Recent content by Colin

No the battery isn't swolen and I was aware there was a loose wire and connector in the area you mentioned but (a) I don't think I'm getting the battery far enough out for that to be the problem and (b) it's not a gradual jamming up as the battery comes out but a distinct "STOP" when it gets to...

I was out with my q500 today and came to put another battery in for a second flight when I discovered that the battery I'd just used wouldn't come out. It slides out maybe 1.5 inches at which point there's a definite "clunk" as if it's encountered something solid but for the life in me I can't...

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FAA warns pilots of massive GPS outages caused by secret weapon tests Col.

It I don't need your countrymen to die so I can have opinions thank you very much. And it's still not an approriate topic for a global hobbyist forum. Col.

Not everyone has the same narrow-minded view of the US military. US Bombing campaigns since 1945 - Wikispooks

Oh I see. It wasn't long after noon and the sun was pretty high so I just flew wherever i wanted and didn't pay much attention to it. Most of the flight was only around 50-70 ft altitude though, there was plenty of ground in shot and plenty of cloud cover and a lot of the time the camera was...

I'm not sure what you mean, but whenever I'm flying towards myself a handy little trick I sometimes use to add a little extra movement to the shot is to flick it into RTH so I can use the rudder (yaw) to rotate the camera without disrupting the nice straight flight line. Could that be what you...

The camera was set to 4K and all other setting were on the defaults. And yes, as always, I had the ND filter on.

Thanks DC.

Finally felt up to a gentle flight on one of the local beaches yesterday. Col.

I've no experience with the H but it's top speed is twice that of the Q which I'd take to be a great big hint to the effect that windy conditions are going to be significanly less problematic that with the Q. Col.

What's compicated about grabbing the flashing arms and giving it a spin? Col.

Whether the Q500 suffers from video lag is a pretty subjective matter and every flyer will have their own assessment of it. If (for example) you have a regular r/c FPV background then the amount of lag you get from any wifi based system is probably totally unusable. If on the other hand you come...

I'm guessing that the gopro will be transmitting via wifi (otherwise the st10 controller couldn't receive it) in which case I'd not expect the latency to be any better than with the 4k cgo3. I could be wrong, but since you're not getting replies from anyone who's better informed that's my take...