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Male


Location

Lexington, KY


About Me:

New to drones, recently purchased an IRIS+, business owner, love 3D design and printing, mixing the two a bit...


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

experimenting at this point, seeing what this site is about.


Hometown:

USA


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Jim B replied to Quauhtli Noel Martínez Zazueta's discussion IRIS+ Fail, Flew Away and Crash in IRIS
"The manual says that if outside of 2m it will RTL. Take it to 20m and a few away, and hoover until  battery drain. See if it returns."
Dec 29, 2014
Jim B replied to Jim B's discussion IRIS+ and Yellow indicator question in IRIS
"But this is not what is happening, and these conditions are not present. From reading around, it seems many are seeing this type of startup, or experiencing waits and timeouts upon init. I also read one response, on FB, that there may be a little…"
Dec 29, 2014
Jim B posted a discussion in IRIS
Hello,So I have a question... I have a card that came with the IRIS+. It list all the indicators for the rear LED.Today, in a discussion with someone we were discussing GPS acquisition upon power up. Mine was indoors, so it took several minutes to…
Dec 28, 2014
Jim B replied to Quauhtli Noel Martínez Zazueta's discussion IRIS+ Fail, Flew Away and Crash in IRIS
"I have a question... you mentioned taking off in STABILIZE mode. Is that only available from Droid Planner or APM Planner? I'm still learning, and just found that mode this weekend (after reading tis post) in Droid Planner. Is there a way to program…"
Dec 21, 2014
Jim B replied to Quauhtli Noel Martínez Zazueta's discussion IRIS+ Fail, Flew Away and Crash in IRIS
"Craig, I use a Garmin Virb. The Garmin Virb has it's own GPS, and records a .gpx file while it records video. Virb Edit then reads the .gpx and allows you to merge it into a video, and select all those custom dashboard icons, etc. Pretty cool…"
Dec 16, 2014
Jim B replied to Quauhtli Noel Martínez Zazueta's discussion IRIS+ Fail, Flew Away and Crash in IRIS
"Did you take off on level ground? At 26sec it just lists to the side, and sits there, then takes off.

I read another article about the fact that a guy put a battery in, and during the initialization, the gyros mis-calibrated due to not being flat…"
Dec 16, 2014
Jim B replied to Quauhtli Noel Martínez Zazueta's discussion IRIS+ Fail, Flew Away and Crash in IRIS
"This is good info! I was flying with a Garmin Virb (wifi off), and have printed a mount to relocated to the top, and more centered. I was more concerned about weight distribution, but will be interesting to mess with this a bit."
Dec 16, 2014
Jim B replied to Quauhtli Noel Martínez Zazueta's discussion IRIS+ Fail, Flew Away and Crash in IRIS
"Hello,

I had a similar experience on my first day as well. Watch the video, at point 1:30, and watch my IRIS+ just flip. This was the first of two crashes. The second, the Hulk-Smash, I was at about 150ft and it did the same. I lost the two rear…"
Dec 16, 2014
Jim B posted photos
Dec 9, 2014