Recent content by Ed Fink

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    Annoyed by people approaching me

    Did the rules change in the last year or so? I’m pretty sure the five miles is supposed to be an inverted cone. As you get farther away from the airport the higher you can fly. At five miles you can go to 400’, at 2 ½ miles you can go to 200’, etc. Ed Fink 360 Degree Panoramas: Featured
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    Compass error?

    Same problem. First and second flight it went sideways. Log says "Yaw Error". Sent email to dji support today and I'm waiting to see what they say. Ed
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    Yaw errors with brand new P3A!

    Can someone more knowledgeable than me look at my flight log and see what's going on? At 9 min 7.1 sec it suddenly changed from P-GPS to ATTI, and "Yaw Error" shows up in the message column until 9 min 25.4 sec. I hit RTH 15 seconds after it went to ATTI and it came home, with the yaw error...
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    Litchi panorama

    Robert, I use krpano for hotspots. I don't think anything compares with it, although there is a little learning curve. NOTE: I took a look at your test panorama. You need to set vertical and horizontal control points in PTGui to level it. I prefer vertical control points, because you KNOW...
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    Possible answer to why some have cracked shells

    No cracks. Never balanced a prop. In fact, my props have been chewed up a little from my granddaughter flipping it while landing. Still no problems. Ed Fink [email protected] 360 Degree Panoramas: Featured
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    Polar-Pro P3 Filter Set

    Once it's off, watch out for the glass itself, mine came apart easily. It had glue holding it in, I could see where a large drop had been applied to hold it in the ring, but the whole drop had broken free and the glass came loose. The filter is larger than the lens and covers so much extra that...
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    Polar-Pro P3 Filter Set

    It is tight, but it'll come off. I had to get my son to twist mine off, otherwise I would have been trying big pliers.
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    I [don't] have approval to fly above 500m, but is it possible?

    Maybe the OP is just worried some random out of town busy-body will appoint himself to the junior safety patrol and start making phone calls and lecturing people and generally interfering with something that wasn’t any of their affair. That’s certainly what I’d be worried about. Ed Fink...
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    How I added a panoramic photosphere to Google Maps using my Phantom 3 Advanced

    Somebody here or some aerial forum suggested https://www.cgskies.com/ I bought one of their skies and used it on a few of my aerials. Here's one of them on Google Maps: Google Maps Once the snow is gone and everything is green again I hope to shoot a bunch of 360 aerials, so I'm going to buy...
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    Litchi panorama

    PTGui is best. For sheer power and productivity, nothing else even comes close. It’s not totally automated like some others, but it’s not that difficult to learn and you have incredible control. You can set control points marking vertical lines and/or the horizon. Getting a perfect horizon...
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    Map of aerial obstructions - towers, antennas, etc.

    Where can I find a map or db of aerial obstructions (water towers, transmission towers, antennas, etc.)? Even cranes have to be registered with the FAA, so I’m sure all that is on a map somewhere. I remember shooting panoramas from a helicopter in Columbus, Ohio and the pilot’s GPS showed all...