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I'll take a credit card for delivery and quality assurance over PayPal any day of the week, plus I don't need to open up more bank accounts to isolate my purchasing methods for security against PayPal. Yea, person to person stuff can work out better using PayPal but there's still quite a risk...

As in all things, nothing is ever 100%. You make good points, and as someone that darn near took someone out with a UAV on the wing a long time ago, I could not agree more. The person in question was in the right place at the wrong time;)

But place a significant financial hardship upon many that have until now been operating safely. Being rated ASMEL-instructor/airplane I won't have any problem with pilot certification. I do believe everyone that will participate commercially should be made accountable in the...

I do not disagree at all.

Thank you for the informational link and video! I don't get over to DIY very much and it appears I should do so more often. The video shows some very smooth operations, and I managed to learn the reason for the small altitude diversions we experience with APM as due to small baro changes...

Take a look at FAA standards for aircraft electronics to determine the safety level of solder joints. As for bullets, you should not use them. Crimped connectors and twist locks (canon plugs) are the preferred aviation safety standard. Bayonet/slide mounts are also considered in the safe...

Of greater issue than a single Herk board or independent ESC's is the power distribution boards we use. Consider that out primary power outputs are all solder joints of one type or another. Solder is fragile and will not indefinately hold up in a high vibration environment. When the solder...

Amazon has a tremendous amount of MR stuff and you don't need to risk Hobby King to obtain any of it. Much of the stuff drop ships from China but you don't get stuck with the big shipping charges, just the long shipping times.

In Loiter mode the copter will always acellerate/decellerate at 1/2 the Loiter speed, so that's somewhat adjustable. I've flown Naza and Wookong and have not seen better stability in general for filming with those over Pixhawk's Loiter, but that's just my perception. I will admit starts and...

Altitude Hold and Loiter are not that far different. If I was setting up a "primary" 3 position switch it would be stabilize, Loiter, and RTL with the two most important at either end of that switch. When you need RTL you'll want it bad, and looking for a second switch is something you...

Might want to do a bit of research about how the law has been written with regard to the TSA. Essentially we have zero rights since the TSA is liable for nothing and cannot be sued. As far as what we can carry on a commercial plane, read up on the power of IATA, the International Air Transport...

Regarding instructor level UAV flight instructors, AND test "pilots", only Where the Air Force is operating Predator and Global Hawk is a pilot's license required. Most UAV instructors would kill themselves if they tried to fly an ultralight. I've always felt that someone that taught flying...

I add some reinforcement to Addictive RC and John's willingness to go all out for a customer. Great person and company to deal with and a very strong knowledge base for foundation. His site could better represent some of what he sells but if he has it he ships it quickly. I ordered a custom...

I don't yet know enough about multirotors darn it. OTH, the company I work for would call it a conflict of interest. Mostly conflicting theirs...

The early focus was on the extreme danger of sUAS to the public, which in both cases in the video referenced a multirotor. No mention of the much larger, winged, and faster moving aircraft which he extolled for the Arctic operations, which has a miserable incident rate, making it and similar a...

Even more so is the desire to use existing aircraft certification processes and licensed Commercial Pilots. In the latter category I'm OK but most of the rest of you folks are fooked. Interesting they used the S. E. example for the Arctic operation. So much they left out. Yep, they started...

We should all be paying close attention to this feature and be ready to join the fight that is likely soon to occur that will attempt to prevent us from using it. Automated flight and the use of way points is one of the foundations of sUAS operations among the major aerospace players. Without...

Lotta power to be had with methanol nitro combinations but you just have to use so darn much of the stuff in there to get it. I used to go through nitro blends about 5 times faster than I did with straight gas. Went a lot faster with the nitro though:) Anymore I think a long cord hooked up to...

You got it:)

They have those in every gun shop;) Actually had someone ask me today how hard it would be to hit an MR with a shotgun for cryin' out loud. Then there was that Chinese company marketing 2.4 jammers a couple months back....