Recent content by MS Coast

You can't delete geofencing. You just have to place nicely with it. https://mavicpilots.com/threads/first-flight-with-mavic-3-pro-but-how-to-get-laanc-approval.137533/

There's no minimum age to take the TRUST test. That's a bit uncomfortable. But then again, there are a lot of childish adults flying drones and the overall safety record is still very good. You do have to be at least 13 to register a drone...

That's interesting. Where can I find those videos? What were they eating? I know they'll eat while flying, after taking something off the ground or the surface of the water. And they'll try to take food from another bird while in flight. The only cases of gulls feeding on airborne prey that...

Gulls don't think prey in mid-air. They do take small fish from the water, but don't normally feed on anything flying. Many (most?) attacks are actually just close fly-bys that pose no danger. Their behavior around an active nest might be more aggressive, but it seems they're more likely to...

Nor does one case of a problem being attributed to a firmware update, without direct evidence of the relationship. Where are the thousands of failures? Yours is the only problem I've heard about. What is the instability you see in the new firmware? You reported a general failure, not an...

The addition of a bulky object on a drone will NOT allow the wind to aid the flight of a drone. That's like cutting a hole in the bottom of a boat to allow water to drain out. Sounds interesting, doesn't work. If it did work, we'd all by attaching big foam blocks to our drones and airplanes...

I suspect that Russia and China already have targets of significant strategic importance identified and analyzed and have attack plans, just as we do. As for terrorists, they'd select simpler infrastructure targets that can be easily disabled or disrupted without the need for detailed imagery or...

I updated the firmware on my Mini 4 Pro a few days ago and have had no problems at all. I don't recall any significant problems with any of the updates I've done on six DJI models. I'm pleased with the many new features that have been made available as the firmwares evolve. And if I ever...

I'm amused by the way they claim credit for mapping controlled airspace instead of pointing out that the FAA provides readily accessible and free online sources for that information and several private companies have incorporated it into free apps. "Reason has compiled a map of cities across...

Oblique satellite imagery has been around for a while. Here's one publicly known endeavor. I imagine that the other guys' military has much fancier gear. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/these-oblique-satellite-images-are-pretty-amazing/

Yep, I recall that. Here's the first page of one for Ektachrome that I just found on the web. Camera settings were a lot more important when we were paying for film and processing. I remember shooting Kodacolor and thinking "one dollar" every time I pressed the shutter button. Ouch.

My marine biologist friend tells me that "fishes" refers to multiple species of fish, while "fish" is both singular and plural for talking about what we caught or what's for dinner. So, someone "sleeping with the fishes" is having an affair with multiple species of fish. That article reads like...

That's an exposure issue, not a dynamic range issue. You can always just set a fixed exposure for a leaping whale and the current light conditions. It's something that old geezers used to do when cameras used film and shutter speed/ISO/and aperture were all manually set and if you were lucky...

How long does it typically take to get a response? Available on weekends?

Sorry, I misread/misinterpreted your comment as "does NOT have variable aperture."