Recent content by AlanL

Good read - I can plead guilty as charged for not having even looked at METARs or TAFs since I studied for my exam. It would be good to include more details for pilots who only fly multi rotor aircraft.

TV Ads where Doctors extolled the virtues of their favorite brand of cigarettes.

I had to chuckle thinking about your view of the terrain down there compared to how I use a drone in the coastal forests: I have to bring my drone up to at least 150-200' AGL to even see what the terrain might look beneath the tree tops. Below that you have endless views of tree trunks right in...

I believe that depends on which federal agency administers the land the monument sits on. In this case that's the BLM. Anything administered by the National Parks Service is prohibited.

Great view of this area and a place that I have only seen in passing along my favorite road in Utah - UT12. I like the overcast light for the added color saturation of the formations near the Escalante River.

I would not be happy with this output from my 3x lens. This image has some serious softness to it. If the issue were focus alone I would expect at least the front of the scene or the back of it to be more out of focus than the other and that is not true here. The image is uniformly soft...

Possibly so but the other observation is that I do fly around on most flights and have never exceeded the 32 minutes of this specific flight.

I would say no - that flight was the longest out of 182 flights and was one where I went up to 380' above my house and just hovered while turning and shooting images of a sunset. Most other flights including quite a few where I had to land to change batteries involved flying around instead of...

Here is my data for my Mavic 3 Pro from Airdata UAV: According to the log for the 32 minute flight I landed with 15% battery left. I have had many more flights where I was forced to land with 5% battery that were shorter in distance.

B&H has been my goto place to buy just about all of my camera gear as well as drones. I have been using them for over 10 years now. I do everything I can to avoid Amazon anymore.

Beautiful roads for fun driving. I have done some of these but in an RV which wasn't nearly as much fun as it would be on your bike or some cars I have owned. Especially on the grades.

Congratulations! 🍻

The first honest response :cool:

We had stereophonic sound by the time cassettes came out :cool:

Hearing a new song on AM radio and heading to a record store to buy the monaural 45 RPM record.