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I imagine that is international date code, not American. So it was 4 days, not 4 months.

Arducopter used on a mid-size camera ship:

Yeah, I really don't see why anybody would use an APM anymore, except for I guess all the hobbyists who bought one and can't afford to just buy a Pixhawk. But if you're doing anything kind of serious with the system, it doesn't make sense to not upgrade.

Yeah, I'd be careful using those with your A2 IMU, which I believe is basically like a cube? They could make the problem much worse. I think this is the reason that DJI recommends not doing external vibration damping, because people can tend to get it very wrong and make the situation much...

So you're going to use HobbyKing made flight controller? You might be saving yourself a lot of trouble getting 3DR stuff for only $200 more. Not the least benefit is being able to actually pick up the phone and talk to somebody if you have a problem. And 2000mW VTx is WAY overkill, and may...

Wow, that's pretty much Hobby King bad. Victim of their own success?

What kind of Arduino programming are they doing? And that commit stats page is a bit misleading. Tridge, Randy, Pat and Jason are full time paid programmers. And a lot of my commits get "laundered" through Randy so don't have my name on them.

I'm just working on the next feature, will probably be in 3.3: Collision avoidance. I've got a Lidar aimed out the front. :D

Ok, here's my resume. First person to get a full-featured commercial grade autopilot working on a paint shaker. :D Not built from a kit. Lots of custom parts. Want to fly a Red at 100 km/h for an hour? We can do that. :) I do work on multirotors too, I just don't have anything impressive...

I think you're talking about that company from Belgium... they use a single rotor system called SARAH. ???

Bingo!!! I'm active on RC Heli forums, and I keep bringing this up. There's a huge amount of animosity there between heli guys and multirotors. It's the technology version of racism. The 3D Heli guys get their panties all in a wad everytime a new video comes out showing somebody doing...

Old Man, your comments are sort of where I am going with this. My concern is that, in Canada, and it appears in the US, these "waivers" seem to be granted more on a basis of "in the right place at the right time", rather than any kind of rational determination of the safety of operations. They...

You do not necessarily need a green card to work in the USA. Look up "TN Visa". I used to live in Windsor, cross the border to work in Detroit daily, for 5 years.

This discussion is interesting. I definitely agree with Old Man and Chuck. To the point that, I think companies should not follow the 333 process, and instead, continue down the road of civil disobedience that many already are. The 333 process is sounding more and more like the SFOC process...

Can I do UAV Tech from Canada? :)

Thanks for the photos. I had been looking at that, but couldn't judge the scale of it. So it's using 28" props? Given the payload is only about 3.6kg, it must have lots of room left for battery.

No, I don't think there is. What exactly is the difference you are suggesting? Is MS Windows still under development? They release patches almost weekly. Oh, I guess Windows XP is now no longer under development. No more patches for it. Is it better to run Windows XP since there won't be...

The reason I don't respect your opinion here, is because your argument is not reasonable. It's seriously flawed right from the start, and you refuse to acknowledge the reasons for that. Here they are again in point form. 1) You state you will not use Arducopter for professional purposes until...

All autopilot software is under development. We're just open about it. You KNOW when you're getting a beta firmware, and choose to fly that at your own known risk. Unlike some of the other big guys, who put out a "stable" release that seems to have not been tested at all, then a week later...

So, just bumping this up again. Previously Dazzab had asked why nobody is using Arducopter/Pixhawk for professional AP, and I said there were, but I couldn't show examples. This is one of the examples I was talking about, I finally found the public release. Skip ahead to 3:55. This was...