DRONE TALK

FULL AUTOPILOT FLIGHT from take-off to landing; controlled fully through an IPAD. !!! WOW !!! Imagine their capabilities in 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sInMr8DS4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sInMr8DS4

Cool! These systems can only get better as they get refined. Still cant stop quadcopter failures yet . . . .a colleague lost his Phantom and gimbal in the sea last week when it fell out of the sky for no obvious reason. He suspects there may have been a loose fitting on the battery or some such thing. Ouch!!

Buy insurance? But how to prove you lose it in the sea when you are alone?

Some hackers can zap the frequencies of the drone.

I've had mine "tumble" a couple of times where I completely lost control. Both times I was hovering straight down to land and about 50 feet I lost control. I believe it's due to prop wash under the aircraft. If you come straight down too fast and hit your own prop wash it tries to correct for the turbulence to fast and too much resulting in total confusion on the part of the stabilization computer.

Don't waste your time with the Phantom Vision. I took mine back and I know of several others with problems. The range is short and the stabilization is pathetic. When flying the horizon is constantly moving. The new Vision + is MUCH better. Even in strong winds there is absolutely no movement in the video. When flying the horizon stays level and I can fly and control it out to over 2,000 feet versus 500-900 feet on the original Vision. It's supposed to be the same flyin machine but something was changed.

This one really looks like one for Rekindle and KK5HY. :

http://www.aerialtronics.com/

here are some of my aerials with the phantom


https://www.pond5.com/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-3d-models/1/clipbin%3A558917.html

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/regulations-could-ground-drones-before-takeoff-88992073974.html

"The drone business won’t slow down soon. Meanwhile, drones continue to take cameras and sensors to places that would be expensive or dangerous to inspect with human eyeballs: farm fields, bridges, tall structures of any sort. The feds have limited abilities to catch most of it — the FAA says it must rely on reports from other pilots, onlookers on the ground, or the news media."

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