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white IRIS...cooler IRIS?

I needed to take some video around noon and was getting high HDOP

The IRIS was sitting on the ground for about 5 minutes and when I went to unplug the battery

and reboot noticed that the top was hot.

I normally fly a dawn and just before sunset and foun

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Lubrication..every 6 flights?

I seem to remember a discussion about the need to oil the motor bearings every 6th flight.

OMG!

I was on the phone with 3DR about another subject and when finished I said  "oh by the way"

blah, blah, need to Lube? and the answer was yes, I will send you

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Research using IRIS..not allowed!?

Hi there,

I have been doing some IRIS+ based measurements of atmospheric temperature profiles and

submitted a research proposal to the National Forest Service to fly above a site on NFS land.

Here is the response:

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Atmospheric profiles with IRIS

Hi There,

I am measuring the temperature profile from ground to 100 meters.

At the moment I am using a data logger that records temperature altitude and humidity.

So far I have made all my flights by taking off and the doing a 3 meter loiter for a few s

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