new texas drone pilot

[texasdronedude]

what's up "rc nerds"? **that was the "witty" comment | i don't really mean it**

i am fairly new to the uav/drone community. i've been flying for about three months. i started on a blade 180QX and then moved to the phantom and now i am totally geeking out on everything "aerial". as of now i have a total of 125 flights and just over 26 hours. i know just enough to know that until about two days ago i really had no understanding of lipo batteries which probably should have lead to my house burning down by now.

i work in the movie industry and have a collegue that purchased a freely systems "movie m10". he asked me to be the gimbal pilot since i had rc experience as a teenager and i began using the DX8 to control the movi's gimbal system. it did not take long for me to learn that i could control my 180QX with the DX8 and that is the point i realized the implications that uav's are going to have in my line of work.

i bought a used phantom 1 and completly tore it apart and rebuilt it with all the tech i could squeeze into its shell. now i am moving on to an s800 type of platform in order to eventually carry larger sensor platforms.

nice to meet you! i'm rob.

 

[gringers]

Welcome to the forums Rob!

I'm surprised you found us here, I didn't think Texans could use computers (**my witty retort....I don't mean it either**)

Sounds like you've got a plan and I'm sure you're aware of the legislative issues being the hot topic for commercial multirotor use at the moment - if not you might want to start genning up!

 

[U.F.O]

Hi Rob, nice to meet you too. I've got the same plan as you do, but with little or no legislative issues foreseen in the near future, barely two months ago the internet was headlining "American spy drone crashes in ( name of town)..." scrolled down and the American spy drone was a dji phathom !... I would like to pick your brain a bit on what you feel about the workload involved in being the UAV pilot as well as the gimbal Pilot in the aerial video environment...Have you been able to pull both off satisfactorily ?