"There are so many of these services now. It's very difficult to test them all, let alone make any informed decision on which is best. Even 3DR is getting into this game."
"I definitely see a use case for me for the UAS to text back to a ground station for my average mission. I'm sure there are lots of uses for a long range non real time message system."
"And I know that at least at a high level. I was really just using it as a sanity check.
Bottom line is that the position numbers in my Iris are currently inaccurate enough to be very dangerous.
Thanks for your explanation!"
I'm not ready to abandon my Iris+ yet because it's still useful, but the detected altitude (and other GPS numbers) change constantly when it's sitting on a table.I have a bluetooth Garmin GLO that I use in actual airplanes that I put on the same…
"Members of a tribe listen to other members of the tribe.
This is a pretty fascinating thing to watch actually from a social standpoint. You built a tribe and now that tribe feels orphaned.
Reminds me a little of RedHat 15 years ago. They abandoned…"
"I've had good luck with the Hobby King versions as well after it became very hard to find the 3DR Models.
I picked Iris+ when I applied for (and got) my Part 333 Exemption almost entirely because the open model promised longevity for the platform.…"