Recent content by G Saunders

One of any drone can quickly become none, especially when flying beneath a tree line. If you want to keep flying, it takes more than one...

Wow...

Drone delivery companies use 4G LTE or 5G cellular to extend the range of telemetry and control, have detection and avoidnce built in, and have been waivered from VLOS egulations after they've proven they can fly safely BVLOS. The new rules are overdue, but BVLOS certification will be 'rule...

I didn't see where anybody mentioned using a video editor/compositor with multiple tracks, like Premiere or Camtasia? That would let you get the plat with the borders on a track and stretch it out to fit over the video. It can be keyed and animated to move along a selected subject with the video.

My experience is that sitting in a seat behind a windshield for 40 years probably made it harder for me to control a drone in sight, especially when it was heading toward me. I had to repeat simple, precise patterns like fly out and back in crosswinds, fly circles around a post in the breeze...

I wanted to add to this long thread that the officers who responded to my neighbor's complaint that I was peeping into his private spaces, which I was not, talked with me, looked at the video and flight logs, then went and warned the neighbor that lying to a dispatcher was a crime and me flying...

I hope this is on target? A photo editor will do it... Windows Paint or Mac photo editor will 'rescale' or resize images one at a time. Leave the little lock set to keep the original proportions and choose a width like 800 px. It's easier to do it from the menu that it is to drag a corner...

If the video is going to be seen on a smartphone or in a browser, anything over 480 or 720 is kinda wasted. If you don't have a capable video editor like Camtasia or Premiere, you can use Window's built-in Video Editor or Mac's to export the video with lower resolution and with higher...

The drone will fly fine with no phone connected at all, so that would explain why you're able to start the props. The Fly app isn't needed for that. I'd guess the USB cable is bad or there's crud in a connector on one end or the other. Trying another USB cable might solve it, looking into the...

Do you know about the other Android remote id apps? OpenDroneID, AirSentinel, and DroneScanner all work for me, but I see some posts where they don't work, makes me think some Androids do and others don't. I don't think an iPhone's wifi works to detect Remote ID, may only be for Android.

The Israeli outfit Percepto, a few months ago, got FAA waivers for one operator to fly 30 drones for inspection and mapping. Percepto Receives Waiver to Operate 30 Drones Autonomously: the “Holy Grail” of Industrial Drone Inspections

FWIW, since there are so many 'negative results' and doubts about it, OpenDroneID, DroneScanner, and AirSentinel running on an Android, a Pixel, have all shown the RID 100% for the 4 drones, older Mavic 2s that were updated and a new Air 2S, with native RID, and also a Holy Stone RID unit on an...

Thanks for this. What I see is somebody working with the tiny connectors and doing a job that doesn't require soldering...

'Replacing the mainboard' requires re-soldering the motors to the tiniest solder points there are and working with the tiniest connectors known to man. It's not a trivial thing to do, not possible at all unless somebody's really good with a soldering iron.

I've considered ODM, haven't considered the others, might make an ODM server some day... After some consideration, I went with DroneDeploy as a 'turnkey' solution and have stuck with it. It's pricier now than before, but it's competitive with the other excellent solutions. My subscription was...