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Drone enthusiast and former AF pilot
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm am avid hobbyist looking to develop commercial angles to employing my drone.
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Scottsdale, AZ
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I built a copter for a friend, who was out flying a mapping mission in auto. Just prior to the last waypoint the chute deployed. After reviewing the logs I cannot determine why the chute deployed. It looks as thought the copter is flying just fine…
I've been doing a lot of mapping using mission planner to set up the lawnmower pattern over the subject area. Things are going well, but most of these jobs need every bit of efficiency. To that end, is it possible to perform a banked turn at speed…
"It is in the autowaypoint > survey (grid) dialog box. "Flying Speed" You can set it for what ever speed you like. "
"Rob,
Thanks for all of your help over the years, directly and indirectly by providing very insightful feed back on the plethora of forums you contribute to.
I know several Canadian firms that are flourishing in the "drones as a service" business.…"
Thanks for all of your help over the years, directly and indirectly by providing very insightful feed back on the plethora of forums you contribute to.
I know several Canadian firms that are flourishing in the "drones as a service" business.…"
I've been having pretty good success with mapping using the pixhawk and mission planner. After figuring out how to get the shutter cycle time under a second (thanks mono), I'm now pursuing how to speed the entire process up. I've noticed that the…
Had an interesting event happen the other day. While flying in auto on a mapping mission, the copter (an s900, pixhawk, AC3.2.1) did some unanticipated roll movements during a turn at a way point. It proceeded straight along the flight plan as…
"Have you guys seen the new FLIR camera? It is half the price of the Tau and has shutter controls, etc. I saw it at the AUVSI show. 640 is @2999, and 320 @ $1499."
"Very Cool. I there any way to use the Tau as a "picture" camera rather than a video camera? I want to do orthomaps with thermal images."
"Funny, I found your post by searching "minimosd gibberish," which is the problem I have now as well. Not sure what changed since my last flight. Any ideas fellas?"
"I just updated mission planner to 1.3.23 and viola! 100% link quality. Thanks for everyone's inputs and to Michael Oborne for jumping on this one. "
Using the link status in mission planner reveals that my connection is very poor. RSSI is around 200 with very little noise. The radios appear to connect fine and data does flow between the pixhawk and GCS, but the link stats shows that 4/5…
"Hi Vince,
How are you controlling the camera? Were you able to wire a trigger?"
How are you controlling the camera? Were you able to wire a trigger?"
"The guys at DroneDeploy love this camera as their system is able to control the camera over WiFi real-time (it also feeds the images back to your phone via the 4G LTE network). For mapping, you can get away without a gimbal and just fix it to your…"
"Thanks Andre. The gear tube and skid was connected to the frame by the FPV transmitter wires, which were zip tied to the leg. I think that the gear tube broke from the mount during the flight and flew up into the first motor. I suspect that when…"
Greetings all,Well my Tarot TL8X bit the dust, literally. Spiraled out the sky from about 60 meters. I had logged about 2 hours of 4-7 minute flights over the last few weeks. On the day of the crash, I flew it twice before without a problem. I…
I've been having this problem for a few days now. When I power up my pixhawk, I get a slew of of prearm errors from alt disparity to accels inconsistent. After a few minutes, it just settles into the accels inconsistent error. Occasionally the…
