Recent content by likestoparty

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    Columbia River Gorge Footage

    What filters do you use on your camera, or is it as received from the factory?
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    taller & wider landing gear anyone ?

    I'd love to hear why a retract kit on Phantoms would be a stupid waste of time. Or not. :)
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    Drone Photography-Night Cityscape Tutorial.

    Hey, that's a great lesson, thank you very much!
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    Can someone explain why a sudden ascent during descent?

    OK, great! Thank you. Anxiety relieved. My over thinking leads me to believe that this would be the ultra-safe logic to follow: If(BatteryCritical()) { If(HumanCommandingDescent()) { AllowTheLandingToCommence(); } else { InitRTH(); } } Sent from my XT1254 using...
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    Can someone explain why a sudden ascent during descent?

    Hi there! I couldn't wait any longer for a working camera gimbal assembly to get flying, so I've been flying my P2V+ the past couple of days without the camera installed teaching myself the old stick-and-rudder way (sorta, if only the Wright Brothers had gyroscopic stabilization!). Everything is...
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    Gimbal Main Board Capacitor ID

    Good morning! I hope you slept well. I am most of the way through straightening out the aftermath of a previous owner's landing mishap and botched attempt at repair of my P2V+'s gimbal assembly. The last piece of the puzzle involves resoldering two SMD capacitors to the gimbal board that...
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    Hello from Sunny Seattle, WA!

    Howdy, Phantoms! Jon here from Seattle. Recent arrival in the flying food processor world, but many years of designing, building and crashing fixed-wing aircraft. Reason I'm joining is I recently decided to start taking aerial cinematography seriously and have a 2-year plan mapped out for...