Recent content by mooneyguy

It is screwed up. It’ll be interesting to see how that law does when it’s challenged in court, as there is pretty clearly airspace below 250 feet that the FAA considers navigable and has asserted authority over. I’m guessing Nevada is going to find that that altitude limit has to be much lower...

There is also a difference between what the police can do and what private citizens can do. The Constitution generally applies only to the government; limits on private activity are based on laws. The police can’t come in your house and look around because the Constitution says they need a...

Ok, they’re all dark specs in the sky, but what about on the ground? I put a yellow skin on my M2Z primarily to make it easier to find in the forest or grass if it should crash. I picked a color that is bright and not commonly found in the local vegetation. Seems good in theory, but does anyone...

If the drone is reasonably close to the tree the error will not be large: If there's a 5000' mountain 20 miles away (or a 2000m mountain 40km away...), the error caused by using that instead of the true horizon will be 1/20 of the distance from the camera to the tree. If you're worried about...