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I have put expanding foam earplugs inside the rubber damper and gotten good results. Take one earplug and spin it between your fingers to make it look like a toothpick. Carefully and quickly slide the earplug into the rubber damper and let it expand inside the damper. Helps provide good vib...

Afton Forrest Preserve off leash dog park Northern Illinois

I'm landing with 40% battery left and I'm getting about 11 minutes with the gimbal.

I bought mine off the shelf at Bestbuy about 2 weeks ago.

I was be sarcastic. Absolutely DO USE hot glue to balance the hubs.

Stay below 400ft A.G.L. and never fly above 400ft A.G.L.!!!!!!!!

Andy Timmons

I've been a PP for 25 years and I currently own and operate a 72 flybaby that is very fun to fly! I know all about bad landings in tri gear aircraft. Those landings break taildraggers. Lowering the gimbal in the design phase of a small drone is nothing like landing a full scale aircraft, but at...

I have been flying my solo without a gimbal since it's release. The video sucked so I finally got the 3dr gimbal. I will say the gimbal works very well and gets great video at low speed as long as you don't use a lot of yaw. At higher speeds the gimbal gets almost full view of the props. It also...

You rock! huge help to me and I will actually feel comfortable flying with the GPS. You should send 3DR a bill!

Have you flown your Solo with an M8N GPS installed because I don't feel comfortable with the current GPS either?

I don't know much about filters yet. I have a 3 pack of filters from Polar Pro. The one being used in the video is labeled as a 2 stop ND. Since this video I put foam ear plugs inside the rubber dampers for the camera mount and got a better prop balancing shaft and have no jello without the...

I have not taken my Solo apart yet, but would it be difficult to move the GPS onto the top of the cover?

The Pixhawk is a flight controller, so your right it's not a GPS

The GPS on mine is really only usable in open areas. Like in the middle of nowhere open. I fly in manual mode ever since it locked up and I watched it drift into a bush. I can take a Pixhawk with an M8N and get a 3d lock with 15 satellites in less than 30 seconds on the first floor of a 2 story...