About

Gender

Male


Location

Saint Petersburg, FL


About Me:

Avid Arial Photographer - Favorite Aircraft Iris+


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Avid photographer and arial photographer who has been fly RC with my father for 10+ year. Recently ventured out on my own and now fly an Iris+ with the Tarrot 2D Gimbal.


Hometown:

Belleville, IL


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Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"Switching the topic a little here since I am now in the market for a new drone cause quite frankly I am bored with my phantom and it's too expensive in my opinion to add all the options to make it a "fun" flyer (aka easier to film with such as FPV &…"
Apr 15, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"Wow in all my reading I never knew this! That is for sure useful info to remember next time!"
Apr 15, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"Good thing I don't live where I was flying right? Lat and Long would get you right to my front door! ;)"
Apr 4, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"I'm so used to flying gas powered fixed wings that this transition to battery powered drones and aircraft has been a learning curve. With gas powered you could have some left in the tank all the way down to zero where with batteries if you have some…"
Apr 4, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"Hello again everybody!
Sorry I just began a new position and have been busy adjusting to a new work life. I went out the next 2 days after I lost the aircraft to try and recover to no avail :( She is a goner. I was initially more upset about the…"
Apr 4, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"It hit the failsafe on its own but I did not switch into Alt Hold or Loiter right before crash. From what I can see the logs show the voltage fall of but it's almost like the quad thought "to low battery RTL" and then "no wait I have more" came out…"
Mar 28, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"I may be new here but I am not new to flying any type of RC aircraft I have been doing it pretty much all my life. It is something I have done in my family for years and my father actually does it for the Department of Defense. You can claim I…"
Mar 28, 2015
Justin Ackermann replied to Justin Ackermann's discussion Iris+ Random Crash In Flight - Lost In Water in IRIS
"I plan on doing this fully since it is a fresh water lake. I really wanted to recover the craft tonight to possibly limit the damage but since there is an electrical structure (aka fountain with lights) in the middle of the body of water I didn't…"
Mar 28, 2015
Justin Ackermann posted a discussion in IRIS
Hey DIY Drones,This is my first post here, but I felt I would share my story and log with the community. Today I was out for a rather routine flight of my Iris+ from 3DRobotics that included an Auto Flight followed by some manual flight in Loiter…
Mar 28, 2015