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Recent content by ultraturtle

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    We need a name! "Dragon Skull", "Bird of Prey"...? We can do better than "Inspire 1"

    The more I think about it, the more I believe "Dragon Skull" to be an appropriate unofficial name. Taking into account the brilliant Chinese engineers, technicians, and managers that brought us the capability to film and photograph so easily and magnificently in this new realm, it is fitting...
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    We need a name! "Dragon Skull", "Bird of Prey"...? We can do better than "Inspire 1"

    We need an enduring name for this magnificent beast. "Inspire 1" is a somewhat lackluster corporate tag. No offense to DJI, but pilots have a long standing tradition of unofficially naming game changing craft for what they are and what they do. Names stick in pilot circles far beyond anything...
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    So nobody brave enough to upgrade to the new firmware???

    A little over an hour from just less than 30%.
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    Unbelievably upset!

    Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I've had no issues to date. I flew 5 sorties today (the first two without the camera and gimbal) in 10 to 15 knot winds in an environment that never got a GPS lock with previous quads and checked all functions I could think of. It performed magnificently both...
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    So nobody brave enough to upgrade to the new firmware???

    Firmware updated without issue. Flies like a dream. Only 5 sorties today. Single battery flying is a chore.
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    got inspire today. The best I've bought

    Got my Inspire 1 yesterday, charged up everything, updated firmware and installed app. First flight this morning. Some observations: Wow!!! In my backyard, with 80' tree coverage all around, I was never able to fly in GPS mode with the Phantom. I got proficient flying in Atti mode fast. With...
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    Inspire App for IOS?

    Mine came with two USB to micro USB. No lightning cable.
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    any other Sonoma county inspire pilots out there?

    Probably not. DJI is having FedEx hold my delivery for 2 additional days in order to give retailers time to ship so that everybody gets theirs at about the same time - next Wednesday.
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    Dji pilot app launches tonight at dji.com

    You can now download the User Manual and Pilot App from DJI: http://www.dji.com/product/inspire-1/download
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    Inspire 1 Pre Flight Checklist

    It was part of the app in its early beta form. Hope they kept it in.
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    Dual transmitter or single transmitter set up for the Inspire ???

    If you limit yourself to photography and rudimentary video, one controller will be fine. It is difficult to convey the importance of a skilled camera operator if you are interested in quality video, however. A two person team with two controllers gives at least the possibility of quality...
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    Playing 4K Video

    Perhaps more significant than Ed's magnificent videos are the bit rates. The 6 second 470 MB file averaged with the 3 second 188 MB yeilds an average archive rate of 73 MB/s. This exceeds not only the DJI published max video output bit rate of 60 MB/s, but well exceeds the H.264 minimum 4k...
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    Recording video raw on inspire?

    Astute observation. DJI did in fact post a 60 Mb/s spec, but I gave them some slack for the typo. 60 Mb/s = 7.5 MB/s which barely supports 1080p, and cannot support any implementation of 4K video compressed using the H.264 codec. H.264 compressed 4k video requires a minimum burst write rate...
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    Recording video raw on inspire?

    The video bitrate published for the DJI Inspire 1 is 60 MB/s which can handle 4K video only in compressed format. The H.264 compression specified only requires 30 MB/s for lowest quality 4K, so here's hoping that either the Inspire 1 ships with firmware that gives us the option to dial down...