Everynight I get a lot of articles on the FAA and drones, to say. I like the UAV term to me Drone sounds dirty. Over the past week I have seen some thing that have caught my eyes I thought I would share
the first link comes from a guy who thought getting video from the Adoms Morgan area in DC would be a fun thing to do. Never mind its a very congested area, but as reported in the article he was using a $700 Chinese made drone, by the image looking like an xaircraft, now being someone who was lured in the multirotor area by the price of xaircraft, I shortly learned that you get what you paid for and soon determined my direction of choice needed improvement. But to hear that someone was flying around the DC metro area with one of these did not surprise me with the result, never mind the FAA giving him a call just to make sure he understood the 2009 NOTAM that was in effect over the DC skies.
To me this is the type of things people are doing out there. Anyways here is the link to the article.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/09/the-faa-and-the-lawfare-drone-smackdown/
this article talks about a man in Knoxville Tennessee doing aerial photography from a multirotor, what I found interesting was this comment which makes me understanding why people are confused on the FAA rules when it come to flying these things on a commercial level.
A spokeswoman for the FAA said that "it is not legal for a company to use small unmanned aircraft for commercial photography. We have asked operators in various locations around the country to stop those operations."
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/23/maryville-photographer-uses-drone-technology/
The last one came across the wire yesterday, it is about the guys of HoverFlow and what they are doing may test the FAA rulings. Two things caught my eye, one in the article and another in the comments at the bottom.
Comment in the bottom - The FAA announced in February that compliance guidelines for SUASs would be published in 180 days. The August 12 deadline has passed and HoverFlow is just one of hundreds of small businesses around the country awaiting new regulations that will formalize the use of such devices for commercial applications.
In the article - Trafford said HoverFlow charges $1,000 for a roughly 10-minute flight, which includes setup, photographs and videos.
$1000 for a ten minute flight, that sound like a good deal, ....... What !!!!! - I guess the market will fill the demand with a fair price, I am not sure where I would go with this one. Multirotor which I can get some angles a regular helicopter just can not go, or $3300 an hour. For HD video off a $500,000 gyro driven Cineflex system. If you break down the cost the multirotor is $100 per minute or $1.66 per second of video, the HD Astar helicopter is $55 a minute or 91 cents per second.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/aerial-photos-by-drone-may-test-faa-rule_2012-09-15.html
all in fun, just keeping my eyes out on the realm trying to figure it all out.
cheers all
the first link comes from a guy who thought getting video from the Adoms Morgan area in DC would be a fun thing to do. Never mind its a very congested area, but as reported in the article he was using a $700 Chinese made drone, by the image looking like an xaircraft, now being someone who was lured in the multirotor area by the price of xaircraft, I shortly learned that you get what you paid for and soon determined my direction of choice needed improvement. But to hear that someone was flying around the DC metro area with one of these did not surprise me with the result, never mind the FAA giving him a call just to make sure he understood the 2009 NOTAM that was in effect over the DC skies.
To me this is the type of things people are doing out there. Anyways here is the link to the article.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/09/the-faa-and-the-lawfare-drone-smackdown/
this article talks about a man in Knoxville Tennessee doing aerial photography from a multirotor, what I found interesting was this comment which makes me understanding why people are confused on the FAA rules when it come to flying these things on a commercial level.
A spokeswoman for the FAA said that "it is not legal for a company to use small unmanned aircraft for commercial photography. We have asked operators in various locations around the country to stop those operations."
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/23/maryville-photographer-uses-drone-technology/
The last one came across the wire yesterday, it is about the guys of HoverFlow and what they are doing may test the FAA rulings. Two things caught my eye, one in the article and another in the comments at the bottom.
Comment in the bottom - The FAA announced in February that compliance guidelines for SUASs would be published in 180 days. The August 12 deadline has passed and HoverFlow is just one of hundreds of small businesses around the country awaiting new regulations that will formalize the use of such devices for commercial applications.
In the article - Trafford said HoverFlow charges $1,000 for a roughly 10-minute flight, which includes setup, photographs and videos.
$1000 for a ten minute flight, that sound like a good deal, ....... What !!!!! - I guess the market will fill the demand with a fair price, I am not sure where I would go with this one. Multirotor which I can get some angles a regular helicopter just can not go, or $3300 an hour. For HD video off a $500,000 gyro driven Cineflex system. If you break down the cost the multirotor is $100 per minute or $1.66 per second of video, the HD Astar helicopter is $55 a minute or 91 cents per second.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/aerial-photos-by-drone-may-test-faa-rule_2012-09-15.html
all in fun, just keeping my eyes out on the realm trying to figure it all out.
cheers all
