Recent content by Crisp Rice

The whole saga is on this forum, but in a nutshell, I took off from a wooden dock on a still lake, on a calm day. 3DR can see that clearly from the logs and said that warrantee was denied because they detected movement during initialisation. They are right, I did that, mea culpa. Folks on here...

Sorry, at least you weren't right next to the lake like I was.

Hahaha You sound like me now ... of course they are trying to blame it on you! They got me, even though the cause of the crash was equipment or software failure - because I didn't follow their guidelines. Good luck!

I use ptgui and have created pianos with as many as 30 photos when I moved subjects around so the models were in the same photo many times. Ptgui handled that fine albeit I had a lot of work with masking. When I take aerial pianos I have been taking them manually so that I can pick and choose my...

Omg, I got trolled! Staying on thread topic, I am with OP for reasons I stated above.

Yes, Agreed. My Solo flew away and several wiser (than I) folks on this forum believed that 3DR should have replaced my Solo (based on tlog posted) but used a loophole to deny responsibility. The entire thread is here on this site. If you are interested. Once bitten as they say. I am now...

I agree, and as I said in reference to DJI drones above: "yes people are managing to take off from boats" - my point is that there is no warrantee when the drone has an error that was not the pilots fault, they will use the excuse that the pilot armed his drone on a moving surface. I have...

I think that Karma will be the way forward for me also. I have read on GoPros support forums that Karma actually allows for take off and landing on a moving surface (boat mode?). Solved: Boat launch - GOPRO SUPPORT HUB This is huge for me and if I understand this, may imply that the software...

I use my drone for stills and video, I do not fly it for joy of flying nor do I fly it high and far, or for that matter very long. I need a good camera and I need portability, solo was small enough barely, wife would have liked it to be smaller for travelling. I have literally one single...

Sounds promising for the gimbal I sent p2p on my drowned solo, the gimbal seemed to be working fine but would end up pointing straight down. It did function when I moved the solo

Omg, I just woke my wife up.

I guess that will salvage some useful parts but my solo was in fresh water lake for less than 2 minutes and it was a paperweight. We will know more after p2p dissects her and sees if anything is salvageable for reuse. I suppose the GoPro 4 black was fine so that's a good reason to have a...

Interested in seeing if the gimbal works on your bird.

I agree with you both ... I want to take off from water based locations, and I don't yet trust that Karma will actually do it. I assume they were aware that showing Karma take off from a kayak strongly implies something. Solo chasing a boat implies a lot less as long as they didn't show takeoff.

I did take off (and land on) from my boat this summer many times. I didn't attempt it in rough water or any significant wind. I only recall it failing to arm once. 40' express cruiser on Georgian Bay, nice big flat fiberglass front area of the boat was LZ. When I did have my EKF failure on...