Recent content by wco81

Are those screen shots from the Dronaire site?

Unfortunately a lot of the best places to fly drones are also those which draw tons of tourists, most of whom aren't interested in flying drones. The sights are magnificent enough without having to photograph them from air. Millions are happy just taking pics with their phones. But they visit...

Man the place I want to fly is out on the NE of the island, just north of the airport. It's like a long, thin peninsula or an archipelago, extending eastwards. You have to hike the last 3-4 kilometers and you see a lot of jagged cliffs over the water and faraglioni or rocks jutting out of the...

I don't know that I'd trust AI in that scenario either. Tesla and others are betting on computer vision solely to make self-driving cars. But there have been very unfortunate incidents of their system not detecting objects and identifying them correctly, like driving right into a tractor...

Could there be some other RF sources interfering with the signal to the drone? Would those big microwave dishes emit enough RF in the same frequencies to possibly disrupt the signal? As far as magnets sources, I once tried to take off from this one place and I kept getting compass errors. No...

This video is interesting, comparing the M2P to the M3C. New drone has better battery but performs worse in some torture tests of resolution charts? OTOH, video from M3C looks sharper after LUTs applied and zoomed in 400%. Not a good endorsement to upgrade?

Website doesn't show the US flag, only UK and EU countries.

This news item is interesting, a drone operator finds a dead dolphin in one of the shark nets installed outside Bondi Beach to protect the surfers and swimmers there. https://au.news.yahoo.com/drone-operators-devastating-discovery-off-bondi-beach-015745113.html Now did this drone pilot, who...

So I just returned from a trip to Malta and Italy, specifically Sicily. I did a few flights with my Mavic 2 Pro. Mostly tried to go to areas away from towns and in a couple of cases, were along coastal cliffs with nobody around nor a lot of buildings. So I could easily comply with A2...

Will be interesting to see the reason for the difference. Maybe the OP will try updating both and see if they behave differently.

But you're compromising camera quality as well as wind-resistance. In many cases, it's probably not a good idea to fly at all if wind speeds and gusts are above a certain level.

Or maybe you give a text prompt to create aerial footage over landmarks and it creates it from scratch, without you having to provide any actual photo or video source content. That is, you don't even need drone footage to have it create drone footage. You don't even need a drone! Hell you...

So did the OP make this trip yet and fly in Maui? Was he able to fly at the locations suggested by the AI? Did he run into any issues with flying in the suggested places? Because one of them was a state park and I thought the state of Hawaii banned drones in state parks. Federal parks are...

This blog is predicting Mini 5 Pro this summer. https://blog.freewellgear.com/djis-anticipated-drone-roadmap-for-2024/#:~:text=DJI%20Mini%205%20Pro%3A%20Compact,powerful%20option%20for%20drone%20enthusiasts. Mavic 4 and the successor to Air3 would not be until late this year or next year. Do...

How much difference in damage could a 250 gram drone cause vs. a kilogram drone? 4 times lower? Or do heavier drones have greater speed so the difference in impact could be more than the 4x weight difference? Did the industry decide to put out 250 grams on their own or did the authorities...