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agreed, but they are basically promoting it as such. hexacopters with a motor out and no load do okay. hexacopters with a motor out when loaded do not. the thing will spin like krazy

biggest issue on alta is the published weight limitation. heard from guys at abel cine that it has a hard limit of 15 pound payload. they did a test at 16.5 that ended in a crash. it's very easy to go over 15 pounds with cine glass on a alexa mini or even epic. very concerned about that and it...

Yes, fantastic news!

hard discs are a mass market commodity. camera gimbals are not. by several orders of magnitude.

with all due respect, please be thankful for what you have and how cheap it is. it's easy to forget how things were for the last decades now that these brushless systems are all around. the zenmuse and movi pretty much changed things overnight for the mass market- the fact a movi was only $15k...

Without encoders there is no absolute position control. The gimbal control board and its ESC's only have motor pulse feedback which is very coarse, easy to corrupt and allows error. Encoders allow for a much tighter feedback loop. After all, that's what these gimbals are doing. It doesn't matter...

will be interesting to see how these new AM boards and encoded motor combos work. encoders are the only way to get precision stability.

So cool!

Scott, congratulations. But I don't see Flying Cross on the list yet. Is it just too new? https://www.faa.gov/uas/legislative_programs/section_333/333_authorizations/

Hi Fabien, Yes, we have SDI & HDMI skylink. But would have been nice to have both options for Connex as well. The prototype unit I saw seems less quality/robust construction as skyline as well. But also ⅓ the cost, so it's understandable.

It is an interesting system but no SDI version.

Yep, and section 333 exemption will likely be the only legal way to operate until late 2016 to mid 2017, which is the best guess at this point on when the new proposed rules would take effect. Then again, the NPRM took nine years to release so it could, unfortunately, be beyond 2017.

Putting him away for six years would send a strong message to others to not do similar nonsense. There are a few folks here in north America who should receive the same sentence.

For sure- the legal issues have always been a consideration. We've lost a significant amount of jobs from folks getting spooked or last minute permit issues over the years. Certainly it has not been ideal. But gray market work has been very good to us overall. When the section 333 thing came...

It's not an understatement to say this is a historic turn of events. Considering the hard line rules many of us thought were going to happen this is perhaps the best case scenario. The most important thing we can do now is take the time to submit positive comments to the FAA and show as much...

Forgot about these- yes, still for sale. Will ship international. Thanks for looking.

Wow. Depressing. This is a shrewd, very effective, iron fist way to crack down on use of sUAS. I've asked this simple question a few times and have still not seen a satisfactory answer: Please show me the FAR which prohibits commercial use of sUAS? Ironically, my past experience with police...

Andrew, I think you're right on.

It's difficult, complex and expensive to create a flight controller that is truly reliable. But 'good enough' and selling units is their goal.

Wow, pretty bad promotional video. Old man, several of the companies with the 333 exemptions have multi rotors registered. My understanding is that they are classified as experimental, but they are registered complete with N numbers. The bigger issue here is people lying about having a COA...