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38,000 to 48,000 deaths due to traffic accidents, yet no one cares. Sorry, you brought up guns and many do care, but understand the guns aren't the problem. It's the people.

Thanks for the info regarding the 4s! I was wondering if any improvement was to be had with a little more voltage. Will the 3dR power input wire harness handle the 4s direct? I'm not going to sweat the temp you mentioned much. It would have taken the batteries down faster while improving...

Understand. My stuff was for establishing absolutes to develop data for creation of large heavy lifters, for more generalized, or comparative, information ultra precision just isn't practical or necessary. What works best is all you need. Good set up you have going there.

Take the hat off. Some of us know how our government plays the media.

Geez, You had to remind me of that one. That one had to top the poor taste scale.

A simple hobby grade tachometer works quite well for obtaining RPM data without the need for reflective tape on a propeller. Back up the info from your Watts Up with a decent VOM. Calibrate your scale at several points, low, medium, and high. Most scales have some level of hysteresis...

Robert, That's another issue in its own right in this country today. Law enforcement agencies and their staff are above the law. Bring charges that manage to stick against them and if an officer is terminated he's simply rehired by another agency within a very short period of time. It the...

Chuck, If I may? I agree with you more than you know, and I'll explain why in a moment. As for those signatures, it's worse than people think. 15-20 of those signatures came from a loosely associated but industry vested group of people. At least 2 came from a giant scale RC airplane site...

Notice the charges were not directly applicable to aviation. The lesson from the Trappy conviction failure was quickly learned.

Individual experience level will largely dictate what one should be looking at. No experience but desire pro level flight unit? Not a good idea. Can fly manual most of the time with no problems and understand the functionality of the equipment? Yep, look to the pro stuff. However...

I agree, too much time is spent debating rules that for all intents and purposes should be pretty simple. I'll stick a few for what I think are reasonable examples. Assure safe separation from all manned aircraft in all flight environments Assure the safety of the general public during any...

With over 2300 hours as a pilot of a military level UAV flown in actual mission environments I have never seen the lack of concern for manned aviation and the people on the ground I've seen in here. As a UAV operator we went to great lengths to avoid people in the event something happens. Then...

And can zoom for altitude you can skim the surface. Sorry, the phone got me.

In the U.S. one can fly a manned Heli below 500' on a clearance. Over water a manned aircraft can not fly lower than an altitude that would permit a safe landing in the event a power unit failed. Meaning if you're going fast enough and can z

Don't know about the Naza, but a Wookong LED works for an A2... You're right about one thing. If you buy one DJI FC you should invest in a second at the same time. That's about the only way to obtain spares in less than half a year or so.

A little indirect, but I see where you're going and I have to say I generally agree. Let the municipalities form their own regulations for these activities and prosecute accordingly. Concur 100%. However, our government prefers federalizing everything it can, and if not specifically...

The LED has probably failed in several modes. This has happened with both Wookong and A2 LED's as well. I don't know that anyone will sell just the LED portion of a system but you might want to give that a try. An option is to play the DJI repair/warranty game, with takes months to complete...

I think Roto holds the position that we should not be regulated, and therefore will not end up that way. I only wish that were so. Unfortunately it's not possible to write one paragraph of regulation without an additional 10 pages of explanatory and defining information. What may not be...

Ronan, Your point is of course valid in the broad sense but until the advent of relatively inexpensive, self stabilized MR's this wasn't much of a problem. RC cars can be pretty hard on curbs and fences but RC helis and airplanes had, and still have, a tendency to take a dirt nap long before...