without a doubt, if I were to start from scratch, I'd get a Phantom. I really like the POI and Follow-Me. There is no way that my Blade would get GPS inside a building. The newer ones might, as they have an external GPS aerial (looks like AWACS).

Drone technology is moving fast. The main drawback at the moment is getting the battery airborne.

My drone weighs 750g (250g of that is battery) - and that's before I put on the GoPro.
 
Pingu said:
Without a doubt, if I were to start from scratch, I'd get a Phantom. I really like the POI and Follow-Me. There is no way that my Blade would get GPS inside a building. The newer ones might, as they have an external GPS aerial (looks like AWACS).

Drone technology is moving fast. The main drawback at the moment is getting the battery airborne.

My drone weighs 750g (250g of that is battery) - and that's before I put on the GoPro.
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i try and build my race drones as light as possible using carbon fibre frames, the smallest lightest speed controller and flight controller, lightweight tri blade props, the most efficient motors i can afford at the time, and the lightest battery i can get away with for about 5 minutes flight... my 180 sized race quad carrying video transmitter and hd recording camera, is about 400 - 450g with about 2kg of thrust.. so as you can imagine is very quick and thats not the best... have a look at some of the newer build that people are doing they are far better than that..
 
Any one know where to buy an anti aircraft gun, for use if one flies over my property. Otherwise will just have to use a bow and arrow.:whistle:
 
As long as there’s sensible laws. Some people are just idiots though flying around an airport stupid. A 400 ft altitude law! Are they going to apply this to all forms of modelling? I don’t usually take my planes that high but some of them I have done having fun with thermals.
 
A guy appeared at the back of the villa last Friday afternoon taking pictures of next door but one for the realtors. He had a few minutes spare so for a small consideration he did some new ones for us:thumbsup:

Tony.
 
the Nefyn cat said:
Could do with one of them around here at times, not for drones but 'king microlight things. How come they don't need a silencer? Didn't move to here to have air-borne mopeds making their infernal racket up above. Mutter grumble etc.
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I get it too, but not microlites we get a chap going by the name of the red baron, biplane nutter, seems interesting at first but it goes on all summer.
 
We get a gang of kids hurtling along the Trent flood bank (which is a public footpath). Horrible racket, sounds like a swarm of angry Bees.

Tony.
 
There's a bloke up the road a bit that flies a plane off his farm every now and again, but at least he bu55ers off fairly quickly, whereas yer average microlight seems to drone on for ever. Still, got to have something to complain about, wouldn't know how good life is most of the time otherwise.
 
UK drone pilots have until the end of November to register their details with the Civil Aviation Authority.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Our-role/Drone-and-model-aircraft-registration/

Anyone responsible for a drone or unmanned aircraft (including model aircraft) weighing between 250g and 20kg needs to register as an operator. The cost for this is £9 renewable annually.

Anyone flying a drone or unmanned aircraft (including model aircraft) weighing between 250g and 20kg must take and pass an online education package. This is free and renewable every three years.

Both of these requirements become law on 30 November 2019.
 
I took the test yesterday. 20 out of 20 correct, so I now have my CAA flyers licence, and I spent £9 to get the operators ID licence.

At least we will now have a register of all of the criminals that will use their individually labelled drones to deliver drugs to prisons.

I have just thought,
maybe only the law abiding will do this.... wow.. :banghead:
 
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