eric's model flying blog

Meanwhile (while I was working on my S500 homebuilt quadcopter), I joined a Dutch drone forum that had just started: www.dronepilots.nl. After a while, they organised a price draw of one of the drones they had received for a review. And guess what? I won! 😃 It's a GDU Byrd, formerly known as ProDrone Byrd. I won one with the old ProDrone logo still on it. It's a full size foldable drone, with a modular gimbal system. Mine came with the standard 1080p camera. It has a holder for a phone or tablet on the controller, and after the accompanying app connects to the controller's WiFi, you get pretty much all the functionality you'd expect from a drone capable of autonomius flight: auto take-off, auto land, GPS and baro assisted position hold, (auto) return to home, waipoint missions, video and photography remote control, etc. Full resolution video is stored on an SD card inside the camera, and (if you indicate that in options) a lower resolution version on the mobile d...

Besides my blog on personal flying, I hereby also start a blog on my unmanned flying experiences. See  https://ericjesppl.blogspot.com/  for my "real life" flying blog(s) This is to separate the two somewhat, since there are people that prefer to follow my "real life" flying adventures, but are not so much interested in building and flying quadcopters and model airplanes. And I have shared so many stories about my model flying on so many channels (forums, Facebook, YouTube), that I decided to put it all inone place so I can refer to posts in this blog instead of type it all over again on a different channel. So this blog is all about unmanned flying in all it's aspects. I'll report on the building process of my self-built multicopters. Self-built quadcopter Also, I fly a regular, commecially available drone, GDU Byrd Standard and a model airplane Hobby King Durafly Tundra And there will be more as time progresses :) This blog will be on...