Recent content by Gambledog

Will get started on that this week. If we have a legal system that works then we should all be using it. The larger the population of pilots who are properly registered and flying legally, the less likely we all are to get blamed for the few who are doing stupid things (like 'max altitude test'...

I'm not doing anything commercially at this point, but based on my read of the regulations even something like flying in the strip of undeveloped park behind my house would be illegal since it is within a "built up area" (City of Regina). Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

I heard they are looking at creating a category of micro-uas in the states that will be less strictly regulated. The 55lb upper limit would be like a lawnmower falling out of the sky in the event of an accident and I would absolutely want the person flying that thing to have some training if...

A moving prop generates less thrust than a stationary one, so the max allowed pitch of 35 degrees (set in parameters) might be just fine for a "hole shot" without losing altitude, but combined with a headwind and some forward speed the vertical thrust vector is not enough to keep the drone in...

I'm actually in Saskatchewan. I'm not sure why my IP is showing as Ontario. Thanks for the links anyway. I'll definitely look into MAAC.

Added. Regina, SK

I'm currently a little disheartened about what I can legally fly/photograph in Canada under the recreational exemptions. It seems like if there are two outhouses built near each other within 5 nautical miles then it is considered to be a built up area where flying is prohibited without an SFOC...

Update: 3DR reviewed the logs and tested their drone in similar conditions. They determined that the Solo shouldn't have descended so rapidly and were unable to replicate the behavior. They agree that this is not typical behavior in alt. hold or loiter, which will prioritize altitude over...

I had the performance set to "rabbit"/very fast in the solo app. If anything, this worsened the situation as the drone rapidly lost altitude (22m or over 60ft in under 8 seconds) attempting to gain forward speed. If the max speed was set slower, maybe a higher percentage of the available power...

Sorry to hear you lost one as well, but its good to know I can get a vehicle on its own for a little less if I decide to replace it. The backpack/controller/battery are kind of depressing sitting in a closet by themselves. Looking at the amount of offshore wind, my margin of safety for battery...

I was on the cliff. I could see the drone against the sky, but once it dropped below about 1m above launch (3-4s into the descent which I did not see the start of) it was backed by water so I couldn't see it. Limiting inputs to the point where the parameter the AP is set to maintain is...

My working theory is that the summation of input to maintain position (drift compensation) and pilot input to accelerate forward is not restricted (although both are individually restricted) and this allows the drone to exceed the envelope where it can maintain altitude while flying into the...

LOS lost after the turn. Looked down to confirm heading and check signal. ~4s until drone was below zero (i.e. backed by ocean rather than sky from my vantage point). I lost those seconds looking at the screen. The next 4s were spent trying to reacquire visual. After that it was too late. Had I...

Altitude is reported in meters, so that's actually 10m (30ft) above home, close to 60ft above sea level. The sink rate was quite fast ~3m/s (10ft/s) so there was very little time to figure out that this was the problem. Although I had sight of the drone, it was far enough away that I couldn't...

Looks like it had some headwind. It definitely went down due to the high forward pitch. Not a lot of time to react with that high of sink rate. I could see the drone but couldn't really determine pitch at that distance so all I saw was loss of altitude. I had started another thread re: the crash...