Recent content by Ralph thompson

I'm quite tide-down presently because my wife is sick. I'm selling my Inspire kit, regrettably and reverting to using just my M2P. I can't afford the time commitment for big jobs presently. It would have been interesting to get together since you sound interested in the photography side of...

DroneTechAerial, I think u have to be the original owner? I too have had good experiences with DJI repair with camera repairs in California and now happy to say, good experience with DJI approved repair in Canada for the I1P, although cameras still have to go to California.

Not had this problem, I have an original I1P. My thought is you have some incompatibility between the bird and the camera. Can only suggest you start from square one and make sure their are no issues with the original configuration. The update the firmware again, the bird first then the camera.

Agree to send it back to DJI, they have a great service and you're able to track progress through every step. I just returned my X5 with damaged gimbal I bought it in 2016. I dinged it in a stupid accident and the yaw axis got twisted and broken. Its well out of warranty but after discussing...

I too velcroed a coin (from where I don’t recall) on the side of my X5. Just experiment until it works. But found I also had to Velcro a little lead at the rear ( 45 mm) to get it all balanced. A piece of lead pipe from the hardware store and Velcro makes a good kit that balances all...

I have the I1Pro with the X5 since August 2015 and was an early beta user of Autopilot. It was great when it was a small company and the founders were keen to interact with users. Now they're part of some bigger entity Hangar Technology and you get very mediocre support. I love Autopilot and use...

To the original issue, Autopilot allows you to select the function of the C1 & c2 buttons. You can set C1 to reset gimbal. Go to Settings & scroll down towards the end “RC settings”

Like it DROREPS. PIREPS are usually called in on Airways, higher altitudes with issues like clear air turbulence. It’s another kettle of fish for DROREPS to be called in, in a vast array of remote locations but like the idea. You heard it here first folks.

It’s hard to get safer than the Go App but u must set the altitude and return to home altitudes and max. distance to the minimum to accomplish your mission. I believe these settings override any third party Apps. eg., I use Autopilot, but if I have range limited in the Go App ( even though it’s...

This is because yr photographing into the sun, it’s called lens flare. The purple is the sun refracting in the lens anti glare coating. A lens hood can help but if u have to photograph into the sun, then try aiming the camera down a little. I’m guessing yr using aperture priority so this is also...

METAR/TAF data is the source for many third party sites. It is the most reliable data. In most countries there is a “plain language” selection for those unfamiliar with the meteorologist lingo. The Graphical FA provides a bigger picture. But in my experience, very local conditions are not picked...

Extract from Faa.gov « Flying UAS in and around stadiums is prohibited starting one hour before and ending one hour after the scheduled time of any of the following events: Major League Baseball National Football League NCAA Division One Football NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series...

Stubborn dirt has to be removed using sensor cleaning swobs sold in camera shops. Easy to do, just need a steady hand and follow the instructions.

I thought all stadiums were off limits in the US and Canada? Having been offered a similar job last year then told by Transport Canada it was no permitted, I had researched the issues and was concerned about all the thousands of smart phones pinging wifi signals & creating interference (which is...

I stoped using dlog a while ago and switched to cinelike. Also added an IR/UV blocking filter. Theoretically dlog is better but in fact, the low low bandwidth 8 bit video can’t tolerate much post processing. So it defeats the reason to use dlog. As most people have attested, the dlog image...