About

Gender

Male


Location

Romania


About Me:

Drone designer and aerial videographer/photographer, manager of S.C. FAE DRONES S.R.L. http://www.FAE-Drones.com


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

-aerial videography -aerial photography -aerial fotogrammetry


Hometown:

Bucharest


Activity Feed

Dragu Mihai replied to Pedals2Paddles's discussion Wind speed/dir from APM?
"Are any solutions to measure wind speed and direction on the newly AC3.3? I saw there are some telemetry parammeters/ osd parammeters who promise"
Oct 13, 2015
Dragu Mihai replied to Czech Uav Guy's discussion APM Mavlink over FrSky and then back to Mavlink
"This is something amazing good, i was expecting this solution for a long time. I really don't understand why bothering with another 433Mhz modem and antenna when frsky has already a  good telemetry link.
I hope sending back data to uav can be…"
Sep 27, 2015
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion Copter reliability vs functionality
"Safety: Total flight time counter of the system and maintenence threshold with warning message. The total flight time accumulated should be displayed via MAV like any other parameter."
Jun 1, 2015
Dragu Mihai replied to Ian Wallace's discussion MinimOSD board have a thermal cut-out?
"Have you considered the RF current induced in video in /out wires? I had some OSD issues every time i flew near RF towers. Once even the gimball I2C bus froze. Both have in common long wires."
Mar 18, 2015
Dragu Mihai replied to Navigant's discussion MINIMOSD STOPS OVERLAYING DATA
"I have the same issue of lost overlay in multiple copter configurations, many times, i might have a strong clue here:
While i was flying in the proximity of some RF antennas towers, both minimosd and gimball controller stopped working. They have in…"
Mar 18, 2015
Dragu Mihai replied to Rienk de jong's discussion Mavlink Ardupilot OpenTX extension
"very nice, i like that!"
Jun 21, 2014
Dragu Mihai left a comment for Gil
"P=0.2, D=0.08 ...from my memory i'll get to office and send the log full config file"
Dec 13, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"It seems noone is interested by RTH sudden stop (will bring down heavy copters swinging like a leaf) and then 50m fly away into anything it hits, without control, bug video documented here http://www.diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:Comment:1497459…"
Dec 11, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Regarding RTL bug, here is a clip describing the behaviour. (you also have the .log file, the clip is the last RTH issued in log)


The copter is well tuned as you can see in previous clip with autoland2013-12-10 18-31 43.zip"
Dec 10, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Arducopter 3.1rc7 radio failsafe with RTL autoland and auto-disarm - 1 minute flight


raw video on dropbox here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pmwgdi6guv02f4p/a_lHe1oiDE"
Dec 10, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Safety: How about a temperature sensor (thermistor) for li-po battery? (useful in winter or hot summer to know if li-po battery is in optimal temperature range 20-50 C)"
Dec 8, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Arducopter 3.1 CIRCLE around me
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Dec 7, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Hi Randy, here is the dropbox link with raw footage about AC3.1 ROI and CIRCLE function

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/aoafar9mu2fwn2a/1ksvVHi0F-

Regarding my previous post about RTL, here is the internal log.

Thank you for your help, Mihai.…"
Dec 7, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Guys, hate to tell but RTL is not working in some circumstances on AC3.1RC7, here is how:

This afternoon i've been doing fast flying and sudden full reverse to test attitude on a hexacopter in ALT HOLD. Also the copter worked perfectly in loiter,…"
Dec 6, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"4 simple safety features:
-In case of failsafe the beeper should be active
-for maintenance it is useful a Total Flight Time parameter.
-Mission Planner should have a text box to fill in last known coordinates from OSD and show them on map.
-auto…"
Nov 24, 2013
Dragu Mihai replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"I have so many logs in log folder and i don't know which one belongs to which copter. Please add a System ID parameter. Let's give them a name!"
Nov 15, 2013
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