Recent content by Slade Steele

I'm in the same situation in Florida. The beginning of this year initiated the DJI exclusion laws. Before that I was working with fire departments, sheriff's units, and other state agencies. But that's all done now. I do some private search and rescue for both people and a lot for pets but I...

For right now, it's all volunteer work.

I work with a search and rescue group but a good part of it was from monitoring the Florida SARnet frequency on amateur radio. Folks would put out a call for assistance and if I was available, I would respond. As far as post rescue work goes, my brother and a friend of mine are in the business...

So I think I just sent you a PM but only time will tell.

It's an absolute beast. I used it for search and rescue missions down in Fort Myers and the barrier islands after Ian and I'm still using it for damage assessment and searching for people's pets and other stuff in the central area of Florida where the floods destroyed so much property. It's...

Thank you. Standing by. One other question. Wonder if you or anyone has any experience with the drone mapping courses offered by PilotInstitute.com. It looks fairly complete but not knowing much about mapping I don't know if it is adequate to help someone get started. Any thoughts?

Thank you so much for your response. I have a very powerful computer (Dell 7920 with dual 10-core Xeon processors, 6 x 1 TB solid state drives and 256 gb RAM) and don't have a problem getting the 3E. I think I have a lot of learning to do so if you ever want an intern (old intern), let me...

Welcome from Spring Hill florida. I was actually down there right after hurricane Ian flying overwatch for a couple of the search and rescue canine teams. And then we did a little bit of damage assessment as well but haven't been down there in the last week or two. Would love to get together...

I have been flying drones since 2010 and much of my current work is in the SAR area and more complex inspections. I have a M30T that works great for what I do but I have been thinking about expanding into mapping and really don't know much about it. I am looking at the DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise E...

Welcome. I am in Spring Hill just north of Tampa. Just got the new M30t, just in time for Florida to begin enforcing their ban on all DJI drones for government agencies. Includes LE, fire/rescue, FWC, etc. Let me know if you get up this way. Some cool places to fly

I am on the pilot 2 app and I know that it's capable of mapping missions but I have never done anything like that so I really don't know what the capability is or what software would be involved in that type of work.

Want me to send you some of the thermal raws to look at?

It uses a .jpg that is compatible with the DJI thermal app but not the FLIR studio. I purchased an app that converts to the FLIR platform so I can use that one instead.

Not totally sure yet. My main goal is to work in public safety; with LEO, fire, SAR, Predator control, etc. Will start exploring with potential customers in the next week or so. I uses the new Pilot 2 app and is pretty amazing (but only one flight so far). Going to take it up today in higher...