Recent content by cjc1103

I don't know what this guy was thinking, or if he saw the helicopter. Perhaps he was operating beyond LOS and couldn't see the drone. https://www.foxnews.com/us/hollywood-man-arrested-drone-lapd-helicopter

I need to edit a picture of undeveloped land to add an outline in some contrasting color (yellow perhaps) of the property edges. I have Lightroom for post production, but I think I might need something else. Does anyone have some suggestions?

You don't need to be incorporated if you are a one man shop, just operate as a sole proprietor and get liability insurance. LLC's force you to file quarterly reports and pay extra fees and taxes. In Tennessee LLC's are taxed a percentage of their assets, this is ongoing, every year. We have lots...

I had a guy text me about taking some drone videos, and interior pictures, of two houses in my town. I'm assuming he got my phone number from my website. After some back and forth by email (he claimed he was "hard of hearing" so he couldn't talk to me on the phone), where his grammar was...

Don't waste your time

A P3P will certainly work, and is fine for learning, but it's old tech in a tech driven world. The P4 camera is equivalent to the P3P camera, and the P4 has better sensors. If you are planning to run a drone business the P4P is the gold standard at the moment, the camera has a 1" sensor. The...

Droners.io is pretty much the bottom rung.. It's a job broker, and they don't control what the client charges. Of course they take a cut. They used to only let you filter jobs by state. Recently they updated their platform to allow you to specify a range in miles from your base to be notified of...

I crashed my P4P the other day. The drone is repairable, but the battery was ejected and is damaged. There's no way to repair the batteries, so I have to dispose of it. Does anyone know how to do that safely?

The proposed rule was the FAA's wish list, which would clearly make all current drones obsolete without expensive modifications, if the manufacturers want to mod them at all. However drones are more like computers and cameras than GA aircraft. The industry moves fast, tech is obsolete after...

I usually use an box-type iPad shade, but in the summertime even that is not enough, and I have to and cool the iPad next to my car A/C vents after a couple of flights. One day I forgot the shade, and had to use the iPad by itself in the sun. Apart from having difficulty seeing the screen in the...

As I understand it, the P4P 2.0 wasn't discontinued due to lack of demand. The $150 million employee corruption/fraud caused DJI to have difficulty paying for the parts from their suppliers, in particular the camera. The other variations of the P4 (RGB and RTK) remained in production. They seem...

The FAA just released the proposed Remote ID rule for drones, which when adopted has a three year window for implementation. That means our current drones will be obsolete and illegal to use after three years. Some people are saying that three years is too long, it should be implemented sooner...

@Earthman hit the nail right on the head. I have flown several jobs through Droners.io, but the client sets the budget, which is usually too low, and even if it is realistic there is always some pilots desperate enough to work for almost nothing. It's supply and demand, baby. But as you say, you...

Dronebase, Droners.io, and Fly Guys (three of the drone job brokers I have found) are real companies, and I have gotten jobs from all of them. You're supposed to be able to tell them how far away you are willing to travel for a job, but doesn't always work out that way. Droners only lets you...

I have done several jobs for droners.io, also DroneBase, and FlyGuys. Yes, it’s a race to the bottom, too many folks out there get a drone and decide to go into business, I’m forced to bid low to compete for jobs. Meanwhile as an independent contractor I’m on the hook for transportation, taxes...