Recent content by tkinva

It's deja vu, all over again. Mozambique Incident Did NOT Involve a Drone Consider the odds of a drone occupying the exact same 4-dimensional space as the plane's radome. Dead-on. Not even a little bit off (it would have left marks on other parts of the plane). And it should be "jet strikes...

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Hi Naz, Still here. I don't know about James Long Park. There are some really secluded areas if you walk far enough away from the parking areas. You might be able to fly from the soccer fields when there is no game going on. I don't think there are any signs forbidding drones, and others...

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta gave a speech at the Paris airshow that covered a lot of drone-related topics. Full story here: FAA Still Taking Names for Drone Registry after Court Ruling Most interesting quote: "Huerta suggested there may be a distinction made between model aircraft or...

I assume you Know about this No Drive Zone. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2017-05-26/massive-big-sur-landslide-could-keep-highway-closed-1-year -- Here's a panorama from my Mavic, and two more - - Art from the Air - -

Go to Amazon. Look for a "portable" external drive. These drives are powered through the USB port and don't require a separate power supply. You can buy a Western Digital portable 4TB drive for about $120. Smaller sizes cost less. Stay away from Seagate. They have a higher failure rate. --...

If you are shooting your panoramas with the Litchi pano mode, you might want to consider putting your camera into portrait mode. This will give you a better row height, you will need fewer rows, and the panoramas will blend better. You will need to shoot more images per row. You can tweak Litchi...

If they were to announce a Mavic II today, it probably wouldn't be available for months. It's summer. Buy your Mavic and fly now. Don't postpone joy. -- Hidden views -- Discoveries from my drone - - Art from the Air - -

FAA doesn't like local regulations that interfere with their dominion over the National Air Space. FAA Issues Fact Sheet on State and Local UAS Laws Since the FAA considers drones to be aircraft, limiting drone flights may also, by implication, involve any aircraft passing over that location...

Well, I'm west of you, off of Route 15. You're welcome to fly here. Weather doesn't look so good for the next couple of days. Send me an email or whatever. -- Here's a panorama from my Mavic, and two more - - Art from the Air - -

I wonder what will happen when several hundred people a day start calling them. Where are you flying from, relative to Dulles? If you look at my earlier messages in this thread, you'll see where I'm located. -- Will the FAA stop regulating hobby drones? - - Art from the Air - -

I rarely shoot stills anymore. I'm shooting 4K - 4096 x 2160 - 24fps. The quality is about the same as with still shots, but cropped to 8 megapixels. -- You can see some shots here. Most are from video capture - - Art from the Air - -

I'm about 6 miles west of Dulles, so no problems flying here. When you call Dulles, who do you talk to, and what do you tell them? -- Hidden views -- Discoveries from my drone - - Art from the Air - -

The interesting thing is that there is no FAA site you can go to if you want to find the current status of the registration requirement. I guess that a lot of people are still registering their new drones, even though they don't have to. Here's an example: sUAS Registration If you go to this...

For anyone old enough to remember a real war (I remember WW II), the word "strafe" has a very negative connotation. -- Here's a panorama from my Mavic, and two more - - Art from the Air - -