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It has been a long time since I've been around. FAA rules and irate freaks harassing me kind of turned me off of flying. But now that summer is here I'm thinking of powering my racing quads back up, and my 960 SuperX machine, and my 680 MiniX Alien frame. Anything new with XAircraft? Are...

Just got in the new Arris X-Speed FPV280 Racing Drone. I'm blogging about it here: http://goo.gl/KqvdUS

Finally got my retracts installed and working on my Tarot 960 hexa. Fun stuff. Love how much power the hex has without the gimbal and camera. Can't wait to NOT have my landing gear in the images.

I hope to maiden my first MiniX build later today. Latest build log entry here: http://goo.gl/Hy2Gac So far it is nearly exactly the same setup as the SX and I breezed through that (knocking on wood now). Didn't have any throttle range issues with the MiniX like I did with the SX either...

On my large hexacopter I have the ESC's under the motors. The BEC wire is lifted before it reaches the flight controller (SuperX). So that means I have 5 volts available at the end of each arm. Thinking of putting my LED's on the end of perhaps 4 arms and powering them via the 5v coming out...

Is the MiniX out yet? I'm going to start a 680 quad build and thinking of trying it, but don't want to wait for months.

I have a big hexa for carrying a Nex or DSLR. Thinking of building a more "portable" photo/video bird for travel, which can carry my Canon S95 or maybe a Sony RX100 on a gimbal. NO GoPro. Suggestions?

Looking for some advice. I have an Arris Zhaoyun 3-axis gimbal with a NEX-5T. It isn't balanced well and perhaps that's part of the issue, but it worked okay for a while without a super balance. Indoors when powering up it usually sets up level and right. Out in the field it rolls a few...

Haven't flown my P 1.2 much lately since I built my hexa. I thought I'd get her running again for situations where I need a smaller bird. So I fixed up some wiring and such. When I had it open I noticed the FC was not perfectly straight. It was rotated 15 degrees or so counter-clockwise. I...

Flying downtown yesterday over a big empty parking lot. Straight up to get some city shots at sunset. A bird started circling my hexa. Looked like it was coming pretty close, within a few feet. I did some evasive moves, changed altitude, but the bird kept circling. I was so cold (29...

Sometimes on my lunch break I'll go out and fly my 960 hexa. Today I did the same but had NO fun. When I brought the throttle up to 50% the bird flipped over. Damaged some props, broke GPS tower. Need to do a closer inspection. Can't look at the log until tonight. Normally I'd think it is...

Yesterday I was in a golf tournament at the most scenic golf course in town. Morning light with the sun just coming up over the mountains was fantastic. There was NO wind. The course was empty 1.5 hours before the tourney and the pro authorized me to go out with my hexa and do some aerial...

I just did my first FPV flight on my T960 hexacopter. It seemed to work well, barring interference and signal dropping. So the first question is how should I place my antennae? I seemed to eliminate the dropped signals when my RX antenna was perfectly straight up. Also, I purchased mushroom...

I have a concern with my T960 now. Please check this log at 145 seconds. I was coming in for a landing about 25 meters up and the bird dropped and regained attitude a second or so later. What do you think is the issue? Obviously time to check all power leads and wiring as there was a sudden...

I can barely breath. I did an evening flight with my T960, just like I do every evening. This time though I was quite high. I was flying in ATT mode when all the lights on the bird went dark and I could see it free falling. The first thing I could think of was to jam it into GPS mode. When...

The paranoia of "drones" is so unreasonable. Most of us are hobbyists or creative types who enjoy building and engineering these crafts as much as we do flying them. Personally, I'm not in this to invade someone's privacy or "spy" on them. I'm in this to put a camera in places which can...

Okay so my hexacopter is built and flying well. To date I've only had one set of dual 5000mAh 6S batteries. I'm getting about 10 minutes of flight time and landing very conservatively at 3.75 volts per cell or more. That's great, but after 10 minutes I'm done until I can go charge my two...

Did a flight this evening to test out my first remote triggering of still images on the NEX. I decided to go straight up to a high level to shoot the images. In examining my log after the flight I see a blip where I went into safe mode for maybe 1-2 seconds. I'm fairly sure I didn't hit safe...

I'm fairly new to the hobby, but have read extensively. I'm running two 5000mAh Pulse batteries on my hexa. Pulse tells me not to go below 3.7 volts, but many go down much lower. I've been listening to them and as soon as my Taranis tells me 3.7, I land. Usually they're in the high 3.7's...

I'm starting a thread for the setup of a SuperX & Arris Zhaoyun 3-Axis gimbal for troubleshooting my setup. I've now done my 2nd flight with this setup and now working on making the video usable. Right now it is vibrating very bad. Not jello like a GoPro, but straight up jumping. The video...