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Fortunately I got onto campus just before it started raining today.

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So you parachuted into Blacksburg :?: How freeking kewl is that :?: 8-)
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That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
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Very cool

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These are awesome
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That's really neat. How high do you think that is? Looks well over 500ft :).
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I get real-time telemetry data including altitude (relative to starting point) but I don't remember exactly how high the quadcopter was when those pictures were taken. Probably somewhere around that.

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Marine Hokie wrote:Fortunately I got onto campus just before it started raining today.

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These are AWESOME!!!

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I will if the weather is nice.

This was from the UVA@Duke game a few weeks ago.

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Marine Hokie wrote:Fortunately I got onto campus just before it started raining today.

These are AWESOME!!!

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Marine Hokie wrote:That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
Cool. What type of quadcopter do you have? Been wanting to get into that...
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Marine Hokie wrote:That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
Cool. What type of quadcopter do you have? Been wanting to get into that...

Ditto, I want to fly one off the back of my kayak and to scout spots from the air.
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It's a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+. http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-2-vision-plus
I just ordered the DJI Inspire 1 as well. http://www.dji.com/product/inspire-1
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Marine Hokie wrote:That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
Cool. What type of quadcopter do you have? Been wanting to get into that...
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There are two things to be aware of with this particular quadcopter:

1) The camera is very wide angle (think GoPro). It's hard to see small things like people, animals, etc on the ground.
2) If you lose the connection for some reason, it has an auto return to home feature. It's a great feature, but it doesn't always work out well when launching from a boat for obvious reasons.
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Marine Hokie wrote:That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
Cool. What type of quadcopter do you have? Been wanting to get into that...

Ditto, I want to fly one off the back of my kayak and to scout spots from the air.
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On that topic, here's a neat video of someone using the newest quad from DJI on a boat.
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Marine Hokie wrote:That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
Cool. What type of quadcopter do you have? Been wanting to get into that...

Ditto, I want to fly one off the back of my kayak and to scout spots from the air.
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Marine Hokie wrote:On that topic, here's a neat video of someone using the newest quad from DJI on a boat.
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Hokie5150 wrote:
Marine Hokie wrote:That would be cool. Since I forgot my parachute, I just used my quadcopter to take the photos before checking into the hotel. ;)
Cool. What type of quadcopter do you have? Been wanting to get into that...

Ditto, I want to fly one off the back of my kayak and to scout spots from the air.
That's pretty cool. Anybody know what city that was towards the end?


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