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Mr. Tanner, I presume?

I too await your findings with interest.

Right.

Finally a kindred spirit. .........edit...very unnecessary comment removed.......... Speaking in broad swathes of generalities, making and selling stuff cheap is pretty much all the Chinese can be attributed with - and even that is at the expense of their own people who exist much as human...

The Canon 5D mk3 connections are the same as the 5D mk2. There is both a mini-HDMI output and a standard four-pin video output socket. Both feeds are live when recording - unlike the Panasonic GH3. The GH cameras also feature digital and analog video outs via a mini-HDMI output and a weird...

That Nikon footage looks bloody good! Like I said, almost surreal in its super sharp cleanliness. Very nicely produced clip.

Duh! OK, the penny just dropped. It works with the tongues either way round but having them facing each other frees up finger space inside.

Squeaky clean. Almost surreal! What cameras in the air and on the ground?

Your wife said "slide it in like this all in 1 go from the front ..."? Er .... ?? Okay, now I'm getting really confused. I thought you said the tongues are facing inwards? On my 'botched' assembly that is precisely what I do - slide it all in, all in one go ... except I go in from the rear -...

Hmmm, well whatever works for everyone is good. But it is all a bit bizarre, having just looked at the assembly manual (it is part of the Upgrade_SkyJib_Build_Manual.pdf). It shows the tongues pointing inwards in as you have described. But then what is the rear red plastic locking catch for...

That's different! The two right-angled quick-release brackets are facing each other. They should both be facing the same direction eg. forwards, then the whole assembly slides in and out ... erm ... quickly. To secure it the red tabs are moved to the down position and to release they are turned...

Which is why I wrote "most single-rotor accidents..."

All of that is dead true but what I do miss is the simple radio with understandable servos and mechanical linkages of the single rotors. No buggering around with computers or ropey FC firmware BS, nor unfathomable electronics which either work or they don't and, if they don't, WTF knows how to...

I fly and film one-man far more often than with two - it's a question of economics my boy - and all my airframes are setup with two receivers. One for the flight control and one on the gimbal for camera/gimbal control. Generally the first eight channels are all configured for the flight control...

Good. Now I have someone to blame when it goes wrong :). I did not suffer any ill effects with 2.1 but on the strength of good reports here, with the one notable exception of THIS, I have upgraded to 2.3. Tests will start tomorrow with the forcasted sunshine.

I am not absolutely sure it is a good idea to totally remove the Manual Mode option from the normal flight setup. Of course no one is much interested in actually flying in Manual Mode - what the hell is the point of Manual Mode anyway and do any other FC systems even have it as an option? - but...

Eeeeeyuch!

The poxy damn Phantom/GoPro/Wankers combo again. I have stated it here often enough and have never veered from the opinion that the commercial sector is the wrong sector to start regulating. It is the hobby sector that is the real danger. Any regulation of the commercial sector unfortunately...

When the video image gets this good one has to resort to real nitpicking when it comes to trying to find faults. In this case I would suggest that there is perhaps a small issue with the horizon much of the time? But, as I said, it's a nitpick. That is a good reel.

If one were to mess with prop sizes and pitches the altitudes may well have less impact on flight duration but who the hell has time for that in the working world? So, as a rough indicator, in Europe (at around 170-340' amsl) flight duration is generally 10-13 minutes, in Kenya at 6500' it was...