Recent content by MS Coast

You've awakened decades-old memories of the thin whine of a little .049 Cox engine, the smell of castor oil in the fuel, and the sight of blood being blown backward across the airplane's tissue-papered and doped wing.

So, how far apart are sunrise and sunset there now? Nice photo. Looks substantially chillier than here on the Gulf Coast, and we're having low temperatures below freezing.

So, it might be good to use a color highlighter pen to mark the "cease operation" paragraph. "I checked and there are no published TFRs. I understand that there's an unpublished TFR and I'm landing immediately."

Yes, same for the Mavic 4 Pro's standard panorama options. For the Free Pano feature you point the camera to the top left corner of the area you want, press C1, then point to the lower right corner and press C1. When the shutter release is engaged, the drone automatically shoots enough photos...

I'm not understanding the benefit of showing this. If you're called our for violating a TFR, it seems that presenting this just shows that you understood that you were required to check for TFRs prior to the flight. What am I missing? By the way, thanks for keeping up with regulations issues...

No, not interested in stitching panos together, just shooting the same one multiple times without having to set the upper left and lower right corners each time. A good example was shooting the sunset over the bay bridge last night. The colors, lighting, and patterns change greatly over five to...

Interesting. That would seem to suggest the the FAA considers 2000 feet to be allowable within the VLOS requirement.

I'm hoping there's a less complex and time-consuming option. Shooting in DNG is a good option for a single panorama and some wiggle room with exposure. It's not just shooting multiple exposures that I'm thinking of, too. Sunsets, clouds, lighting, and positions of moving subjects can create...

I've just come in from shooting free panoramas over the bay with the red-gold setting sun and reflections. There were times when I wanted to shoot the same scene at multiple exposures and had to manually establish the boundaries for each shot. Does anyone know of a way to keep the boundaries...

I'm pointing out that that the idea of intentionally crashing a drone bound to another DJI account to have it covered by Care Refresh isn't workable.

Thanks, Miro. I don't doubt that the program is safe. Norton seems overly protective sometimes. I'll have another try on a different computer and browser. UPDATE: Reported to Norton as a false notification.

The Care Refresh would be attached to the account under which it was purchased, the previous owner of the drone.

Norton flags that address as being blacklisted. Any thoughts on what's causing that? Thanks for offering this up, by the way.

Looks right to me, with one exception in item 2. There's no absolute altitude cap, just 400' above the top of the structure. So, you could climb to 1400' AGL over a 1000' AGL structure. On added requirement - Part 107 pilots flying above 400' AGL over structures are required to remain within...

It it's in a sealed box, it's not been bound.