Recent content by Douglas Struble

I was wondering if anyone may have some technical insight on a flyaway I had today. I have read about flyways before, but thought it almost impossible for it to happen. I have only been using quad copters for a year now. While I have had crashes, this is the first time I have had a flyaway and...

lol Well I guess that answers that. I saw a video on YouTube where they are claiming it's more rock steady in GPS mode.

So your P4 is about the same when it comes to GPS drifting? All the P3's I have had seem moody at times. Sometimes they are pretty steady and sometimes they like to drift a little. I do all the calibrations too, so no clue why some days it gets moody. lol Gets me a bit nervous when I am in tight...

I'll have to give that a try. Have not had a problem since they added that feature in a firmware update. Not sure if it will work for some of the short shots I am lining up, though.

So I started off about a year ago with my first quad copter; a DJI Phantom 3 Professional. I use it for both work and personal use. I was originally going to buy an Inspire 1, but sense it was my first one I decided to go with the Phantom 3. Since then I have gathered that the Inspire is pretty...

One thing I was wondering that I have never seen brought up with regards to the carbon fiber props: if you crash, clip or tree or whatever, sense the blades are stronger wouldn't it transfer that energy/torque into the motors and drone? I mean I would rather replace the cheap plastic props then...

I think it's important to not that the 4K P3P file is highly compressed and a low grade codec with tons of compression artifacts compared to real professional video. In other words, it looks really crappy for 4K. Just another reason it ain't worth it.

I must say I own a multi-media company and have no deliverables in 4K. It's useless unless you hook up a P3P to a TV or maybe upload to YouTube. Plus it's a space hog on my RAID. I have owned 2 P3P's and now own a P3A. Waiting for my last PSP to come back from repair. I broke my gimbal yaw arm...