Recent content by Struts

Zoomies from outer space?

In the spirit of sharing learning -- this turned out to be, not a loose connection, but a corrupted firmware situation. Was running v5.22. Re-installed. Problem solved. End of story (I hope).

Happened between flights. Manual mentions calibration error or 'other problem.' Missing important shoot. Any thoughts? S800 totally unresponsive to Tx.

I'm working to install a small 1.3 Ghz transmitter. Getting great video signal, but then the gimbal tilt control stops working, and the motors won't turn. As soon as I unplug the TX, everything goes back to normal. What's going on here? It's not power, there's something else going on here. I am...

So it would seem.

How about the pitch control hardware for the Phantom controller? Plug and play? My dealer seems to be as frustrated as I am.

Plug and play for Phantom? Turns out I need a new PMU (V2) for my Phantom. Okay, so not plug and play. Now it turns out the PMU is not available for purchase on any of the sites I've looked at. Definitely not plug and play. So now that I've paid my $699 and waited 3 months for the gimbal, I will...

Struggling to decode the manual and wiki pages on this. Anybody have a straightforward recommendation on this? One concern is what happens in the sim mode. During one sim session, the a/c wallowed around, then crashed. Glad that wasn't an actual flight!

We recently invested in a total UAS system designed for quality aerial cinematography. We did our homework and talked to the best people in the business. We made a decision to go with the DJI s800 platform via Patrick and Aerial Media Pros for the whole system. It was a good call. Although...

Hearing conflicting inputs. Does this require a high performance Windows machine? Graphics Card? Dedicated video ram, etc? Have seen post referring to netbooks. We're just getting up and running on the WKM- Waypoint system and trying to invest wisely in the right supporting gear. Thanks!