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I was flying at 6500-7500', usually around 24°C-ish, in Kenya with an S800/WKM/Z15-GH2/6S-1000mah, an S800 EVO/A2/Z15-GH3/6S-1000mah, a Droidworx AD8-HL/MK/AV200/2x 4S-5000mah and a custom X8. Other than reduced flight times they all behaved pretty normally - except the S800 which suddenly went...

succinct And in line with my own oft stated view: "... You have to hand it to DJI, their Phantom and the people it was sold to have largely been the ones to create the issues were are now experiencing. Anyone can buy it, anyone can fly it, and nobody receives any advice on the right way...

Why could I not stop thinking of The Simpsons all through that video? Shades an' beer guts with more bone than brain caricatures. 'Jonathan' was cool. He talked circles around those dimwits.

I wondered how long it would take for the offending video to be removed.

Ah! Thanks. I have never heard of the M5 Octo ... or the M5 FC for that matter. I do know the M5 motorway though.

How can anyone plead a case with little turds like this out there with their worthless crap GoPro videos?:

Really cool, Man. Can't wait to see you on the TV news sometime soon, absolutely the sooner the better! You could make it happen you know. Just post your contact details, and before you can say "Book him, Danno", you'll be :triumphant::triumphant: inFAMOUS :triumphant::triumphant:.

Which 'Octo', which FC and which gimbal? My guess would be all DJI, the most important component being the Zen ... which remains the sole decent bit of DJI gear. Do you have a BMPCC? I'll sell you mine if you like. It is essentially brand spanking new, comes with three batteries and a field...

I am not sure why it has taken the FAA so long to start getting a handle on this whole issue. They are way behind many European countries in this respect. And now they are wading in with all guns blazing, trying to catch up. It is absolutely no surprise that these measures are being announced...

So what is the general verdict on 2.3? I still have 2.1 and although it has not done a lot, what it has done has been trouble free - so far! The trouble is the general consensus seems to be that everything is great ... until it isn't - for no good reason. So if 2.3 has cracked this...

Well of course it looks like a neat design but it is not clear whether there is a three-axis option. The current photos demonstrate Tilt and Roll or Pan and Tilt, but not all three. Is that, or will that be, an option? The big issue with 360° pan capability is cable runs when the gimbal is...

Looks neat. Well done for getting Val Kilmer to model it!

Pretty much from the heart, Dave. With occasional personal perspectives you have otherwise laid it all out objectively over two lengthy threads and the lack of response and support from responsible parties is shameful, particularly considering how long this has been going on. I wonder how long...

Well I hope they at least manufacture a whole load of the Z15-BMPCC micro-HDMI cables so that we can just modify our Z15-GH3's. Lots of interesting/amusing statements in that video, the most memorable being the last ... "... there's not much else to it ... it's just gonna work". Really? A bit...

I enjoyed that! Both the heli and the video cut. Helicopters are so much sexier than ugly insect eezeefly MR's.

Well I'm sorry, he didn't even see the impact. He had already given up with a dismissive hand gesture and turned around to leave. Once it had wedged itself into the corner I agree, there was time to think before acting. But it must have been some kind of total FC lock out though because he walks...

I agree. You don't just give up like that. As for hired pilots, although I feel the same way about a machine being personal, Flying Cam regularly uses freelance pilots who just turn up and fly, with little responsibility for airframe setup, and they have been operating that way for a good...

I don't think the B.A.D. belongs to the hapless pilot. The comments suggest that he was flying it for someone else. Someone who was paying him a miserly €1500 a month for the job. Maybe if they paid more realistically he would have been less inclined to just give it the "vaffanculo"††...

Don't kid yourself. Unless you are spending $10,000 on your Flight Control it is "hobby level".

So a quick look at the comments below the video reveal the second to be from the pilot - Fabio - who claims that it was basically doing a fly away and not responding to radio commands. Apparently it was supposed to just go straight up the side of the cathedral and look into an adjacent square...