Recent content by Ravenflight

That's good input. Something to be thinking about for sure. The market I have in mind will easily pay for the software. I feel pretty confident about entering this market because I already have a lot of the skills, equipment and experience to do this kind of work. The mapping/modelling piece is...

More great information! Thank you! I think I can make a good start with what you've given me here. I'm excited to get started. :)

This is fantastic information! Thank you! Learning about your workflow is very helpful. I've used a free 30-day trial of DroneDeploy a little over a year ago to see what it was capable of. The flight planning was nice and easy to use and the way it would create 3D models from nadir and oblique...

No, I hadn't heard of it. I'm checking it out now. Thanks!

I want to learn to make 2D/3D maps to use in web applications. I've studied it some but I'm a little overwhelmed by it all. My impression at this point is that ArcGIS is the software I need to learn to make any kind of map and to put a map on the web I'm going to need some kind of tile server...

If you'll look closer you'll see that most if not all of the fatal accidents caused by bird strikes involved multiple strikes from a flock of birds (usually geese, which typically weigh between 10 and 20 pounds--much larger than most drones). Flocks of 15-lbs drones aren't a thing as far as I'm...

I have not at all felt personally attacked by you or anyone else here and I hope no one feels that I have attacked them either. Thank you for saying that. Here's the Argentinian incident: Incident: Argentinas B738 at Buenos Aires on Nov 11th 2017, drone strike The damage was so minor that...

Yes, I certainly didn't intend to make light of the situation. Monetary damages are not insignificant (do people insure planes against accidents the way they do cars?) and there is some real danger to people. I intended only to speak out against what I see as a common but grossly exaggerated...

No worries. Definitely an easy thing to do. :) Yeah, I think you're probably right. Maybe in the future as things start to settle, the aircraft get more advanced and reliable and legal precedents are set then more operators and aircraft could be approved for something like this. Survey and...

I did not know that but my post did not comment on the complexity of the process. I stated only that it was possible and, once done, makes these features legal to use. An entirely true statement. DJI, Litchi, Hangar, etc. do not and cannot know whether a user has obtained the requisite...

When I said accidents I meant crashes but I suppose you are correct that a drone making contact with a plane is technically an accident. However, the scratches and dents that resulted in no way jeopardized the aircraft. Look at this: This was caused by a bird strike. Could a drone cause more...

I agree. My point wasn't that doing so was justified but that all the hand-wringing and hyperbole isn't warranted or helpful. There have been no accidents and the number of actual incidents is negligible. The only significant increase has been in the coverage of the incidents. But the laws are...

Okay, so your concern is about the PR aspect of it. "The optics" as they call it these days. That's valid. I think you're right that there's an undercurrent of fear or mistrust of them in the general public and the drone community may need to work to combat that. Perception is reality and facts...

I think you may have misunderstood me, or I you. I wasn't comparing the lives of birds with the lives of humans. My point was that I don't see how a drone crashing into a plane is any more likely to cause an accident than a bird strike. While it is possible for a bird strike to cause an accident...

While I would never do something like this and have no desire to flagrantly disregard the law, I feel like all the outrage is little more than typical Internet sensationalism. Assuming this is real, how is it more dangerous than a flock of birds flying by?