Recent content by Mpellet

Dog is very well behaved he just gets excited when someone pulls in the driveway. The blame is all mine.....

I have logged a few hundred uneventful flights since purchasing my Inspire1 in the Spring of 2015. Had not flown in a while so I took the batteries, radio and IPad out for a charge. Left my Inspire1 in travel mode with the case open on the couch. I had to run a few errands before leaving on a...

I live in on 2.5 heavily wooded acres with my house and Inspire1 launch & recovery pad located in the middle. This year an extremely territorial hawk has taken up residence on my property or by the way the hawk acts, it bought the joint and I am trespassing on the hawk's property. Whenever I...

I am somewhat prone to RC vehicle buying. Over the years I have had them all, tanks, boats, scores of cp helicopters, airplanes etc etc. I fly airplanes for a living in my "real" life and last Spring was on a trip with a guy who was in the process of getting an aerial photography bussiness going...

Best of luck with the machine. Safe flying.......

I have a Blade Nano QX, wonderful little machine to learn quad orientations IMO. I also love E-Flight's Nano CPX Helicopters. Great intro to collective pitch helicopter flying and almost as forgiving as crashing a simulator in terms of breaking stuff......

Just a thought, you can buy a small RTF quad for under $100 that only flies in "Atti" mode that will be very forgiving when crashed, as in likely ZERO damage. With this unit you can practice your flying and orientations. The small quad will not be nearly as stable as your Inspire 1 is and when...

. Just to get back to the thread, as I stated in my original post, I fly commercial aircraft for a living and have for nearly 30 years. I am long familiar with preflights, standard operating procedures, aircraft maintenance etc. Additionally I have for years flown RC collective pitch...

This Spring I met a guy who had a couple of DJI Inspire 1s and he shared some video taken both of the aircraft flying and from the aircraft. Being a sucker to new hobbies and technology, a few weeks later a rather large box from B&H Camera arrived and I had my own DJI Inspire 1. A little back...

Unless you have set a 400 foot restriction in the app your Inspire 1 is going to operate at 400, 500 or 600+ feet AGL no differently then it does at 40 feet and unless you are extremely unlucky and encounter a light airplane or a helicopter flying VFR at 400 AGL over the same field you are...

Title pretty much says states my question. I get a circle on my map, sometimes it is red, sometimes it will be blue, have a few guesses what it is but would like to know for sure. I am running the Pilot App on an IPAD Mini 2. Thanks in advance.........

I have found the antenna position on my controller has a huge impact on video signal reception. If my antennas are rotated outward a bit and then tilted up I have no problem receiving the video image on the IPAD. If the antennas are not in that position, I often have connection difficulties. An...