Drone Thingies

Chickcatcher

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Mixed Farmer
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SG9
Any help please on what is the best mount (mechanical) for an iPad to be used with a Mavic drone controller. Oh and how about the right iPad/Tablet to get as well. All the time Nokia 3100 is getting closer to being redundant.
 

Chickcatcher

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Mixed Farmer
Location
SG9
Well I wasn't prepared for no ideas at all!
10 days on no Church Choir singing today so I just may go to PC World see what they may have not hopeful though.
Keeping away from Amazone at the moment Carburettor Order placed 5 weeks ago still not arrived been told it has been lost somewhere between here an China.
 

Chickcatcher

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Mixed Farmer
Location
SG9
That's better I can now go shopping. Mine is a Mavic 2 pro but absolutly no previous experience and fairly slow to learn. Hey-Ho Off I Go.
 

Chickcatcher

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
SG9
Like wise, mine was impulse buy using my saved up state pension 3 years ago but it took me 33 months to make up my mind which one too get. (led astray by that guy up north that Farms 1000's of acres and filmed some seed being dressed) Bought of Dji direct with the fly more kit.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Anyone got the new Mavic 2? Any earth moving changes over the original I wonder. My son flies his Spark and I have a Mavic.

I see they've also introduced an "Enterprise" variant for errrr commercial users.

yes I got a mavic 2 zoom a month or so back, my first so can't compare to previous models but blown away by how good it is and how easy you can get some good footage. My first few attempts with it here https://vimeo.com/manage/videos

actually proving to be really useful for looking around crops as well
 

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
Just in case anyone is reading this is unaware of that the CAA has placed severe restrictions on two DJI drone models, the Inspire2 and the more 'professional' Matrix200 series. This is apparently due to batteries cutting out during flight and drones falling from th sky. The issue is not with the drones themselves but with the battery packs, which will no doubt be replaced by DJI at some point and all will be well again.
This is the notice from the CAA

2.1 This Safety Notice supersedes and revokes Safety Notice SN–2018/008.

2.2 This Safety Notice applies to operators of multi-rotor small unmanned aircraft utilising DJI battery model TB50 or TB55, including all DJI Matrice 200 series (which includes the 200, 210 and 210 RTK platforms) and the DJI Inspire 2 (the “Affected SUA”).

2.3 A small number of incidents have been recently reported where the aircraft has suffered a complete loss of power during flight, despite indications that there was sufficient battery time still remaining. In each case, this resulted in the aircraft falling directly to the ground due to the immediate loss of lift with the remote pilot unable to control its subsequent flight path. The small unmanned aircraft were damaged upon impact, but the CAA has not received any reports of injuries to people or other property.

2.4 Investigation by the manufacturer has confirmed that this issue is not confined to any specific firmware version and is thought to be related to the batteries TB50 and TB55. The full details of the occurrences are still being investigated.

2.5 The purpose of this Safety Notice is to highlight the requirement for the SUA operator and/or remote pilot to be reasonably satisfied that the flight can be safely made (Air Navigation Order 2016 (ANO) article 94(2)), restrict overflight of persons at any height and to temporarily limit the scope of any operational authorisations issued to operators of the Affected SUA.

Civil Aviation Authority Safety Notice SN–2018/009

3 Compliance/Action to be Taken
3.1 This Safety Notice requires the following actions to be taken:

a) Provisional Suspension of Operations

i) In accordance with Air Navigation Order article 257 and 257(2)(c) operators of Affected SUA are hereby directed not to permit any flight that involves overflight of any persons at any height until further notice.

ii) In accordance with Air Navigation Order article 253, any element of a permission based on an Operational Safety Case (OSC), issued by the CAA to an SUA operator which permits the operation of an Affected SUA to be operated:

* over or within 150 metres of any congested area;
* within 50 metres of any persons;
* within 50 metres of any, vessel, vehicle or structure which is not under the control of the SUA Operator or remote pilot of the SUA;
* over or within 150 metres of an open air assembly of more than 1,000 persons; or
* using EVLOS

is provisionally suspended until further notice.

iii) These limitations will be subject to regular review. As soon as further updates have been obtained from the manufacturer, and the CAA is satisfied that this has been addressed in a satisfactory manner, the CAA will then issue a further update via the SkyWise alerts portal on the CAA website.

b) Emergency Services Operations

i) Due to the unique nature of emergency services operations, the privileges contained within General Exemption E 4506 (ORS4 No. 1233) may continue to be exercised whilst using the Affected SUA, provided that the potential risks highlighted in this Safety Notice have been considered within the decision to proceed and the overflight of uninvolved persons is minimised.

4 Queries
4.1 Any queries or requests for further guidance as a result of this communication should be addressed to the following e-mail address: [email protected], with the subject line ‘Safety Notice - DJI Battery TB50 and TB55 In-Flight Power Failures’.

5 Cancellation
5.1 This Safety Notice will remain in force until further notice
 
Which ones are you using?

I bought DJI’s goggles, they are expensive and clumsy old things (can’t fold them up and they are a pain to store away) BUT they are fantastic for flying the drone. I use my controller to fly the drone and use my head movements to control the gimbal, which means as you are flying you can look left/right/up/down and the gimbal tracks your head movement. Brilliant for flying and observing, I can enjoy just flying the drone without recording and it feels like you are actually in the air!

There might be other equally great goggles out there but I just got the DJI ones so that there were no compatibility issues
 
I bought DJI’s goggles, they are expensive and clumsy old things (can’t fold them up and they are a pain to store away) BUT they are fantastic for flying the drone. I use my controller to fly the drone and use my head movements to control the gimbal, which means as you are flying you can look left/right/up/down and the gimbal tracks your head movement. Brilliant for flying and observing, I can enjoy just flying the drone without recording and it feels like you are actually in the air!

There might be other equally great goggles out there but I just got the DJI ones so that there were no compatibility issues
Thanks for the review. I’ll put them on my Santa list! :D
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I bought DJI’s goggles, they are expensive and clumsy old things (can’t fold them up and they are a pain to store away) BUT they are fantastic for flying the drone. I use my controller to fly the drone and use my head movements to control the gimbal, which means as you are flying you can look left/right/up/down and the gimbal tracks your head movement. Brilliant for flying and observing, I can enjoy just flying the drone without recording and it feels like you are actually in the air!

There might be other equally great goggles out there but I just got the DJI ones so that there were no compatibility issues

on my christmas list I think !

do you still need a phone / ipad connected ? and how do you switch modes etc when your head is in the goggles ?
 
do you still need a phone / ipad connected ? and how do you switch modes etc when your head is in the goggles ?

Good question! I have always kept my iPhone in the controller, but don't actually use it for anything while my head is in the goggles. There's a trackpad on the side of the goggles which you can use to control the menu system for the drone, so next day out I'll try it without the iPhone, would be a hell of a lot handier if it works.!
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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