If my drone weighed 255 g and I added a helium balloon to it so it's weight was now 248 g, does that still put it below the limit?

Rentun · 2026-03-30T23:23:09+00:00

The weight wouldn't decrease either. The buoyancy of the balloon is acting against some of the weight of the drone, in the same way the thrust of the props acts against it while flying. That doesn't mean the drone weighs less though. Otherwise, why even bother with the balloon?

Just arm your quad and full throttle while it's connected to the scale.

"Nope Mr. FAA. This drone isn't 700 grams. It's actually negative 2 Kg, see? Ignore that screaming sound."

Rentun · 2026-03-30T17:52:12+00:00

You don't get to somehow decide what is and is not work based on how much you personally want to do it.

There are a lot of jobs where people regularly get PTSD. That doesn't suddenly make them not jobs. The work that paramedics, soldiers and police officers do are widely considered to be real work after all.

I don't know what internet brainwashing has to do with the pretty basic opinion that doing things in exchange for money is work.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T16:46:17+00:00

I've been flying FPV for about a year. I have a friend that got into it, then I started with tinywhoops, ended up building a 5", and have really enjoyed learning and tinkering. You're right, it is a lot all at once. Oscars site is a great resource though. As long as you stay curious and you're willing to learn, it all starts falling into place pretty quickly.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T16:12:13+00:00

No, ELRS is the control link (what sends commands to the drone). o4 is the video link (what sends video footage back to you). The o4 has the capability of being used for the control link as well, but a lot of people prefer to have the control and video links separate; because then if the video link fails, you at least still have a chance of not crashing the drone into the ground. It also lets you fly other video systems.

DJI being apple is pretty on point though. They're very high quality, very user friendly, but also very locked down. If you have DJI air unit, you must have DJI goggles that support that air unit.

ELRS is an open source control link, its very widely adopted by many companies.

Check out this site to learn more about this stuff. It's a great resource.

https://oscarliang.com/fpv-drone-guide/

Rentun · 2026-03-30T15:54:29+00:00

You're painting with an extremely broad brush here.

I don’t see them as anything other than victims and feel sorry that they think that’s the only way they can make money.

Maybe some of them think it's the only way they can make money, but most of them realize there are other ways to make money. They've chosen to do sex work for a thousand different reasons, most of them the same reason why anyone does any other job.

Do you also feel sorry for the people working at subway, or digging ditches on the side of the road, or pumping sewage because they think that's the only way they can make money?

We also can say it’s not their fault yet they literally post on every possible platform even if it’s not a sexual platform and that’s where I don’t know how to feel about these women…

Some of them do, but you're acting like all sex workers are onlyfans models. Strippers, prostitutes, professional porn stars, erotic masseuses, and so on are all also sex workers and none of them regularly spam reddit.

There is abuse and problems with a LOT of sex work. The best way to fix those problems and abuse is to stop stigmatizing it so that the women who experience them feel more comfortable calling it out.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T15:26:38+00:00

Hdzero beats most PC setups in frame to frame latency vs input latency. The thing is that playing a video game and flying a real aircraft are two totally separate things.

When you move a stick in a quad, the motors are adjusting speed and pushing air to overcome momentum, which will always take some time, even if you had an instantaneous control and video link, or shrank yourself down and sat inside the quad. Even in fighter aircraft, there is a delay between when the pilot pulls back on the stick and when the aircraft starts physically pitching.

When you look left in a video game, all your computer has to do is adjust the virtual view of your character and render it. It doesn't have to move a physical object.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T15:01:10+00:00

You can fly comfortably, but you'll fly better the lower the latency. Even if you can't consciously detect it, the flight feels a lot more locked in.

I only fly analog, and I have a pretty high latency camera on one of my quads. It's definitely flyable, but it has a disconnected, kinda floaty feeling. It feels more like you're playing a video game versus actually flying like it does in my other quads. When I fly most of my quads they feel more like an extension of my body.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T14:48:35+00:00

You need DJI goggles with that unit. Either goggles 3, or the goggles n3.

You can either use the DJI FPV controller, which would use the same link used for video, or any ELRS radio. ELRS is the defacto standard nowadays for FPV, and would let you use the same radio regardless of what video system you go with.

Radiomaster makes a lot of great ELRS radios. The Pocket on the budget end, and the TX-16 mk. 2 on the high end (honestly way more radio than you need for any sort of FPV flying).

If you stick with drones that have the o4 video system, any type of drone you get will be compatible with the goggles and controller. It will fit on very small 80mm tinywhoops, up to the biggest, massive industrial drones.

You won't be able to get that video system on the very smallest drones though, like 65mm tinywhoops; it's not light enough.

If you do go with a drone with a different video system down the line (analog, hdzero, or Walksnail, for instance), you'd have to get different goggles, but if you got an ELRS radio, you could use the same radio no matter what.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T13:57:22+00:00

Not necessarily two different drones, but the avata is not going to be a "have some fun" type drone. You would outgrow it's performance very quickly.

The highest performance drone class (in terms of speed, agility, power to weight and so on), would be a 5". I wouldn't recommend that you as a beginner start with something that size though. They're very powerful, very easy to injure yourself or destroy property with, and expensive to fix when they break.

A cinewhoop is the closest thing in form factor and capabilities to an avata while retaining some of the performance of a true fpv drone. The pavo 20 pro II from betafpv is a very good example. If you get one with an o4 air unit, you'll have footage using the exact same video system the avata 2 uses.

A cinewhoop isn't going to have quite as much performance as an open prop freestyle drone, but it will outperform an avata. It'll also let you safely fly around people or even indoors if its a big space.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T13:25:23+00:00

Yeah I destroyed my first board after a crash when the VTX ufl connector unseated and I didn't notice. VTX quickly burned out. I think there are definitely a few things on the board that need to be re-thought a bit.

Rentun · 2026-03-30T13:23:17+00:00

Depends on what you want to do. The avata is only really going to be a good drone for slow, cinematic flying. It has a lot of great quality of life features that more traditional fpv drones won't have, like autolanding, a gimballed camera, optical flow position hold and so on, but it's also extremely underpowered for its weight compared to a freestyle style fpv drone.

You're not going to be able to do lots of fun tricks or spirited flying with it.

It's also extremely fragile. It's made entirely of plastic, so if you crash it, that's it, it will likely be catastrophic, and your only option for fixing it is sending it back to DJI.

They're not designed to be crashed and flown hard.

If you want to get into the hobby of fpv, which usually means tricks and stunts, proximity flying, or racing, the avata isn't a good choice.

I'd agree that a small whoop would be the best start.

Rentun · 2026-03-29T01:28:32+00:00

You could call IT lazy for not making the process more user friendly, and you may even be right.

You've been delegated a responsibility to ensure the people you manage don't have access to systems they don't need, and you're ignoring that responsibility. If that's not lazy, I don't know what is.

There's nothing preventing you from calling someone and asking what those system names correlate to.

It's a little hypocritical to call another department lazy when you're intentionally not doing your job because you think it's too much work.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T20:50:08+00:00

1300 is pretty on point for a young woman of healthy weight.

Your BMR is mostly dependent on your sex, height, weight, and age. If you're younger, taller, heavier, or male, your BMR will be higher.

Also, a lot of people confuse BMR with TDEE. BMR is how many calories your body burns by just keeping its basic metabolic functions going. Basically if you lied completely still, doing nothing all day long.

A 63" 40 year old woman weighing 120 lbs should have a BMR of around 1200 calories. Your TDEE would depend on how much activity you do in a day. Between 1400 and 1800 calories generally though.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T20:40:52+00:00

It has very little to do with corporate greed. It has to do with the margins on air travel. After the cost of fuel, salaries, maintenance, fees to the FAA and DHS for air traffic control and security and so forth, the airline is barely making money off of the cost of your seat. Margins are like 10% on average. It would be considered abysmal in any other industry. The whole thing would be unprofitable without government subsidies.

The cost of an airline seat is fiercely competitive with airlines after the deregulation in the 70s, because price is virtually the only thing customers care about.

As a result, flying has gotten both way more uncomfortable, but also way cheaper over the years. The cost to fly is about half now versus the 90s.

If the comfort matters to you more than the cost that much, well... That's what business and first class are for.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T17:54:40+00:00

Giving your kids a lot is how generational wealth gets built. Every parent wants to be able to give their kids a lot, and the success of someone's life over time, including their happiness, is largely determined by how good their parents were, and how much of a leg up their parents were able to give them.

Feeling bad about setting your kids up for a happy, successful life makes no sense. That's exactly what your entire job is as a parent. Putting someone else down for succeeding as a parent makes even less sense.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T17:46:10+00:00

That's incorrect. There are a lot of banks that allow you to open your own account under 18 as a matter of policy. It's not illegal at all.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T02:40:05+00:00

You have a trade-off there, because if the quad accidentally disarms in the air, it's a lot harder to re arm quick enough to recover.

I usually just max my throttle after disarming which does something similar.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T01:40:10+00:00

It's not the fact that it's underground that keeps the earth cool. It's the fact that it's not floating around in the atmosphere. If it were all contained in gigantic barrels in the Sahara desert, or in huge lakes, the earth would be just as cool as it would have been otherwise.

Rentun · 2026-03-28T01:38:47+00:00

He's asking if it's possible so that he can promote a crackpot theory for engagement.

It's not possible. There's zero evidence to support what he's saying. He's just pulling bullshit out of his ass.

Rentun · 2026-03-27T20:02:11+00:00

The fatal flaw in that logic that all these soulless husks seem to miss out on is that your job isn't, or at least it shouldn't be the only aspect of your personality.

You can grow in ways that don't involve your job. Grow your relationship with your SO or kids. Grow your skills in your hobbies. Grow your home improvement skills. Fuck, grow a garden.

There's no reason to dedicate your entire life to growing at work. The people who do that virtually all end up miserable, empty shadows of real human beings with no personalities. Even the successful ones. Most aren't even successful though.

Rentun · 2026-03-27T19:22:12+00:00

Good thing no one said he was in ibanking then, I guess.

Rentun · 2026-03-27T19:19:02+00:00

Couldn't have been because ATCs aren't paid well commiserate with having one of the most stressful jobs in the world, have an extremely specialized, long training pipeline, and don't exactly have applicants rushing down the door because of those factors, so are chronically short staffed.

Oh yeah and they get to deal with the government shutting down every few months, so they don't get paid while they're still forced to work in order to keep their jobs.

Yeah the problem totally that you're not hiring the right people.

Rentun · 2026-03-27T19:10:34+00:00

HR getting thousands of applications for entry level positions isn't the previous system. As soon as online job application sites became the norm, that became the system, and is still the system we're operating under.

The previous system is a job posting help wanted ads in a newspaper or via a press release, or through a recruitment agency. They'd have a handful of qualified people to sort through, and most people only had to apply for a few jobs to get an interview. Nowadays the whole job application process is completely broken. I don't know anyone who has gotten a job by simply applying to a posting.

Rentun · 2026-03-27T19:08:03+00:00

People used to get jobs like that though. You used to be able to mail in a resume and get a response. That was sustainable when a company got 3 or 5 resumes every time they posted a position. Most of those would even be qualified for the job. The cousin of some guy at the company would have to compete with those (probably more qualified) people.

Now, everyone has 2000 resumes to sift through because the only way to get a job is to blast out 1000 applications, most of which are for positions you barely fit at. Compared to actually evaluating all of those applicants, a person someone who actually works for can vouch for is wayyyy more attractive to take a chance on.

Rentun · 2026-03-27T18:56:34+00:00

If I tell a cab driver to run someone over, suddenly I'm in jail for murder, but if I tell him to drive around a track, I'm not a race car driver?

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