Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG- I really like your sunset picture. Thanks for sharing. Most fly-a-way drones are more due to owner/operator inexperience, an over-estimation of their own ability to actually pilot/fly their drone manually, and an over-dependency on a really fancy flight controller that does the real flying and can be prone to poor programming input as to flight parameters, computer glitches, signal loss and interference.

Thanks for the feedback Jay!

I just can't bring myself to pull the trigger on an $800+ purchase that could disappear into the sunset on its own accord.

That said, if you could pick any camera drone from the current crop, which one would it be?:confused3:

 

[jbrumberg]

RNG- If I remember correctly David has a Phantom 3. They are a well engineered product. Actually I like DJI products. I upgraded to a (cheap/basic) DJI flight controller on the "Flying Cuisinart." Most of the DJI owner/operator and/or former owner/operator complainers deserve to have lost their aircrafts.

I lost 4 cheapies during my learning curve. 1 was disorientation at distance, 2 were blown away by the wind at higher elevation (post happy hour events), and the last just took off when I turned on the transmitter I still have not figured out that fly-a-way, but I did something wrong.

I probably spent more on parts, replacement parts, props and prop balancers, upgraded components, batteries, battery chargers, transmitters, monitors, TV and video components, etc. than what David spent. And one can hear my "FC"; it's really loud, like a million angry hornets when those motors fire up.

If anyone considers buying a drone; buy a couple of cheap ones first and lots of replacement props and get a feel for actually flying/piloting it. There is quite a debris field under my learning curves.

 

[Looking4new]

Need to visit mom but I’m not sure if I should before I’m completely over this junk.

If you are looking for anothers' opinion, I surely would NOT go anywhere near my mother if I was sporting a cold.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It was 60° this morning and overcast. Our forecast say 74° this afternoon, already up to 70°

I did get another burn pile lit yesterday morning, after VFD meeting. There was, at that time, no wind.



About the time it was down to just the big logs, the wind came up (17-20 mph) and kept everything smoldering away nicely.



This morning.



While monitoring the fire, I took out a few more cedar trees for the next burn pile.





Hope everyone has a relaxing Sunday.

Prayers to all.

 

[jbrumberg]

I agree with Bill, and if one was still under the weather and/or has just recovered from a contagious illness they could be putting themselves and their weakened immune system at risk due to exposure to possibly new contagious and/or even more virulent diseases that seem to cluster in longterm institutional settings.

Ted- You asked me a ? the other day about what I plan to do with all my downed wood on the property It's really a mess up there and right now is almost solid ice on the exposed SW slope. I've been thinking about this. I really need to brush the paths again. The last time I had the "help" of high doses of Prednisone. My hill is too steep to safely operate the tractor (or even walk in some places) so the downed trees up on the hill will basically be left to rot unless it's obstructing my paths and in that case I will clear that out with my chainsaw, etc.; moveable wood near my walking paths will be moved to create path boundaries, the wood that is accessible and really not firewood material will be moved to create more cover for the wildlife along/within the field perimeters, and the burnable wood will be processed.

 

[Looking4new]

I agree with Bill, and if one was still under the weather and/or has just recovered from a contagious illness they could be putting themselves and their weakened immune system at risk due to exposure to possibly new contagious and/or even more virulent diseases that seem to cluster in longterm institutional settings.

Not to mention spreading your germs to your mother, toppop. Does she have access to a phone?

 

[sodamo]

Thanks for the compliment, RNG. Likely I spend too much time planning and what-iffing. As you well know, DIY is much different than just writing the check.

As for Drones, pretty much agree with Jay’s assessment.
I fly mine within sight, although I’m sometimes tempted to explore. Actually, within sight is pretty much within my property boundaries. In the beginning I did have opportunity to traipse around for recovery. Prefer not to. Any crashes were operator induced.

As Jay said, I have a DJI Phanton 3. My cottage tenant has the Mavic and loves it.
Lots of Youtube reviews on the less expensive stuff. You just might be happy in the $100 range if you can get good pics.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

TAs You just might be happy in the $100 range if you can get good pics.

I lost an hour down the Amazon/drone rabbit hole this morning. I set up a search for "camera drone", with Prime only offerings, sorted in order of least expensive to most. The first drones showed up in the fifteen dollar range, but none had cameras.:confused3: By twenty-five dollars, the 780P models showed up. And so did lots of one star reviews. By the time the thirty-five dollar jobs were listed, HD 1080P was on the menu, again with lots of one star reviews. I suspect some of the names on those drones were the result of very bad Chinese to Engilsh translations. It made me wonder how much fun I'd have trying to decipher the instructions.:shocked: I decided to get out of bed at that point and start my day...:confused2:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

February left like a lion; march began like a lamb. After yesterday stayed below freezing and wind, today started at 18° and is now 50° and sunny.

After worship visited a friend in a nursing home .

Got my trash out for tomorrow, put 5 gal of diesel in the tractor, starts the ZTR and let it warm up some.

And put a new flag up, the old one was getting in real bad shape

 

[jbrumberg]

"... I suspect some of the names on those drones were the result of very bad Chinese to Engilsh translations. It made me wonder how much fun I'd have trying to decipher the instructions."- RNG

Changlish takes some getting used to. The problem is compounded due to all the regional dialects in China. I think there are 13. There may be 3 tiers of translation going on in the literature.

When I first got the camera/video bug with my quadcopters. I attached a cheap keychain videocam on my $20 - $30 trainers with rubber bands, velcro, etc.. I got some crazy highly disorienting 3 minute videos with that set up.