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A lot of the agriculture guys are using fixed wing for this reason. Maybe a large biplane would be more efficient?

I was going to mention this as well. It's a case of diminishing returns: More weight to lift requires bigger batteries and motors which brings your weight up even more.. and round and round you go. Another place to look at for long flight times/heavy loads is a copter that Mr. Fu over at...

What, you're an inexperienced punter with a flying lawnmower, and want to buy insurance? What could possibly go wrong...

In fact I'm almost 100% in the open source for electronics these days. Radios included (Taranis in that dept). The open source stuff has a more engineered feel compared with the "product design" feel of most of the retail stuff.

Tim, for flight controller I'd recommend having a strong look at PixHawk. Save a thousand or two and get a supior controller. ;) I personally avoid all DJI products (toy quality imo)

Yes, what is the payload are you trying to fly? Camera copters have different requirements than surveying copters etc.

Yes, I'm thinking static balance, geometry, or IMU mounting.., and how rigid the gimbal is held during tuning should be looked at. 1. If you figure your balance is perfect then how about the geometry of the gimbal: The forks must be absolutely parallel.. I'll use a pc of square tuning across...

I was tempted to rent a chainsaw for sure. But I don't think the local school board would approve :)

Gotcha ;) And what the heck do I know. You might invent the next big thing along the way :)

What if someone talks to you while flying? I don't trust speach recognition yet... I've been using siri a lot on my apple products and its still kinda sketchy. Not something I'd trust to public safety.

Not addressing your specific issue. But I live in fear of this as well. Interference at different locations etc. What I've done is built a beater hex using identical FC (apm) and radio (frsky) so that I can do a test flight or two at new locations before I fly the camera bird. I've also...

Make sure your Canon is in "live view" mode in order to get video out ;)

Good stuff PT! Post some footage when you have some for us. :)

I'm on the fence about this one. It's a pretty expensive camera. Batteries are really expensive (but it comes with two) Also heavier than its sisters by quite a bit. Although I've been dying to buy one, I'm thinking I might watch the used A7s market after this one drops ;)

I gave up on Basecam a long time ago so I can't offer any useful input. I'm using Phobotic these days myself (but I'm a dealer)

Damn, that's not good news for me lol.. But thanks for taking the time to pass the info along. I will keep an eye on them. I've already cycled them about 100 times. So far so good. But I think I'll keep them down for the shots that I don't need them retracted for. As luck will have it I...

Can you test your landing gears' servos to see if they are burnt or if it's the controller that's gone bad? You'll need a 5v power source and perhaps a servo tester and hook it up directly to the servos. At least you'll know if it's the servos or the controller then. I think you can buy the...

PS: spot on with your observations regarding the big names simply licensing the hobby tech... I noticed that when Movi started using encoders that Basecam started offering the add on encoder firmware at almost the same time ;) Coincidence? Lol!

Yeah, you got lucky Cray! One of mine is still in the tree 2 years later.... :/ Same scenario, rocking it with the throttle until batts ran out. Sigh

Damn that's disheartening. What Voltage are you running them on? And are you running LED lighting off the controller too? Mine have been pretty solid so far.. Running off a 12v bec and no LED's connected. On a positive note I've got my dual radio setup as we discussed above, and its working...