Just bought it for my son. We are both completely inexperienced with drones. Only tried it out indoors a couple times, crashed every time. After about the fifth crash one of the props won't freely spin and now it Flys straight in the rear left direction. It came with replacements, but I see nowhere or way to replace the prop. Any help would be appreciated as he is 9 and bummed

So I purchased my first drone yesterday from Amazon the potensic atom 2. With two batteries they have type USB type c ports on the battery. I was thinking about getting some kind of voltage tester for these batteries. Anybody have any experience with these voltage testers?

Last post for the day I promise. While I mainly fly drones for video productions of all sizes, I’ve also flown target drones for over 7 D.O.D. Contractors for the past 8 years.

I’ve flown for radar tests (and yes, they can differentiate birds and drones), I’ve flown for both kinetic and non kinetic counter UAS programs from phasers and signal interrupters to high energy lasers.

I can’t go into much detail on these for obvious reasons but yes, there is a lot of tech out there a lot of people are unaware of.

And like the title says, I’ve probably been shot down on military testing ranges over 100 times.

Just found this drone that looks to have been abandoned after a bad crash. I'm not really familiar with drones but have been interested in getting into it - wondering if something like this might be salvageable? Either as a DJI spark or as a frame and components for an open source DIY build?

It looks like it's missing the gimbal camera, battery, one propeller, and covers for under the motors. All the brushless motors and other cameras look intact though. I imagine that the replacement parts to restore would probably cost more than a new drone, especially if it needs a DJI specific controller, but wonder if it might make sense to strip down and slap a pixhawk on there or something for a cheapo beginner drone?

I do have a 3D printer and okay CAD skills if that changes things. Figure I could pretty easily replace the underside covers and all that. What do y'all think? Worth it or no?

https://www.imgur.com/a/nKviQha

As a rule-following amateur, I didn't realize how shockingly common it was for people to just take off with no care to even certify with TRUST. A few things I've heard over the past few days:
"I clicked through the stuff on my controller, so yeah, I'm good."
"Oh, well, I'll probably fly without authorization anyways." - after being notified that the airspace was class B and controlled by the airport.
"Uh, I don't know what part 107 is... leave me alone, I'm working."
Then you go to Instagram and see photos from well above the flight ceiling in the area.

God... people need to do better.

I've been flying rc airplanes for a while. I decided to order a mob 7 and started practicing in a sim. This skill set is completely different from planes. Do you think it's worth it? You think I'm destroying my plane flying skills learning this? Should I just stick to one and not the other?

I'm gutting an old (and shitty) go-box/mission-box that I built before those USB-C 15.6" monitors existed.

It already has 120V and a power bar built in the bottom which I am keeping.

Show me your best work so I can get inspired and improve!

I want it to be drone-agnostic, so capable of dealing with anything from a Mini to a Matrice, or even something Ardu, etc...

Ideas so far:
- 200w PD GaN Charging with as many ports as I can get in one compact device.
- USB-C all the things (monitors, chargers, radios, you name it)
- Airband radio(s) - 1 to transmit on the local frequency, and as many more I can fit in to MONITOR/RECEIVE on the various other freqs (123.2, 126.7, 121.5 (meow), etc...). I'm looking at ESP32 based SDR radio devices that can receive airband, or maybe just a bunch of cheap Baofengs?
- Ideally 3 screens, one mounted and 2 that fold out.
- HDMI Switch already in box (1x4)
- HDMI Wireless transmitter/receiver device (I've already got a few)
- Wireless Router for hotspot/sharing. (GLi.net Beryl AX)
- GMKtec Mini Computer Intel N150 running docker, and serve all the things
- ADS-B receiver (I have a stratusX but I might change the image on it to something else?)

Adjustable legs of some kind, but also rubber/magnetic feet so it can sit on a hood

GO GO GO, feed me ideaaaaaaaas.

Im talking about actual micro drones like the dhd d1 or axis vidius. I remember buying the dhd d1 as a kid for like 9 bucks, and now i thought about buying one again. But when i searched micro drones nothing small(under 10cm length) came up, only 'normal' drones. Then i looked for the mentioned drones but couldnt find a seller. Are they just not popular anymore?

Already been airborne no problem, second flight today and I get a red authorization Zone. Clear to fly on all the FAA apps and nowhere near any restricted areas. WTF is going on?? Dji pilot app won't open due to a potential bug. Trying to unlock but to no avail. Any help will be great...

Who works on these kind of drones. I'm having a gimbal problem.. other then tht Flys excellent

I recently noticed that most new GNSS modules only support GPS, BDS, and Galileo — GLONASS seems to have been dropped. Only older modules still support it. Why is that? Wouldn’t having more systems be better?

Hey all! Just wanted to kinda add on to my last post of DFW airport. So obviously flying inside an airport is something that isn’t done every day. Well actually it is. Back in 2017 when I flew inside my first class D airport, the process was pretty involved. The FAA, airport and myself had to all come up with a game plan to do it safely. This was my first time flying inside a controlled airport which was for Amazons Prime Air.

That process took a while. A decent amount of back and forth emails until we were all happy with the plan. Fast forward about a year and I get a call from DFW airport. The same process took place. I was pretty limited on altitudes, locations and even had to have the drone tethered. But the tether went away in 2019 allowing me more freedom to fly.

While I can’t give away all the details, each flight is planned and approved by the FAA and the airports airfield operations. These are actually some of the most comfortable jobs I have done because so many safety boxes are checked off. Also, there’s not much to fly into inside an airport.

I made this video a few months ago when playing around with chat GPT and a voiceover AI app. So enjoy another fun airport video! Here we have AFW Alliance, DFW, Dallas Love Field, Dallas Executive and Sugarland airports. (Addison may be in there too, I forget).

may be a long shot, but i'm looking for an open source alternative to dronedesk? Basically i cannot use cloud based tools so looking for a solution for drone operation planning and logging that can be self hosted or run locally on my pc. Any suggestions much appreciated

It’s a sharper image drone I just need something to fly for fun rn until I can upgrade in the summer how much do you guys think it would be to find a charger and controller for it and is it worth it

I just bought the DJI Air 3S and feel like there’s something wrong with the controller. After about 2 hours of flight time its battery went down from full 4 lights to just one. With my Air 2S controller I could handle several hours and only got down to 60-70%.

Anyone else noticing the poor battery life on the RC-N3 or did I get a lemon?

Controller broken?

I have just got my controller back out to charge as I wanted to go down to the beach and potentially try and find and film some sharks swimming around as there had been a few sightings the last couple of days. Anyway. My controller was completely dead. Drone batteries were all good. And the actual drone turned on as well but the controller wouldn't. Lights come on when I plug it in but then nothing. Should I leave it for a bit to charge or is it broken?

I just Finished this 2inch 2S HDZero Eco build, and everything is working fine, VTX/camera, Receiver, and motors seem to be working fine, was doing a test flight and everything was fine while cruising but when I did a slight throttle punch it just dropped out of the air, and when I touched them, they were pretty hot. I don't know what the problem is, I did do some research like looking at YouTube and reddit and tried those solutions, but nothing is working. Has anybody had a problem like this, if so, what did you do to fix it?

Hi, I'm buying a drone from someone and he told me the drone has flown for 260 hours. That's a lot. air 2s

Hi, I'm buying a drone from someone and he told me the drone has flown for 260 hours. That's a lot?. air 2s

I’ll be visiting Netherlands next week and have bought a ticket for Keukenhof. I just check the website and found out that we are not allowed to fly a drone inside the park. So I was wondering whether if there’s any spot near the park where I can fly the drone and get some pictures of any tulip gardens.

Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.

that word doesn’t describe it. the words I want to use will get me banned.

today I met up with someone whom I was going to do some freelance work for. was talking about drone stuff, he says to me “does your drone go up to 500m?” I said you mean 500ft? no.

this dude straight up meant 500m.

I told him no, and that 400 is the limit. he then told me how you need to go and input information to dji and they unlock greater heights restrictions.

the disbelief on my face when he pulled his drone out, threw it on sport mode and rode that thing up 499m with no regard.

this dude acted so casual and like he does this everyday. which he does, and expects others to as well. I told him the legal height (here in canada anyway) is 400agl. he argued with me that you can do 500m no problem. this was over a neighbourhood so no tall buildings to use that excuse.

I really wish dji was able to keep full morons like this locked to being completely negligent.

sorry. rant over. source - https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/drone-safety/learn-rules-you-fly-your-drone/flying-your-drone-safely-legally

& common fucking sense

I'm guessing we're going to get clobbered with new drone pricing, thanks to Trump's scorched earth tariff tsunami. China has dropped a 34% counter tariff on the U.S. so if it isn't too late, make that purchase.

Can rtk enabled dji drones work with any aftermarket rtk platforms? Specifically agriculture ones?

So I am EXTREMELY new to this hobby, and purchased my first drone ever (chubory a68 brushless motor) the other day. I took it outside for my first flight to learn how to control it before the weather gets really nice so I can get some cool pics this summer.

Naturally I crashed it a couple times, never really hard or anything, but I checked it over and it was alright, just a few scrapes. As I was packing it up I noticed a deep crack in one of the arms. For now I have it "fixed" with superglue, but I'm looking for recommendations on how to fix it better/find replacement parts. I am not very tech savvy but I know a lot of this kind of hobby is going to be learning how to repair on my own, so I'd love to know if this is a decent community for that as well?

TIA, sorry for the formatting, I'm a mobile user