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You have idiots in any group. It is unfair to make generalizations about a group based on the actions of one or a few individuals. I'm speaking as a "Bad Hombre", who was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. when I was a baby, grew up and got an education here in the U.S....

Here is video of my efforts to improve FPV video quality - got a little better performance with a circular antenna on the quad, but still not good enough. Also, Loiter mode still isn't working...

So, I had a scare yesterday. I wanted to fly my quadcopter that has an fpv camera and vtx installed on it. Attached to my transmitter is a monitor/receiver/dvr - wanted to record the flight on the dvr, but shortly after takeoff the video got choppy and the monitor blue-screened. While I was...

When I was in jr high, I briefly considered dropping a couple of tubes of "Bangsite" into a manhole that was in the street near my house and then putting a road flare near the opening. Fortunately, I didn't have the guts to do it!

When I was considering which branch to enter, I always wondered about the marines - did basic training make them crazy or did the marines attract crazy people? I decided to steer clear. Spork, I think you made the right choice!

I have agonized over the same thing. I intended to study and get the technician's license, but didn't follow through. I now have two aircraft each have a 600 mW video transmitter and I have rationalized that as long as I'm not interfering with anybody no harm no foul. But how do I know if I'm...

The cannon looks to me like the kind that uses calcium carbide. As a kid, I had one that looked like that. It came with powdered calcium carbide that you put in a chamber at the top. The cannon had some water and when you depressed a button, a small measured amount of carbide fell into the water...

I was in the Army from 1972 - 1975. At the time, the Viet Nam was was going on and there was a draft lottery system in place. I can't win a money lottery but my birthday (7 Feb.) gave me a really low lottery number. Fortunately though, I was going to a local community college and had a student...

Notice how Boeing stock (BA) has been tanking the last three days? It's due to the threat of trade wars - this could be bad news all around. Meanwhile, I'm thinking I'm going to go ahead and buy the Mavic Platinum Pro now.

I did a comparison of FPV video quality by using the quadcopter's main power versus using a separate power source: Also, I flew the Tarot today - camera gimbal works, but not the landing gear retract. I neglected to test it before going to the field - I later discovered that the servo pins for...

It is stupid to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum on China as the main exporters to the U.S. are Canada, Mexico and other countries (who by the way are getting exempt), but my fear is that tariffs will be imposed on manufactured goods from China...

I would not paint the props out of fear of affecting weight and their balance - I would put something on the arms instead. I use red mylar on mine, but my quads are larger...

Give our current moronic POTUS' desire to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, should we expect a price increase on DJI products? I am planning on buying a Mavic Platinum Pro but was going to wait for the new product announcements coming soon... now I'm thinking I should pull the trigger now...

"The colder it gets, the more the electrons slow down, the more they slow down, the less current / voltage you're going to get which again slows down the motors." Uh, maybe you can get some tiny scarves to keep them warm! Actually, the colder temperature increases the battery's internal...

Golly, I appreciate it! But I live out here in the wild west - sort of.... Northern Colorado. I have a plethora of pins of the other gender, and those that I ordered should arrive today. I have a theory that the video problems might be due to my drawing power for the vtx and camera from the main...

Took the Tarot outside and fired it up - was able to arm and run the motors. Didn't take off - just wanted to make sure that I can arm okay. I'm waiting on servo pins that should arrive sometime today to fix the gimbal leads and hope to have it fully functional. Elev-8 is a crap shoot... May...

It is the same but mine does not have the pin indications that you show. Maybe I have a knock off or an earlier one??

Solved the Flight Mode problem! I'm using a Spektrum AR8010T 8 ch receiver. It has two rows of ports and it does not indicate which pin is the signal lead. I figured out by trial and error that the ground pins are on the top of row one. The flight mode plug goes into row 2 and I mistakenly...

I like having the ability to switch to RTL in case I get carried away and lose orientation - I can always take over manually once it is close enough. Yeah, I know how to figor how which way it's pointing when you lose orientation, but this makes it so much easier. Also, I like flying waypoint...

I seriously don't know what I did to perturb the cosmos, but it must have been something serious... I took my two quads out for test flights - my Tarot Sport, to do a video shoot to test out everything - landing gear retract, adjustment to the gimbal (to get the horizon level), and endurance...