Recent content by Magic Dave

If I follow the letter of the law, I need to keep a minimum altitude of 75 meters to be far enough away from any animals like rodents, ants, fish, etc. Technically, that's 75 meters above the tree line, as there could be ants or birds in the trees. I'm restricted to flying between 75 and 90...

Have we been given specs on the FLIR camera yet? I'd like to know which handheld model it best compares to.

I bought the prop guards when I got my XSP because of how useful they were on the cheap drones that I was learning with. Quickly realized how much work is involved in removing them to fit in the case, and so far I've not even taken the prop guards out of the box. So far my XSP hasn't come...

Honestly I'm more interested in the thermal camera. Very excited to see accessories starting to pop up.

I am very impressed with how long the controller battery lasts. I consistently forget to charge it. In my experience, I've easily had 4 flights on one controller charge, and so far I've not brought it down to below about 40%. A little trick that I saw on the Autel site was that you can use...

Thanks you for sharing this case study. I'm interested in hearing about how it ends up.

I can't properly answer your question, because I don't know for sure if the camera is used by the flight computer, but if I were to guess I would say that it is not. I'd say that there wouldn't - from the drone's perspective - be any disadvantages. Originally I thought that I would be doing...