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I would agree that maybe a UAV *instructor* should be qualified as a manned pilot, just to make sure that they're teaching from the right perspective... I would not want it to be a requirement for all UAV pilots. The skills do not cross over at all. There's plenty of anecdote out there about...

Yes, that's him. He would also make a great candidate for that position you're looking for. He's a straight shooter, no bull****ter, knows what he's talking about. Highly competent in operations, though he may know less about MR engineering than me. Big voice. He spoke at the last two...

APM won't do it, but Pixhawk does have 14 outputs. However, at present, 6 of the outputs are only running 50Hz. It is theoretically possible to run them at 400Hz with the main 8 outputs. Just needs a fairly minor code change. But by default they run 50Hz as it was assumed that in most cases...

I could do it. If you mean physically loud voice... well I can be. ;)

I don't think Chris Miser of Falcon UAV has anything to do with Ag Eagle. Chris is good people. He's one of the leading people Actually Getting Things Done (tm) in this industry. IIRC, he's ex-military UAV engineering, and is now running a successful startup. He actually has professional...

It could be done today with an 800-1000 size single rotor. Well, maybe not *today*, but a couple month development project with quite high probability of success. If an electric helicopter can fly for 2.5 hours (and they have), a gas one can. A 700 gasser can fly for about 20-30 minutes on...

I do wonder if there might be a market for anti-paparazzi-drone services at events. I just wonder what would be the best and safest way to neutralize them without risking people on the ground. I have though that flying a larger helicopter overhead would force them to ground due to the downwash.

Yeah, the copter flight is pretty smooth. But the camera movements need a bit of work. Part of the problem is that we aren't natively controlling the camera, but in my case running through Alexmos. I really wish we had our own controller. But in any case, we can improve what we have...

Here's an example of the latest release from Arducopter. I took some time to play with Spline auto missions. Spline attempts to turn the robotic, blocky flight control from the existing auto controller, into a more fluid and natural movement. The hardware isn't great, and the flight isn't...

This could be done easily with Arducopter. If anybody eve needs to develop custom control code for machines like this, I'm available on contract.

Have you tried 3.2 yet? If not, you really should get a beater quad and give it a shot. I'm absolutely loving the acceleration damping. It makes it so much smoother. Yep, well aware. He wasn't at AVC this year, but most of the other video guys were. I give him the benefit of the doubt...

Did I see Colin Quinn and a few of the other 3DR video crew there?

So here is an example of Arducopter being used for artistic aerial photography. This video was shot using 3DR copters and flying Arducopter, for the purpose of creating an announcement about Richard Branson investing in 3DR.

Hmmm... I wonder if this is related to the problem with Pixhawk and the KDE ESC's. Could it be an issue with the voltage level of the PWM signal coming from Pixhawk? The Pixhawk voltage level is only 3.3V. What is the Hoverfly?

This, IMO, is one of the biggest problems with DJI. After looking at a user's logs, there's just no way to figure anything out from what they are recording. In fact, I can't see any way DJI engineers could figure out anything, or debug the code, based on what I saw in that file. Now, maybe it...

Heh... Why did you build a multi and what do you do with yours? - I periodically build a multi just to remind myself how frustrating they are, and how much better helicopters are. - I do like to use cheap quadcopter to test experimental code before trying it on my helicopters, since quads are...

Ok, good info. So then I would strongly suggest that you set the endpoints in your Tx to 1100-1900, recalibrate the radio in Mission Planer, and try again and see what happens. Yes, it still doesn't fully explain what you've observed, but lets try this one step at a time. If it still doesn't...

Yeah, I had the same problem with Turnigy NTM motors. I couldn't figure out why the bearings kept getting notchy after just a few flights with no crashes. Even when I put in good quality bearings. I'm done with cheap motors. I just don't have time for this kind of BS anymore. So far I'm...

Who exactly are you working with there?

Curious, so your problem sounds like it's something to do with the PWM signal, not the grounding. Let's deep-dive on this, since this seems new. Do I understand correctly that the KDE ESC's cannot have the PWM range calibrated? It's fixed? 1000-2000 uS? Question probably only KDE can...