Recent content by Fred Paris

There are several advantages to using drones for cranberries. First the alternatives include helicopters, ground-rigs, and backpack spraying. Helicopters are environmentally nasty for small farms, ground rigs crush the crops and backpacks are unhealthy and hard work. When the copter leaves the...

Dry work includes fertilizers and seeds. We fly an AGRAS T50 changing out the tank for a dry hopper.

flying a T50 with 110lb hopper

So in the cranberry market the farmers spread pesticides through the sprinkler systems and granular fertilizers by helicopter. The helicopters are $1,200 an hour plus 60cents a pound. We are planning a $500 survey and multispectral mapping flight and then .60 pound. - Lets see how that works.

Yes, I recognize that you need proper licenses, along with part 137 for aerial work and 44807 for the heavyweight Ag drones, so we know that. What we also know is that even the best drone pilots may not be good at agriculture work. In most cases you are not flying the drone the drone is...

$1500

Hi Using the M3M, when I go to upload a mission to the drone, I get a message INDEX 0, SIZE 0, So I cant fly the mission. I can fly manually. Where do you for help with stuff like this?

Hi Using the M3M, when I go to upload a mission to the drone, I get a message INDEX 0, SIZE 0, So I cant fly the mission. I can fly manually. Where do you for help with stuff like this?

Defining a mapping mission in SmartFarm for the M3M, All goes well until I try to up the drone. A message comes up: Index 0 Size 0 Thats it. But Im stuck in that I can not fly missions. I can fly manually

So im doing spray calculations for 26 acres. The chemical calls for 3/4 oz per acre and the drone is programmed to spray 2 gallons an acre. So I need 19.5 oz of chemical mixed in 52 gallons of water. the drone holds 10.5 gallons so I can expect the drone to return for 5 refills and battery...

Yes, to do survey work that would be recognized as a legal document requires a survey license. That is not the kind of mapping that farmers need. When surveying and mapping for a spray mission i'm looking for how close can i get to the tree line, not the exact property line. Charging for drone...

Not all positions require part 107. New hires can be used as observers and can actually get some hands-on time under a licensed person. I expect that as they get their 107 they get a raise and then if they get the Pesticide license they get another raise. I think there will be a lot of good...

Searching all the help options, but nowhere can I fine a manual or instructions for the DJI Smartfarm software?

No sure how to post a link to a file on my desktop,

Im flying a MAVIC M3M for mapping. Using DJIs SmartFarm application, as the drone is snapping photos they are being uploaded as the drone flys. So they get all the data and stitch it together and sends it back to me. So I go to open it using a MAC with the M1 chip and 64 GB of memory, The...