Gender
Male
About
Location
Gauteng
About Me:
Work in the cycling industry, play in the flying community.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
started by attaching a sports action camera to a small plane and got hooked since then.
Hometown:
Johannesburg
Activity Feed
"@crashpilot - that second vid where he puts the compass on top of the lipo is hectic! that is definitely the issue I am experiencing then... "
"@Crashpilot I didn't take into account the fact that the lipo itself can cause the disturbance - thinking about it it makes sense that it would, I have my GPS compass unit on the stick that DJI supply BUT I mount the lipo basically directly below…"
"Great filming Patrick, I too have had DJI flyaways,GPS related issues etc, and now fly in atti mode 99% of the time...
Just the other day I took my NAZA equipped flamewheel up after calibrating the compass and the GPS hold was perfect and the…"
Just the other day I took my NAZA equipped flamewheel up after calibrating the compass and the GPS hold was perfect and the…"
"Ok so I got it sorted, I uninstalled MP and re-installed it, a bit long winded but it worked, maybe the newer updated MP has a small bug that will affect other people...perhaps a dev could look into it?"
I am hoping someone can help me, setting up my quad copter I try to do the acell calibration after doing the compass calibration, but the MP flicks through the process without any pauses to move the copter/board to the correct positions. So it fails…
"Graham Dyer lent me an APM 1.4 a few months ago and I'm hooked, it still amazes me everytime I see his copter or fixed wing flying autonomously of how far this hobby as a whole has come in the last 25 years I have been involved..."
"You know what I fly at the moment, getting the APM working though...."
"I have both systems now and although I haven't flown my quad with the apm (arduflyer) board I know that neither system is perfect, I agree the Naza is more plug and play friendly than the apm but having said that I have had my fair share of crashes…"
"Agreed the technology is a few steps behind still, but I am taking nothing away from the guys that do the developing and implementation. I still think that the good old human touch needs to be there still and the basic know how to at least start…"
"I agree with Crashpilot, rather do basic CPR courses, my brother and sister in law are paramedics and the number of times they arrive on scene with the bystanders doing exactly that - standing by and every one on their phones trying to phone for an…"
""How many people are having heart attacks whilst golfing?!?"
My brother in law's uncle died of a heart attack on the golf course..."
My brother in law's uncle died of a heart attack on the golf course..."
"WOW! I bet your wife was pretty annoyed...makes me realize how slack I am with my lipos..."
"I have had a similar crash with a Naza controller, I eventually traced it back to a faulty deans plug ( which I had overheated when soldering) the contacts on the connection were bad and under the vibration ( even with balancing props etc) it…"
"I didn't have a flyaway but my plane landed in a tree...was having too much fun testing out the auto pilot and the battery died too far away and too low to get it closer to land in the clear, I stood under the tree and poked at it till it fell out…"
"I agree with dionh, I have an arduflyer board with telemetry radio and GPS coming to RSA from RCTimer, the whole thing (excluding duty) was R1540 inc shipping. Netram are selling just the radio link for that price (ex shipping)...I'm prepared to…"
"I have two "hanger queens" at the moment....they are both glow planes (.40 and .60 size) that I have converted to electric thinking of the noise factor, but I look at the field I fly at and there are houses surrounding it and even though I have set…"
