Recent content by iaincaradoc

...aaaaand there's the reason I use a bright orange folding "landing pad" and a set of orange cones when I'm taking off or landing from any surface that is likely to have traffic.

I live less than three miles from a National Guard reservation, and they regularly fly between 800-1500 feet over their normal flight path less than 2000 feet due south of me. The military helicopters do *not* use ADS-B, and do not show up on AirSense or FlightRadar24. I just drop like a rock...

Take a look at the maps. There's *plenty* of places you can fly without violating the Wilderness Areas. National Forests are wide open, for example, but not National Parks or State Parks.

I've been flying with an iPad mini 5 for a while now. I ended up with the cellular-capable version because I also use it for ham radio (PocketPacket) and I really wanted the GPS. The non-cellular iPads do not have GPS built in. And just because you have a cellular-capable iPad doesn't mean you...

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that jamming a drone and causing it to crash or otherwise no longer be under the control of the PIC would get you a twofer: one count for sabotage of the aircraft, and one count for jamming.

Get a car charger, and you can charge them on the way to your location, or charge one or two while you're flying the first.

Surely I cannot be the only one who read this and was looking for the third Phantom 4 "...burned down, fell over, and then sank into the lake."

That's a feature, not a bug. And, yes, your Air 2S batteries will also dump charge if you let them sit. DJI's "Intelligent" batteries deliberately discharge down to 60% to avoid maintaining full charge on a LiPo. Direct from DJI: "...an Auto-Discharging function to prevent the battery for...

Not just in their vocation, but there are always reports from the UK about people driving into ditches and off of piers because they just follow their satnav directions without question.

Have you terminated all active apps? Especially if you're running anything like Facebook? Some apps really chew up background resources.

Update: I can't speak to the recreational flyers, but with an updated/upgraded Part 107 exam, you can apply for LAANC during daylight hours, then continue flying at night - at least through September 30th...

And the grey-marked are your front right and rear left?

Next time, make sure you have the right props on the correct arms, securely installed. What you've described here is exactly what will happen if you swap two props from their correct positions, putting upward thrust on one pair and downward thrust on the other pair. The props are marked for...

My house is about 1500' horizontal from a regular National Guard Reserve flight path, and their lowest flights are a good 200' above my max altitude here (nearby airport, Class B airspace, LAANC approval to 300') But the NG helos don't carry ADS-B. So they *never* show up on my warnings. But I...

https://azleg.gov/legtext/52leg/2r/bills/sb1449p.pdf is the one you want.