Recent content by Casper52

The regulations state you need to ‘mitigate’ risks, you do not have to eliminate risks. That is mostly a planning issue, in my view. Can you fly your drone at times when other air traffic is at a minimum? Time of day or when the surface winds might mean other runways are being used at the local...

CAA is the Civil Aviation Authority in a lot of countries in the world, but there are many variations, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) in the US and Transport Canada (TC) in Canada are just two. PFCO stands for Permission For Commercial Operation, those to vary a lot from country to...

The Canadian tests, both basic and advanced if you so wish to go that route do require a reasonable amount of aviation knowledge. However, there is lots of information on Transport Canada’s website about how to find out the knowledge required to pass the tests and the process to register your...

I would think its repairable, but I am no expert on that topic. It could just a dust cover to keep very small stuff from getting into the bearings or servo motors on the gimbal mount. We do have some repair experts of the forum, hopefully one of them will jump in and give some advice.

Here is the article,....hopefully.

I think I would only want to do it if I was able to get the boat stopped and the waters were not to rough. I like the idea of safety glasses noted above, and I would add in some good work or mechanic gloves. How about a sturdy hat to protect the old noggin? Props can give some nasty cuts...

Looks like your camera mount may have taken some damage to? My mount shows both sides to be the same distance from the camera to the mount. Does the camera and gimbal still work OK?

Wow, glad no one was hurt.

I do the monthly Pro thing. You can stop then start up again when you want. It defaults to auto extending each month so you have to be ontop of it or your Credit Card will be billed. My CFO (Chief Female Officer) keeps me in check on such matters. If I miss one I will either get ‘The Look’...

When I set up a ‘project’ in DroneDeploy I just define the outside boundaries and then the over/side lap percentages and the flight altitude. The program figures out where to put the flight lines and where to to take each photo. It will tell you how many pictures it will take, how long the...

I hope it works out for you, Good Luck!

Hello from Canada.

I use Dronedeploy, in its planning section you pick both the Overlap and Sidelap It defaults to 80% overlap and 75% sidelap. Those are typical numbers for doing ortho-rectification as you want to have multiple looks of the same ‘target’ to get better triangulation results. It is pricey but...

Hey Planet Earth, that stitched image look really good! If you look close at the image of my house, you will see two of me in the parking area. I was walking around a bit during the flight and I was picked up in a couple of frames that got used in the final image. I too got some good hints and...

Thanks, our place is about 45 minutes north of the Canada/US border. On our little beach you will see one Kayak, the other was in the garage when I did the flight. Actually lots of kayaks on Kootenay Lake. The lake is about 80 miles long and a few miles wide, so if its windy a sea going unit...