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Did my maiden flight and had serious issues. After lift off the copter swung back and forth like a pendulum. I managed to land it as I wasn't that high and there wasn't any damage. I did some adjustments to the stabilization rates in the APM software and gave it another go. It was still too...

I don't think it's legal to fly a private plane over our heads as close as a MR does. Indeed, private planes are much more highly regulated than RC toys and require operators to demonstrate competence after training.

What a lovely video! What part of Australia are you from?

Over the past few weeks I've been building one of the new Titanium series Droidworx birds. I'm taking a slightly different path in that I've set it up with the 3DR APM flight controller having a lot of experience with that system. I'm involved with the Canberra UAV group that was formed to...

Well, we will see. As you say the proof is in the flying. I have a strong feeling that the APM is going to surprise a lot of people. It's advancing very quickly and is extremely sophisticated. My opinion may not be relevant though as I don't have any experience with commercial flight controllers...

I'm doing the same build but I'm waiting for parts to arrive today so I'm behind you. That's a very sexy PDB. Can you share a link to where you got it?

Sorry about the crash. I'm very interested in how to find a lost bird. Several people mention GPS trackers which seems reasonable but these require the cell network correct? I often time fly out of phone coverage. Also, can't you tell where it crashed from the telemetry? Very nice to hear that...

Actually CASA can fine for safety breeches. I don't know if they ever have but I have a letter of warning from them that clearly states fines of up to $5,000 per breech. If the person you talked about is posting any of his results online then they will see it eventually. Either way, he's asking...

It's been two days since my last order for RC parts...

Spot on. All those people complaining about how expensive it is to live in Australia need to understand that if they want things cheap from China the cost of that is giving up your four weeks paid vacation every year (Americans will find this hard to believe), your cheap medical coverage, your...

If you don't have time to put in it, and a real love/fascination for things that fly, then this just isn't for you. If you want to have some fun just playing around then try something that's ready to fly out of the box like a little Parrot or maybe a DJI phantom. In spite of these looking like...

What stolen property are we buying if we buy a cloned product? I don't think your comment is relevant to the discussion. But that's my opinion and I'm sure you and others will disagree. That's OK, I respect your opinion and it's interesting to have the discussion and see what people think about...

Is cloning actually illegal? I don't know what laws apply but seems to me if you don't have a patent on something then it's fair game isn't it? May not be ethical of course but my question is, aren't there current laws to deal with all this? Of course, there's a simple answer to this and...

Just so everyone here knows, the staff at DW have gone out of their way to correct the situation as quickly as possible and I received very good follow up service. I don't actually have the new engine mount disks yet but that was my choice as I decided to wait for some new engine shields that...

And you are going to need a much more powerful machine because the software and operating system that you will be running will be terrible. If you have studied operating systems at all you will know that the memory management and overall architecture of Windows is terrible. It's amazing it works...

My very high end Windows PC set up for video editing died about a month ago. There was no question in my mind that if I wanted to get serious with my photography and video editing it was Mac or nothing. As it turns out, it was a great investment. With a Mac you get a high end Apple machine and...

Have you been to Australia? The quality of light here is really quite special.

Where in that video was the pilot flying over a crowd? I must have missed something. What makes you think 300ft will make people safe? A helicopter rained down on London not long ago. Aircraft hit houses from time to time. If you want to be safe we need to ban these. At the very least they...

Same thing happened to me recently so looks like there really is an issue at DW. Having said that, I'm about to order my second bird (a little CX) from them as I'm so impressed with the SkyJib Lite and I haven't even built it yet. I also know an X4 owner and his copter is the highest quality of...

Wow, that's spectacular! I lived in a surf town for a while and I really miss the smell and sound of the ocean every day. You really have captured it so well. Great shots.