Recent content by johan

Before anyone asks, I have read the effin manual. I also went back and looked for this issue specifically and didn't see it. So if its in there, forgive me. Now on to the story. Lets start with some back story. Some months back, I was doing some flying and getting good shots. I ran one of my...

Who cares if they check it? Your responsibility is to notify them. You are not required to receive acknowledgement of the notification nor a response to it. You're a quarter mile from the outer limits of their airspace. Keep your bird under 400ft and you're very unlikely to ever be a factor for...

Seems I've pushed someone's button. Oopsy.

The only 'message' it sends me is that you'd better be legal if you're going to shoot high profile/high dollar commercial work. I suspect their intent is to frighten every Tom **** and Harry shooting real estate and the like for hobby dollars. Maybe it will actually accomplish that. Who knows...

This is not the actual fine. This is what the FAA is asking for. I would not be shocked in the actual fine ends up being substantially less.

Yes. Same as it ever was. The TSA does not provide security, that is not their job. Their job is to provide the illusion of security and they do that quite well. Get any upper echelon TSA official liqueured up enough and they will likely tell you that the know full well their methods and...

Most mics are just tiny speakers in reverse. There is a diaphragm of some sort which reacts to sound pressure and converts that into volts whereas speakers do the exact opposite, take audio signal (volts) and convert that into audio sound pressure (sound). The Beach Boys and a few others have...

The sound pressure levels from a phantom are much lower than those required to damage the mic in a gopro. However turning a mic off (which I don't believe you can do with a gopro) simply cuts off the output of the mic, but the mic itself is always 'listening' regardless of whether the output...

Got a link to the back yard thing?

Police Save Family After Baseball Invades Home Through Closed Window Police responded to a frantic 911 call from the father of a local family after their home was invaded by what appeared to be a baseball. Arriving on the scene, police found the family hiding under some Christmas decorations in...

Seems we agree more than we disagree then. Good on ya. ;-)

Meh, I see both sides of the coin on this one. If I were flying fires in a +10k lb twin or a slow moving helicopter, I would not allow the concern over swapping paint with a 2lb drone make me lose sleep at night nor stop me from fighting fires over it. I wouldn't enjoy the thought of it. But I...

EXACTLY! That is exactly what I was trying to get across. It would be one thing if the FAA was to say 'you need a 333 and a pilot cert for a full scale aircraft and that's how its always going to be' and could then presumably justify that stance. If that were the case I'd probably feel...

Mmm'Kay. So do it. I've got 3 seconds, I'll wait. You made the claim. Prove it. I'm waiting... Ah finally... You got me. I officially recant my previous statement where I said 'parks of the world' revise it to 'parks of the US'. Happy now? This is true if, and only if, you carry liability...

I suggest you do some googling on the term 'burden of proof' because you don't seem to understand the concept. I made no claim, YOU did. You are the one who suggest there was a real and measurable risk of disfiguring a little girl while doing real estate photography. You made that claim. You...