Recent content by Oleg Filippov

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    Type of plastic shell is made of?

    I used J-B Weld 50132 PlasticWeld. Worked great.
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    Killed my drone on first day of vacation.

    Totally agree with you. I do understand the mistakes I've made. I believe I pushed the pause button, but was too late, since it happened unexpectedly and took me a second to figure out what's going on. (Definitely lack of experience here) What I was trying to say, that automatic RTH feature is...
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    Killed my drone on first day of vacation.

    Thats why it is opinion - it is not up to you to decide if it is right or wrong. The drone is smart - yes, but not smart enough to engage fly by itself mode on its own. In my opinion, even the home button should not be on a remote. I only used it a few times to impress spectators - I always fly...
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    Killed my drone on first day of vacation.

    Well, I have completely different opinion about it and, i guess, we can argue about it indefinitely. Not everybody was born as a professional drone pilot like you. And since you are soooo good at it even you probably don't need that automatic return to home feature because all you was saying is...
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    Killed my drone on first day of vacation.

    No I said I was thinking about pushing the fly button for landing when the drone engaged return-to-home mode by itself
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    Killed my drone on first day of vacation.

    I probably didn't said correctly. There were no ceiling - I know that I can't fly it indoors and that it needs a satellite view to operate. There were some kind of roof extension similar to the picture in a front of the house that it hit. I do have couple of month experience with it - it...
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    Killed my drone on first day of vacation.

    So, we rented a beautiful 3 story luxury cabin in North Carolina mountains with breath taking views. So I flew the drone a bit around, did a panorama shot. Called some people over for selfie shot - did that. At that point it told me that battery is at 25% and I noticed that GoPro setting was at...