Recent content by jaja6009

This article does a great job of explaining the whole situation.

Your company needs to send others with you to take drone classes and training. This seems like a case of people who do not know drones or aviation regulations stating something that has good intent, but may not achieve what they want. The fact that they want to put a parachute on a Mini 5 Pro...

Today, a student of mine reported that their Part 107 exam was 65 questions. While I had heard of this before and never spent much thought about it it has me wondering now. Did anyone in this forum have a 65 question test? The student aced it, but asked me if this is normal.

This just came out today from the FCC. These drones are now cleared : Defense Contract ManagementAgency’s (DCMA’s) Blue UAS Cleared List; ando UAS and UAS critical components that qualify as “domestic end products”under the Buy American Standard...

For just a second I let my common sense slip and thought where did this American drone possibly popup from. I guess more cool and capable drones for the rest of the world.

I thought DJI Global editions adjusted their transmission strength by GPS location. In the US with FCC regs it would allow for greater range than in Europe. It just basically adjusts its transmission for the country it is operating in. Heliguy has an article on it...

I'm sure people will chime in but here's my opinion. Choose an ecosystem. If you want DJI then get DJI equipment, but Walksnail is pretty established in the FPV community. I went with Goggles 3 since it works with the Avata 2, Neo and Neo 2 as well as DJI O4 transmission systems. I already...

Old news. If you want to join the discussion come on in and join the fun. https://mavicpilots.com/threads/the-fcc-ban-on-all-foreign-made-uas-and-uas-critical-components.154893/

What do you mean turn on the network?

It is not enough. All Category drones will be listed on the FAA DOC (Declaration of Compliance) database. https://uasdoc.faa.gov The only drone PRS listed are all from AVSS in Canada. Parazero doesn't have any listed and they were once the forefront of PRS systems. The ASTM 3322 rating can...

Thank you for sharing! Also along these lines is that the FAA Emerging Technologies section has fine tuned and released new waivers and authorizations for both Part 91 and Part 107 in 2025 that give public safety entities new advanced operations to get the most out of their programs. Under...

The higher pricing is because to obtain ASTM 3322 the PRS must go through and pass testing. This costs money. Without the ASTM 3322 certification, the system cannot get an FAA DOC which means the drone using the system will not be a Category drone. Not being a Category drone means you cannot...

OP great maintenance tip! At work we have a full maintenance program and in January go through all of the motions on mandatory maintenance and inspections. We did use DJI for this until they canceled their Maintenance Program (With 3 tiers of maintenance) this year. We are now performing most...

OP, thanks for sharing! I have a home built that needs a new frame. I am going to probably buy his frame kit along with arms, and landing gears. The current build scares people by its frankenstein vibe.

It would not be an easy modification anyway. You would need a rigid 3D mount, a power source (external battery), measure your camera to module offset, and worst of all tap into a board on the camera for triggering a time stamp for each image to be saved as a time stamp file. I did something...