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weixiang80 said:
may i know what you flying now?
which transmitter is good ah? :)
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I have a mjx bugs 3 and couple for 2-3inch racing drones.

Im using jumper t8sg for mainly frsky receivers. As most newer receiver supports telemetry.
 
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hwzlite said:


Experimenting with cheap pseudo tilt-shift effect . :D
And my personal best yet reached 900m range, flying from 12th floor Sky Garden.


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:eek: you pretty high up above congested area with a brush quad. winds are usually stronger as altitude increases. h501 is a light quad and doesn't do very good in windy situations.
can't imagine if your return flight runs into headwind you might burn out the brushed motors leading the quad home.
 
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blade81 said:
:eek: you pretty high up above congested area with a brush quad. winds are usually stronger as altitude increases. h501 is a light quad and doesn't do very good in windy situations.
can't imagine if your return flight runs into headwind you might burn out the brushed motors leading the quad home.
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Actually on a lighter H502S quad. :D
My Mitigation factors:
- pre-flight check , esp on brushed motors, aborted @ any slightest abnormality.
- weather/ SA stats check with Airmap & UAV Forecast appz , taking consideration with head/tail/cross winds, esp @60m height.
- Interval timer set to remind die die kiasee must return after 4mins if haven't triggered RTH.
- Minimize coverage paths esp flying over crowd.


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hwzlite said:
Actually on a lighter H502S quad. :D
My Mitigation factors:
- pre-flight check , esp on brushed motors, aborted @ any slightest abnormality.
- weather/ SA stats check with Airmap & UAV Forecast appz , taking consideration with head/tail/cross winds, esp @60m height.
- Interval timer set to remind die die kiasee must return after 4mins if haven't triggered RTH.
- Minimize coverage paths esp flying over crowd.


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if you done all your preflight checks and factor in all the possible risk and mitigated them than I rest my case, nice flight, I wish I had the courage to do like what you did :D

personally been playing with racing drone for the past few months and I had screws fly out leading to motors unmounts itself, props explode mid air, prop nuts fly away mid flight. C clip &motor shaft flew out. losing FPV feed mid flight due to interference or bad antenna, roll of death, ESC restart mid flight.
all this little problems can cause a crash so my mentality is to always preventing human injuries followed by prevent property damages.
and are prepared to ditch the drone just to prevent any of the above possibility scenarios...
with that it is considered too dangerous for me to attempt flying across a town
 
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this S$118 TP-LINK Neffos C5 handphone good enough? 16GB nia?
https://www.hachi.tech/android-zone/phones/smartphones/6935364097134

I checked my current phone, 21GB used up out of 32GB. Mainly all the drone apps (dji go 4, CME, hubsan, Tello, Foxeer) and maps apps (google map, one map). 16GB can move some apps program and apps' data onto MicroSD boh? my 32GB phone cannot have any apps or apps data installed on MicroSD.

Or can find me a good phone? Need 32GB, 1080p, >5", >12MP, >3000mAh. Only use phone for 3G talk and drones flying. I do not have whatapps installed.

Very poor and cannot afford expensive phones.... :(
 
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I’m thinking to go for this course. Worth or not

https://aceaviation.com.sg/academy/essential-remote-pilot-program/
 
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losthope00 said:
I’m thinking to go for this course. Worth or not

https://aceaviation.com.sg/academy/essential-remote-pilot-program/
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Hi,

If it is paid by government, then may be just go....

if not paid by government, got to come out S$420 from your pocket, then you got other options of: ;)
a) Buy a S$150 Tello from Hachi and train yourself, Tello will just hover there and as stable as a Spark or your mavic pro. Very easy to pick up flying skill from Tello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRsZMMcGgg
b) Check with uncle hwzlite, ask him to be your personal coach. He is expert in drone flying, drone regulations, latest drone tech, all lobangs to get cheap drones. Just do not copy his skill of peeping bikinis babes from drones. Buy him a Hubsan H501A after the training, is only ~S$270.
c) Flying drone simulations apps/software on handphone first. That one you go check with Blade81. He usually does that to cure itchiness of his fingers when his drones are all down.... Is good training also!!

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Quadcopter said:
Hi,

If it is paid by government, then may be just go....

if not paid by government, got to come out S$420 from your pocket, then you got other options of: ;)
a) Buy a S$150 Tello from Hachi and train yourself, Tello will just hover there and as stable as a Spark or your mavic pro. Very easy to pick up flying skill from Tello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRsZMMcGgg
b) Check with uncle hwzlite, ask him to be your personal coach. He is expert in drone flying, drone regulations, latest drone tech, all lobangs to get cheap drones. Just do not copy his skill of peeping bikinis babes from drones. Buy him a Hubsan H501A after the training, is only ~S$270.
c) Flying drone simulations apps/software on handphone first. That one you go check with Blade81. He usually does that to cure itchiness of his fingers when his drones are all down.... Is good training also!!

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Drone simulators im using liftoff from steam. But u need a transmitter to connect to the computer's usb I think its 20 dollars or something. Its an okay simulator but it doesnt depict real life gravity that well. In real life drone drop to ground in matter of seconds if u cut throttle whereas simulator has lots of hang time. Its good when u want to pratice flying through gates or perform a new trick. Which in real life the quad will probably break first before learning the trick.
But end day u get stick time which overall improve your drone skills
 
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Quadcopter said:
OMG!! Done by Micro Drone??... :eek:
Walah! I wanna buy a set of Micro Drone,... So good Video camera.... :s12:

My Crap Tello 720p nia, drop frames all the way, cannot fly more than 5m away... :(


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wah... Tello so jialat ah? was considering this and Spark...

btw i can fly the JJRC liao, quite fun but sometimes lose focus (over confidence/kancheong) then crash lol
 
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weixiang80 said:
wah... Tello so jialat ah? was considering this and Spark...

btw i can fly the JJRC liao, quite fun but sometimes lose focus (over confidence/kancheong) then crash lol
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walah... you fly JJRC H36 for few days nia become expert liow??.... :eek:
I'm still unable to fly a quadcopter properly, you are making me feeling very old and clumsy... sigh!... :(

Tello is only an indoor drone good for selfie, and extremely good for beginner to pick up flying skill. Do NOT buy another better drone now. Just get another same JJRC H36 if you play too often. The brushed motors of JJRC H36 get heated up and burnt easily and you need alternate sets to cold it down while flying the other one.

Do NOT buy any better drones yet, you need to figure out what's is more fun for you next...
a) Racing drone: About S$100-200 for racing and aerobatic purpose. e.g. eachine aurora 80, Emax babyhawk
b) bashing drones: About S$200-300 for outdoor free flying and exploring. e.g. Hubsan H501S/502S
c) Aerial Photography Drone: Very good aerial video produced, about S$600-700. e.g. DJI Spark, Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K
d) Aerial Photography Drone: professional aerial video produced, about S$1.5-3K. e.g. Phantom/Mavic, Yuneec Typhoon H

watch Youtube video and know what you like first. Keep playing and having fun with your JJRC H36.... :s13:

cannot teach you anything after this liow, you are now more expert than me... :D
 
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Quadcopter said:
walah... you fly JJRC H36 for few days nia become expert liow??.... :eek:
I'm still unable to fly a quadcopter properly, you are making me feeling very old and clumsy... sigh!... :(

Tello is only an indoor drone good for selfie, and extremely good for beginner to pick up flying skill. Do NOT buy another better drone now. Just get another same JJRC H36 if you play too often. The brushed motors of JJRC H36 get heated up and burnt easily and you need alternate sets to cold it down while flying the other one.

Do NOT buy any better drones yet, you need to figure out what's is more fun for you next...
a) Racing drone: About S$100-200 for racing and aerobatic purpose. e.g. eachine aurora 80, Emax babyhawk
b) bashing drones: About S$200-300 for outdoor free flying and exploring. e.g. Hubsan H501S/502S
c) Aerial Photography Drone: Very good aerial video produced, about S$600-700. e.g. DJI Spark, Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K
d) Aerial Photography Drone: professional aerial video produced, about S$1.5-3K. e.g. Phantom/Mavic, Yuneec Typhoon H

watch Youtube video and know what you like first. Keep playing and having fun with your JJRC H36.... :s13:

cannot teach you anything after this liow, you are now more expert than me... :D
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haha i still very beginner , cant do precision flying yet... only fly anyhow , objective is to try to stay in flight for the full batt life of 5 mins

u are spot on~~ the options you provided is exactly my thinking process option 1 - 4, repeat and repeat .... lol

My JJRC wont burn out so soon.... 5 mins flight time then need to charge batt for 1 hour hahaaa
 
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The drone course is just a plain ripoff. Not like as if they teach you proper LOS or FPV skills. Just simple toy drone flying. Don't get me started on 'learning' to fly phantoms in the syllabus. DJI drones are full assisted drones, key is to know how to use the app and the tons of functions, so that you don't goof up, especially when dis-oriented. If you want a chance to fly one, just go carousell rent one.

My 7yo daughter flew the Tello last weekend, her first ever RC flying (her only other RC license is rock crawler random bashing...). Less than 10mins and she's already controlling it well. And already learning orientate skills for LOS. Tello can even do Scratch. Great for those with kids. I'm already waiting for the next sale to get a second one.

Even if you don't pay a cent, you should not feed the greed. Go for a baking class or something.

If not prepared to get a Tello, get a cheap $50 drone with altitude hold. The past year has been full of barometric ones, the hold is finicky at best but still easy to control. This month optical ones are appearing. You can get JJRC H61 for $50. You can learn to fly close range 10m in less than 10mins. Then practice orientation as you fly further out to 50m. Do many racetracks, then Figure 8s. These take a few weekends 2 hours sorts. Then get a GPS drone - MJX Bugs 2 brushless $200 or Feilun FX176 brushed $100. Get used to basic FPV, don't panic if disorientated, RTH is always to help (GPS RTH is real, not those fake beeline on non-GPS ones). I hold my comments on Hubsans. Get a Mavic if u want.

I have Mavic, Bugs 2, 8807, X5C, Eachines, many whoops (fpv, alt hold, 6mm, 7mm). So I'm impartial. I have no racing drones but I'm venturing into getting a multi-tx to run deviation or opentx on the whoops.
 
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