Recent content by BobWare

The Phantom's Low Battery RTH will override the mission and cause the bird to immediately return to the recorded home point.

From post #16 above: "... Imagine that, the MOST POLULAR photo website in the world blocks photos from cameras." At least one spelling error (POPULAR, not POLULAR). Just kidding around... You're right, it's a great thread.

I'm curious about this... It looks like you're using curved turns instead of straight lines as your path mode, and I thought waypoint actions cannot execute when using curves. Is this what you're doing? Is so, how did you get it to stop for 30s and take a photo?

Hilarious... and wondering if RTH brought poor ol' Biscuit back.

Oklahoma lawmaker wants to protect people who destroy drones flying on their property This is disconcerting...

The quality of the SD card makes a BIG difference... you need a Class 10 card to handle the high data transfer rates. I use a SanDisk Extreme Pro 64 GB Class 10 card and get excellent results and typically view it directly from the card without transferring it to the PC.

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That is just too cool! I especially like the sequence at about 3:40 where you overtake the white car and then yaw the bird around to keep the car in the pic while flying backwards--REALLY well done. How long have you been flying quadcopters? Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

Thanks for your reply about your RTH accuracies. I launch from my backyard but only have about a 60' clearing. So I'm always prepared to cancel RTH and land it manually if it looks like it's going to miss the home spot by any significant distance. I've only had to do that once in about 10 RTH...

Continuing on to the next page, page 52, the manual then says: "Calibrate the compass before each flight...". However, having read about this issue in several threads here, I subscribe to the practice of getting a good calibration and then not re-doing it unless told to do so by the app...

Magicman, the Course Lock function allows you to move forward or backward along the course the AC was traveling when you engaged it. It is the Home Lock function you're describing, where pulling the right stick down will will fly the AC directly toward the home point. Sent from my iPad using...

Question re my post above: what margin of error do you assume with GPS? I.e., how close to an obstacle will you plan the waypoint mission? Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots

@With The Birds, I think there may be something faulty about the altitude display from the FlightRadar24 app in this case. There's just no way a B-757 would be that low unless and until it's on final approach to the landing runway, which clearly is not the case depicted here. Typically...

Thanks for the link to the other related thread, RodPad... Jayfdee, looks like you were right--the aircraft will ignore the rest of the mission and RTH when the low battery condition is triggered. Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots