Recent content by GeekOnTheWing

I think (but am not sure) that the logging feature requires the sync functionality, which is planned, but not yet active for Beacon. I don't know how to change the length of a mission, but if you're using the app it should automatically end the flight when you end the flight. In all candor, I...

Life's a gamble.

I bought mine from Vertigo Drones. I've always found them reliable.

The 2.7.47 update (with the SC, although I don't know whether there's any difference) went okay for me. Far from being bricked, the gimbal pitch movement is now crazy fast. I'll have to tone it down in the settings.

Probably just the angle. The dimensions are accurate.

Flight testing worked fine. No interference with GPS or WiFi, no weird handling. For the first test, I burned through a battery ascending to 385 AGL, hovering, descending, and ascending again without landing, with both the Dronetag and the strobe on, and the drone was only off by about eight...

This might work. The material is a polycarbonate safety window for a grinding mask.

I tested that scenario today. The short answer is that the app has almost no functionality without a mobile data signal, and that the user preferences are lost because apparently they're not stored on the device when it does have Internet. That sounds like a place where some improvements could...

If there's no database field anyway, what difference does it make? If they're right, then all they know is that something is flying at such an altitude, heading, etc. Frankly, I have my doubts about the advice that FAA is giving. I'm not sure they even know the questions, much less the answers...

Thanks, Jan. That answers a question I was in the process of posting.

Theoretically, it would be simple to code something like that by aliasing pseudo serial numbers to the hardware serial number, and associating each aircraft's information to its pseudo serial number. It would be similar to spoofing the MAC address on a router, for those of us familiar with that...

Yes. Broadcast Remote ID does not require a mobile connection. What I don't know, specific to the Dronetag, is whether the flight will sync to one's account from the app when they do have a mobile connection. I can test that out at Big Pond when the weather clears up.

Joseph Heller lives.

As far as the company is concerned, the same Dronetag device can be assigned to multiple aircraft. The app provides for it and also allows one drone to be the default if more than one are associated with the Dronetag. As for FAA, I don't know. I spoke to a fellow at FAADroneZone support who...

I figured this device deserved a thread of its own since it's one of the earlier RID modules that meets FAA and EU requirements, and because I have one. My own contributions will be somewhat rambling as I just got the thing yesterday. I've only flown one short test flight with it mounted, and...