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An immaculate example of a classic deep dish kite. Thanks @KaoS for the opportunity to give this baby a new home.
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Follow me mode, is the mode I need to try, however it is a bit dicey to have to carry the remote onboard in order to be tracked. Maybe the GT, could have its one special drone box to hold your gear ") and while in this mode the mavic has a top speed of 10m/s or 36kph (22.3mph) anyway, follow me mode is the one I was thinking about. I am yet to try it. and have watched a ton of youtube about it this week. here is one that breaks it down.
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Kobi is the furry one ? he sure can keep up and clearly loves it. I love how he stays upwind too.. where about are you bugging in Sydney Dave ? if you are up for a road trip, Sandy Point in November Dogs welcome. disclaimer.. I called kobo a 'he' as I didn't check for tackle or none
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nice score Trev
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Look at you in your dinky lil buggy, you lucky sod cracking 50 k's All the best mate, hope you have a safe journey.
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I haven't had the pleasure of filming a buggy just yet.. 'Active Track' through the DJI app, has a habit of 'loosing' the subject it is tracking if you actively try to dodged it, IE running in one direction and quickly changing tack. The drone overfly's and looses focus.. But while on the buggy if you do controlled slow downs and turns, it should follow you no worries. I saw a video of a person on a scooter, and it seems to keep up with them pretty well. I was sure one of the apps, either Litchi, or Autopilot featured a setting where it would track a GPS enabled device. like your phone. rather than relying on visual acquisition. but now for the life of me I can't find where that feature was. or even if I was on crack at the time/ Given the video above, I reckon though, it will have no issues on a wide open beach tracking a buggy. Just set the return to home point to your beach base and if it does go pear shaped, it will head home and land at the tent. As for winds, I have had mavic out in 22 knot easterly at shallow inlet and it handled the breeze with no issues, but you generally have plenty of space on a beach for small movements due to wind pushing the drone and it making corrections. it tilted sideways to compensate for wind, but hardly budged from it poisition in the sky. I flew from the inlet to yanakie, which is a fair hike. I flew into the wind at first, so I would have a tailwind if I had to get home quick. The flight logs show that while flying east into the wind, I had max speed of 42.8 kph but coming back peaked 64 kph with tailwind. I think that it will handle the speed of a buggy also in normal mode. Sport mode in the wide open spaces is the fastest you will fly, however active track and the likes aren't available in sport mode ? and the camera gimbal is pretty sketchy at those speeds, As it fly's with the nose pointed right down, the camera has to tilt up, and you get rotors and sun strobes on your image. It is fun to fly in sport mode if you are just flying from shot to shot. I have setup the I think though that the mavic is very capable, and smart enough to RTH if it goes south through loss of transmission. I have tested its idiot proof features extensively I flew it over the house and to a water tower, I set the RTH to 100m so it will clear all the trees and the hill, obstacle avoidance isn't to awesome when in RTH mode, it sees something and if it gets stuck trying to avoid it, it will just hover sometimes and get stuck. I flew it to the tower, and the down behind the hill about 1 klm away. after loss of RC signal, it started on its way home, and landed on the same '50' Traffic sign I use for a lander. So I am pretty keen on what it can do under RC signal loss situations. Around my suburbs, range is fairly modest due to interference and loss of sight, although in the open beach space range was significantly increased. chasing a buggy shouldn't be a problem. I hope you get out the beach soon, the days are getting warmer here in melbourne, and the days longer. so we are just coming into season.
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--G;day Mark. I would be glad to design a shape file and get it cut for the spark for you.. The spark case I made for @Mez uses the shape for Spark portable charging station. but you could just create a spark profile shape in illustrator to replace the Large shape for the dock.. This water jet is just like an old plotter printer, it reads DXF files. I just made shapes that I measured using a ruler for all the bits and pieces that I wanted to fit into the case then arranged them in layout. Definitely Mr. We are heading to Kingston early this year I think, also mum and dad are coming with a campervan and hooked up a powered site, so they said we can all charge our batteries on their hookup but they won't be there till around the 14th. I have 7 Batteries and a car charger. I wonder how many cycles I can get from my solar hookup.. I have read and read all the literature for litchi and for autopilot. and will do a few long range flight tests this weekend if its not blowing its tits off. a sneaky trip to shallow inlet would be alright for a good no interference test, we have to test out the tracking a gps device option. if that works. could be a good way to capture footage of yourself.. program a Return To Home at %50, program to follow your phone, hit go, and have it RTH at the beach tent. I uploaded full 4k HD file to youtube, it took me ages. when it finished uploading overnight, the best it would display was 1080. I am not sure why there is no 4k version. However the focus issue could be just my eyesight and what 'I' think is in focus . Mavic has an auto focus or a manual mode. in manual, you have to tap screen or adjust a slider, Its hard to gauge focus on an iPad mini. I installed lightroom, and looked at color settings and the masks and had a quick play with one photo of a dam. it was a superb bright but not sunny day very grey sky and overcast.
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That’s beautiful. Now seeing as no one is making these anymore.... and you have a pristine specimen for reproduction. You know what I am going to ask
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Gday Buddy.. https://www.mrcwaterjetcutting.com.au a place in bayswater. the total cut cost $50 and that was 4 cuts, as each case uses 2 layers of foam. (they cut anything too) foam was from reservoir timbre and hardware store. the only stockists of 'kaizen' foam I could find https://www.timbecon.com.au/site-shop-accessories/kaizen-foam-organizer $44 for a 57mm sheet, and about $30 for a 30mm sheet. used felt in the bottom. a sheet of foam was 2ft x 4 ft (imperial measurements) great for anything you'd need a hard case for.
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I thought I would share my thoughts of Active Track, a feature of the DJI drones, via the GO4 app. On the weekend at the Dean festival, I flew my mavic with focus on the kites, or people, or myself and tested how it avoided and dealt with tracking. The tracking was excellent. rather than tap on an object, in screen I would Draw a box around a particular thing, person or kite. with the drone sitting at a fixed distance from the object while you have control of the positioning of the drone. So you don't need to focus so much on the orientation of the camera, it also smooths out movements. My next test will be to get it out on the open beaches like sandy point or shallow inlet. and have it track a buggy rider and kite. a few extra batteries and I will be set. it is simple enough for anyone to control it after a couple of pointers, and where is the pause button. Then I have to think about how to charge it all up from a 12v camper setup for Kingston. I reckon I may have to rent some of chooks power. When I first bought the drone, I wanted a few things from it. Autonomy and hands off flying, with the view to have it track the buggy or kite just beyond line length. for filming it would hopefully replace the Gopro's that we don't use. Video from the mavic is excellent if you set it up right. now that will mean different things to different people. I am now filming in D-Log 4k 24 fps. the D-log is like RAW to single shots, D-log retains all color information for editing later. I looked at the original D-log footage, and while super crisp it was very dull and almost greyscale. it wasn't after the 75th flight that I realised I had to color grade the D-log files so as to bring out all the extra information, Here are two shots before and after adjusting color. original D-log as the mavic sees it -----------------^ Color Graded in Final Cut-------v These are screen shots, before and after of the color grade in Final Cut. I didn't think I would have to learn this But through stubbornness and persistence, I learned how to use Apple Final cut pro X, and once I got my head around it, it is a fairly straightforward process. FCPX has excellent color adjustments and the ability to save them as presets for later use. Presets that you can call on later to match colours between different scenes in a video .Drone camera shots have different light values depending on different angles to the sun. this makes matching the colours for the same kite from different angles difficult, You have to try your best in post production that one shot isn't blown out by the sun whilst the same shot from the opposite angle is too dark while filming with the same settings. This is where the presets come in. you can correct the light values to try and get an average with color wheels in FCPX. Post processing is time consuming though. And having so much raw footage is pretty overwhelming. Five batteries give me about an hour and 20 minutes recording time. and its all in 4K. I have an older MacBook and it handles the files no problem at all. with no lag. I am staggered at the amount of data that is being recorded and transmitted, this hardware just works. DJI and Mac with iPad as the drone screen. everything is pretty seamless. Software is the other side of it. There are quite a few different way to control the machine. DJI has its own GO4 app. Autopilot by hangar ? has an excellent Follow me Mode, Both Autoplitot and Litchi have excellent waypoint mission pre planning, I like the idea of planning the same flight over and over. and seeing what settings do what. Litchi : https://flylitchi.com Autopilot (iOS):http://autoflight.hangar.com/#modes Rob, are you using litchi to control yours ? some really good features there for programmed flights.. I Fired up autopilot (inside) and I thought I had been through every setting. I hit 'Go' and it took off as normal, hovered about 1.2m above the floor. I figured it would just hover, but my waypoint was set to 30m altitude,..... It stuck to the roof, and grinded four 'tit' shapes in my plaster ceiling. I jumped up to grab it as it grinded its way towards the ceiling fan. I managed to grab it just before the ceiling fan blades got me. SO.. I have been a bit cautious of both litchi and hangar but... they do look amazing. if operated correctly lol.. Mez laughed, Rob or anyone got any drone tips ?? Anyway, I knew having a drone would be fun. its @roblukin's fault. He said I had to learn it for when I see him next, and he could quiz me. it is he, who shall be quizzed. Indeed it has been quite hard work to learn a lot of different things to get colours and shots. I have the flying and control down, now I have to get all the camera settings right. Here is the color graded file of Dean with the mavic.. It is 5 minutes of 100 minutes of footage, with nearly all the bad bits cut out. ISO100, 24fps 1/60 shutter. I am using ND filters from ND4-ND16 depending on the light on the day. I use these camera settings in most light, the just apply an ND filter to suit. please share your experiences wit these toys or software . cya.
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here is some video from the day, no sound so choose your own music.
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thats great mate. I have on that cooler, but I'm sure yours will be crispier
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@the_hatman, see you there ? Hope for a sunny day. see you there around 11 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dean+Recreation+Reserve,+Dean+VIC+3363/@-37.4626628,143.9803215,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ad13665da3debb7:0xb962110cbb4b97b0!8m2!3d-37.4629246!4d143.9816943
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brilliant mate ! from the wheel slide marks, $30 for untold fun. way cheaper than a handy and a sixpack!
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Thanks Scotty. http://www.gt-race.nl
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We stayed at sandy point holiday park. it was good. not as pretty as Waratah bay. but pretty good none the less. and it was straight across the road from the buggy beach and not too far to push lukins buggy stay clear of shallow inlet caravan park (over the other side near yanakie) Michael says Forster caravan park was good..
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its a bugger when you are waiting for someone to upload measurements eh hahahaha. Just joking NakKAs
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Very cool cheezy, meet its Australian cousin. I have a set of Kenda Beach Racers on Sysmic rims. although since getting the landseglers' I doubt ill use them again.
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That is your new avatar. ! ahahh @.Joel make it happen bro @Cheezycheese, congratulations on your purchase brother, it is a buggy you will learn to throw around as much as your Peter lynn, my poor little PL buggy hasn't seen the light of day since the crates arrived from the Netherlands. Now over here in Australia in winter I do not get out nearly enough due to the predominate Northerly winds, however come summer time, and the southerlies, I cannot wait to get out. For me the GT was the best thing I ever bought kite related, sturdy, stable and very quick. It is comfortable on the long runs and nimble in the short runs. and when it all goes tits up, then it usually doesn't bite me to hard like the PL did. This summer we will get out a lot more, and post many more videos and pictures, I have spent the winter practicing drone skills and my wife Mez also has become a really proficient filmer/pilot. ONE day, we will get to the states for a run on ivanpah, I hope to meet you then. Enjoy your new ride dude. we love ours Regards. Doug
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http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mx5alan/arcs/ARCsetup_FAQ.htm?showpage=true works for me, I have saved it as a pdf, however 3 images ARE missing.
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Haha, no. The eagle took a very keen interest in the drones. And after seeing the videos on the DJI forums about birds snatching your new toys, thought it prudent to pull the pin. The seagulls got very territorial also when I flew by them.
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That is Mary's new car.. the Xtrail retired and needed more money to repair than it was worth. It is a VF Sportwagon. (SV6) same colour as the Xtrail and very comfy. We went for a quick run down to Tooradin and had a drone fly but when a fish eagle appeared, we quickly realised not a good idea to fly there