Recent content by wco81

Did the HK seller offer a FMC as well? Wait HK doesn't have taxes so which taxes did he charge you, CA taxes? Why would an HK seller collect CA taxes?

Can’t you tap and focus on the middle of the pano you’re visualizing and then initiate the pano and the focus shouldn’t change? There should be enough depth of field since typically the terrain is hundreds, if not thousands of feet away?

Nice! You use a grid for the 30% overlap? You can really see the noise if you zoom in but obviously wasn't a real long exposure so the ISO must have been high. The main thing I like about the auto pano modes is that it puts all the individual DNGs into each folder so when I do batch...

Beautiful. Where were you able to launch and land from? I was there a couple of years ago and you either took a train and hiked a lot or drove and there were a few places on the road where you could turn out and park the car for a bit. But it was next to a road so maybe not the best place to...

Wow which cities are those? What was the shutter speed and ISO? Was it using the built-in pano modes or manually shooting each shot, long exposures for each shot?

Wow that's absurd. A strobe which ways just a couple of grams makes it safer to fly, not less safe.

I wonder if the number of newborn girls being named Karen has fallen off a cliff in the last 10 years or so.

It would still take manpower to monitor RID and track down the pilots, unless they can tell from RID and location that a drone was operating illegally and that is enough to at least send a citation or something? If it's the normal police who does enforcement, are they going to drop their other...

It's going to come down to enforcement. Are they going to check drones for CE marks to make sure you were flying in the correct Open category? I heard in 2027, UK1 may no longer map to C1 so Europeans visiting the UK with C1 drones may get into trouble. That is if they're proactively...

So they will aggressively take down drones which they think are doing something wrong?

FAA regulates civilian airspace, including drones. I understand the radios require FCC certification but why wouldn't the FAA have a say?

Has the FAA ever weighed in about Chinese or foreign drones? Or will they register any drone which the FCC approves?

The FL shooter confessed or the FL drone pilot confessed?

Does your state have laws allowing people to shoot at drones? Only a couple of states have passed such laws. Also, nobody owns the airspace over any land. The FAA regulates civilian airspace, not state, not local laws.

You're talking about an edge case, a product at the very limit of C0. Most other drones are not at the thresholds so any aftermarket attachments won't affect the weight or CE mark class. But more pertinent, how bad are the UK1 restrictions compared to C1 restrictions in the EU and what would...