Recent content by Jubjub Bird

I don't see much downside to registering a drone. Like you, I have a registered Air2. So I'd get the bigger batteries, if I wanted them, and just register the drone.

I agree that the tone and content could have been more useful and less off-putting. The strident emphasis, without any additional offer of help, was boorish to my read. A clear "no" would have been an acceptable start. A useful addition would have been a kindly-worded request to provide the...

Very nicely done. Subscribed. I love the Swell.

The small camera I carry for casual use is an eleven-year-old Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5. This is a tiny camera that punches above its weight. It has an excellent Leica lens with 24-90mm full-frame-equivalent focal length range, takes wonderful pictures, and can be found dirt cheap on the used...

Thank you for the info. Yes, I do a lot of hiking and climbing. But I've found it hard to convey my hiking experiences to people who weren't there. So I'm very impressed with what you've done in this video--you made a video that placed viewers in the hike, as if they were there. I'll attribute...

Very well done. I've been up Angel's Landing twice. Your video is the best thing I've seen at giving people a real sense of what it's like to hike up there--the trail, the panoramic views. Would you mind telling us what equipment you used? Video camera on a gimbal, clearly. And either it had...

Last summer, I traveled by air with my Mavic Air 2. I took three batteries for it, as well as twenty-four AA Ni-MH batteries and eight 18650 Ni-MH batteries. All were in my carry-on. I had checked the FAA's PackSafe for Passengers Webpage. Per my read of this page, the Ni-MH batteries could...

For renaming your current images to give them consecutive numbers, I can sketch out a general approach: Download a file renaming utility, create a rule for it to run, and let it rename your files. This is pretty easy, but expect to screw it up a few times until you get the renaming rule defined...

I'll echo the advice to look at the DJI Mini 2 Fly More Combo. Among other things, this combo will give your son a total of three batteries. The Mini 2 is a nimble little thing--a heck of a lot of fun to fly. You may even want some stick time on it. (With your son's permission, of course--what...

Love that terrain! Would love to heli-ski Alaska. (Though to my Colorado-calibrated senses--perhaps entirely wrong for Alaska--sure looks like avalanche country.)

I'd love a TriplTek tablet, but have not yet talked myself into further thinning my wallet. Also, I know the Triplteks are bright. Are they also better at dealing with high ambient temperatures? --Jub

Cool temps cause air molecules to cram closer together, resulting in greater lift for a wing operating on them. Hot air causes air molecules to space farther apart, resulting in less lift. This was drilled into me--taught well, I think--at the hang glider school I attended. My bet is that these...

I used to fly a hang glider, and definitely appreciated the greater lifting power of cool air vs. warm air. Never flew at anything approaching 108 degrees, but have to imagine that the air molecules are pretty far apart.

Welcome aboard, ifr! I had my A2 out at St. George last summer--lots of wonderful places to fly in your area. Unfortunately, it was July, and very hot. When attempting to fly even in the 108 degree cool of the evening, my iPad overheated, as did my iPhone. I hope to get back out there sometime...

Blucenturion, I enjoyed your video. Though after watching it, my brain went through a 180-degree evolution. First thought: It looks as if your drone was in some bushes, perhaps four feet off the ground, and Mr. Ramsey used his rope to avoid sliding down the hill the bushes were on. He does...