Recent content by Geoff Barnes

Check out the NOAA Aviation Weather site: AWC - Aviation Weather Center Enter your location, then on the right click hourly forecast and add "20ft wind" from the fire fighting section. I think this is a pretty could predictor for RC aircraft.

I've had one near fly-away in Follow Me mode. There wasn't anything particularly special with what I was doing. I thought maybe it had to do with already being on the go when entering Follow Me mode, but I tried that again without issue. Regardless, my default response to any uncommanded...

If you watch some of the videos where people fly at high altitudes and then do a rapid descent in-place, the phantom gets unstable. It looks like the stability augmentation is able to handle it, but wild oscillations may lead to other issues (lost link, loss of control, etc.). It has to do with...