Recent content by John Polasek

As a point of comparison, does your car or lawnmower operation manual bother to point out that if you overfill the tank and have a gasoline spill in an enclosed garage, one cup of gasoline is equivalent to 6 sticks of dynamite? And if it didn't, are you going to get rid of your car? (Or...

I would do a calibration every time I fly if it were as easy as it was for the old ProMark Shadow I had before the breeze; that one would calibrate in under 30 seconds. But the one calibration I did before first flight took a full 5 minutes to complete, which is why I really want to know when...

When I first unboxed the drone, I took the manual seriously and the first thing I did was a compass calibration, which took 5 minutes of spinning, tumbling and rolling the drone before the app was satisfied. Since then I have only flown it from my back yard, but looking in other (Typhoon)...

Twice now, I have set the drone "follow me", launched it and sent it up to about 100 ft altitude and then activated "Follow me" and taken it for a 10 minute walk. When I used my IPhone 7 as a controller, the breeze slowly and steadily descended until at the end of the walk, it was down to about...

Yes, the only other question is what it would have done had you asked it to RTH while you were 300 yards away... would it have stopped when it hit the GeoFence around the controller, stopped when it lost WIFI at 200 ft from the controller, or flown autonomously and landed without aid? Since one...

When I got home yesterday, I determined that either the GEOFence is tied to the controller rather than the takeoff point or is ignored for "Follow Me" mode. Also tried out the 1700 mAH GIFI battery... Got the drone 190 yards from takeoff point in about 7 minutes flight time fighting an 8 mph...

The KML files are easy; I did that as soon as I had the log by copying everything below the header into excel, doing a text to delimited data using comma as the delimiter, creating a column of texts of the lat and long divided by 10^7, and then copy pasting that into the <coordinates>...

This thread prompted me to pull the first flight log from my breeze. It doesn't show any any inconsistencies or breaks even though I was using a cheap droid pad as the only controller in "follow me" me mode. I wonder if the problem is using the separate bluetooth controller and the pad being...

I haven't gone far enough afield to determine the answer experimentally, but when using follow me mode, is the geofence centered on the takeoff point, or on the controller the drone is following? I ask because one of the things I hope to use the drone for is to survey my property for wild hog...

Went on amazon and found 1700 mAH (as opposed to the 1150 mAH that came with the Breeze) battery for Breeze for $41 each or $52 for a 2 pack... I decided to try one first, and it just came in yesterday... took just over an hour to charge when I got home. Hopefully the wind will be low enough...

This discussion worries me; I have just purchased a Breeze and in fact only flown it twice. I WAS going to try to download the video from the drone into my computer, since I'd like to get the full 4K resolution and the max WIFI download is 1080, but now am afraid to try using the microUSB for...

I picked up a cheap digiland 7" droid pad for $40 at Walmart last fall, originally for watching videos downloaded into the microSD slot that droids have but my Iphone doesn't... and unlike the iPhone, it's bright enough to see in daylight and with a booster battery pack or cigarette lighter...

I picked one up June 24 in central Texas in stock at one of the local Wal Marts; Online, the two other stores in the Bryan-College Station area showed out of stock but expected back in by July 1st.