Recent content by Peter Powers

it will replace the spark for me - i just ordered it. the reasons are simple, the mavic air has 3 features that i've been missing with the spark: RAW Photos D-Log Colorprofile (for Video) OTG (It comes with 3 different OTG cables ( microUSB, the iPad one, and Type-C USB), so it stands to...

Lucky you, I ran from store to store till I found one that had spark, and I had to wait a few weeks more for the RC, as that was even harder to get and fly more combo would have taken 6 weeks longer..

I don't know, in Germany drone stores have them, and keymakers / engraving shops offer them. I heard some shops that sell trophies also offer them as they have the equipment too, but I haven't really checked with those. But ordering them from Germany shouldn't take too long either as they are...

Well it's glue that you can't just peel off, and that keeps it properties for some amount of temperature

In Germany there is a legal requirement to have a permanent attached fire proof address plate attached to your drone. I'd show you a picture of mine, but frankly I don't want to spread my personal data all over the internet, however you can easily find pictures on Google by searching for...

No it wasn't. If you look how quickly it was sold out in many places and how long wait times where when it came out, then the price was easily justified by the demand.

Hey Anthony, You are right, with a bit of experience a lot of mistakes can be avoided, and as long as a newbie has this in mind, and does both, spend their time to learn before flying, and to apply some logic to what they do, they will be fine. What gives us drone pilots a bad name is people who...

What happened: you launched your drone without checking its telemetry, you did not have a display that would have informed you about such things as "dude, something is wrong with my compass please calibrate!" or "I don't have any GPS yet". A prime example of being an irresponsible pilot. It's...

Gesture Mode doesn't make it fly away, and even more so, RC always overrides gesture.

Well that easily happens when it can't recognize you on the camera, I noticed it's particularly bad when it's looking at the sun.. However you should always be able to pull out your phone, make connection and land it then.

How's that easier then pressing the button on the battery twice?

It is so surprising that right after Christmas when a lot of people got the spark as their first drone and fly them without much clue, there is such an increase in fly away reports.. Or the increase of Youtube Videos of people crashing or watering their new drones.

The problem is that this is not a test you can do in a pure software setup.

Mh, not necessarily, part of the problem arises from mobiles that don't do 5.8ghz wifi, so their only way to connect to the remote then is 2.4, which kinda kicks the drone on 5.8; that's not that bad either, if it wasn't for: ce rules about the energy output on those bands, compared to fcc ce...

I don't know what you are playing at. I've made no claim of them breaking it intentionally, and I don't believe they did break it intentionally either. Please refrain from putting words to my mouth. What I said that they broke it is bad, and the way they deal with it is worse. As a software...