Recent content by DougLeppard

Again impressive. so how long will the P4 float before going down? I am here in Florida surrounded by water.

As an engineer I am impressed. How much does it add to the drone's weight installed? $80 seems like a good deal.

fly where you can see it and do RTH and be ready to kill it.

Most interesting, you send in your drone and price.

I got these but drone flies like a sluggish pig.

I have Litchi on my cell and tablet no problem.

Possibly compass is out of calibration. I sent mine on a mission and it went 45 degrees the wrong direction. I could see it was trying to go right way but couldn't and started flying away. I manually took over and landed it. did a re-calibration and it flew mission fine. RTH is an mission...

I built a payload release to add fun for my Phantoms. Here is a video of my Phantom dropping toy parachutes to my grand-kids.

I agree it can be boring. That is why I have a setup I take others out flying. I put my phone in a goggles so they can fly fpv and control the camera, then I have an HDMI board with HDMI monitor so I see see what they are seeing, All love flying around like that.

That is what I thought. Funny thing is we have helicopters fly over at low altitude that come on fast and gone before I think I could react. Not sure how high they were never had a quad up at the same time.

As an engineer that is into robotics and drones, I love the engineer challenge. I could see one that could watch a neighborhood. Someone could activate it by address and it could fly around and take a look making the video available to members. It would be more of an intimidation factor to...

What is the purpose of VLOS rule of the FAA? I can guess but was wondering if others actually knew.

I have a P3s, P3P and P4. I love the P3S, except for the wifi connection. I use the P3S for my "dangerous" missions send it out far on a litchi mission, I don;t have to be as concerned about loosing it.

Thanks for sharing this what an epic video. Man what skills.

Thanks for asking. The drop mechanisms are controlled by an Nano processor. Each servo that it controls has three positions, totally closed, drop first item, drop second item. If you want to drop 4 or 6 items you add the side drop mechanisms that have their own servo and are controlled by the...