Recent content by swisser

Bargain of the century - a serious heavy lift flexacopter with top quality components. Now £500, including all the spare props. Add receiver and lipo for a professional quality hexacopter. I'm listing this elsewhere as well.

Am not interesting in splitting the parts at the moment, sorry. Am willing to sell the lot for £1,000 now.

I'm trying to sell a Flexacopter hex and am based in London. Is there anywhere in the UK where one might be able to reach buyers? Are there clubs which hold sales or anything similar?

I have for sale one used Flexacopter carbon fibre high end hexacopter. It is fitted with a DJI Wookong-M with 2.4GHz data link (TX and RX) for ground control and single waypoint use. Also fitted are six Torxpower (rebadged Tiger) 3356 motors, six Hobbywing Platinum 40A ESCs and at least a...

I sometimes use a 450-sized quad with 10" props to carry a hard-mounted Sony Nex AND a GoPro at the same time. Experimentation is your friend.

8. It's not the gains. If you're using the default gains on a Naza and it won't take off, or it flies then crashes, it's NOT because your gains need adjusting, no matter the weight of your craft.

There are (at least) two considerations here. The first is the legality of the flight. The second is the wisdom of it, regardless of legality. Legally, as you know from your BNUC course, unless you have some special dispensation, you're not permitted to fly "over or within 150m of a congested...

With respect Mat, that's pretty much completely unrelated to what I was saying. Someone said that solar activity caused crashes, flips and fly aways, and I was replying to that. Fly away is a very broad term. Searching forum posts doesn't prove much either really, because there is a strong...

I don't agree with this statement. Solar activity can cause erroneous GPS signals and therefore, perhaps, erroneous position data for the flight controller. But in a decent flight controller that doesn't cause flips - GPS data isn't used to keep the craft upright. And if you find that a bad...

Most simply: Attitude GPS mode - levelling with position and altitude hold Attitude mode - levelling and altitude hold Manual mode - neither levelling nor position or altitude hold There are a few subtleties, like GPS mode will act like Attitude mode if you don't have good enough GPS signal...

"why don't you head on over to the support site and voice your support". I don't own a phantom so I can't get involved, other than to discuss the matter which is what I'm doing here. I have owned various DJI controllers for 2 years and fly them regularly and professionally. I've never had a...

Kilby, I wasn't suggesting it was a Naza, I was suggesting that DJI's controllers work fine without compass and GPS and that is evidenced by the Naza. I have flown the WKM without too. Whilst I'd agree that odds on it was a WKM, just because it's a big MR that doesn't mean it couldn't be a Naza.

That letter doesn't sound to me remotely like something written by an attorney. It sounds like a rant. As for choosing flying locations, perhaps people flying Phantoms should follow the UK's prescriptive regulations for commercial flying with regard to distance from structures and people. I...

I received this notice too. Obviously the general advice is fine, but the most interesting part to me is this: "As part of the remedial actions/drills, the remote pilot switched control of the aircraft from GPS mode to ATTITUDE mode. However, it was clearly evident that stabilised flight could...

Fair enough. Though I think you should still be asking yourself how the prop came off in the crash, if the prop hub wasn't damaged. Just think about it - a nut doesn't work loose in a crash. As for radio interference the only thing that will prove or disprove that is to actually test it.