Recent content by DCDrone

Currently, Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR), which runs the state parks, has no regs on the books, so it isn't technically prohibited. They've said in the past that they were working on regs, but that seems to have bogged down. Still, I would use a great deal of discretion, choose my...

Yup. I've found my own little "secret spot" in a MNCPPC park, just outside the FRZ, where I'm unlikely to encounter any imperial resistance, or bother anyone (always a goal).

Thanks. Fascinating. MNCPPC, which controls almost all the parks in suburban MD, has a prohibition against the use of powered model airplanes and rockets (which they apply to drones), but not drones. Even assuming the statute isn't retroactive, I guess MNCPPC parks are now a drone-friendly site.

1. These people weren't performing in a public area. They were trying to have some private time out on the water, and you stalked them. 2. You're not a reporter, who I guess we tolerate more because they're media. You were stalking them at a time when they certainly were doing nothing...

"If you are in the path of a manned aircraft CSC might be the only way out of the situation. You're much better off replacing the toy aircraft rather than risking life and limb of the people/person in the MANNED aircraft." +1 on that. Not killing people is more important than protecting your...

I flew in a park that I knew prohibited only, "powered model airplanes and rockets." A park policeman told me I couldn't fly there. I asked what the rule was, he cited me the rule I already knew. I commented that it wasn't an airplane or a rocket, but that I'd leave if he wanted me to. He...

Seems to me that if some traditional types of aircraft have minimum altitudes below our maximum altitude, these sorts of things are going to happen from time to time. Presumably, they will typically end the same way, with the drone getting the hell out of the way. I guess that in a worst...

The law about low-altitude flights over private property is unclear, and anyone who says otherwise is blowing smoke. The best solution, as some folks are saying, is to try to avoid having it become and issue. Your neighbor seems a little hypersensitive, but I'd just avoid that flight path as...

I'm not familiar with the calibration process or its efficacy, but I've heard of people kludging it by taping a very small weight (like a dime) to one of the struts to level it off.

LOL! How old are you? Like there weren't any abusive and dictatorial cops before 2001! (actually.... I think police have gotten a lot better over the years) What aspect of the Patriot Act do you think gave local police "carte blanche to harass us" ?

Great story! Hope no one misinterprets the sign! LOL

Where are you getting that the police "have to respond" every time someone makes a frivolous complaint? That may be a policy that your department, and others, have created for political reasons, but is there some law that says that? It actually creates problems, because you go to a scene and...

I'll offer a sideways solution to that problem. I use a wonderful video editing tool call "video download capture" by apowersoft.com Among other features, you can crop the screen of a video clip. So... if you can't get quite as close as you like, you can crop the screen down to, in effect, zoom...

Yeah, but every morning when I wake up.... same girlfriend. ;) To the OP's point... I've followed sound advice not to upgrade anything until you need the benefits of an upgrade. I bricked my Taranis radio by attempting to upgrade the firmware, and it took me many hours of work to undo it...