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  1. Hodge

    Air 2s Something Different - Using the Drone as a Dolly

    Really great job on the video. As for how often it's being done in TV and Movies, I would say quite a bit. I forget the show but just the other day I was watching a show and they had a really long stretch where the camera was following alongside a vehicle at car door height. I would bet they...
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    Air 2 Men's morning Football match (AKA American soccer)

    When I left the house, it was going to be a slightly overcast morning. When I got to the park that I have a permit to fly in a fog started to roll in. I noticed a men's football match being played in the park, so I took a couple of photos. These are a series of photos I took that morning in one...
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    Air 2 Out flying with my son

    For the first time my son and I were able to meet up with our drones and do a little flying. He was flying a Mavic and I was out with my Air 2. He is still composing his video but it's a 9 hole disc golf course where we were and took his drone around the course so I'm looking forward to what he...
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    Mini 2 on an MSC Cruise Ship

    I unfortunately booked on a cruise line that explicitly said they do not allow drones on board. However, checking with Princess Cruise Line they do allow drones to be brought on board, but prohibit their use on the ship of in the port. They are more expensive that what I booked so I'm still...
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    When you're deciding whether it's good enough weather to fly or not, do you look at wind speed or gust speed?

    I too like using the UAV forecast app. I'll use the wind profile section to see the wind and gusts at different altitudes. Then if it's a day when I really want to get some flight time in, I see what kind of altitude is safe for a particular drome to fly in and decide if I'll go out. If I get...
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    Air 2 Baker Hill Community from 396ft

    We are planning a siding project for our community; I took this photo in the morning taking advantage of the morning sun. I wanted to show how unique we are and what a beautiful surrounding area we are tucked in. Photo is using the wide panorama option on a Mavic Air 2
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    White House Seeks More Power to Counter use of Drones in U.S. (source AP News)

    All of this is true but really of little value. Laws don't stop bad people from doing bad things. Restrictions only cripple people that follow the law. Additionally, if a person wanted to target something he will find a way to attack it. For example, from the news headlines themselves; when a...
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    White House Seeks More Power to Counter use of Drones in U.S. (source AP News)

    OK great thanks for bringing that up. Next agenda item is now cars. 😁
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    Which iPad tablet holder?

    I have been using this one since October of last year and have been very happy with it and how it connects to the controller. Hanatora 4.7- 12.9 Inch Tablet Holder
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    Precision flying indoors and the illogical results

    You didn't say anything about using prop guards. After one very expensive accident with our window shades {not the drone but the shade itself} I always use prop guards when flying indoors. This is a video of one of my very early flights indoors, in this flight I was using Dronelink in 'On the...
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    Mini Told to Post This Here

    Awesome job taking the photo Just a little tinkering using Luminar AI and Corel Paintshop pro
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    DJI Fly annual flying report

    It's pretty much like a power point presentation with background music. Beyond the first page you do get summarized information, so if you have multiple DJI drones registered the report will be a summation of all flights of all drones combined. A page/slide will look similar to this:
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    Litchi and Dronelink... which do you think is better and why?

    That sounds amazing, is that something that you've shared in the Dronelink Public Repositories?
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    How do you charge your Mavic Air 2 batteries? (poll)

    Currently I wall charge. My charging hub was dead on arrival but I am looking to add the Tercel Charging Hub or now that I see it I might go with the Powerextra (Yx) Parallel Charger.
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    Simple double strobe mount

    Good question 'CatfishAJ'. If you have strobes that have selectable color I believe that with the drone facing away from you, you would want the 'Red' facing left and 'Green' facing right. This adheres to the old saying "Red Right Returning" aka heading at you.