Recent content by tvwxman

Very nice post, I'm surprised you didn't get any pushback by not adhering to the 180 rule, especially during your daylight video portion. I try to be mindful of it when I can, but I'm not an ardent disciple of it either. I do however get good results using ND filters, but different strokes...

Same thing just happened to me, but it was my fault... I was below a tree and had already overridden the RTH alert wanting to get a few more minutes out of it and next thing I knew, I missed the following warning and up it went trying to return to home and flew right up into the branches, wigged...

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Here is the thread I referenced, pay particular attention to the post by 'herein2021'... https://autelpilots.com/threads/drone-crash-when-battery-went-from-21-to-0-in-10-seconds.10809/?utm_source=weekly_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-7-23

There is another recent thread on here discussing sudden drops in battery charges, and the takeaway I got from those who posted is the batteries MUST be recharged to 100% before every flight if you want the most dependable and reliable performance from them, ESPECIALLY if they were allowed to...

Well done !! Great use of sound injected into it as well !

Your drone sounds like my Dodge Caravan I bought 20 years ago. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong with it did! Yep we both got lemons. I have been flying my Evo II Pro 6K for nearly 2 and a 1/2 years now and even after clipping a fence at high speed, I have had zero problems with it...

I should visit and post in this section of the forum more often, I really enjoyed watching some of the great work here! I'm a meteorologist, so naturally I'm inclined to find some interesting weather and I don't think you'll be bored with either of these two links. My drone is still going...

Great rain shaft behind the city at the beginning! Also, loved the dissolve of the building from daylight to dusk. I noticed your video was flickering at the very end of the video before it cut off. Any thoughts on what was happening there?

Oh my gosh I should have thought of that! We are in controlled airspace here in Charlotte and therefore I don't get that same opportunity and I'm so conditioned to that restriction I failed to remember other cities are not that close to their airports and can take advantage of that 400' radius...

Love your videos! Great music too! I'm heading to Atlanta next month and I'd love to try and duplicate some of your shots for myself. How high is that Truist building do you know off hand? That's the one I'm really wanting. Is it under 400 feet or do I need to get a waiver? Thanks! I have...

So I gave the jet ski a quarter (1/4) mile head start and it still wasn't fair. I stole his lunch and ate it too. (Pssst... it helps to have a tail wind, nearly hit 50mph)

Here's my battery update. I've owned this drone since Father's Day 2020, just over a year and a half. I have four batteries, but can't say for sure when each were bought, but based on the charging cycles, pretty easy to deduce their ages from oldest to youngest. For starters, I've had two...

Yes sir! That is the only way I fly.

Ok so now I'm really going to muddy the water. So I just shot a lakefront real estate parcel last week. I came home with 41 clips from from five flights. I renamed the files when I got home and grouped each of the five flights into Blocks A - E. In this outing, For the "D" block of my...