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Flying with the GoPro on the quadcopter

Flying with the GoPro on the quadcopter

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Flying with the GoPro on the quadcopter

Rich Harrington: All right, we've got everything connected, we've got our green lights, we've got our iPad back in hand. Robbie Carman: Mm-hm. Rich Harrington: Go ahead and engage the record. Robbie Carman: Yup, got it. Rich Harrington: All right. Now we're going to start the propellers going. To do that I take the controller and I hold both joysticks downward and inward. Robbie Carman: That's a good sign. Rich Harrington: Yeah. And at this point we're going to back up. Robbie Carman: Rich Harrington: Now, the goal here is to get it to hover. And it may go or it may not depending upon balance and a few other issues. So we'll take it up slowly. Little more. And you want to get it slowly off the ground. There we go. Robbie Carman: Now the thing here Rich is obviously you're being very cautious so it's in the line of our cameras, but you gotta be careful too because these things, as we've seen, can actually take off pretty severely. Rich Harrington: Yeah. Robbie Carman: And being in a…

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