About

Gender

Male


Location

Wellington


About Me:

Work in visual effect industry NZ


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

YEt to stay in air :) Testing Raptor 140 (Geekshow) + APM2.6 Building SkywalkerX8 + APm2.6 Waiting Kraken 130 - Pixhawk


Hometown:

Wellington


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Paul Jenness replied to Paul Jenness's discussion Flipping on take off in IRIS
"Well

No idea what happened.
Tried firmware upgrade, new software, reloading parameters etc.

Was about to send another email, and then my next test everything was fine.

The only thing I can think that I did was multiple 
- Preflight calibration
-…"
Oct 11, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Paul Jenness's discussion Flipping on take off in IRIS
"Hi VU, have logged this as requested, but will also post here incase someone has expereinced similar:

What I have discovered is the controls or response seems to be inverted.Ive downloaded and written the “iris” parameters, and done all the…"
Oct 10, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Paul Jenness's discussion Flipping on take off in IRIS
"Hi Chris...thanks for replying.

I think they are different one 433 one 9xx (whatever it is) but I will check.
However I dont recall ever having both on at once.

But...I may have used one after the other, with same APM settings ad accidently…"
Oct 4, 2014
Paul Jenness posted a discussion in IRIS
SighJust had fail day. Drove 2 hours to location, and my iris decided to behave different this time.For some reason is reacting the opposite to what it should to stabiliseAfter flipping on launch a few times (and going thru a set of CF props) I…
Oct 4, 2014
Paul Jenness commented on Stefan Olofsson's blog post Iris Plus
"Did you have to change the motor/props once switching to 4S?"
Aug 25, 2014
Paul Jenness commented on Stefan Olofsson's blog post Iris Plus
"Hopefully they provide a nice upgrade kit, since the current iris is not overly amazing once gimbal and gopro attached (which was one of its selling points)... its ok with front go pro though.

-P"
Aug 24, 2014
Paul Jenness commented on Stefan Olofsson's blog post Iris Plus
"Maybe 4S with better motor/props?  Probably longer arms since selling off the older ones cheap?"
Aug 24, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Paul Jenness's discussion Monitoring 6S main battery with alternate telemetry sensor?
"My FrSky sensor jsut arrived.
Has any one use one with their pixhawk yet, or jsut striaght to Taranis?

Cheers

-P"
Aug 24, 2014
Paul Jenness posted a discussion
HiyaIs it possible to feed the output of something like this.....http://www.banggood.com/FrSky-Smart-Port-Lipo-Sensor-FLVSS-p-929070... to the 6S main battery's balance plug, to the pixhawks second telemetry port, or i2c?Instead of…
Aug 17, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Eric T. Ringer's discussion Paint 3DR Iris for high visibility
"Yeah, get some neo tape. Could be glow in the dark even."
Jul 22, 2014
Paul Jenness commented on bigkahuna's blog post I may have just witnessed the future of personal drones...not sure if I like it
"I agree from the post description that this may not be good use of the a copter. (close to people flying, without prior approval from them)

If we give the guy the benefit of the doubt, that he is a top pilot, and is purely having fun, no  sinister…"
Jul 21, 2014
Paul Jenness commented on Daniel Lukonis's blog post Christmas in July
"FYI Bruce has also reviewed the googles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXK9Iq1Gjo8

-P"
Jul 20, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Paul Jenness's discussion Kraken130 + Pixhawk?
"In case no one had seen ther is a rcgroup thread for all things Pixhawk + K130

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2192458
See you there

-P"
Jul 20, 2014
Paul Jenness commented on Fabian Briese's blog post Three Arducopter with one transmitter
"I saw this similar on another thread, made me think that you could send up a signal repeater on the first copter, to hover with a nice view over a complex terrain (hills,trees) and it repeat the signal to your main exploring/fpv copter so if it went…"
Jul 19, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Christian Elsen's discussion IRIS with gimbal and tall legs too heavy to fly safely in IRIS
"Christian,

Which propellers did you end up buying? (ie which product/store?)

Cheers

-P"
Jul 19, 2014
Paul Jenness replied to Christian Elsen's discussion IRIS with gimbal and tall legs too heavy to fly safely in IRIS
"Hi

Did you see this posted earlier..
These lower C batteries are lighter and drain slower so may give longer life/flight?

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/RC_PRODUCT_SEARCH.asp?sear...

I may try these.

-P"
Jul 18, 2014
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