Recent content by DrNewcenstein

They can't really regulate "sea level", since that's different for different areas of the country. What the regs do state is GROUND LEVEL, meaning the ground you're standing on. If your property is already 400 ft above sea level, you'd be hosed, so it's ground level.

The aluminum case is designed so that you take all the foam stuff out of the cardboard box and drop it into the case. Dealers can apparently break up the factory bundles that include the case and sell it separately for more than Yuneec sells it directly. Factory refurbs (warranty...

I'm an equal opportunity troll. Even if someone happens to have the same political/non-political/religious/non-religious beliefs as me, the same hobbies, same job, or is someone I have the utmost respect for, I will troll them regardless about something, because it's fun.

Not really. It's a typical day with Microsoft products IME lol.

Been Failbook Free for several months now and it's great. I avoided it for years, but finally signed up on a "friend's" insistence. Made some more friends, probably lost even more, reconnected with childhood friends, and probably lost them again as well. But, that's how it goes. Social Media is...

IE 11.0.9600.19078 I do have Windows Update set to Notify Me (which it keeps reporting as an issue - not an issue for me, as I built this PC to use it, not just to stream constant updates form Microsoft that require reboots), so I may be a tad behind the times.

Anyone else getting this? For some reason the posts are not word-wrapping like they used to. If the author doesn't insert a carriage return in their post, the text goes off the screen, and you have to scroll sideways. in almost 30 years of internetting, I've not seen this.

I'd imagine you'd want more precise control over an H. Unless there's a built-in mic on the controller and receiver on the copter, voice control would have to be done while it was in ear-shot, over the noise of the rotors, and as a larger unit, outdoors where other sounds could interfere. Even...

I'm sure this job also includes handing over the SD card once the shots are taken, and you don't get it back, so there's that expense. If you do the job with a 64GB card and only took 5GB of shots, you'd have to scrounge a cheaper, lower-capacity card and take them over again, as it's doubtful...

Or someone with a death wish could point it at their neighbor's house to get xxx-rays.

In the USA, the FCC regulates (i.e. controls, has dominion over, etc) the airspace over everyone's private property that has not been classified as "private airspace" or "military airspace" for purposes of commercial passenger, medical, Law Enforcement, and cargo transporting air traffic. When...

Sweet.

Yeah but how reliable is it? I mean, are people putting up listings and just taking people's money without delivering on the deal?

The operators probably thought they were far enough away. However, given how the cameras (at least on the Q500) don't offer a 1:1 field of view, but rather zoom everything out considerably, they probably felt that they should get closer to see them more clearly. The first drone was probably not...

Yeah, I'm always stressing out that I'm gonna strip a motor one day by tightening them too much. I'm in no hurry to learn how to replace motors and ESCs and get them working, after seeing the threads here about it.