Recent content by hank970

Gotta be something that doesn't offend cows. Maybe Beethoven's 6th (Pastoral) Symphony? Kind of like a John Constable landscape painting set to music -- cows and sheep here and there, but no wolves. Or, on second thought, maybe the soundtrack from Disney's Cinderella, where all the woodland...

Fatback, you're sitting on a UFO gold mine. Since you regularly sight these things and are sure they'll reappear every night, invite local media, law enforcement, clergy, a politician or two, and someone from the MUFON network to visit your property and witness the phenomenon for themselves...

75,000 reported* drone flights in New York that no one has an answer for? What's the question that needs to be answered, to whom should drone pilots direct their answers, and why? *Reported, perhaps, by a bunch of timid souls swept up in the recent hysteria about lights in the night sky over...

Friday, probably before your game starts, I'll be driving east on I-70 from Fruita to Denver, and I plan to stop at the rest area atop Vail Pass for some recreational flying and to shoot a bit of video of the view looking east toward Copper Mountain Ski Area. I'd like to capture footage of...

To be fair to the OP, he stated that he'd activated a strobe on his drone. Whether a strobe in daylight would be readily visible from a plane aloft and a couple of thousand feet higher is a different matter. Probably not, especially if the drone (w/strobe) were located straight ahead and below...

I'm happy with RTH, obstacle avoidance, and other features on my Air 3, but it sure would be nice to have built-in, multi-directional strobe lights, one in each arm that are visible at night for at least three statute miles. My clip-on Firehouse strobes work OK, but they require being charged...

I think I'm getting your drift. It's OK for your brother to buzz your house at treetop level on more than one occasion in defiance of FAA minimums, but it's not OK for anyone else to fly below 500 feet AGL near your home -- if indeed that's what they're doing. Do you have any idea how your...

Frankly, I'm more concerned about so-called rainbows. They're just chem-trails that have been given bright colors to make them seem more cheerful and benign.

That explains it. Thanks.

If only there were a battery that could keep a consumer drone in the air all night long on a single charge -- like those that fatback imagines flying over his property. :)

Yep. Fifteen degrees of rotation per hour. Probably not a good idea to call the police and complain that stars are flying across the skies above your property on clear nights.

I was a bit concerned that energy fields might interfere with the controls, but I had no problems positioning the drone.

I briefly contemplated climbing the tower, swinging hand over hand down the insulator covered "V" like a Gibbon monkey, tight-rope walking away from the tower on the transmission line at bottom center, and then balancing on the wire while tripping the shutter. But then I thought, "Naw, I'll...

If you're able to fly near the falls, be aware that there's always a lot of heavy mist in the air. Everything near viewpoints is perpetually wet -- pathways and pavements, planters, railings, etc. A sightseer can get drenched just viewing the falls from an overlook far above the river. I...

If that were true, then, unless a drone operator owned a substantial acreage or lived in close proximity to the vast public domain, he or she might as well hang it up. I'd wager that most of us who launch from home routinely fly over our neighbors' properties and don't give it a second...