Recent content by pls1911

Unless folks simply cannot read maps or understand lat/long data, etc., I've found the free on line reviews for part 107 exams to be quite sufficient. After a week or two of intense review, take the FAA trial tests on line as well as any others easily found. These will identify areas needing...

Skeet target...

Thanks for sharing your narrow escape. Life events like this are good for anyone. My pride is repeatedly reduced to humility by applied complacency. Just returned from an annual dove hunt, so I’m REAL humble for a while... maybe a good time to fly.

More like blown away. Sorry, but flying that high and that FAR, and downwind at probably 55-60 mph ground speed (40 ambient plus drone airspeed) on half a battery.... a combination under which you’d likely never make it home against the wind anyway. Over land, maybe you’d find it. Over water, a...

Can you provide a link to that ruling? I'll print a copy and put it in my travel bag behing the MP@ protective padding. Never know when it might come in handy for discussion with any individual assuming/asserting authority without knowledge.

I this thread referring a basic operator's certificate, a renewal, or Part 107???

oops... what ThomasB said... download the video from the SD card first...

Suggestion: READ YOUR USER MANUAL THOROUGHLY! Calibrate your compass before every flight. First flight, use the auto take off function to initiate a take off and hover around 3-4 feet. Then use the auto land feature. Simple up and down. You will smile, safely get up and down. Next, do the...

the easiest way I've found to share videos is via Google Drive ap. Get into Gmail tap "the box of dots" in the top right screen sector to bring up Google aps, select DRIVE, then select you video from your file, select share, enter the email and it's "shared" via a link sent to the friend. It's...

Fabulous flying. Nicely done. Thank you. Let’s see... your visual observer must be quite an athlete to slog through the underbrush and creek bottoms to maintain a visual... HAHAhahahaha..... Cheers.

Wow... this is a steep and very slippery slope, gentlemen. And these proposals add how much the cost of quality drones? And what about paying for the additional enforcement burden, annual retraining/testing and licence fees, and point of sale purchase tax? And then what about background checks...

Been running several 107 study aids and tests for a month or so... maybe take the exam in October if the calendar clears a bit. EVERYTHING should be permanently imprinted by then or be I'll be reduced to a permanent brain fog. I find other than some basic data points and aero map reading skill...

This precisely why I believe this forum to be the best regarding DJI products. Notwithstanding the sometimes humorous /sarcastic input, invariably there are experienced and DJI tech savvy folk who are anxious to help the community through issues such as the one described by the OP. It's an...

Funny, the things we use powder scales to weigh... Powder, brass, lead, broad-heads, dry flies, and drone filters.

Central Texas...home stompin' grounds. Grew up in Austin with ranch out at Pflugerville. Still have folks there, and head from Ft Worth through Llano, Goldwaithe, Cherokee, Fredricksburg, and Harper to ranch and hunt north of Harper. Lots of history in these parts. Unusually wet this...