Recent content by WahooBadger

The price seems very fair and I've been sorta looking for a backup for my Mavic 2 Zoom. Any idea what shipping/fees would run me to get it to Virginia zip 23055?

Thanks to all for input to my original request. To clarify a bit, this item - I call it "An Eagle's Eye View ... of YOU" - will hopefully spark the interest of people who do not have drones and want to see what their property or some activity they engage in would look like to a Bald Eagle (the...

I am familiar with that, I shot some video of a fundraiser for a different animal rescue org and got the one day policy for 10 to 20 bucks.

I have accepted a request from the president of a nonprofit I volunteer for to do a drone video/photo shoot within a 100 mile radius of the organization for the high bidder in an auction that will take place at their big annual fiundraiser in October. I don't have a business, I just like flying...

First try with a 92 score last April. I used a number of free resources and a $5 app on my phone for study and practice tests.

This weekend I expect to fly a mission wholly inside a DJI Altitude Zone - it is part of a long zone connected with the local airport, but outside the area where I would need FAA authorization. You got warnings etc when you flew INTO an Altitude Zone. Do you know what happens if you want to...

Tomorrow I will be shooting some 2 Zoom video of a friend's Frisbee disc golf course, some of the holes of which are in the woods. The walking paths are wide and I'll be flying slow with clear line of sight and no more than 50 yards from the drone. I will complete each mission well before the...

I used a lot of free resources to study and took a lot of practice tests, always getting scores above 90. When I took the real test in April, it was a lot tougher than I expected. Questions were worded differently, different airports were used for the sectional chart questions, etc. It is...

Congratulations! I passed my test last Thursday, and printed my Temporary Airman Certificate ten minutes ago. Feels GREAT to have it, with some great opportunities coming up that would surely meet the criteria for commercial activity, even though for me they will be pure fun flying my drone in...

My pleasure! I've gotten a lot of help over the 8 months or so I've had my Mavic Zoom, I'm happy to give back a little.

A post somewhere on this forum not long ago led me to this page on FAA website: https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over_people/ At the bottom of the article is a link to the four page PDF file that is the Executive Summary of the new rules. I read this article and saved the...

Drat - I never thought to ask :-(

Thanks for the reply - that's about what I figured, and really the way it should be.

In a fine example of poor timing, I scheduled my Part 107 test for April 8, well before the new protocols on ops over people and night ops are to go into effect, but two days AFTER material on those protocols began to be tested. I had done a bit of study on those and there were only a couple...

A few weeks back I took my Mavic 2 Zoom to the local radio control flying field to test both fail safe RTH and low battery RTH. Took off, ascended to 50 feet and flew out 100 feet or so and then shut off the controller. Maybe 10 seconds later, drone executed RTH. Then, relaunched, flew around...