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You need to work out your costs of doing business. This is the key to it. Work out the wages, insurance, equipment costs (R&D, replacing kit as it becomes obsolete etc), licensing, marketing budget, office costs and everything else and then divide that by the number of days you would expect to...

Flight time is not great but so far it has been fine- about 10mins. Using A2 and DJI Groundstation (PC) so just about to lo0k at UGCS to replace it. I am building a Pixhawk based fixed wing though to deal with longer duration flights.

1. Main reason: i don't think can be real necessity promptly take off RED, transform X8 to quadrocopter and quiqly start aerial mapping. Frankly speaking, i can't imagine such situation. Mayby i'm wrong? I do this all the time. One minute flying an Alexa Mini and the next doing some...

Try re-flashing the firmware although be careful to re go through every setting to ensure that things are still as they should be.

Ive had a motor fail on my X8 flying at just shy of 20kgs. Happened 10ft above the water in the middle of a lake. There was a slight twitch and a very odd sound (sound turned out to be a capacitor blowing out) and so I tried to bring it back to the boat. Flew perfectly as if all 8 motors were...

Actually hobbyists and pros are seen as almost zero threat by our CAA. Its the consumers who are a massive threat. By this I mean the guys who can just go and by a phantom or similar and all of the waypoint stuff is easily done for them thus no experience is required. Whilst UGCS might be easy...

Not that I have found. Fixed wing drones are still v expensive. They just done sell in the numbers that multis do. One of the reasons the Ebee is expensive is that it comes bundled with a version of Pix4D although this versions apparently doest allow you to process data from other aircraf.

The attitude gains are basically just how it reacts to your stick inputs or as you say a bit like expo so it is a very personal thing. You can go low or high with these. Low means it reacts less aggressively. I fly around 130 with these but that's just how I like it. Oh and if this is how the...

That sounds like a good idea- a bit like the Jeti DS14 model where you purchase each function to upgrade it. I like that idea. Primarily I use the GS to do agricultural work so mainly using the photogrammetry tools. One area that I think should be unlocked at the lower price point rather than...

Hi Adrian. I might be wrong here but your settings look wrong. Firstly there is not offset for either the GPS or IMU. You would expect at least a 1cm difference in the Z axis unless you have merged them into one unit! Also those gains look very low which can be a dangerous thing in certain...

That's great testing and for something like this project a wise thing to be doing! I am a bit suspicious of folding mechanisms as they can be real weaknesses in a frame although done well then of course they are excellent. I have seen a few people on here rush into building their rigs and...

Alex, just a thought on pricing. I feel that 2000 dollars is way to much for the full set up BUT I also think that 65 bucks for a nearly full set up is also too cheap. I appreciate that you are a business and need to make money from this and that of course is a good thing. So my thought is that...

Carcara, good tests. Are you sure the flex in the arm is not happening at the joint? Looking at the video you took ie on the tripod mounted camera, it looks like the angle changes at the joint- it could of course be my bad laptop screen?

My only thoughts are that where the booms join together, there isnt a very deep join. This is a real weak spot I think, especially if carrying a heavy set up. The potential for movement in the arm and resonance is quite large I would say. When I had a v1 Gryphon Dynamics frame, there was...

No I dont think you can but you could try UGCS at www.ugcs.com I have only just found it and only done some playing around withit unlinked to my machine so no idea how it works for real.

Here's a thought, you eyes are incapable at resolving any more detail than a 65inch (diagonal) TV putting out 1080 if you are sat 9ft away (the average distance that most folks sit from their TVs). Check out this link. 4k is of course great for cropping etc but the 4k myth is just that in some...

Taranis is best bang for you buck, Futaba is excellent for compatibility but, investing in radio kit is where to throw your cash because your radio is likely to far outlast your aircraft. With that in mind the best one out there, but you pay for it is the Jeti.

Willie, you are right, there is only one cg but it shifts depending on your payload. So, hang you craft from one of the tips of its arms and then drop a plumb line (real or imaginary) down from the hanging point and where it intersects the horizontal cg is where your vertical cg is.

In the past I have removed the controller and used it just as a standard servo which enables end point setting etc to be done however before doing that I would give Aeronavics an email to see what they do.

Hi Adrian, what retracts are you using, are they the Aeronavics ones?