Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

Bigpops said:
Most of these "drone" sightings are either a) pure fiction, or b) made from distances that no one would be able to identify it as either fixed wing, multi-rotor or carrier bag, never mind a brand.
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And many of them are not. Just search for "Drone Near Miss" on YouTube. As ownership goes up, these incidents will go up. Sooner or later a drone will bring down an airliner, it's inevitable.
 
Cyclone said:
Yes. One of the essential buys if you have a Mavic :)
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Have you checked that it actually has grounding?
And doubt that adding that would fully meet safety requirements with end of case attached to rest with only tiny screws:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2qZ7wuIiA

And while at it better check that component leads have been trimmed properly:
There's no insulation sheet under PCB to protect from shorts to case.


Besides safety aspects it lacks any kind PFC while clearly exceeding 75W limit of EU PFC regulation.
Not to mention no doubt dirt cheap capacitors put next to resistor near primary switchers and one of output filtering cap looking to touch rectifier's heatsink in output channel/rail.
Definitely genuine China Export product.
 
I'm considering moving my Inspire Pro on and getting a Mavic Pro.
I'll get about £1600 for the Inspire if I sell it as a normal Inspire X3 and then sell the X5 separately which will more than cover the cost of the Mavic and even leave me some cash to grab maybe a Spark too.

My reasoning is that the Inspire is very slow to deploy (get it out of the box, battery in, power on, unfold legs, power off, gimbal on, power on, clear large area for take off, shoo away onlookers........) and I have to make a very conscious effort to take it with me due to the size of the thing. With a Mavic I think it's going to be much less conspicuous and easier to just sling it in a backpack. What do you think?
 
Rilot said:
I'm considering moving my Inspire Pro on and getting a Mavic Pro.
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Having had my Mavic Pro Platinum airborne a few times now I have to say I'm loving it and the portability is great too - hoping to take it abroad later this year! For the money the Mavic Air isn't bad either (would have loved 100Mbps 4k video on the mavic) although I'm hoping some of the new software features might come to the Mavic Pro in due course (quickshot modes etc possibly)!

I'd say if speed of setup and portability is more your concern then go for it and sell on the Inspire 1 etc now.
 
Not that it's a solution to much, but getting my Mavic Pro all prepped for some flying if the snow stops for 30 minutes and the DJI app was bugging me to take a quiz about drones rules. I passed all 8 questions, I assume nothing actually happens if you get them wrong?
 
If you just continually press the wrong answer then you cannot fly until you press the correct answer. So yes, if you are a total moron with no feedback loop then you cannot fly if you get the questions wrong.
 
Rilot said:
If you just continually press the wrong answer then you cannot fly until you press the correct answer. So yes, if you are a total moron with no feedback loop then you cannot fly if you get the questions wrong.
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I was trying to make the guy actually answer the question :p

Finally got there
 
To be fair your question wasn’t very clear: ‘if you get it wrong will it not let you fly?’

That can be read more than one way. I took it as you asking if you’re locked out for getting any incorrect answers. The answer being no, you just keep guessing until you get it right.

Either way the questions are very basic so if you want to get them all right it shouldn’t be very hard.
 
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