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Would a kill switch independent of the FC have been useful in this situation? I'm fitting one to my SkyJib right now as I simply don't trust any of these flight controllers and want to be able to kill the motors if anything goes wrong. It's not ideal but other than a self destruct or blowing it...

What a horrible experience to go through. You know, people always say it's pilot error - until it happens to them. It certainly sounds to me that you did everything right. Did you send the logs to DJI? It would be interesting to see what they have to say. Honestly, I'm amazed someone hasn't been...

Lovely video. Almost looks like a movie set. I'd never get away with it where I live as the Police are actively stopping people who attempt to fly in controlled airspace. You can get a permit but it's a long process and the fee is expensive.

According to Laurence Fishburne 'assumption' makes an ass out of you and umption. Heard that in a movie I was watching the other night and thought it was hilarious.

Well, on Sunday I let a 9 year old fly mine. He's working on getting his bronze wings at our flying club and does well with fixed wing so I thought he would be fine. As I suspected he took to it like a duck to water. They really are simple to fly.

Hope there are plans for one of these that charge simultaneously. Otherwise, what's the point?

600ft at night eh? I might go make some popcorn.

Just lovely. I really like the shots hovering very close over the water.

The Pixhawk can be powered from three sources. With a power module, on the output rails, or with USB. The most common way to power it is with a power module and if you are ok with one power source that's all you need. If you want some redundancy you can put +5v on the output rails as well. This...

That sounds odd. I'll be very interested to hear what you find out about this. I really think you best bet for a definitive answer will be to submit logs to the developers. Rob_L may see your post here though and he will know for sure. I think he's the only Arducopter dev here.

After shooting with the Inspire's camera I just cringe when I see footage from a GoPro. If you don't correct it then you have that terrible distortion and if you do correct it then the quality reduces in post. I've done a lot of nice work with the GoPro by understanding it's limitations but if I...

If you fly Pixhawk or SuperX you will have a log of every flight created for you each time you fly. And now with smart batteries they could even include accurate battery information. It would be nice if all this info could be extracted and presented in the format of an easy to read log book...

Have you contacted T-Motor about the issue? Would be interesting to see what their response is.

I don't think any of the flight controllers offer true redundancy for a Hex. I'd really like for someone to send a link to a video showing how a DJI flight controller handles a motor outage as I've heard claims that they can do it. My concern with that thread is that unless I'm missing...

Interesting that you would ask this now as I just posted a very similar question to one of the lead developers of Arducopter (the software the Pixhawk uses) on DIYDrones. See this thread if interested. He said that if one motor failed on an X8 that four motors would be effected increasing the...

@Motopreserve - Good points. I didn't say China had the only equipment. I said they had equipment that Mexico doesn't. Very good points about China's currency and cheap labour. As a serious question, do you think consumers would pay $350-$400 for a Pixhawk rather than $200? People already...

Welcome to the forum. I've found this forum to be much friendlier and encouraging than many others so hopefully your time here will be fun. I had a look at your site and can see that you are just starting out in an area that appears to be fairly new to you. That can be good and bad IMHO. I like...

It's only a matter of time before they become sentient. You have been warned!

I'm speaking specifically about the Pixhawk board but I think you would be hard pressed to find any electronic component that doesn't have a Chinese product in it somewhere. Why is that? I don't believe Mexico has the same quality equipment to produce the board as the Chinese. One thing you are...

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