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  1. Packetdancer

    No fly craziness

    Aren't most of the green informational warnings mostly just helicopter pads? If I turn it on for Seattle, the green pins seem to all be television news organization buildings (which have helicopter pads), hospitals (which have helicopter pads), and police stations (which have helicopter pads)...
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    US Shuttle Model using the i1

    If that's what I think it is, that's actually a real shuttle model; it sat outside Space Camp/Astronaut Hall of Fame, and is the shuttle mockup that kids attending Space Camp trained on. It was in the news recently that it was going to be moved from the Astronaut Hall of Fame to a...
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    A call for transparency and truth!

    I'd been lurking for quite a while before I joined, and I can genuinely say I never had the impression this forum was sucking up to DJI; I think I've seen more threads griping about their failures—real, subjective, and perceived alike—than singing their praises. And sure, some of that is...
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    RC to Copter interference sources

    Interference aside, I would put the phone into airplane mode anyway once you've cached the GPS maps; getting a text or a phone call while you're flying could be pretty bad.
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    Hi, I'm Packetdancer

    So, since we're splitting off into individual threads rather than the one giant one, hi! I'm Rachel. I'm an engineer at a product development firm for my day job; companies come to us and go "hey, we need a small wearable device that calculates calories burned" or "we need a super efficient...
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    I can't update my Inspire 1 pro

    Ah! Most browsers, if a file by that name already exists, will start appending things to the filename when creating a file on download, instead of just overwriting the old copy. Safari will stick -2, -3, etc. on the end of the filename (which I'm guessing is what happened to you), others will...
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    Most Daring Irresponsible I1 Pilot

    Stupid pilot tricks know no geographic limitations, I fear: Someone crashed a drone into Seattle's Great Wheel
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    What other hobbies do you have?

    Photography, writing, horses. Also games of all sorts: board, card, tabletop, and video. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
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    Whats gonna happen when.....

    Only if you film it entirely using aerial shots off an I1 or I1Pro.
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    Hi, Im Clackey (Main Administrator)

    I'm a 30-something engineer and program lead at a product development company; we've designed and developed everything from consumer electronics to industrial equipment for our clients, often with wireless components. I'm a fairly serious photographer in my spare time; I've shown my work in art...
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    iPad Mini 2 huge problem in cold, battery drops very fast!

    Did you have airplane mode enabled? There's potentially a huge battery savings there if you do; even if your iPad is WiFi only, when not in airplane mode the radio will still be searching for WiFi networks to join. I've found that if I forget to turn airplane mode off and then use the iPad for...
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    FAA releases B4UFLY app publicly for iOS

    If you follow the replies to the tweet all the way down the chain, the app's "official" Twitter account snarked back at him, too. (Air quotes deliberate.)
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    Inspire 1 Radio wont connect to DJI GO app, Help please!

    You can downgrade the app if you still have a previous .IPA file (on iOS) or .APK (on Android). However, there are caveats to doing so, and the process is more than a bit of a pain. You can certainly try on Android; it might be that you have an old enough controller firmware such that the...
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    New CoPilot Drone Control Application

    As far as I can tell, the main thing is that CoPilot uses the 3D mode for Apple Maps to let you preview your flight paths from the camera's point-of-view. It does seem remarkably easy to set up a path in this, though; you just move your virtual drone to where you want it to be, orient it as you...
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    Inspire 1 pro decided to fall out of sky --- brand new tb48 battery on second use

    In fairness, as I noted above, I used to be on the "this is stupid and it could happen accidentally, why would you ever" side of the discussion. Then I had to actually use the CSC for an emergency in-air shutdown deliberately, and I honestly think I would not have been able to react as...