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Propellers-After Market Earlier in this thread I lamented on a lack of carbon propellers for the Chroma. Well, it seems someone else thought there was a need as well. It appears a German company has developed and marketed a considerably more aggressive fiber filled propeller for the Chroma...

Even better would be to weight down the copter to where it can't possibly lift off, put an ammeter in line with the power supply, and watch what shows up on the meter when you quickly advance to full throttle. That value will be the most accurate you can get short of recording current loads...

Perfect!!!:)

Build your first one cheap, with the outlook that it may get destroyed while you are learning to fly. An option is to buy something cheap to fly on will you build another at the low end of the scale to learn the ropes of parts compatibility and building. The more you know the better you will...

I could not find a price on the website but I did see that some of it was developed by 3D Robotics and it uses Tower and Droid Planner. That suggests it may be using the Pixhawk-2 for a flight controller. A very good and versatile flight controller once you learn how to use it. A word of...

Came across this at another forum but it's interesting enough to repeat here. These could be quite useful tools for some applications.

Bart, I agree with you about the avoidance and method of payment thing but I believe the members on this site have been more proactive in their own ways than most in any other Internet blog related to the subject. With the exception of other pro level forums of course. Perhaps all that's left...

Pretty much the standard practice in the aircraft registry now. You can look up any tail number to see who it's registered to. Did that with the number from a real pretty civilian helicopter I saw in Iraq. Turned out it was owned by some shell corp out of Virginia...

Might want to perform a test where one motor/prop combination is run at full load and capture the amp draw. Multiply by the number of motors and add in for any other power draws that will be functioning at the same time. As for batteries, my experience has found buying somewhat more...

I'll order extra foil. You continue as originally planned...

Actually, your response was totally predictable. We play very well together in that respect.:) Prepper? Me? Not hardly but my environment is all about data collection, sharing, and analysis. I'm only in the outside fringe of what gets done but what I've seen shakes my tree pretty good...

Lol, your attempt at deflection was low brow :) Realistically, and based on current IRS and NSA capabilities, with just a little networking between the two it would be relatively easy to issue a blanket order freezing the bank accounts of anyone that has posted in the last 12 months in any...

Yea, accumulating 25 hours or so of flight time to qualify flying that which you've been flying takes awhile at 8 to 15 minutes a flight. There is some justification in having enough flight time on a commercial rig to assure both the craft and the operator will be safe and reliable for work...

Perhaps just keep track of the aircraft and times and hold off reporting until you have a hull number to add to the reporting document. An alternative would be to call up the area FSDO office and ask them direct. Right now you can fly all you want and log all that time, just not in a capacity...

"you're sure the battery you bought has an XT-60 connector on it?" If not it can be changed with a little work and caution. Sounds like Hoki is talking about an APM power module, which connects between the battery, PDB, the FC.

I'm sure glad you posted that Violetwolf. One of our company officers is looking at the Centerpiece and was asking me if it worked with Pixhawk. I am now presuming my answer of yes was correct. I had my neck stretched out a little. We're the folks that launch sUAS from MR's....

I suppose someone has to go first. Your post is worded in such a way to make it appear as trolling. It's difficult for me to grasp that someone has so little experience of failed to do any level of research to ask the questions you have presented. For those reasons it's very difficult for me...

I'm going to offer an alternative. If you choose to select a gimbal other than a DJI product, and there are many to choose from, like some flexibility and also ease of use, do not require waypoints, consider the Eagle Tree Vector FC. A very easy to use and reliable FC for things up to a hex...

No, you have to have a hull number to assign flight hours to. If you submit without there may be an assumption you are flying an unregistered aircraft. Don't submit anything that would/could generate questions about legality. Non flight hours? Meaning time spent with motors turning but not...

Long time ago I filed an ASR after Approach advised I might have clipped the edge of the old L.A. TCA. The reply was kept cordial and I never heard another word about it. However, times have changed and I definitely agree with saying nothing without counsel present now.