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Recent content by Richard Ruckert

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    Flying over people and/or moving vehicles

    No doubt, and I apologize for being so blunt. I have been flying a drone for only 1.5 years. I never flew fixed wing. When I first began, the drone had a limit of 500M distance, and I thought, "500 meters! I'll never go that far!" Well, within three months I was thinking "500 meters? Is that...
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    Flying over people and/or moving vehicles

    I don't know how you hung in there for 17 years at an AMA field. If that was my only choice, I would never have got into this hobby. Start slow, go somewhere like the lake, or a park in the early morning when few people are there. If I can avoid people, I do, but I want to fly in interesting...
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    Flying over people and/or moving vehicles

    As a hobbyist, even if you fly at the lake, or in an open field you will eventually fly over people. From my perspective it is inevitable. I think the rule is intended to be for one to not fly over crowds, and/or hover over people. I was at a hot air balloon exhibit last summer. The balloons...
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    My new beta website published ...

    looks good.Are you getting results from the site, yet?
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    Titles

    Which title/service description does the market respond best to? What services are they soliciting? Do they know that FAA is the Federal Aviation Administration, or do we just assume they do? Should there be separate business cards for roof inspection, real estate videography/photography...