Recent content by AMann

It was especially unnerving when someone flew their drone around me while I was monitoring mine in the middle of a mapping mission. I tried ignoring it, waving friendly towards it and pointing at my drone just as a friendly goodby, but then finally had to track the pilot down and go over to...

The only time I shoot vertical is for still photographs or for overlapping panorama sequences when I’d like to show both ground and sky. Sometimes it would be nice to do the same with a drone, but mine can’t do it. I never shoot videos in vertical format though, nor would I do it with a drone...

Thank you for sharing this, very glad you and your family are safe. Sounds like a thunderhead downdraft hit your location from the side. I’ve been desert camping when they’ve hit and they would have blown away our camp if we had not seen the dust clouds coming towards us from across the...

Great story. Also a lesson about knowing how to self-recover in a sea kayak if you go out in the ocean…

Is the shimmer from the sun and irregular edge of the moon or could it be from temperature differences and refraction of sunlight in our atmosphere when it and the land starts to cool off from the eclipse shadow itself?

Not to be a droner downer, but I also wanted to do the same things with my M2P back during the 2017 eclipse. My plan was also to fly it up high to catch the approaching shadow across the landscape while I took photos of it with my long-lens and DSLR. We had 2 minutes or so of totality back then...

After reading through the regulations all I have to say is things have surely changed there! My brother was probably one of the first tourists to fly a drone all over Pompeii and the guides and few tourists who were there all thought it was great. But it was probably because of too many...

Could it be that it is having issues with getting the elevation DEM data from Google Earth? I know in LVM that Namirda pays for a certain number of monthly DEM downloads for all of us to use, so could that have something to do with that? Or perhaps your virus protection settings are preventing...

Thanks for the report. I am using a Dronetag BS RID tag for one of mine to be compliant as a 107 holder and I’m not going to update it, but I have a second one I have to make compliant by either doing the update or getting another drone BS tag. Still on the fence about it but as soon as I have...

Actually, litchi depends on the SDK to operate and DJI could decide to disable or change it in their updates.

Now that is has been out for a while, how is the update working with Litchi for everyone using both, have you encountered any worrisome issues yet?

How does that work out? Is it ground-based GPS signal jamming and when you go low enough you’re just out of its signal line of sight?

I used to do tree climbing as part of my work for Forest Service. There’s a Swedish tree climbing ladder set up that makes it a lot easier and safer than using climbing spurs. Hunting supply places also sell versions of these. They are lightweight sectional ladders that you chain to a tree...

I flew over a field of wild oats once just barely skimming the tops of the grass at high speeds. It made for a great video scene and I could see my MP2 the entire time but only upon watching the film did I notice that I flew at high speed under the top wire of a barbed wire fence. Flying low...

https://dronedj.com/2024/02/09/new-dji-drone-fcc-dock/ -I like the upswept rotors- belly lander I don’t, looks unstable if landing on a slight hill or bump and can get props damaged just like the Ingenuity drone on Mars. RIP Ingenuity.