Recent content by Robert Prior

I fly my Phantom 4 with an iPad Mini 2 without problems. Haven't flown that drone since the fall, though, so it's possible a recent software update might have had an effect.

Looks similar to Canada Drone Pilot's map. Assuming that's the case, red would be certified airports, orange registered ones. As I understand it, the 5.6 km prohibition applies only to certified airports; we can fly closer to registered ones if we exercise due caution.

I think what's happening is that AirMap is drawing a 5.6 km radius around every airport, whether or not it's certified, while the NRC is only drawing it around certified airports (which matches current regulations). As I understand it (and I'm not a lawyer) we are only prohibited from flying...

Nice shot. I took a look at Barrie using the National Research Council's drone site selection tool. It looks like you'd be legal to fly pretty well anywhere over the water except Orillia. https://nrc.canada.ca/en/drone-tool/ Heliports aren't 5.6 km radius, they're 1.9 km so the hospital's...

It would take about 5 seconds to fall from that height (assuming I did the sums correctly). So if it happened to be travelling at 6 m/s horizontally it would travel about 30 m while falling (treating it as a projectile, so ignoring air resistance). As the Phantom 4 can travel at 20 m/s by the...

Teaching my grandmother to suck eggs… Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

If you take lots of shots from the same spot (without moving the drone) you can stack them in Photoshop (or Affinity Photo) and get a brighter/sharper image that way. Astrophotographers use that trick a lot. Using my favourite Affinity Photo...

I'd be interested in your results. Barrie is only an hour away — worth making the trip if I can get some cool shots!

I stick to VLOS too, which means I rarely get that far away. I've been thinking about a strobe or something to make my drone easier to pick out during the day. (A couple of times I've looked down at the controller to take a series of pictures, and had trouble picking the drone out when I looked...

I passed last weekend. I found Don Joyce's video very helpful. I do confess to being baffled by some of the questions. Did you cover Catapult Theory in your ground school? I gota question on catapult launchers wrong and they told me to review Catapult Theory but I can't find any references to it.

Up here in Canada you need to pass a Flight Review as well as an exam to get your Pilot Certificate - Advanced. The flight review process seems to be a bit Wild West at the moment with authorized flight reviewers able to charge what they think the market will bear (I've seem posts here of people...

If you are batching a lot of photos and/or don't want to spend a lot of time post-processing AirMagic is a decent app (based on the examples — my computer is a generation too old to run it.) You can do everything it does in Photoshop or a similar editor*, but if you don't want to spend the...

According to 901.39, as long as the pilot and visual observer(s) can see the drone, you're OK. Depending on the visual environment you'll be flying in, and your eyes, an add-on strobe wouldn't be a bad idea to make your drone easier to follow.

I would look at Getty Images to see what they charge for the size (in pixels) that the college wants, then go 1/3 to 1/2 that. Getty charges 60-80% 'commission' on their sales — which is one reason I'm no longer with them — so this would give you more than you'd get going through a stock agency...

I'm looking at getting Canada Drone Pilot. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/drone-pilot-canada/id1455291540?mt=8 (Android version also available.) Displays Canadian airspace restrictions (which I need) and allows manual logging (which will be handy as I don't want to run two apps at once on my...