Recent content by High_Order1

I'd like to know how the people flying over the fair in TN... fared

You make great points. I want to expand on this a little. In the radio world, powerlines can wreak havoc. What happens is a connection can grow in impedance over time. This can be seen with a thermal, but the mismatch can create a nonlinear junction that can spew RF broadly, not just at 60Hz...

It does. At what distance is a calculus of factors. For instance, as a child, my middle school had high tension lines going across the school property. When it was really foggy, we could get fluorescent tubes, and they would light up when we walked into the energy field! (You could also feel...

I would replace all the props at a minimum.

No, it applies equally to you as well. Just because you want to do something, doesn't make it ok. Stay away from powerlines. First time you get hung up, or worse, it's going to be twisted and repeated as a reason to make it harder on the rest of us. As to your question, he cannot. EMI is a set...

It wasn't stupidity. You saw what you were doing wasn't the best idea, you just saw it too late! In the spirit of lessons learned, and totally admitting I am very new to this space, I offer this: One of the things that temper my flights is when the DJI Lady says 'landing' for no, uncommanded...

Crack a chemlight and tape it to the controller?

what I have noticed, now that I know what to look for, is the same thing that happened to professional photography. Someone buys a drone, doesn't even adjust the picture settings, does a couple of at night over a municipal shots, puts a giant brand in the corner, and puts it on all the facebook...

That's what I want to do. Bought the wrong size cap screws though. I drive mine sans sticks.

That's a fact, from the ones I've been able to observe. Hollow threat at the best.

Did you read the part of him wanting to do this for profit? Did you read the subsequent discussion of what may happen when someone calls in a complaint? You are attempting to cover multiple legal avenues with a common sense filter. That's fine for you and your risk level, but it's not fine...

Try to play the drone version of 'that's not my pants, officer' and the **** thing follows you shoo go 'way

I have caught myself 'loitering' once or twice when I lost my bearings and was rotating the drone looking for a strobe pulse. Watching the monitor then go uhoh look up and uh... uhoh. Not surveilling, simply not moving until I regain positive control; but from the viewpoint of the person in...

But you can't say that with authority. You may be fine after a couple of years and a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees, and no telling how much in bad press. They can seize the aircraft AND the remote to search it for evidence. You are at the mercy of the ability of an investigator...

The issue is, We don't know what the software is doing. You may very well have a couple of holes plugged, but you have to connect to the mothership on the regular or it will cripple your drone. This is by design, unquestionably. It would be trivial for the thing to pick an obscure port, or...