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I'm from Santa Cruz and grew up in Fairfield where I still visit family. I was there about two months ago to visit and attend the sUAS conference in SF. So maybe we will have a chance at some point.

Cool. I may be down your way to do my CASA training in the near future. If so, maybe we can catch up and do some flying?

Really? I think if someone is going to claim a product is suitable for the typical users of this forum then the very least of expectations would be to show some examples. As I said, that's the great thing about photography, the results speak for themselves. I get your point though and I'm...

Again, how convenient. I've lived in the pro photography world most of my life. Photographers don't hide their work even if there are some aspects/work that can be confidential. This speciality is a very small field and some of the main players are right here. I'm sorry Robert but I just can't...

First of all, I'm so sorry this happened. I hate reading posts like this. I watched your flight record and looked at the report. The only thing that stood out to me was that the GPS accuracy was extremely poor and you didn't have that many satellites. If the GPS graph in SuperX is recording...

How convenient. Of course there are lots of examples of lovely artistic works from simple systems. Although I doubt very highly any of them make a commercial living from it. Things change when your livelihood is on the line. I have some lovely art from a pin hole camera that I made. But I...

I never said it was. I've always been very careful to state that was my experience and others may have different experiences. So I'm not sure what your point is here. This forum is about sharing experiences and working together to get results. You are totally free as is anyone else to totally...

What crap. There is no 'blame' to assign here from my point of view. I was just discussing the issue. There's no refusal about issues, just assumptions by cranky people that for some reason are sensitive about this, I just questioned a few things that didn't seem right. The whole thread is there...

I hear you and agree with you. But you have confused one important point. It's not 3DR that I had issues with. They only make the hardware and their only involvement with the software is to support the Ardupilot open source project by paying a few developers, some who are on their staff, some...

Egads! What's a boy to do? Now I am very scared.

Isn't the Naza the FC associated with all the fly aways?

EXACTLY the point I was attempting to contribute to the project when I was shouted down. Choices have been made that may make the Pixhawk less suitable for this specific use (heavy high throttle aerial video rigs) than the choices that apparently DJI has made. As you point out, there is nothing...

Yes, that's true. Enough to cause a lot of damage to my gimbal though. And why did it take three events before this was noted? I flew that copter with a dummy load several times without issues. We also determined that auto tuning it with the payload may have contributed to it as well. And let's...

Of course. But being underpowered shouldn't make a copter fall out of the sky when you change modes. That was the 'discussion' I had with them. I'm pretty sure I flew with the same props at the beginning with the Wookong as well. I _really_ wanted to contribute to the Arducopter project. I...

That's just horrible news. I keep reading about issues with the A2 here and I would never use one. Be careful with the Pixhawk as well. My SkyJib fell out of the sky three times with a Pixhawk just because I switched flight modes. It's a long story but they claimed my copter was underpowered...

What focal length do you use?

Warning - Off Topic Follows I've been spending Sundays taking photos and watching the Canberra UAV team get ready for the Outback Search and Rescue Challenge coming up in September. See the CUAV Flickr site for photos. It's pretty amazing all the work they have put in and how interesting it...

I think we need a specific thread to post these in. Something like the 'Wall of Shame' thread.

COG is good. Props are balanced. No idea how to balance a motor. Do T-Motors really need that. I have quite a few that have never given me an issue. Here is the Black Box Log. Thanks.

I put a SuperX on my hexacopter after having a lot of issues with another flight controller and it worked great. Very easy to set up and fly with no issues. I was so happy with it I decided to put on on my Aeronavics CX-600 quad as well. I've taken it out for three tests now and although it's...