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I would not call it BS. Yes flighting below 400ft AGL is allowed generally speaking for most classes of airspace but what about sector R405A (SFC to 500ft) and sector R405B (SFC to 1000ft) which are classified as restricted, falling under section 101.065 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulation...

Have you tried plugging the GoPro directly into a TV via HDMI just the check the GoPro HDMI out is OK? that way you can rule out the GoPro and focus on the Solo for trouble shooting. You have some nice Drone photos, you may want to review Civil Aviation Safety Regulations Part 101 and height...

When connecting via TCP you need to make a new connection first by the following menu tree Receiver>Network Connection>New. Once the "New Connection" window opens type the following into the address tcp://localhost:500 you should now be able to connect to the GPS unit via TCP Hope this...

Was the crash real? yes due to pilot error. When it goes "haywire" the footage looks more like they were fighting in ARCO mode and didn't know how to recover it or even that the drone fly completely different... I've flown ARCO plenty of times and that is what the footage looks and sounds like.

GNSS works the same all over the globe - apart from "special" places (e.g places of war) were they disable the civil satellite coverage or even put error into the satellite data to make is useless. You can use the same GNSS anywhere on the globe. Were things differ around the world has to do...

What? Your crazy... I enjoy my face. It can be done but the risk is their. It's not the taking off thats risky it's the landing into the hand due to solo moving around in flight. I've flown my Solo in places were I had no were to land easily so I just did the kill command (A+B+pause) above some...

I'm going to say No, $80 is a fine. If your paying $30 it more then likely counterfeit (yes their are counterfeit ones out their) Even HobbyKing which is a cheap place to buy things sells M8N at $40 and they have buying buy to bring the price down.

Yes the module does report its fix type as "3D+DR" (when UDR is enabled) but unfortunately this fix type has not been programmed in the Phixhark2, to run the NEO-M8U with UDR enabled it will requires the autopilot reconfiguration. data sent from U-Blox to Phixhark2/solo UBX-NAV-PVT ( Navigation...

As far as configuration, there is no chance needed for use in Australia.

UPADTE: I've done my thinking and here is the lasted design, I've gone with a super capacitor to supply the basic backup power when flying (it will give about 17 hours of standby power) but I have also added a small 1 cell Lipo battery connector and charger circuit the battery can be picked up...

From the way I see it... yes UDR is useful in a drone as it provides an extra fail safe option (just like an inertial navigation system in a real plane). If you have a loss in GNSS reception (less face it, its going to happen sooner or later - I've lost GPS mid flight a few times on the stock...

I've attached the config file downloaded directly from the stock GPS (Original) and my modified GPS unit (Neo-M8U), when you upload them to the GPS unit it will say its for a different model - just click "yes" Hope this helps... Note: if you use the original file you sill need to enable other...

If I use Australia post and economy air ( 9 working days) it about $25 to the US, cheaper then I first thought. If I use Fedx, DHL e.t.c they say its about $80 - what?! As per the documentation freely available on the u-blox website… By for going an inbuilt LNA/SAW, this frees up space for...

Hi all, Once I figure out the best approach for a issue with the design I'll see what the cost is going to be for a small patch run so people can get they hands on one(or two). All right what is the issue? its nothing that is going to affect the normal operation of the unit or solo but has to...

Nope, not plan on mounting an antenna on a mast. I'm going form over fictions on that one as I don't see any real advantage. The aluminum shield works more like a faraday cage then attenuation any signal, I've exposed the ground plan around the mounting hole as to have a contact for the shield...