Phantom Vision in New York Times Today

[DC-Wonk]

Dji must be popping corks today -- the article is practically an infomercial for Dji:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/t...phantom-2-vision-photo-drone-from-dji.html?hp

R.J.

 

[PAValentine]

Dji must be popping corks today -- the article is practically an infomercial for Dji:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/t...phantom-2-vision-photo-drone-from-dji.html?hp

R.J.

Wow! I'd agree!!!

 

[ChesterT]

My daughter is the European economics reporter for the NYT. While she lives in Paris, she and her two brothers were home for the holidays. While my son's and I were flying my P2V at dusk, Elizabeth was taking videos with her camera. She then posted some of the videos on her Facebook page and was bombarded with "I want one!" and "Where can I get one?" I don't know the actual number of responses she received, but it was pretty large.

Unfortunately I have recently seen on my Google news page that was writing about the FAA site selection for drone science, pictures of the DJI P2V, which to me, means our 'little fun toy' will possibly be included in what ever flight regulations will be forthcoming from the FAA!

Enjoy 'em while you can!

ChesterT

 

[Richhealth]

DC-Wonk, thanks for posting the article. I'm starting to get approached by more and more people who says they've seen others flying something similar, or they saw something in the media about them. It's nice to see a positive angle regarding quads in a story.

Happy New Year,

Rich

 

[Waterborne]

An article ran in last Sundays Rochester Democrat & Chronicle with a prevalent feature on the P2V: http://ux.democratandchronicle.com/stor ... a/4235493/

 

[Nvr2fst]

Hard to land? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Wobbly video with the first one Phantom? Not if you balanced the blades like you were supposed to. Before I ever flew my first Phantom I balanced the blades and I have had zero wobble. None. Took a couple of minutes. I never got to see the wobble except for what I see in other people's videos that didn't balance their blades.

 

[Nvr2fst]

Before I ever flew my first Phantom I balanced the blades and I have had zero wobble. None. Took a couple of minutes. I never got to see the wobble except for what I see in other people's videos that didn't balance their blades.

It really depends upon how people are defining wobble.

Some folks define it as jello/rolling shutter issues which can sometimes be mitigated via prop balancing.

Other folks define wobble as excessive side to side or up and down motion in the video due to flying in GPS mode without a gimbal, flying in ATTI mode with jerky inputs, flying when it's really windy, etc.

I'm in the latter camp and have to say that the videos that you have posted have lots of wobble. Like the vast majority of Phantom videos that are uploaded to the net.

None of my videos show anything from the props. Jelloing. Sure there will be wobble from moving around without a gimbal but you get jello from unbalanced props.