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Really? I always wanted one but have to curb my addiction. I was so hoping that the Iris would be a Phantom killer.

Here's my first go with the CAME-TV 7000 gimbal with a Pana GH4 12-35 lens on a SkyJib. A bit of fine tuning to do but better than I've had before. In general I'm quite happy with it. Password is 'dsmra'

Safety my ***! If a 747 is in the same airspace that I fly my SkyJib in then they have a lot more to worry about than my 'drone'.

Sorry I can't be more helpful but I do remember having a similar issue as well. I'm too lazy to read back through this thread but I'm sure I saw someone else say that they did the same thing I did to get around the issue. It had to do with setting the throw of the throttle channel on the Tx to a...

Just received one to use with my GH4. I'll be trying it out next week if the wind ever dies down here. Good news is that the snow is finally falling up in the mountains so that's where I'm heading next week with the SkyJib and GH4 for some fun. My understanding is that the rcshutter release will...

I often times see the comparison of Apple (closed proprietary) vs Google or Android (open source). But has it occurred to anyone that the Apple _really_ took off after adapting FreeBSD as it's operating system running on X86 CPUs?

I went to the sUSB conference in San Francisco recently and it was just fantastic. Not only were the talks incredible I was lucky enough to attend a two hour work shop on aerial photography and another two hour workshop on Search and Rescue techniques. I hear that next year it's going to move to...

I had a motor stop on a hexa with a SuperX just last week. It wasn't too high so there wasn't much time to really see how it reacted but it dropped out of the sky. It did land fairly flat but I suspect that's only because it was so low at the time. If you are looking for true redundancy I...

I'd be surprised it would fly with that. I've got large motors and 16" props on my 8 and it's pretty close to the limit. See what ecalc tells you. I honestly don't know. But if you look at the photo of the gimbal you'll notice that the third axis has those rubber balls on it connected to...

If you use it with 3 axis setup you won't be using the Droidworx camera rail. I'd say it's going to be about 1.7Kg all up. It is on the heavy side but it's got really nice motors on it and a lot of it is aluminum so it's quite sturdy. By comparison I have a large all carbon fibre gimbal with...

It certainly can be for some. But as others have said, it is a very advanced piece of technology. It's certainly not plug and play as it gives you complete control over the functionality. The price you pay for that is having to read the documentation carefully and probably reading through forums...

Mine weighs 1.4Kg without the third axis installed and with a Droidworx mounting rail which is probably 150-200gms. The third axis motor and plates weight 472gms. I've done two test flights with it over the past two days and I'm getting some shake in the roll axis that I need to work out. But...

I see this happen all the time on motorcycle forums. I really don't think it's ever a good idea to have a user also act as a moderator. It seems that's what the core issue is here as well. So now that Droider isn't a moderator, what is the problem? Bartman doesn't have to worry about what Dave...

Love the photo. So nice to see so many Aeronavics machines. Keep up the great work!

The last paragraph in your post was a statement on how Arducopter handles GPS glitches. How is that related to skill and training? My comments are meant simply to balance the information you provided.

How would the ability to fly in manual mode have helped this pilot? The issue here was that he had no control from the Tx. In such a case the pilot's flying skills are irrelevant. Good point. In earlier days Arducopter couldn't even take off in GPS or Alt Hold mode. So I learned to fly manually...

I have an app on my iPhone called 3D Sun that sends me a SMS in the event of serious solar activity that could effect communications. Works great.

That's certainly good advice and it's been repeated many times. Arducopter is not without issues either. There was a time when it suffered from GPS issues as well, and a time when the barometer didn't work when it got hot. Wasn't it you (or maybe Leonard) that discovered it wasn't working...

I'm going to start without the third axis for a few reasons. I'm a single operator and I don't have retracts. So far I get fairly smooth panning just by using yaw. It will lower the weight and complexity. Lastly I think it will fit better without it as it will mount a bit higher without the...

That BetView looks similar to the CAME-7000 gimbal that I just ordered from CAME-TV. I'll be mounting it to a SkyJib for use with a Panasonic G4. Although I think I'll leave the third axis off for now. I'm not that far from you if you want to have a look after I've tested it. I probably will...