Tim Kearsley

Note to self: never argue with @payneib, no matter what! 😁

Thanks John. I can do a poor landing with any model! 🤣

I've acquired a Super 60 from a clubmate. I know the model was designed to have a banded on undercarriage but I've never owned a model which had this. Is it still the best bet for the Super 60 or is there a school of thought which says to bolt it on (nylon bolts?)? The undercarriage I have with it is a flexible plastic material (see pic).

The other point about this is that, while we all need to keep abreast of what's coming and make our voices heard when necessary, we're not all obsessively interested in the administration and bureaucracy and just prefer to get on with building and flying model aircraft.

Agreed leccy, motor beeps and chimes can be loud. Geoff, I too have a few of the original Neurons but none make any sound. I don't believe motor braking is on but I'll make sure.

It is fairly loud Chris. I've used braking on other models with different speed controllers and never experienced any sound. I don't think braking is invoked on this model.

The question is as per the title of the topic. I have a Neuron II ESC in a Max Thrust Ruckus and there is a sort of "chime" whenever the throttle is closed and the motor stops. I can't see anything in the ESC config which would influence this. It doesn't do any harm of course but, personally, I find it annoying! Anyone any ideas? Thanks.

I applaud the objective but I can't see it being feasible.

Hmm, I'm not convinced. I fly a Super Ava glider with a wingspan of 3.7 metres. It has an altimeter installed which sends telemetry back to the tx. I've taken it up to about 1,500 ft but I stop there because it's becoming too small for me to comfortably control. Perhaps it's just my eyes then!

It was the term "many thousands" which struck me Erf. To me, it implies five or six thousand and that simply isn't possible, SpecSavers or not!

" I often see Buzzards at many thousands of feet." Crikey, that's very good eyesight is all I can say!

The "neither yes nor no" was a reasonable response, given that the BMFA take the view that camera-equipped drones probably should carry remote ID capability in view of the more hazardous location they would likely be flown in as opposed to the large majority of conventional model aircraft which are flown on club sites. Seems appropriate to me.

I know you like knocking the BMFA but don't cherry-pick bits of the response to suit your argument. The narrative to that response includes: "However, the BMFA would be strongly opposed to any Remote ID requirements for model aircraft."

Absolutely Nigel. I'm sorry, I should have mentioned the various options. I did go for the RC2 controller and the "Fly More" package. The RC2 controller is, to me anyway, so much more convenient than strapping on a mobile phone and there are of course no compatibility issues. If I had to find a negative with the Mini 4 Pro it's that the claimed battery life is very optimistic. But that seems to be the case whatever you buy these days, including electric vehicles!

I've had several DJI products (an early Phantom, a Phantom 4 Pro and now the Mini 4 Pro) and in every case they have struck me as very well-made, high quality goods. The Mini 4 Pro is simply amazing. One of the things it does very well is obstacle avoidance. There are a few videos on YouTube showing instances of people who have invoked Return-to-home with the drone in woodland and watching it weave its way between the trees is quite remarkable!

I bought the DJI Mini 4 Pro earlier this year. It really is a remarkable bit of kit. Before any of the anti-drone mob dive in, I bought it purely for the photographic opportunities it provides - I'd be the first to acknowledge that there's little skill required to pilot the thing. To be fair, DJI do make it clear that regulations need to be adhered to. I was surprised to note though that although the 400 ft altitude limit is imposed by default in the software it's child's play to override it.

I think @Futura57 must be my long-lost twin! I too have had a life-long interest in astronomy, particularly astrophotography. From the late 1990s to the mid-2000s I spent obscene amounts of money on astrophotographic gear - a home-built observatory, three telescopes (a 4-inch refractor, 6-inch wide-field astrograph and 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain, a variety of dedicated astronomical cameras, very expensive mount, Hydrogen-alpha filter for solar photography etc, etc. I gave up around 2005/6 due to a combination of increasing light pollution and problems with neighbours. Again, paralleling John, I've always dabbled in electronics and have an amateur radio licence from 1983 (callsign G4WFT). The 1980s and early 90s saw me spending a lot of time perfecting equipment to receive weather satellite imagery. In the 90s I also wrote the first Windows-based amateur packet radio software. So, I'm a life-long nerd and proud of it! I've attached a sample couple of pics from my astrophoto days. 2005-09-17-01.tif 2003-11-27-01.tif

There's no mention of any event on May 17th on the LMA website.

Did you not like the replies you got when you asked precisely the same question less than two weeks ago?

There's something I'm not understanding here! Witterings mentioned IR readings up to 19 mOhms. Since V = I * R, how does 20 * .019 = a Volt? Edit: Sorry, I guess those are per-cell readings? In which case the maths is near spot-on!

Sounds a fascinating group Phil!

I must be less discerning than others, I found it OK. Agreed, the images in the FPV article did look rather grainy and "washed out" but nothing that really bothered me.

The whole shooting industry is a disgrace and needs sorting out urgently. Some 50 million non-native species are intensively reared and released into the British countryside solely for the perverted pleasure of a tiny minority. The biomass of these birds exceeds the biomass of native species. The actions of gamekeepers are pretty despicable - snaring animals, illegally shooting raptors, in fact actively destroying anything that might interfere with the "sport" of shooting. High time it was banned.

It should be "Gamekeepers and wild birds don't mix". Many raptors mysteriously "disappear" over grouse moors.

Oh dear, cue the IC's better, no electric is better, no IC..... argument. I knew it wouldn't be long.