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In rebuttal, I've been a Chroma owner since last November and flown the livin' daylight out of mine. The instructions for mounting the propellers clearly mention installing them hand tight. They use a small O-ring under the propeller to function similar to a compression washer and once...

Normally you're a little more articulate than that.

Naza is DJI and was used in a lot of 450/550's.

Me too. The Iris is actually a very capable aircraft once you learn to effectively use the flight controller. I would not discard an Iris if I had one.

Brainstorm, The FAA has been pretty hard on Private Pilots in the past for simply splitting costs of a flight between other people in the plane traveling to the same destination, so there's a lot of precedence for the FAA to go after hobby operators generating revenue though posted videos...

I've experienced this with another system but only after previously hitting the ground through operator error. Turned out that crash induced damage in two ESCs that had hit the ground that was not apparent until after they had later been in use long enough to get warm. The next crash was due...

Considering Virginia and Maryland have been a hot bed for military UAV development for over a decade the proposal is not surprising.

"Fishing" is the term that describes the pull wire method you described and it works. it's how I did mine;) Now that you have the "easy" part done...:)

It's not going to be as easy as some may think. You'll have to learn and know something to pass the test. If you have a history of DUI the path will be hard if not impossible. The background check as it is now is unknown to me but if you passed checks for government employment or for a...

Another possibility is to use a quantity of of dielectric grease over the soldered portion before applying heat shrink. The heat shrink Violetwolf mentioned is the better way though

Power "headroom" is what keeps a hex or octo in the air after a motor failure. Being what they are, meaning not a quad, allows the loss of a motor and still sustain controlled flight possible, but only when the remaining motors and props have adequate thrust to compensate for the loss. The...

I don't view it as being a pita as much as seeing it from a branched tree perspective. Build threads can be hard to do with a Multirotor because they have many subsets. To do it right requires a thread the uses a "tree" type folder format for frame, power distribution, motors/ESC's, and...

Regarding wires exiting the booms inside the frame. I've had the same issue with wire chafing at the exit opening others have experienced. After becoming fed up with trying to re-fit those grommets I also elected to use some braided sleeve at the exits to protect the wires, but limited the...

I try to not remember that experience. It works the same with the old 810 except the motor mount halves would fully separate. Perhaps helpful for someone in the future, I found laying the frame center of a piece of soft foam would allow everything coming up from underneath to remain in place...

Pay attention to the wiring if placing the ESC's on the arms. You can end up making a non folding hex in very short order. Don't ask how I know...

Ahhh, aircraft context does matter, but I certainly wouldn't call it a bad remark. The type of aircraft absolutely would impact how much effort you wanted to put into getting things perfect. A 250 racer that flies really good but will be crashed often anyway justifies a little less attention to...

Concur with the former, not so sure about the latter.

Yours was also a more labor intensive unit, which has a good side. Ours can lull people into complacency. I absolutely agree with you.

If a system is not armed, which is what I believe should be the way, and maintain human oversight at all times, >12 years of practical history indicates not all that much goes wrong. Remove human errors in maintenance and extensive vetting of software and "not all that much" becomes much, much...

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