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    My Drone Confiscated at Nicaragua Customs...WTF

    Yikes, this is good to know. Unfortunately you can't just expect to go to another country without learning their laws or rules and abiding by them. Do your due diligence. Hope the storage fee does not cost too much!
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    Shooting Weddings

    I recently asked a pro who shoots aerial and he said for weddings he charges $250 an hour with a 3 hour minimum. That sound right for me because you don't really need to be shooting more than that. And if they want you to hang around for longer, they can pay for it.
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    VIDEO ISSUE Horizontal Lines on descent

    This looks promising: http://www.samys.com/p/Sports--Action-C ... 48164.html
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    Novice Phantom Crash Woes

    Good news is everything fired up and seemed normal, i.e. all blinking lights were normal and switched to green when GPS locked. I was also able to put the gimbal back together. The cable was salvageable; the connector broke a tiny bit but still functions properly. Upon power on, the gimbal evens...
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    Novice Phantom Crash Woes

    Yeah, the airframe is definitely bent, I'll post photos later when I'm home. If I rotate the prop it will actually hit the arm of the airframe. :/ The shell was partially popped out on one side so I pulled screws holding it together to see if realigning it would put everything right, but it's...
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    Price drop Phantom2 vision plus

    I bought my P2 from B&H last week as well and chatted with them online today. They credited me the difference straight away.
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    Novice Phantom Crash Woes

    Whelp, I had my Phantom 2 a whole week and managed to crash it. It was totally my fault as I ran into a tree while doing a right to left tracking shot as practice. I guess I got a little cocky as I was looking at my FPV monitor and didn't notice how close I was to an overhanging tree branch...
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    Price drops on all Phantoms as of Today!!

    Of course I bought my Phantom 2 like a week ago. I wish I had known and I would have held off. D'oh! Hmm, Maybe B&H honors price changes?
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    For those that charge, how much can you make per shoot?

    Thanks for your input. It's stuff like this that's hard to figure out. I think you hit the nail on the head. I certainly wouldn't want to undercut the market and would want to charge my fair share. That said, as the technology proliferates prices tend to go down as people purchase the gear...
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    For those that charge, how much can you make per shoot?

    Thanks for this. I'm looking to break into the market eventually. First on the low end, small, independent videos on the side. But the $350-500 per day number is right what I was thinking with a small GoPro setup. I already work in the industry and several friends were surprised at the...
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    Phantom 2 Power Issue

    I'm new here, and a new Phantom 2 owner, but this was my first thought. Having a bit of an electrical/technical background the things I would check in order are 1) Battery [power %, life issues] 2) Battery connection issues [dirty, loose terminals] 3) Internal power connection issues [poor...
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    Does Black Pearl monitor work with the IRC tx or not?

    Sorry, to clarify... I was wondering if there is a distinct advantage of having a 32-channel transmitter AND receiver. I was looking at the Immersion 7-channel transmitter and Black Pearl 7-channel receiver/monitor. I was looking at this 7-channel 600mW transmitter...
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    Does Black Pearl monitor work with the IRC tx or not?

    Hi there. I'm a quadcopter novice and I'm looking to purchase my first Phantom 2. I've been specing everything out and following suggestions here on this board. One such suggestions mentioned the 7-channel 600mW IRC transmitter for FPV and I was planning on going with that along with the...