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A TFR notice should generate a console warning for the operator and not take over control of the aircraft. If a private jet flies over a sporting event should the jet manufacturer be able to kill power to the jet engines and force a landing? In California most TFR notices relate to an ongoing...

I live within 15 miles of an airport and the private planes completely ignore the minimum altitude regulations for the airspace around it. How could the FAA regulate private planes even if it wanted to do so? I have the Oracle stunt plane over my neighborhood doing hammerheads and stalls at...

You are lucky to only lose 3 batteries. If one had experienced runaway and burst into flames as has happened with cell phones left in cars, you could have lost your truck. It can get over 170 degrees in a vehicle left out in the sun and electronics can have problems with termperatures over 110...

H.265 provides for more data compression of video files so less bandwidth is needed for streaming and nothing more. It also requires more than 10 times as much processing power do decrypt the data which is why it will take a whole new generation of monitors and video transcoders to process in...

DaVinci Resolve is free for a single user license and as with many editors the company provides suggested specs for the computers used for best performance. Adobe products now make use of more cores but I believe it is 10 cores at most so having a processor with more cores than that is not going...

Two dead, two injured after small plane crashes into house in Yorba Linda neighborhood Feb 3, 2019 - Homes on fire after small plane crashes into Yorba Linda neighborhood Firefighters responded to the scene of a plane crash Sunday afternoon in Yorba Linda, where a Cessna was believed to have...

The two airports near me do not have manned control towers so no point in leaving a message on their answering machine. Around a controlled airspace it seems wisest to stay below 500 feet regardless of ones certification or any permission one has received. I have an issue where I live by a...

The bride hired the video people so it started with her. Flying over the people to give a bird's eye view is stupid even from the perspective of the resulting footage showing the tops of people's heads or those flashing the bird at the drones. Wedding videographers as a group are not the most...

DJI recommends keeping the battery pack partially charged "Discharge the battery to 40%-65% if it will NOT be used for 10 days or more. This can greatly extend the battery life". They recommend using the battery pack to operate the aircraft to get it down to this charge level. With my other...

The bombers had poor defensive armament and so flew only at night and let the American B-24 bombers do the real heavy lifting. Similar issue with the Spitfire when matched against the German Bf 109 fighter planes. Fortunately the Germans had committed the vast majority of their military might...

What is surprising is how much of it is discarded trash from the locals and not tourist type litter.

Cables are not simple like an extension cord for a home appliance. Folks found out in the 1980's with RS-232 cables that were limited to distances for transmitting data of about 50 feet. RS-232 was developed to connect a teletype machine to the wall and expected to have cables of 15 feet or less...

H.265 is also in the process of being replaced with AV1 which is royalty free unlike HEVC where the costs increased a great deal over H.264. There are changes taking place and they are being pushed by the big dogs in AOMedia whose founders include Netflix, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google...

H.265 was created to provide a smaller (more compressed) data stream for distribution of video. It is a last step before distributing a video after post. At that point it matters little how long this compression requires as it is a one time last step in the process. For video streaming it will...

H.265 requires 10x the processing power to compress and decompress the data and that is why it is not likely to be widely used for many years. A smaller file is of less value when the decompression adds more time than is saved by transmitting a smaller file. The intent of H.265 was to create a...