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What is Your Experience With Time Between Failure of Matrice Drones? – Ask Steve
Question: We are in Europe and flying a DJI Matrice 600 for delivery of items. I love your ambition and the work you are doing with reportdroneaccident.com! Since I consider you a very well-informed person with great subject matter expertise, I’d like to ask the following: As you know, DJI ... Read More » -
How Do I Deal With Flying the Drone Near Uncontrolled Airports? – Ask Steve
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What Should We Plan for in the Upcoming Drone Budget? – Ask Steve
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What Are Your Thoughts on the New DJI Matrice 300 RTK? – Ask Steve
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What Should I Do About My Swelling Drone Batteries? – Ask Steve
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FAA Announces Effective Dates for Final Drone Rules
The final rules requiring remote identification of drones and allowing some flights over people, over moving vehicles and at night under certain conditions will go into effect on April 21, 2021. Remote identification (Remote ID) requires identification of drones in flight as well as the location of their control stations ... Read More » -
Looking for Public Safety Pilots as Flight Tester for CFR 107.31
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Now This is a Giant COA Agency Drone Problem
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I Dug Through the Drone Remote ID Regs and You Need to Read This
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How to Create a UAS Operational Risk Assessment Document
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All Public Safety Pilots Should Take the Latest 107 Recurrent Class – Eye Opener
The FAA just came out with the new, free, online recurrence class for all Part 107 Non-Part-61 pilots. I don’t care if you are a pilot for a COA agency or flying under Part 107, the new updated information is a great refresher. I just did my updated recurrent training ... Read More » -
Remote Pilot – Small UAS – Airman Certification Standards – April 2021
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Updated Drone Training – Available Now!
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FAA Wings Program: Becoming a Better Drone Pilot, in Small Bites
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A Lazy Way to Get an Exceptional Drone Preflight Weather Briefing
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Beyond the Hype Cycle: Choosing the Right Drone Hardware for Public Safety Applications
Getting Real Results from Public Safety Drone Operations I recently learned about the Hype Cycle. It certainly seems to fit to what many early adopters have experienced in public safety drone operations. According to the Hype Cycle hypothesis, the advent of new technology is followed by a steep uptick that ... Read More » -
Airborne Optical Sectioning – We Can See Through Trees
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Five Airports Selected to Test and Evaluate Unmanned Aircraft Detection
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This Drone is Absolutely Out of This World
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Manufacturer Clearly States Thermal Camera Can’t See Through Trees
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Attorney Jonathan Rupprecht Talks About Drone Aviation Legal Traps – S1E3
Jonathan Rupprecht is a recognized attorney in the drone niche. He has an extensive background in UAS aviation, and his law firm website is a wealth of information for all drone pilots. Jon is a trusted source of information, and he spends a lot of time helping to understand issues that impact ... Read More » -
Checklists, Fear, Panic, Experience, and FAA Expectations – S1E2
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Making Good Choices in a Fast Moving Drone Field – S1E1
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