SAVS

For my 2 cents... I thought the flying would be fun AND a tool for real work. We were going to hire a RC gas heli at $1000 a day plus expenses. They would take stills of completed sporting facilities up and down the East coast we built. I talked the boss into spending the money on the DFI SAVS, adapt a still camera and I drive around and get the stills AND video for our website for a lot less.

What has happened is it's real work with real expectations from real bosses and not much fun right now. My SAVS is in Canada and I'm in North Carolina with real work that needs to get done for a couple of trade shows in March that I need video and stills for. I have confidence that it will all come together but I was not ready for the learning curve. This forum has been a life saver with all kinds of help and ideas and some day it might just be fun...

mikemcsmith

I've beeen looking through as many of the forums as possible,

And its good. All that have similar Ideas- all have similar setbacks and problems.
Looking at the post's going back through time - I can kind of "witness" the on going storys of
spesific people who are/ and have already- countered the majour incline of that learning curve.

Some of the information already on some of these posts has sent me off in other directions
doing more research, looking at other possibilities and actually communicating with
individuals within the UAV/UAS market-- not just in Aerial photography.

I've learned a more than a fair ammount in a short time already:

Individuals like: SAVS, cre8web, theviewfromabove renno.24
Sounds cheese'ie but, sharing your stories does help
motivate those of us at the very begining to get
started- If not simply due to the siverety
of the initial learning incriment.....

Attitude, perseverance, initiative and some good fortune--

SAVS: from the sounds of it you got thrown in at the deep end!!!
Bar the repairs, your photos look great and the alterations
you've made to your equipment are fantastic......
And you done it all upto this point in a couple of months??

I might not have looked at the dates correctly- but thats pretty impressive!!
Good photos too...


Anyway cheers. mike

techrtr

All of a sudden flying a DF will just click. Seems like last week I couldn't fly without having a big wreck. Suddenly, everything will come together, you'll automatically make corrections really quickly, and stable flight will become a cinch, especially with TI on. I've started flying a conventional CP helicopter too because flying the DF was getting too easy.

TheHindmost

Agreed completely with techrtr...Especially with TI enabled (for me, anyway), flying the DF seems to go from major frustration to major fun very quickly...There's a "hump" to get over, but once you're over it, you're over it! The only damage-causing crash I've had recently happened when I accidentally took off with TI disabled when I thought it was enabled (still wishing I'd thought faster on my feet there!)...and that just cost me a motor mount and a half-hour...

Will

techrtr

Done that before. I knew I was getting the hang of flying one day when I took off assuming I had TI on, flew all over the place, flew back and landed on my hand, and then realized that the TI switch was turned off on the transmitter. A few months ago when I made the same mistake I slammed right into the ground at high speed, unable to do anything to get the thing back under control.

Having started flying a CP heli, I gotta say, flying the DF is a real joy. It is so stable and fun to fly. Plus, it sure is one cool looking machine in flight!

SAVS

mikemcsmith, yea it looks like I placed the order 11/16/2006. So given the days I could fly/crash and being down for a part here and there it seems like a long time but I guess it has not been.

techrtr & TheHindmost, I suspect I will be at that enlightened stage very shortly too! DFI is having a big storm and the USPS is still trying to get my SAVS there. A bit of time to fix and test and back it should come. I sent the transmitter too so I can not even sim.


I need a footer so I can fit in...

mikemcsmith

Good evening, all who are present and of sane disposition (tiss but a relative term)

Any advances made in SAVS market since I last singed on,

Maybe not......
prob-not as I sign on way too frequintly.


Wondering what a footer is,
purely to find out if it is an DF requirement I've just not heard about, or is something to do with the web site??

cre8web

a footer is similar to a siganture in an email, if i were to have one it would read something like this

"Drinking beer in the sun should be an olympic event"

there you go, youll see some og the guys have "footer" at the bottom or foot of each of theor respective posts

Marty

SAVS

How about this one?







Born-Fly-Crash-Die (oh yea' and the taxes you pay in between)

mikemcsmith

I was still inagining the Barl-yimpothon concept



Imagine the events?


The marathon- endurance over time
The sprint- quantity over time
The hurdles- to and from chaotic bar scenario
free weights-multi drink retreival
Free style- Split into catagories to be independently adjudicated-
Crusing style
Banter
Transitions/ entry and exit from complex dicussion
bar-man ship, technique's like the single elbow edge to the bar

You've stumbled across More than a footer

mikemcsmith

Born-Fly-Crash-Die(pay for repairs inbetween)


araarar

SAVS

Born-Beer-Fly-Beer-Crash-More Beer-Die...[sm=bananahead.gif]

mikemcsmith

Digital altometer-mini parachute- strapped on the bottom of the base blate, facing down (so as to fire toward the groud).
Calibrate the altometer to fire the chute when downward terminal velocity has been achieved for X ammount of time





"CHOPPER TALK---nothing beats it"

cre8web

does this help you drink beer in the sun mike?

SAVS

SAVS = Simple attempt verses stupid?

cre8web

or savs = schnapps, amber nectar (beer), vodka, sauvignon blanc.

mikemcsmith

mmmm, an Expensive and somewhat questionable combination??


How'ds it taste

cre8web

cant remeber

mikemcsmith

actually- you could probably fire that in one of those nitro powered beast's


Bird would fly reaaal good

cre8web

Actually i think it would have been alright, expet the wine must have been off, cause i had a headache a sore stomach the next day
yeah that was it, dodgy wine, ah well

mikemcsmith

Nothing worse than a bad sauvignon.

That'll have been what gave you the memory loss...

I too -have known it to happen, and shall never pick the fruits of that vinyard again from the shelf...


arar


cant get the smileee things to attach!

cre8web

scroll to the bootom of this page, then where you see fast reply they are on the left [8D][&:][:@][:'(][>:][][X(][:-][&o]

mikemcsmith

Cheer's

flyingdutchie

Just lay off the coolabah casks...that'll save you some headaches!