Recent content by robport

Chesapeake Virginia, US Dollars

I've been trying to talk myself into doing this for a long time now, but it's finally time. I need to finally accept the though of selling my Inspire 1. I bought it a little less than a year ago for a business purpose and that purpose was never realized (lost the bidding process). I've been...

I sympathize, but as far as the law suit...I'm afraid you have no chance at that. You are going to sue a Chinese company (backed by the Chinese Communist Party) in a London court? How could a judgement even be enforced? The only way to get them to change their ways is to vote with your...

This is a market problem. The reason batteries aren't being made is because no company thinks they can make money off them. There is a high barrier to entry to start making batteries, less of a barrier in China because of the environmental situation there, but still pretty high. I don't even...

The first thing I do with any pictures or video I take with that camera is to have the software adjust the white balance. That often takes care of it for me and almost always, it needs to shift away from magenta. It's much worse in low light when I usually shoot (sunrises)

It's hard to believe that they actually get people to fall for it, with all the red flags all over the place. Mine also used the "I'm worried about whether I can trust you" angle. I'm not sure it's because people fall for it because of a tendency to compassion or their desire to get a quick...

One of the companies I worked with, had a request for me to map a property (relative, not absolute), then provide 4 direction pictures and come back every day and monitor progress on a house being built. The company sent him an invoice, but he came up with all kinds of reasons why he couldn't...

I put my Inspire 1 V2 up for sale on Craig's list. Very quickly, I got a response and as the communication went forward, it got more and more suspicious. I just want to put this out there so that no one on here falls for it. 1. Communication was answered quickly on Craig's list, but...

Luckily, I haven't had that problem with my Inspire 1, but looking at it, the Inspire 2 looks to have the same restrictions as the Phantom 4 Pro. I had some very weird restrictions with my Phantom though. What I really don't like, is that notice that pops up when I'm already in the air...

Amazing!

A few weeks ago, I had to fly very close to a US NAVY base. I got my FAA Authorization, and negotiated a time with the base flight operations officer (he was very helpful, by the way). The NAVY issued a NOTAM on my behalf for my operation. When time came (I asked for a very limited time), I...

Is this version 1 or 2?