Recent content by Rick99

Suppose you point out what that actually involves, the instructions.

If that's all there was to it, I would, of course, but it's been one hoop to hop through after another. And always that my way or the highway attitude. I've got over 100 hours into it. No more throwing good money after bad. I'm mad enough that I don't care. I'll show it flies, land it and smash...

It's every step along the way and there are 50 steps. The log files I sent by WeTransfer, the wouldn't look at it has to be DropBox. etc. etc. My way or the highway, like they are doing me a big favor and I'd better hop through the hoop. This I have to find all the little nit parts, they can't...

And a sneering attitude they have, do it this way or else. Infuriating.

The drone worked fine. That was the first delay. After I send the gimbel, I then had to send the drone too. All after an infuriating series of obscure and tedious downloading of log files, supplying videos, etc. One hurdle after another in my path. That's the business model, torment them so...

Ok, so I sent in the bent gimbel I had straightened out that worked ok, (needed to be bent a little more.) After a truly ornate character based, special network connection, repetitive downloading of logs, and producing videos and so on. Solo itself worked ok. After a while I was told I also had...

Yeah, it seems to get quiet, except for the squeal, but in less than a second, it's spun 180 degrees and is upside down. Seems loss of power in all motors at the same time wouldn't do that. Maybe it lost power and then powered back up. Easy for 3DR to sort out I guess.

No, in slow motion, you can see sand getting kicked up on the last few frames. I'm about to upload a 960 pixels and HD version where each frame takes a second or two, so they can be conveniently paused. The big one is rendering so it'll be up, I'd guess, in a half hour. Hard to say, a...

Sent the logs to 3DR. I think, it's been a struggle. I have extracted them, it's the sending them at the moment that has rather inconvenient rules. I couldn't get mission planner to open the logs before, so now I have something to play with when I get the time. I've stuck the rather short video...

I used my oversized latest iphone, worked great but too small. I now use my latest ipad. Tool large for the holder by about 1/8" for some hateful reason. Inevitably one of the ears broke off. Velcro works better anyway. I don't understand why everyone wouldn't want the largest screen possible...

I've had my Solo for over a month, I've flown it out over the ocean until it loses signal many times. Swamps too where I would never go to retributive it out of the water. It's a trooper. Never failed me. But I had just taken off, was about 20' off the ground 20 feet away, and it just fell from...