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This exemption is very "Entertainment" specific, the idea that a real estate photographer would be required to fill out FAA paperwork prior to a shoot is unreasonable. Knowing the FAA it is unlikely that if someone needed a "same-day" permission that they would get it. It would be simply...

And I'm not sure what #6 has to do with flying RC Helicopters or MR's. I'm a commercially rated pilot and when I started AP I really wanted to use RC Helicopters but I couldn't fly them to save my life! And I have more than 2000 hours of turbine helicopter time. So I don't see that the...

I've seen a lot more larger scale MR's with 18+" props putting the ESC's under the motor. I guess this is the cool new setup, it's certainly a great place to mount them. But I guess your saying that's not a good idea? Is there anyway to test for this? What problem does the Herkules III...

What's a Herk III?

Jack, what gimbal and camera did you use for Mac's House? Are you flying FPV or LOS? You have some nice shots in that video. Good work.

It took much longer than usual to get GPS lock this afternoon. I didn't read the whole article, did it mention how long this would last? Will be interesting to see how long GPS lock takes when it returns to normal...

Wouldn't that be nice. It seems odd to me that the arm would break while it was hovering, didn't seem to be much of a load on it to cause it to break. Something you need to be careful with is that sometimes a solder joint can fail or short for a very short amount of time, when it does the...

Were the motors and ESC's hot? Anyone hotter than the others? Or was one colder than the others? Its difficult to tell from the video but it sounds like you might have a cold or bad solder joint. Check the solder joints on bullet connectors etc.. What size MR are you flying? What's your...

What size props? Sounds like pretty high KV motors with pretty small props, how much throttle does it take to hover? The place to start would be to make sure the motors and props are securely attached. If they are, from the video it does appear that you have a bad vibration which could be...

That's a bummer about your friend. Curious, what ESC's, motors and props? Its rare that all the motors shut down, short (pun intended) of a bad solder joint, failed power distribution board or battery problem then the likelihood is that it was the FC. If there was a timing issue with one of...

I don't have the video but I think it was this MR. http://www.skysapience.com/products/the-hovermast-100

What do you use for shielding?

Don't want to ruin your hypothesis but I had a flyaway and I use Futaba. I can't count the number of theories for uncontrolled flight of a multirotor I've read over the past two years, I have no idea why they happen nor do I think does anyone else but regardless of the theory they almost all...

It really depends on what your trying to accomplish, how much weight do you want to lift, how long do you want to be airborne etc.. You need to balance the right motors, props, size and weight with endurance. You need to use a chart like this...

So if BP, who is apparently willing to spend north of $400K and the largest uav supplier to the pentagon can't make this happen how the hell are any of the rest of us supposed to be able to compete with that? The certification process, over regulation and bureaucratic BS from the FAA is...

How do you know this is big bucks? I didn't see any mention of how much this costs? Of coarse I'm not sure why it should cost anything, since our tax dollars already pay the FAA to do their job in the first place. If this costs money then I think we should be allow to stop paying taxes.

Maybe but I'm pretty sure in in the Republic of California that since its not hands free it will be illegal.

What's he do when traffic starts moving again?

jfro, your right. If you trust your DJI and its flying well then that's what matters. At least your out there flying it. I tried to get others on the SuperX thread to request IOC on the SX but most everyone there thought of it as a "beginner" issue and the SX is so easy to fly it doesn't need...

DJI is something everyone should experience, but once you have you should know better than to go back. Its like a security blanket, let it go and get real motors, ESC's, FC's, frames etc..