Recent content by johnburton

I'll attach a screenshot of a training video. This is just a fun rant. Aviation stuff is so unintuitive! So, in the screenshot, here's what it all means: METAR: This is the report. But, those letters may be swapped out with SPECI. This means SPECIAL (too tough to add the extra two letters)...

After halfway through the Drone Launch Academy course I should be able to fly a 747! Holy cow! All this just to fly a drone? It is interesting material, though the charts are pretty confusing. There's so much info and it's so easy to confuse one set of numbers or lines or symbols or whatever...

I'm thinking it should know where the water is based on GPS and integrated maps.

I've been reading about fly aways and blow aways that end up in a body of water. I have lakes around me and I also travel to the ocean and I'm nervous about flying over the water or even near it. I wonder how feasible it would be for DJI to fix this through programing. Maps are integrated so...