Recent content by sifaka

Sorry to have bothered others (Thanks Damon for the IMU suggestion). After I posted the question I found that the throttle channel on the RC was stuck off. It wouldn't calibrate and that was throwing the quad into an error condition. Even though I had power cycled both the copter and the RC I...

When I turn on my Phantom 2 Vision plus it starts normally, cycles through all of the lights, but ends up with solid red rear lights and it is not responsive to the RC controller. I can't spool up the motors or do anything else. It was running fine until I upgraded the firm ware today to 3.6...

Re: US forest wants to charge $1500 photographing in wildern I have great respect for Senator Wyden. My views come form reading the actual policy and I do not see where it would apply to noncommerical individuals, though I admit the policy language is a bit obtuse. It certainly does not apply...

How were the bottles attached and how did it affect flying, or was this a staged shot?

Actually I don't think that anyone is to blame, even W, though it is likely that he ignored something important while he was busy vacationing. The FAA has been operating under antiquated policy that was designed to deal with RC planes and helicopters. The legislation was written when no one...

Re: US forest wants to charge $1500 photographing in wildern In looking at the actual policy this applies only to Congressionally designated wilderness areas. From the USFS website:" Specifically, this policy provides the criteria used to evaluate request for special use permits related to...

So is the wifi on throughout the flight?

I broke the camera on my P2V+ so I bought a new one. I removed the old one and flew the P2V+ without camera for about 15-20 flights. Yesterday the drone simply flew away. Last seen heading SE at a couple of MPH, maintaining altitude, but completely unresponsive to the controller. There may be...

Re: Is it possible to get a replacement P2V+ without the cam I think one case was clearly a vortex issue, coming straight down. I don't remember seeing anything about this in the manual and learned about it the hard way. The second one still perplexes me as I had been flying for about 12 mins...

This explains one of my P2V+ crashes. It was at about 30m and I started to descend, not fast, but straight down. It was hit by a wind gust which started it rocking back and forth and dropping like a rock and non-responsive to the controls. (at least up down, forward back, and right left)...

I had a P2V+ whose camera was removed because of a broken ribbon cable. I have been flying it without the camera, but with a gopro mount allowing me to take aerial photos with a Hero 3+. Yesterday I did some training flights and on the last one the P2V+ simply stopped responding to the...