Recent content by AMann

Full Sail is a private for profit school and is really expensive. To be honest, even our local Community Colleges have really good Drone and GIS programs that are much less expensive. Palomar College in San Marcos, CA has an online GIS and a in-person Drone certificate program that is very...

Congress is supposed to impose taxes, which are funds the government collects to pay for services it provides. The “tariffs”, which someone outright said consumers wouldn’t be paying, are being used in the general fund the same way, so they are really becoming the same thing… just saying. An...

For the taxes without representation - oh, I meant “tariffs”, US consumers weren’t supposed to have to pay… I got a similar bill for a camera and some electronics I recently purchased.

Good suggestion, but I already did that a while back and they’re out :(

I am concerned about other parts bans- motors, flight controllers, batteries, etc. Not sure how that will go also.

Uh, someone’s legacy is already being planned out, with enough general support using some new guy or family member to back it up. It could mean another 8-years of the same in the U.S. after the current term ends in a little over 3-years. But that’s all I’ll say about that… I’ve started looking...

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Windbourne is being proactive by working on some remediation to lessen the potential of their balloons being hit by aircraft, as well as decreasing the damage they can do if hit - their blog describes much more detail and how they are working on new designs for their ballast system...

Old news. It was the plane that struck the weather balloon and it appears that either the FAA did not issue a NOTAM about it, or the pilots didn’t get it, even though the company that launched it did file a flight for their balloon and knew exactly where it was...

I’m not familiar with your setup, does your LIDAR unit have its own integrated GPS unit?

Good point, I would also suspect a temporary RTK dropout during that part of the flight.

I’ve flown mine millions of times, but that doesn’t really matter- the poor guy is asking for help with his grounded bird due to not being logged in…

Very nice! The astronomy nerd in me thinks you could put a sponsorship credit at the end- “brought to you by the Sun and Magnetosphere”. 🙂

Single tracks like that are really fun. I prefer the non-widest angle shots, not the really wide ones that look almost fish-eye from the drone- they are too distorted. The cinematic wide angle shots (like the ones following the rider) are really nice. Golden hour lighting is the best for any...

I belong to another forum that involves expensive equipment, some costing as much as $10,000. We’ve had issues exactly like this and instigated the same type of ban on newer members being able to post ads, but also not allowing them to dm other members until they’ve had a significant number of...