Sorry, I wasn't referring to you RENOV8R, I was responding the the original poster, ZEBRA14. How is someone to respond to the original poster, without the others becoming offended? That's something the forum designers should address.
Really? Are you a police officer? Do you have legal authority to snoop like that? This is not the place to come for advice, we are all LAW ABIDING modelers.
There's an old adage that states "you get what you pay for...". Whether or not the sport is addictive is all in your point of view. My quad copter is noted for crashing into every tree or bush it can find, regardless of the commands I give it from my controller. Does that mean that the flyer is...
Then the rule of thumb would be "don't fly it there..." unless, of course, you want to be shot at by the military police guarding that area that does not exist.
There are always two sides of a coin. Put yourself in the position of those that you just described and ask yourself the same questions from their point of view. There's got to be some compromise otherwise there can be no agreement. I fly a drone and a fixed wing and I fly them in an area that...
Have you contacted the Florida State Legislature or their Department of Parks and Recreation to find out why they are banned? If you're interested in Liability Insurance that will hold up in court, join the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA). I am a member and I have a liability policy with them...
Not at all. My photo is from the mug shot I had taken while in residence at the local asylum for crazy people. Of course, I wasn't a patient. I was the warden. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Area 51 is a myth. There was no Roswell Saucer crash. The Earth is really flat and the moon is a Hollywood Scene Scape. Outer Space does not exist and the International Space Station is locate on a sound stage at MGM. Besides that the U.S. Air force disavows knowledge about anything I just said...
I call it my T3MIF (The Thing That Makes It Fly)! Transmitter, Controller, hey, what do you want good grammar or good flying? As long as you have something that will, hopefully, keep it flying the way you want it to and not the way it want's to.
I can see this as a useful recovery system on the larger, expensive quads like the Phantom 3 or 4. No one wants $1,300.00 quads slamming into the ground because of a power failure or control loss. The only thing that concerns me is whether or not the chute could be deployed manually from the...