bird

  1. D

    Get away Birds!

    Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but safety is what this is most closely related to. Birds are constantly bugging my drone while I'm doing roof inspections. I have to take my eyes off the drone, though I'm flying vlos, I'm looking at my iPad for most of the time. I want to know if anybody...
  2. G

    Obsidian vs White P4P - Bird Attacks/Heat Issues?

    We just put an order in for a P4P Obsidian. The salesman got back to us saying they did not have any Obsidian in stock and that the "industry" is leaning away from using black because birds attack them and they run warmer in the summer. We like the Obsidian purely because it looks a little...
  3. D

    Phantom is Vibrating and video has MASSIVE jello.

    Hi, my name is Weston, and I'm trying to use my Phantom 3 standard for real estate video, but the bird vibrates like crazy, and the gimbal can't compensate, so video is unusable. I've tried shooting at 1/50th Shutter speed with a ND Filter, and that helps a bit, but video still unusable. I've...
  4. butlerc

    Crow Attack! or subtitle: Crows are Territorial

    I was flying at a local reservoir here in Okinawa at about 138 feet and looked away from the P4P+ screen for a second at the drone (in VLOS at 1354 feet) when the optical avoidance tone went off. Up to this point in the video I was slowing from about 17 mph down to zero as I turned to the...
  5. zander lane

    Bird Strike Incident

    ...just a reminder to pilots flying near the coast - BIRDS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED! ...was flying next to a jetty in dana point harbor in california yesterday and was hovering to get a nice silhouette of a fisherman against a gorgeous sunset (about twenty minutes after sundown with two 3-mile...