Recent content by mrburris

Do t be sorry for the rant. There will be enough bozos out there to spoil it for everyone else. It's inevitable.

Where do you fly?

Agreed and sorry about the location. Lack of responsibility is why I see chips and licensure in our future.

No. Laws won't stop stupid. That's why identifying chips will be put into drones and will be coupled with the owner. Like they do with gun laws, people are looking for something, anything, to stop a threat built by the media. The industry and enthusiasts will need to form a lobby else the...

... drone operators. We might have to make then with an identity chip to show to whom the bird was licensed to. Too many stupid pilots spoiling it for all of us.

Same thing happened to me. http://www.phantompilots.com/index.php?threads/Killer-drone%21.46501/

Watch out. It'll go full rebel on you and break away.

Wow. When gimbal/camera added it's more than the P3A package with controller. Almost as much as the P3P by itself. Perhaps I need to see if I can find a reconditioned one someplace.

... the controller and peripherals? From whom?

... areas under and on top of the four arms a bright phosphorescent orange to make it more visible in LOS or to locate in runaway or in case of tree top landings? Just the arms not on the body?

Just got mine. Black felt inside to disperse ambient light. A quality build.

If you're north of the perimeter, maybe I can help.

I saw a fellow flying his P3 and he retracted the landing gear. Since the gimbal doesn't rotate 360, what's the purpose? Why go through the effort and expense of that modification. Seems like a waste to me. Am I wrong and why?

Sounds familiar but not due to calibration I imagine. I took off normally, had plenty of sats, green lights, safe to fly, all good. It was a hot day and I auto lifted off. Since it was hot and mid day (couldn't see the iPad mini with reflections) I ducked into my garage. So did my P3. Right at...

And well put. Better than mine. I still have a hard time understanding the need or desire to sit behind a computer screen and make efforts to insult others. And why on a board to discuss a mutual interest to boot! Anyway, I thought it was odd for a P3 to do that and was looking for someone to...