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FAA Drone Safety Update

FAA Flight Over People

FAA Safety Warning

Materials – Flight At Night

FAA Training Notice – Notice Number: NOTC1758

Time for some training for you Part 107 license holders… Waiver updates coming April 21, requirements for flight at night or over people or moving vehicles still require waivers until said date. However, moving forward waivers and requirements needed additional ‘clarification’. My assumption after a few conversations with the FAA, licensing and testing is set to change here at some point. Additional assumption, licensing might be handled more like boat licensing here in the State of Florida. Class, cert… fly. Let’s see what makes it through as far as updates, updated regs. Not comfortable at this time speculating on what is going to change, how and when. You be the judge!

Side note, we continue to use and test Airmaps as described on Airmaps (lost some forum responses in a purge, hit by a spammer attack, posting below), FAA’s Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) B4UFLY App, FAA DroneZone, ring the ole’ FAA tele or email for clarification. Fairly straight forward.

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The FAA's B4UFLY App FAA DroneZone

Airfield Bound

RC Airfield

The PH4 At The Airfield

Lab Work – PH4V2 Gimbal

Airfield Bound – PH4V2 FIXED

Fixed Gimbal, freshly removed from the DJI packaging and repacked for the airfield… Airfield BOUND! Re-posted. Nice to see the drone back in working order, taking to the sky again. Must do, need to put the drone through its paces…

I don’t normally call out manufactures content or help videos, however, added a few drone shots, The Reveal, Panning, Orbit and Overhead Flight. DJI has nice article on drone shots, and how you might incorporate those shots into your flying arsenal.

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Fresh Flying Day

Flight Test

PH4 On The Bench – Flight Test

DJI Phantom4 Gimbal Issues

Lab Work – Gimbal Issues

DJI Gimbal FIXED

Fixed Gimbal, flight test sequence begin… need to put the drone through its paces… We take the DJI Phantom 4 out for test run following it’s time ‘in the DJI shop’ for repair. See our previous post specifically on the gimbal issues. Unfortunately we were not able to revive our video capturing the gimbal issues. So a quick synopsis and a few photos will have to do en lue of the video. Anyhow, if you have a similar issues, its best to reach out to DJI if the device is still under warranty. If not, give me a shout.

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Reveal - Lens On Landing Pad - Takeoff Landing Pad - Takeoff Landing Pad - Takeoff Landing Pad - Takeoff

DJI Fix

Gimbal Issues, Gimbal Motor Replacement

Gimbal Issues Resolved

Lab Work – DJI Fix

Back To The Field FIXED

Airfield day is here… After 25+ days or so, received this beaut in the mail. A package arrived with some sense of anxiety. What was fixed? How long would it take to get the drone fixed if this didn’t get fixed the first time? What was added to my drone? Is this my drone, or some other drone? IS THIS MY DJI P4ProV2, and is it in working condition… are the gimbal, gimbal motors fixed. Will the gimbal motors fail again? I hope not, cause it is field day.

Update to come, will include video of the airfield, highlight different maneuvers and views. Or just check the above post… Also a repost.

DJI Gimbal Grumble

DJI Blunders, Days Wasted Away

Phantom Gimbal Issues

Lab Work – DJI Issues

Diagnosis, bleak…camera, camera gimbal inoperable, the 45° gimbal tilt, right of center is a known issue coming out of the factory…

Gimbal alignment, gimbal motor trouble(s). So, I thought I would re-post this ‘dm’ which included a 24+ day duration from workshop-to-DJI and back.

Keep in mind, ‘repair days’ are only calculated as ‘days in repair’ when the device is received by a DJI facility here in the US (CA? Maybe) or abroad (** the total # of repair days do not include ‘in transit’ days and not included in the UI status tracker **). Bummer! What malarkey! Good to know now folks! Yes, from a customers perspective, this was a nightmare. ‘Hey, we don’t count the time it take to and from customer to DJI and back, sorry about that…’ Also, assuming most of you, me included, we just don’t have a second Phantom 4 ProV2 just laying around the shop. Say, something like a defective gimbal, defective gimbal motor(s)? Moreover, a brand new drone was shipped back to DJI for repair. A nightmare I would prefer to not have again.

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Power Down DJI PH4 Repack For Repair - DJI PH4

EMAX_TH2

Night Flight – EMAX TH2 Unboxing & Test Flight

Lab Work – TH2 Test Flight

We Unbox The EMAX TH2

Pulling this off the ‘heap of old’ posts, archive posts if you will. While looking over now decommissioned social media posts… thought I would share the (( GEM )), here is the EMAX Tiny Hawk 2 unboxing from early ’20.

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EMAX TH2 Night Flight EMAX TH2 Parts EMAX TH2 Night Flight

PH4ProV2 Drone Shots

Views, Shots and Maneuvers

Venice Airfield - Overhead

Lab Work – Drone Photos And Videos

Drone Shots

New Drone, new gear, ‘ENGAGE’ (Cap. Jean-Luc Picard)… StarTrek Fan? No? Look it up! (Joking) It’s ok if you’ve skipped Star Trek, no time lost per say. Here are a few shots of the airfield down in Venice, Florida – Venice Flyers Airfield. We put the drone through it’s paces, high’s and low’s… Got to take in the views this drone can produce, still one of the best, sub $4K and this drone model is a few years old now.

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PH4 - Air Strip Front View Air Strip, 75% View RC Flight - In Flight Flight Test - Flight Deck Air Strip, Up in the Clouds PH4 Overhead