Recent content by Felix the Cat

I think that the chip shortage was a genuine problem, but that really doesn't explain why more or less every bird in the Autel aviary has serious problems - that boils down to (Mod Removed Language) firmware coding that creates artifacts (fix one problem: inadvertently cause another one further...

No geofencing? Not for much longer.... As soon as the Mavic 3 ended up being the first bird with a Euro 'C1' rating: the writing is on the wall for all the other drone manufacturers, they will have to either fit in: or Foxtrot Oscar - which means everything they are selling right now will...

Tried all three of the available addresses. Got exactly the same each time. "550 - Mailbox not found" Is anyone else getting these?

Unfortunately: unless someone knows different: there is no way to roll-back Autel firmware to the last good configuration. No way to reset to factory default either. I've tried finding a way and failed miserably. So advising people not to update AFTER they have been cajoled into updating by the...

Then you get to try that with Currys/PC World and discover that their version of the Consumer Rights Act absolves them of all responsibility and they'll argue black-is-white that you have to deal with the manufacturer. Luckily: I'm well clued-up concerning UK Consumer Law and can quote quite a...

Reading through a high quantity of very similar posts (and experiencing something very similar myself from a component failure point-of-view), I am horrified that the penultimate manufacturer of drones (DJI is still top of the heap) treats people who choose to spend large amounts of their money...

This will be the Autel Nano released in Narnia perhaps. BIG difference between what they advertise and what you take out of the box. There are still loads of Autel in-house marketing pages and videos all over the net that claim Dynamic Track 2.1 is part of the firmware... and a lot of them still...

The '50 megapixel' shot isn't 50MP: it's still 12.5MP (in the Nano class). The JPG output is interpolated data: that's why it looks fuzzier on the fine detail compared to the standard JPG: it's computer guess-work. The sensor still has 12.5 million photosites: it is just the filter that covers...

One thing I've noticed reading similar threads to this one - it seems a real crap-shoot with Autel products. One purchaser might get a rock-steady piece of kit that works well, the bloke down the street might buy one and get something that gives the word 'unreliable' a bad name. I'm beginning to...

I really sympathise with you - this is a clear example of where expectation hits the brick wall of reality. I agree with Herein 2021 - with what I've learned the hard way: I wouldn't trust a newer model Autel to be reliable enough to manage a complex job without flying it manually: and even then...

Default 165 feet RTH here. I worked out the hard way that with RTH the drone always comes back to the controller along the line of least resistance - the shortest straight line... not the course you flew to get out to that point. Close call with a bloody great Douglas fir taught me to double check.

ADDENDUM... Is anyone getting random compass errors thrown at them - even when the bird is powered on well away from any of the usual suspects and the KP Index is low (between 1 and 2)? On top of that, the gimbal is behaving (even more) oddly than usual - it's like watching one of those nodding...

For close quarters work and high resolution detail shots: buy a set of prop guards and ignore people sniggering about you using them. For this kind of work they are an essential part of the hazard mitigation process. On top of that: if you end up with a gust blowing your Nano into the side of...

I was reacting to what you said about hoping autel will finally listen to customers.

I'm rapidly running out of 'hope' as a commodity. I'm reminded of what my old man used to say to me... "...Hope in one hand - crap in the other... then tell me which one's full first."