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I’ve heard this before and I am not sure where it comes from except to say unmanned or traditional planes and helicopters all want to error on the side of caution for guyed towers and guy wires. One interesting point of fact that we have validated with the FAA and insurance companies both is...

In the last four days in northern CA I flew inspections and modeling for a set of equipment that was mounted on 12 foot poles instead of a tower, a self support tower over 350 feet tall, a guyed tower approaching 600 feet tall, and a handful of monopoles and monopoles that were 50-100 feet tall...

as drone pilots we all know that airspace is federal and Henry you can fly where you want so long as you don’t make contact with private property or restricted or controlled airspace. In reality it’s a but less clear cut. I fly towers nearly everyday and the tower and the equipment on it are all...

I will start this by saying that flying around towers can be a bit of a gray area on many levels. Some states may define this as critical infrastructure but this is a loose definition at best and to the best of my knowledge has never been prosecuted. The greater issue is actually that while I am...

While it is a bit strange to need RAWs for a survey, especially for orthomosaic and photogrammetry processing I assume they have their reasons. Your limiting factor isn't going to be the mechanical shutter, it’s generally going to choke at the SD card write speed so getting the best cards you...

I routinely teach classes to my pilots and external organizations and whatever your available version of Airplay or Chromecast is without a doubt the easiest way to mirror your screen. You will need a chrome stick or AppleTv but after that you just cast to your respective device. I would also...

I’m not sure why so many companies try to reinvent the wheel with weather. I run a decent size drone company and have had a dozen missions going across the country at once. I deal in telecom, solar, RF measurements, construction, surveying… I say all this to say my weather priorities can vary...

DroomMeister is correct. As a Part 107 pilot and a government employee living in DC for many years there isn’t a good way to fly. 15 miles in DC can be quite a drive to get out of the inner restricted ring. The waiver process works, a year or so ago I flew a mission around the broadcast tower...

DJI has stated pretty definitively that open SDK support will be released for anything in the Enterprise line. Right now that primarily consists of the M3E, M3T, M30 variant, and M300. The SDK for these is now generally consistent across the Enterprise line with them all running DJI Pilot. I...

I don’t know your mapping and modeling experience so if anything I say sounds a bit 101 level I apologize. As a rule of thumb you are almost always better off using the default wide angle focal length for mapping. For the Mavik3E you have a 4/3 sensor, 24mm focal length on the “wide” camera...

GSD is calculated using three things… sensor size, distance from subject (ground), and the focal length. Your GSD will change if you use any optical zoom during the mission. Whenever you are mapping or modeling you need to be utilizing the same focal length through the entire mission as...