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The week before last, I attended the second annual Interdrone conference at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. Overall, it was a great experience and I met a lot of cool people in the industry. It's only in its second year, but Interdrone seems to be quickly establishing itself as the go-to UAS/UAV...

Our server will be down for maintenance tonight during a window from 22:00 to 00:00 PDT (5:00-7:00 UTC) while our hosting company completes some hardware upgrades. Please excuse the interruption and let us know if you run into any issues once the forum is back online. Thanks! Mike

Some other tips: I was talking to a guy from venom power and he recommended the following: Replace the pigtail that connects the battery to the board... https://tiny-whoop.myshopify.com/products/upgraded-battery-pigtail?variant=22531246465 And he said he gets more flight time with 180mah...

Assuming you're talking about the small inductrix and not the 200. I'm running the following setup and it's working great for FPV. Flight times are 4-6 minutes with easy flying and still at least a few minutes with aggressive flying. stock frame, props, board, etc. with: 65Drones 6x15mm...

I'm not sure what to expect, but you can sign up to watch the InterDrone grand opening keynote live (tomorrow). The keynote speaker will be Michael P. Huerta, Administrator of the FAA. Date/Time: Wednesday, September 7 at 10:00 a.m. PST/ 1:00 p.m. EST from the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas...

Sorry for the inconvenience. We just upgraded the forum, so it was down for about 30 minutes. If anyone has any issues, please let us know. PS - next time we should be able to get the upgrades done a lot faster (10 minutes or less). Thanks! Mike

For a new thread? Can you post a screenshot of that here? Otherwise, have you confirmed your email address yet?

NP!

We had a brief outage today between 13:45 to 14:00 UTC, but we got alerted and were able to resolve it quickly. There was just a process hung up on one of the servers, so it was an easy fix. If anyone notices any weird behavior with the forum, feel free to reach out to me via private message...

Might be worth moving this caveat to the top or editing the first post to mention this at the top. I didn't want to move your post and confuse you though.

Hopefully this is good news. From his profile page:

They built this sucker to keep up with their GT-R on the track. Nice!!

Hey man! Seriously don't do it. Try to call someone to talk it out: http://ptsdusa.org/get-help/hotline-crisis-numbers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/wiki/hotlines Like I said before, so many things go wrong in this hobby, so it has to be expected. Everyone of us has had so many...

I seem to be able to get everything done with this: http://www.harborfreight.com/16-piece-precision-screwdriver-set-4143.html I only use one or two pieces from the set for frame and motor screws, but I use the other ones for other stuff. I also have a lot of random bit sets that I will...

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-faa-revoked-an-airplane-pilots-license-for-flying-a-drone

Yep - if you look at it as R&D, then it doesn't seem so bad. If you really just want to be flying for the least amount of money possible and don't enjoy building and fixing, then it's definitely better to buy something that's been researched and developed and engineered and tested thoroughly by...

The good thing is that now you have really memorable lessons that will make you not forget to make sure all of those things are in order before flying. I was in the same boat in the beginning and now I inspect everything before every flight and if in doubt, I replace stuff (especially props)...

Update - email should be working again. A false positive in their monitoring software caused our domain to get disabled. If anyone notices any issues, let me know. Mike

No problem! Most of us have gone through the same type of frustration when we started (and even sometimes now). Do you balance your props? I definitely wouldn't fly with a bent prop. You will probably fly fine, but being bent and then bent back likely means it won't be balanced anymore and...

What happened? I hope the second part isn't serious and it's just your frustration talking. This is a crazy, frustrating hobby and everyone in it spends a lot of time crashing and repairing their quads - even the guys who make it look really easy in their videos. Obviously as you put in the...