Recent content by Wedgetail

Yeah down our way the local electricity authority used to surveil the poles and wires with very low flying heli. Felt you could almost touch it as they were looking for shorts on the cross arms on poles. The workers told me they have now bought drones to do the job I was surprised as I thought...

Could the government licence a quad pilot beyond VLOS for shark survailence? http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/shark-detecting-drones-to-fly-above-nsw-beaches-20151024-gkhl0o.html This was at Coogee beach. I agree that quad pilots need to be very wary of their potential both good and bad and CASA have...

Yes all good points ... but drawing any conclusions is risky as there are so many holes in this story technicality. How low could a quad pass under a heli and survive the down draft. That means negotiating a void in middle as it passes under the body of the heli. If we believe the height of the...

Yes agreed ..but it raises more questions about the authenticity of that article like Was the footage from a helicopter (that was a manned one)? Did it come off the net? Do we know who the pilot is? Was there other footage coverage of this incident? Might shed more light on this so its not so...

Article shows a white helicopter Isn't rescue yellow? Just of interest too is this....."Stephen Leahy Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helictopters told 7 News "There is very little doubt indeed that that aircraft would've been brought out of the sky"." And he refers to "That" aircraft and I take it...

Yep OK I can see the island off Coogee beach and from the CASA "can I fly here" app puts a restricted altitude of 90m rather than the regular 120m. Both UAV and heli pilots have to be aware that they are sharing airspace separated by CASA management and they know of each others restrictions plus...

Like to know the altitude of the heli. Quad was lower and maybe still in its regulation limit. Maybe 1000m off shore and just within sight. So was that heli risking the safety of the quad? Just a thought. Probably a near miss and not a near hit if that's any consolation. Massive amount of space...

Thanks guys all good info. Perhaps best to RTH to the set altitude or at least within sight/signal then cancel and bring it down in manual mode and adjust or orientate for a nice slow landing. When its off 500 m its easy to loose orientation and I have been using the map pointer in the bottom...

So after RTH initiated and you have regained the link you can orient the drone anyhow and it will still keep coming home? Left right yaw and it will still return? I thought once it reached its RTH position height it then just descended to land and any movement of the control canceled RTH??

You no when you first get it out of the box and your in love with it and treat it so carefully knowing the precarious situations that will arise if not concentrating. So now its happened I sorta feel violated but satisfied that I'm past that .... and experienced!!! RTH went OK till it was a...

I had this and found the DJI go and DJI go4 were conflicting on my phone.....check this.

Those aerial upgrades are very directional how far can you go laterally - I mean distance out at a lower altitude? Maybe we are all pushing the boundary of p3s 4k some with results and some not. I get 560m out which is beyond LOS and legal limit before it misses me and RTH. That's with the...

You got just one DGI go app on your phone/tablet?

Connect DJI go via WiFi on my p3s was sorta OK but then it would fall off and connect again but week or no video signal and app would stop go blank and restart.....something fundamentally wrong ...was OK a couple days ago???? As my eBay trigger finger is pretty sensitive I ended up winning a P4...

Drones are not designed to hurt people......viewing the glorious work mother nature has made for us to enjoy for our short stay on earth....yes