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Good info Maverick. I plan to fly again and add 30 secs each flight until I am putting 80% back into the batteries. Once I know that, I can see what voltage the packs are at when they hit 80% capacity. I then know what voltage I can fly to safely. I keep written logs of each and every flight...

Ah, brilliant. Thanks

So I just ran my new 8000mah 5s Zippys through the octo. She ran for about 12-13 minutes and landed when my plug in battery alarms read 3.7v 'ish per cell. Packs were quite cool, only just beginning to warm. When I plugged them into my Cellpro 8, it tells me that I have 33% still left in the...

Childish little thing we made out of scrap footage for a friend. Yes, they're sausages. http://youtu.be/c3tIPcGPCeg

So, with improving smaller cam tech and new releases like the Black Magic Pocket, we no longer really need to be flying 7kg octocopters to get pro footage (with the exception of Epics etc). What would your ideal light weight setup be? Lets use the Black Magic Pocket Cam as our example. I've...

Thank you Swisser. I was going on what I had read in a thread months ago. Good to have a nice and concise answer. Whether it's controller error or tx/rx failure, is it ever safe to overfly built up areas even with the relevant written permissions? If any of the above reasons for failure occur...

If your not aware, flying on a day with very high solar activity can cause fly always, flips and crashes quite easily...and that's with a perfectly functioning gps/controller. Even the very best controllers can occasionally do weird things. DJI products can suffer from a drift problem. I fly...

The shot was rearranged over a secluded little country house as they were adamant that they wanted the aerial shot. Interesting to see that most of you would have flown it with the relevant permissions etc. I'd still be worried about loss of control over a residential area if it decided to...

If it gets shot out of the air over a residential area in the UK then I think there are much bigger problems at hand =D

We've been asked to get a shot for a short film. The shot requires flying out and upwards from close to an upstairs window and getting an overall shot of the area. Problem is, they want the area to be residential/built up. My answer was to say that this isn't possible. I said that they should...

Having looked at it quickly, they're very expensive and require fairly similar flight currency to euroUSC. I went through the BNUC-S and think I'll stick with it. It does give a different set of training locations to the EuroUSC course though, so that will probably suit a lot of people and...

I've just fit the InfinityM brushless gimbal to my chopper and its all working together beautifully. The only problem is that now, with the extra weight, my 5500mah gens ace 25c 18.5v are getting a little too warm. I can't up my props as this makes the problem worse and destroys my stability, so...

Had an hour or so to kill on the weekend, so decided to make a silly, short little video. First attempt at editing in premiere pro http://youtu.be/74hXNSRFmL4 ...how do you embed?

Received this too. Do we know who it was? Glad to see we're all reporting incidents as they happen. Helps us all. I'm guessing if the compass was flooping all over the place then the copter would have been spinning eratically. Keeping orientation for the few seconds this was happening before...

I've just ordered an InfinityM from Jakub. Looking forwards to receiving it. What's the quality like? Easy to get the balance spot on? Expert model destroyer and aerial photographer!

Do any of you lovely people know of a supplier in the UK selling DSLR size BL gimbals? Big enough to cope with a GH3 or similair. All I can find is gopro based ones. I've found plenty in the US but absolutely none over here. Alex Expert model destroyer and aerial photographer!

Camfly, I had that problem too. It was very annoying and made it feel as though the bottom half of my copter - gimbal and all - was going to snap off mid flight. It also used to cause the entire gimbal and landing gear assembly to oscillate violently if gains on the skyline were turned up and I...

Definitely not that. I'm flying firmware 5.02 so the limiting option isn't available. Still my favourite FW and far more stable than the newer releases Expert model destroyer and aerial photographer!

This has happened a few times, on a few different firmwares recently. All of a sudden the led will flash blue and ill hear the motors rev for a split second and then I'll have control again. The copter is very briefly entering failsafe and then picking up signal again. Anybody else ran into...

Thanks Chris, Looks like shimming is the answer then as I cannot adjust them any other way. It wouldn't be a motor or ESC problem would it? They're tiger 2814's, so good motors. And ESC's don't slowly stop working do they, they either ok or they die spectacularly.