Recent content by Jrods

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    Was expecting news of new drones by now -- what happened?

    I think we should have seen a new Phantom series by black Friday if there was to be one this year. So much so that I purchased the P4pro and a Mavic platinum this week. I have not had the Beta tester experience, but I never buy until they have made a few updates to the software.
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    Drone Base is a rights grab

    Photographer's choice ( business decision) I would say, I just shot for 4 days for the same client, she owns the copyright to all the work. She paid for my standard rate for SLR photography, which includes my time and equipment. I came away with no creative assets, just more knowledge and cash...
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    Drone Base

    Your area is a lot more profitable than mine, we get paid for about 1 out of three. The percentage was higher last year. When we only had 25 pano shots it took about 40% of the battery power to shoot a location. Now with 49 pano shoots we can no longer get two out of a battery. Also we only...
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    Sport mode speed with 7/6 update

    This morning I tried to downgrade without any luck, but did get the latest version reloaded. Found that it was Pilot error. Had to enable multi mode operation. Gat about 43mph out of it this morning.
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    Sport mode speed with 7/6 update

    Yesterday after flying a mission looking at storm damage for local EMS it started to sprinkle so I switched to sport mode to get back to base fast. Fastest speed was 24mph in any direction. So wind was almost Zero. Anyone else had this problem? This P4 had problems loading the update, stuck at...
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    Got my first paying gig

    I am not a lawyer, my 1st wife was a professional photographer, from experience you need a contract that will hold you harmless, for everything except gross stupidity. Long story short, if the relationship hits a bump, they will call a lawyer to smooth it out. Been there, done that. Every time I...
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    p4 battery problem

    after 24 hrs on charger it is mow working.
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    p4 battery problem

    I have a dozen or so other p4 and p4p batteries that all charge. I have tried the stock charger and the 4 slot charger made by venom. All the other batteries charge.
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    p4 battery problem

    Just purchased an other P4 that has been in a crash. My second crash purchase. The the crash was a slow motion crash into the guy wife's car. The wife put pressure on the guy to get rid of it before he did serious damage. Now that I have it put new props on it, upgraded the firmware and...
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    False (?) Alarm

    I have batteries well north of 200 charges, life is shorter. may be 15 to 18 minutes. I have had this happen before, talked with DJI they recommended that I run the battery down to 15 percent by flying then after landing leave it on until is was at 3 to 5% percent. This has cured most of the...
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    Strange altimiter readings?

    Don't have a fix for you but I see this alot both on p4 and p4p. When I land it is never the same as take off with any of the birds, sometimes in excess of 100ft. The horizontal is always with in 10 to 15 feet. Will be interested to see what the flight loq tells.
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    part 107 waivers help

    I would like to get a waiver for night flights and flight over crowds. If any one could provide me with a sample of how and what they said to get the waiver I would be very grateful. Need this for some up coming fall festivals in my area.
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    DJI Phantom 4 Pro image versus Canon 5DIII w/ 16-35 f/4

    Kinda of interesting, viewing pictures that are not the complete file, on various video cards, and monitors, and with unlimited number of variables. But the point is well illustrated.
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    Has ANYONE got a P4P Plus thats working 100%

    1 p4p with IOS on mini ipad2 no problems, using litchi almost daily. No problems. I don't use the DJI go app for flying. Have 2 other p4's. For my use I can not see the extra money, Sold one of my p4's when I bought the p4p, with the intention of upgrading to all p4p's. Now that I have one I...
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    Lipo batteries on airplanes.

    link to tsa Q&A on Batteries https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ash/ash_programs/hazmat/passenger_info/media/Airline_passengers_and_batteries.pdf