Recent content by Av8Chuck

Your taking on a complicated and controversial issue that doesn’t lend itself well to soundbites. The rules are confusing and changing if you oversimplify from the perspective of a hobbyists your story probably won’t get much traction. 30 minutes is probably not enough time to seriously look...

The crash wasn’t bad. Unfortunately this was before carbon fiber booms, it had aluminum booms so it ruined a couple of the booms. That crash probably wouldn’t have done much damage today. We developed and manufacture our own flight controller. You can get it here...

Very nice. What camera did you use?

That does suck. Not what I would characterize as a big drone. Had a similar thing happen to me with a Hex and the early days of the NAZA: After my experience with DJI I have never used a DJI product in a commercial application since. Love flying the MAVIC for fun flights but I don't...

This is not simply an issue of BYLOS. Even if that weren't an issue you have not defined the requirement nearly enough to come up with a solution. If you were thinking you could do this with a quad and a GoPro, that ain't gonna happen. We've done quite a bit of this sort of thing and the...

Not sure what it is?

Haven't posted in a while, here's a property video shot in July (I think).

Not so much aerial but a video showing things to do at the Commercial UAV Expo 2017.

Your right, the drone world has changed. On August 2nd the military banned DJI! We immediately started getting calls from utilities, DoT's and Telecommunication companies looking for an alternative to DJI. Also since the ban, our customers are getting way more knowledgeable about gaining...

Hi John. If your wanting to do industrial inspections you have to start by developing a mission requirement, what data are you trying to collect? What sensor will you use to collect it? How accurately do you need it to be? How long do you need it to fly? How much area do you need to...

What are you designing the drone to do?

I generally shoot video everywhere I go. I spent a day and a half at AUVSI and shot this while walking around between meetings. Its simply some video vignettes edited to music to give someone who has never attended this show what it might be like. There's a lot of drone's...

Yes we manufacture our own drones. Our booms are removable and that motor configuration allows us to us it on an amphibious drone, a VTOL and fixed wing.

This is more of an issue of methodology than which is better. Both DJI and MK are vertically integrated, they don't want the end user deciding which components or accessories they can use with "their' drones. They certainly have a right to do business that way, but as a professional I need to...

Depends on how you use them. When it comes to autonomous missions Mission Planner is years ahead of DJI. I've been using the X2, which is a commercial replacement for the Pixhawk, for almost three years and have not had to upgrade firmware once. The problem with DJI is that none of their...