Recent content by AmericanPilot

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    about to order a Phantom 3 advanced

    I recently bought the P3A and I love it. After 12 days of ownership, I've racked a little over 2.5 hours of total flight time and I have experienced very few malfunctions or disturbances with the quadcopter. The software really makes the P3A noob-proof with all of the safety features (10%...
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    Anyone else see this news? 12 really?!

    I am a pilot myself, and many pilots don't know a whole lot about the hobby because they can just do the same thing UAS pilots are doing, but much better in a manned airplane already, so they don't even bother with this hobby. Especially the airline pilots who already have a nicely paying job...
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    Anyone else see this news? 12 really?!

    Lockheed is a company which gained by putting out false reports of SR-71 activities. Pilots are just ordinary people who gain nothing by regulating the radio control hobby.
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    My first video (Saint Albans, WV)

    That's great!
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    Anyone else see this news? 12 really?!

    I know reckless FPV flyers probably don't care much about the consequences, but my point is that it's time people here stop pretending that all of these reports of model aircraft operators endangering others is a conspiracy against us by the FAA and licensed pilots or something crazy like that.
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    P3A loose heigh during hovering

    Just a thought, but did you calibrate it near metal objects right after the update? That could make it seem like an issue with the update. I have the latest version and the P3A as well and mine hovers preciesly and the altitude reads fine.
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    Now a Phantom 3 Professional owner

    Congratulations! I got mine a week ago and I love it! Just take it slow and steady and you'll be fine!
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    Anyone else see this news? 12 really?!

    You people can claim pilots are just making it up all you want, however with the correlation between skyrocketing aerial photography and FPV popularity, this should come as no shock there is a sudden surge in reports of sightings by reckless model aircraft operators. While I agree many of these...
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    Drone tipster hotline...Report UAV activity...

    I know I will probably get a lot of hate for this, but this idea doesn't seem all that unreasonable. I'd rather have someone misidentify me as inhibiting firefighters efforts to fight these devastating fires than make it easy for these few moronic UAS pilots fly over forest fires and potentially...