About

Gender

Male


Location

Sanborn, NY


About Me:

Retired instrumentation/electrician from GM. Medical retirement injured on job and to young to watch judge Alex all day. Harley rider and have plasma table to cut out parts etc.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Have flown ROC planes, have a mikado 400 hell with naza-h electronics onboard also dji phantom and soon a 3d robotics iris Octocopter Arduplane by 3D Robotics


Hometown:

Sanborn


Activity Feed

Ronald L Catchpole replied to Ronald L Catchpole's discussion switching from arducopter to pixhawk using iris transmitter and receiver
"Ironically it was the simplest mistake!
I never plugged in the buzzer! I never would have thought it was needed but it said it had to plugged in!
So after all that I got it to fire up.....Except motors 5,6 won't fire up?
On the arducopter board it…"
Jul 24, 2014
Ronald L Catchpole replied to Ronald L Catchpole's discussion switching from arducopter to pixhawk using iris transmitter and receiver
"I should have said that I did get it to fly using arducopter board and turnigy9 and it's receiver that it came with, it's just I would rather use the pixhawk and it's transmitter n receiver the iris came with.
I love my Iris hands down over either…"
Jul 21, 2014
Ronald L Catchpole posted a discussion
I have a arducopter hex from jDrones or Canada drones I bought from a person who couldn't get it to fly.Canada Drones said they built it and it flies.I have original dji phantom and the vision alsoI was part of beta testing the Iris and bought…
Jul 21, 2014
Ronald L Catchpole replied to Bob Hodge's discussion D3 IRIS Quad
"I also got mine on Saturday, late in the day so didn't have much time to do anything.It was scheduled to be delivered on Friday by fedex but didn't? I have other units so have spare charged batteries. I have the dji phantom and the arduplane.
This…"
Sep 30, 2013
Ronald L Catchpole commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Iris Developer Edition shipments started!
"Can't wait until it arrives, wish a faster shipping option was offered as I won't be getting it for another 7 days!
Long way from California to NY by truck, to bad it couldn't have flown here...(:"
Sep 21, 2013