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    Pro and Cons Autel Evo 2 640T V3 vs DJI Mavic 3T

    No, it's the Countering CCP Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2864/text There is another one that is similar to above where you substitute DJI with Chinese made drones. This one is for Autel. Both ban through the FCC and in theory could include every DJI drone from...
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    Pro and Cons Autel Evo 2 640T V3 vs DJI Mavic 3T

    The bill everyone is talking about specifically is going after DJI. There is yet another one, in its infancy that is broadly worded for any Chinese drone manufacturer. Meaning, after we are done with DJI if Autel takes over their spot in the market, they will be next. IMO the DJI bill will...
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    Xponential 2024

    While I cannot speak for Dave Pitman, my take is that maybe we, the drone end users, need to hold an organization to account for possible practices that threaten our drones whether we are hobbyists, or commercial operators. This could include not spending a penny on anything related to them as...
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    Advice and critique on first customer video

    Its a good starting point. Keep at it and learn more and more and your creativity and skills will increase.
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    New Enterprise drones from Anzu Robotics with DJI hardware and Aloft software. Not Blue, not Green, but a way to skirt a possible DJI FCC ban.

    I am both happy and unhappy. On one hand we have an option of getting DJI's drones in the event of an FCC ban. This will allow for us to get the great DJI hardware. On the other hand, the pricing will have us paying more. Also will the new software integrate into everything as it does now. I...
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    New Enterprise drones from Anzu Robotics with DJI hardware and Aloft software. Not Blue, not Green, but a way to skirt a possible DJI FCC ban.

    Randall Warnas is behind the Raptor drones people have been talking about recently. They are made with DJI hardware, built in Malaysia and use American software from Aloft. They are around 40% more expensive than the DJI version, but at least if the DJI FCC ban happens, you can still have...
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    New enterprise-level drone. Inspired Flight has a Matrice 300/350 clone! Introducing the IF-800 Tomcat, medium-lift sUAS.

    Inspired Flight has a new 300/350 clone that looks very interesting. IF-800 Tomcat Link: American-Made Drones | Inspired Flight Technologies It also has a H20T clone and some very interesting payloads to include: photogrammetry cameras, LiDAR, Gas Detection (Laser and Midwave Infrared), and...
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    Pro and Cons Autel Evo 2 640T V3 vs DJI Mavic 3T

    I have a Mavic Enterprise Advanced and at work we have an Autel Dual 640. Both get the job done and both are good aircraft. The Mavic 3 T is a better choice for me since you get Flight Hub 2 with its Live Streaming, situational awareness and soon control of the drone from Flight Hub 2. You may...
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    Flying over people

    If it was Drone Base/Zeitview, they have a large number of missions asking for pilots to "break" some rules on various mission types. Maybe try and do your flights before it opens. Lighting may be a factor depending on when they open. Unfortunately, most pilots flying for Zeitview disregard...
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    DJI M3E RTK

    I am not trying to be rude, but your question has been answered multiple times. You are not accepting the answer. It was answered here: "No. For RTK to be enabled, and the drone to allow you to fly, you must have a FIX status. You can only have a FIX status when receiving corrections from the...
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    DJI M3E RTK

    No. For RTK to be enabled, and the drone to allow you to fly, you must have a FIX status. You can only have a FIX status when receiving corrections from the DJI RTK or Custom NTRIP. If you place the RTK module on your drone and do not enable RTK then you will not be using RTK. When you enable...
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    DJI M3E RTK

    When you buy and install the sold separately (Unless in a bundle) RTK module which also must be receiving corrections from a DRTK base on using Custom NTRIP, Glonass (Russian version of GPS) will be used for precise positioning and also precise coordinates will be tagged onto images via DJI Time...
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    Contour Maps and units

    For some reason links are not working all of a sudden. Google NGS Geoid 18 Computation Tool
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    Contour Maps and units

    Yes, if you gave them the data in the original PCS, it would be off since it has a different origin than the new PCS. The next problem is, what vertical system were the GCPs in? Orthometric or Ellipsoid. If ellipsoid, then the data will be in ellipsoid. If they were expecting an orthometric...
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    Contour Maps and units

    I am not following you. Did you reprocess in Drone Deploy with the new EPSG Code? And how close was vertical previously? The M3E wouldn't help here, if you are using properly measured and spaced GCP's.