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Not much data there to make an assessment. However, the Japanese are real close to putting their carbon-carbon battery chemistry on the market.

If it was me it would be an X-Aircraft FC, ditching the Naza stuff completely. It's reliable, easy to set up and use, and expandable with simple software upgrades and additional easy to install hardware as your needs increase. You don't need to buy a new FC every time you want to step up. To...

Excellent use of the tools. That was a unique view of what I think was "The Right" in Australia/Tazmania which is usually seen from in front and from a distance. The behind perspective was quite innovative. The straight down shot of Jaws was interesting. The shooters of Surfer and Surfing...

Looks like some public exposure with a positive light is finally gathering some steam.

Can you back the software version on the Naza to what you had previously? Could e the upgrade introduced a problem. If it worked before but won't now you have to consider the change in software could be the root cause. It would not be the first time such as happened. BTW, how close are you...

I fly a smaller x-8 than yours but I will say it's not as "sprightly" as a quad or tricopter and yaw rotation is normally slower unless I dial up the yaw rate a lot. The lack of stability you mention is a little troubling because i find my 8 is considerably more stable than a quad, even if in a...

Bart, I had totally misread your intent, and sorry about that but it provided another opportunity for us to link up in a voice call again, which I always look forward to. Great talking with you again today. It's always a pleasure when I get to speak with someone like yourself. Our thoughts...

Bart, That was on the edge of being a shot across a bow. There are some trying to organize the small operators and they are indeed seriously underfunded. One of them is looking for ways to generate revenue for political activities without directly charging a membership or selling ad space...

Knowing the camera make and model would help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

University of North Dakota has also applied for a patent on sense and avoid technology. Multi sensor, functions under lost link conditions, totally automatic. I understand licensing opportunities are available. Then there's a system by Aurora named Panoptes E-Bumper being used by a large...

If the flight unit was physically "tethered" to a comm link this could be done. Line of sight in a mine would be hard to depend on. If tethered for comms why not also run power through the tether? Such has already been done with MR's with great success. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You might be very hard pressed to have control of a three axis gimbal from a 5 channel transmitter that's primarily used for flight control. Then you have the problem of finding a 3 axis gimbal that fits your budget. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Be careful if you decide to head over to the Netherlands. They're flying a few UAV's in open airspace.

I've experienced feed back through an electrical system from the charge/discharge cycle of a strobe that caused issues with avionics and signal broadcast. That was a gas engine UAV so I was concerned how similar might effect an ESC. I don't know that it would, but I also don't know that it...

Just noticed you're in Sweden, sorry for that over sight. You might well obtain that permission. I don't see it on this side of the water without first meeting significant equipment requirements. The all up weight and prop size for a 550 will be contributing/limiting factors to amp loading...

A question you might ask yourself is what might happen to the ESC if something at the strobe feeds back to/through the ESC. Will the motors remain functioning?

You will not obtain that permission.

Really? Have you checked into the user instructions at Arducopter.com? I'll help you out with a link: http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/table-of-contents/ Enjoy the lengthy review. You'll spend quite some time at it. I know when I downloaded and printed out everything in there for...

With no associated definition of safe, unsafe, careless, or reckless. The FAA provided LEA's carte blanche for arresting, charging, confiscating, and fining anyone flying anything, anywhere and any time. This will also prompt some cities to write new model aviation laws that will be used to...

This is not good. The FAA is making standing regulations that do not pass through the mandatory regulatory review process. The NTSB is not the final arbitrator in the federal CFR's and this is at least the second CFR addition relating to small unmanned aerial vehicle use in the last 3 months...