Recent content by iaincaradoc

I've been using Aloft. Drawing the flight area's kind of a pain when you're somewhere that the default area overlaps another grid square, but otherwise it works pretty well.

It's likely they're going to send you a rubber check, for more than the job would actually pay, with instructions that you pay some subcontractor for something along the way. Then you're out the money you've paid the "subcontractor" when the check gets bounced a few days after you've paid them...

No, and when I inquired about it they told me I wasn't in their target demographic.

Not only do they not want to sell, they don't even want to *talk* to you. This is a quote, directly from Skydio, in response to my inquiry after they suggested I look at the Skydio 2, and I replied that I was looking for thermal capabilities: "That is correct. Skydio 2 is not thermal-capable...

Usually. And then there's... this. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/oxford-comma-maine.html Dad was a lawyer. I've heard a lot of stories concerning minutiae in the law.

In weirder news, I *just* got the e-mail this morning telling me my temporary certificate was available to print. As noted above, the actual plastic arrived on July 18th. I guess they're a little back-logged.

The two-way radio requirement seems weird to me. I just got a COA for airspace near KLUF, and they just wanted to make sure I had the ATC phone number, and ATC has my phone number.

Note: My 107.29 waiver (based heavily on the "KittyHawk" text) was just approved. Elapsed time from application: thirteen days.

Twenty minutes? I'll pass, thanks.

...and the plastic has arrived!

My website/gallery is in my signature line. I shoot mostly weather/lightning and local theatre productions.

Oh, no worries on the search functions. I've been "online" in one forum or another since 1980.

I'm in southern Scottsdale. Been a photographer for a few decades, and with recent mobility issues have been very interested in more work with a camera that flies. Passed the exam on 6/18, still waiting for my plastic.

Here: https://kittyhawk.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Kittyhawk-107.29-Night-Waiver-application.pdf