by Rick Scherle | Aug 5, 2017 | Advice
Watching whales in the wild ocean is always exciting, but for a real thrill, try watching them through your drone’s camera while it’s 5,000 feet offshore when the battery level suddenly drops like a rock to 29 percent. There’s a real thrill for you; wondering if you...
by Rick Scherle | Feb 9, 2017 | Advice
One of the most highly touted features of modern drones is “return to home” (RTH), a safety feature which, in the event of an emergency, causes the drone to return to its launch point and safely land. So it probably comes as a surprise to learn that the RTH feature is...
by Rick Scherle | Feb 9, 2017 | Advice, Uncategorized
Right Now! Pull the battery out of the drone and set it aside somewhere safe and fireproof because lithium batteries can become unstable when damaged and often burst into flames. Also, the more time that your drone has power applied to it, the more damage will be...
by Rick Scherle | Feb 9, 2017 | Accident Videos
Every time I fly I learn a lesson. The lesson this time was “you can’t trust the collision avoidance system to save you.” Fortunately this story has a happy ending: Nobody was hurt, I was able to recover the drone and Fixacrash had me flying the next...
by Rick Scherle | Sep 20, 2016 | Accident Videos
A video compilation of dozens of “uh-oh”...
