Recent content by T Bird

Using a Lenovo TB-8504F. Was cheap (<$150), runs everything for Inspire and Solo great- Solex, Tower, DJI Go, DroneDeploy, Litchi. Best of all, screen is bright and sharp. Have not needed a hood, even working construction sites in full South Florida sun.

Hope you find it. Then... google 'marco polo tracking' and get yourself one. I don't leave the ground without it.

What does holding the power button for 10 secs do?

I do some utility infrastructure inspection where the client gives me GPS coords for the elements they want looked at. I set up those missions in my office using MP, then upload the mission to a bird. Then I download the mission to Tower and save the file. I go out in the field with several of...

A little late now, but for future reference. Here in South Florida, flying over water is unavoidable. Do a search for 'getterback'. Designed for fishing rods, but works for drones, too! Haven't had to use it yet, but I always attach one if the planned flight is near water.

Thanks for the heads-up. The description is "F2.8 3.87mm 16M 90° FOV replacement lens for Git2/Hero4". I have H4 Black & Silver. Left the fisheye in the Black because sometimes that's the shot you want. Put one of the less expensive Peau's in the Silver, don't really like the result. For $40...

Thanks- will give it a try!

Does that apply to the 3.87mm also? Does that mean it's not a screw-in replacement on the H4?

Tower will do that. Just set up a survey grid. Super easy.

Thanks, Rich. I think that will work. Gonna run some testing tomorrow. Will have to do some calculation on triggering shutter to get good overlap. I'll shoot a message to Michael Oborne about adding the feature.

This is problem I need to resolve. Some of the runs are quite long and would put the aircraft hundreds of feet out if I just run a circular scan. I need an ellipse.

Just to clarify my previous post, in teh image below the poles numbered 22-26 would be my structure, and the yellow line is the mission path I need.

Anybody have a suggestion for using Solo and Tower (or MP) to create point cloud of a series of utility poles? Something like Tower's Structure scan would work, except the the 'structure' is long and narrow, something like 30' x 200', so an orbit needs to be elliptical rather than round. Is...

Too bad they're double the current price of OEM batteries!

Thanks for the testing and reporting on this. I've noted the comments re: FS_BATT_CURR_RTL from @Pedals2Paddles . Most of what I do is pretty close to launch point and I occasionally push below 20% to get that last shot or two, so I'll need to adjust that. Are there any other parameters that...