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I make my flight plans on the desktop because I can see more detail, then I send them to the APM and hit auto when flying.

Welcome to MRF Rob, its not as hard as people make it!

The NTSB had opened a docket on this one, you guys should adopt CAP 722 from the UK or Canadian system for regs. The DHS is going to require at least 1000 hours of demonstrated flight of a system before they test it. That's not one platform it could 1000 Phantoms flying for an hour each, they...

Yes we found out it was him long before the news crews, just by asking the event who happily gave us his email address. They are also culpable IMHO for not doing due dilligence. Of course Scott denied it was his airframe when sUAS News discovered it before WTVR and other outlets...

Wot James said about beer

I'm on the other side KZN Midlands welcome Gert, take a drive down to Duran at Steadidrone he's a nice chap.

I'm with Denny on the smaller systems it just makes sense if from nothing else the practicality of transporting them.

Well he can just fall in line behind Trappy his case comes up soon. Heck of a first flight though, look forward to his second.

China already has, they somehow got hold of some and reversed engineered them. They have been seen on the back of boats off Taiwan.

Its not just military exercises people are using cigarette lighter powered jammers to mask their locations spoofing killed the flight engineer in this S100 incident a couple of years ago http://www.suasnews.com/2012/05/15515/schiebel-s-100-crash-kills-engineer-in-south-korea/ Remember airliners...

I think that's how the industry is going Bart!

Well..... pull up a sandbag. Back in the day you would not want to fiddle on a Thursday as we used to have the Thursday war in which most of the westcountry was radar denied due jamming. Plainly that would have been a bad idea on a Friday because it had the potential to ruin the weekend...

Oh I feel for you Bart a migration nightmare!

@Bartman you are right there are well thought out frames and junk out there it is a bit of a free for all right now.

Yes PX 4 based, I should have added the specs as well Specifications: Motor to motor dimension: 550 mm Height: 100 mm Weight (with battery): 1282 grams Average flight time: 9-14 minutes Standard battery: 11.1v 3.5Ah lithium polymer with XT-60 type connector, weight 262 grams Propellers: (2) 10...

To add to that, this chap has some lovely looking simple wood frames. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1839667

Putting flame proof suit on. A quad is only two sticks and four motors. Things are expensive as you make them. Cutting your own frame out of plywood or using hardware store square stock works. I made a hex like this a couple of years ago, this guys thread is better...

Oh dear sorry to read the news Oleg, I know how much effort you put in back in the day. I too feel ashamed of believing what I did when I was there and am only just getting back into multirotor flying a couple of years later. The politics in such simple machines are just amazing. Trampling on...

Today 3D Robotics (3DR) announced Iris — an advanced quadcopter with full GPS-guided autonomous capabilities. Iris is designed to provide an “out-of-the-box” flying experience that brings the power of professional grade aerial robotics to the mass market. Iris can be controlled by an Android...

You sure its not vBulletin not keeping up with what browsers expect. I had to completely revamp my site a couple of months ago as so much was to out of date on lots of platforms. A real pain. Right now though I think making sure the site works on Chrome would be my #1 thing to do!