Recent content by Steve Bynum

I would highly suggest going to StateFarm Insurance and getting personal property insurance for your next one. Inexpensive for up to $3K of no fault coverage. Lose it, crash it, get it stolen, it is covered.

I am in the exact middle of 5 uncontrolled small airfields. The overlap of all 5 are directly over my house. I have been flying for a little over a year using common sense. A Lifeflight pilot lives one street over and buzzes his house occasionally but I am pretty sure it is at 500 feet. I...

This was done by the company that applies a nano technology coating to. Are cell phones waterproof. It is $80 to do a phone, I imagine it would cost over $300 to do a DJI product. It won't fly out of the water, but it would protect it from accidental immersion.

If you buy a new drone in the U.S. to fly non-commercially, you no longer have to register your drone with the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a decision issued today by a federal court in Washington, D.C. The court ruled that the FAA’s drone registration rules, which have been...

As a fire chief of a small volunteer fire department, I use my drone on grass fires for an elevated platform to keep my people safe and determine where to make a stop on the fire. I also have a great relationship with our local PD, county sheriff, and state troopers. At a fatality accident the...

Click the three horizontal bars in the upper right hand corner of the app. Open the Academy and flight sim is listed.

My wife did too! She liked seeing this old guy grin like a little kid when I opened it up! And she gets to see the same smile every time I come in from flying even if it is just over the neighborhood!

Well, If I am not using a GPS enabled tablet or connected to WIFI, I am not real sure I have a way to connect to their servers! I guess since I have been flying fine like that ,it is not the problem. Flying has never been an issue, just the video connection.

My P4 doesn't always connect and requires powering down the AC as many as three or four times to get the video to connect. All the other controls work and it will fly. Glad to see it is not something I am doing wrong.

There is a 5 mile no fly TFR around the Toyota center, the Dynamos Stadium and Minute Maid Park in Houston when reversed there is a game. It starts before the scheduled time and lasts about two hours after the events.

State Farm Insurance for $60 would be so worth it in a situation like this!

With the warm "winter" we have been having in Houston this year, I think i have managed to fly almost everyday since Christmas. I let the battery cool and recharge it and rotate between the three batteries. I set them for 5 days.

Imagine my surprise to find there are FIVE non towered recreational airports equidistant and all five circles overlap directly over my house. The DJI app warns me there are airports nearby and has not hampered my ability to fly in the area. I haven't located a good contact for the small...

I have the P4 with current software. My stick inputs were left stick down right and right stick down left. Definitely a self taught lesson on what NOT to do.

I flipped my P4 while flying in the living room because I used the CSC to power it down. The aircraft suddenly scooted across the floor, flipped and went to a high power setting while upside down. While flying this afternoon, I landed on the edge of the grass by the driveway and powered down...