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Drones @ EAA AirVenture 2015

Flew my Solo today EAA AirVenture's new RC flyin, I was the only 3DR here. DJI is everywhere @ the booths and demo cage, which is new this year, but no 3DR Solos to found anywhere, no 3DR booth and no one representing 3DR that I could find. Plenty DJ

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Extending the range of the 3dr Solo.

I have been experimenting with boosting the signal and adding hi gain antennas at the base station and have made some progress (up to 1.5 miles) but have hit a wall on distance now and need to boost the gain on the Solo side to press further. 

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Solo #2 - First Flight

After spending many hours troubleshooting and waiting days for responses from support I finally took back my first Solo the was eventually deemed defective by 3DR for a number of issues. It took another 2.5hrs at the retailer to perform the exchange

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Is Solo open source?

If not,  how does 3DR get around it? Just wondering as there are disturbances in the force claiming 3RD is violating open source licensing by not releasing the Solo code,  or are they? 

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Geotagging

I am trying to geotag images with Mission Planner and then use PIX4d to orthorectify. The problem I am having is when the images are tagged they have the same lat/long. Anyone have any ideas? See the image below.  

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Solo with Tower (speed issue)

I don't know if I have an hardware/software issue or just don't understand how Tower works.

Was trying to do a slow mission with tower with a dozen waypoints, a circle and one ROI.

I changed my waypoint #2 to 3 f/s which I thought should set the speed

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White-screened controller

Got my Solo yesterday, charged everything up, updated everything with current s/w, took it for its maiden launch.  Got lift-off and then the Solo lost connection to the controller and immediately landed itself.  The controller is now stuck with a whi

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HDMI Output from Controller

Can someone provide a use case for the HDMI output from the Controller?
Hook up an external monitor, OK, I'm up for that, but outside in a wide open area where it is safe to operate Solo? Carry around a small battery operated TV?

I tried to connect two

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