Recent content by TonyPHX

Wife enters the room and asks "Honey, what is that constant thumping on the roof?" Man exhales looking exasperated and says "Oh- that is just our next door neighbor Bob doing touch and go's with his drone. He is starting a roof inspection business and wants to get so close that he lands...

They can still repair it though. They will charge for whatever is wrong and ship you back a refurb. Worth doing asap.

The worst are those **** birds that nest right on a commericial property where you are trying do do a orthomap. : )

Same @RangerEd

It would depend on my intent. Since I do see value in have a generative AI provide responses in a forum, I would not invest much effort in guidance. However in general, I break my prompt up into sections labeled: personality, task, guidance, and guardrails. For guardrails, in this case just...

Readying AI generated discussion is painful. Much too verbose when your prompt does not have the appropriate guardrails.

i have a regular 2200+ acre mapping job that has zero obstacles to avoid, and turn off the OA. Keeps the weird times that the drone sees the sun from slowing me down. : )

Beautiful. Thank you @Vic Moss. It is good to know sanity can prevail from time to time.

@Vic Moss - any updates on this from Wyoming? I consider the advocacy of you and the DSPA a main reason I intend to remain a member forever. : )

You know, I never used to think highly when forums would close or lock a thread. I always felt like it prematurely cut off intelligent discussion or differing viewpoints. Now, I see the wisdom of it.

There are not enough dirty words in the book to describe that "pilot". Needs to have license suspended, and pull out the checkbook. Clown. How in the hell do you not hear and see a helicopter? Very frustrating.

Florida. Story checks out.

I agree. While doing something illegal is by definition illegal, I think you would be hard pressed to find them willing to go after you for just discussing it.

Yep, you never want to be in possession of stolen property.

I just decided to renew on UAV Forecast because I do find it useful. Also, with the website, it can be good to use as a mechanism to come to agreements with customers about cloud conditions. It is pretty reasonable on the pricing for a tool that gets used.