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You can register a drone for commercial purposes through this process?

From my understanding this happened at the beginning of the race so its doubtful it was out of power. In cold weather the amount of current a battery can discharge [the C-rating] goes down. You can exceed the burst rate of the battery even though its fully charged. There are also other...

What this isn't useful? "the amp draw exceeded the C-rating on the battery, especially when you consider the lower performance of the batteries in cold weather. It also appears that the batteries are in parallel and one battery might have been discharged or had a much lower charge on takeoff...

Nope 3DR manufactured the Pixhawk in mexico. If the Pixhawk were manufactured in Chine the military couldn't use it.

The other video was really cool, this is just a bunch of idiots. That had better be their Phantom. And people want to know why the privacy of drone owners matter...

That crash happened in Italy, they don't care about the FAA and our 333 exemptions.

The exemption doesn't grant you the authority to fly, that comes from the COA that will accompany your exemption and it specifies that the PIC must have a PPL. The operator doesn't have to be a PPL but if anything happens the PIC will lose their license. Thats' the leverage the FAA is applying...

3DR was never in charge of the development of the Pixhawk. The Pixhawk is a PX4 board that also runs ArduPilot. DroneCode has always and will continue to manage the PX4 software and hardware development. There are important differences between ArduPilot and PX4, who works on what code and...

That was awesome [until the end]...

If it makes you feel good to carp on this guy great. I guess in your own way telling the rest of us that we should be safe is cathartic. None of us were there and although its very apparent how close this was we don't know what happened. I'm not making excuses for what happened but every time...

I've seen several crashes like this with the A2. I'm not insinuating that this is an A2 but it would be good to know the C-rating on the battery. X8/Octo's don't draw a lot of amps at a hover if the throttle is less than 50%. It didn't appear to be a heavy camera and gimbal, but this...

The thing to keep in mind is that this is a going out of business sale. 3DR isn't going out of business but they will no longer be conducting business in the DIY market so no matter what price you get the parts for they will no longer be supported or available. I'm guessing if they raised...

This is such a joke. I just spoke to a friend in Chicago who registered his drone and when he received his certificate it had someone else's contact information. Can you imagine how much this is going to cost taxpayers because they refund ten times as much as they take in. At least if...

3DR shut down their manufacturing in Mexico, they will no longer sell anything other than SOLO after the end of the month so they'll probably shut down their facility in San Diego and all fulfillment will be out of China. They have openly acknowledged that they are out of the DIY and commercial...

We built a website, produced the video, tried to get you to support our efforts to get others to join but you wanted everyone to support the Small UAV Coalition and Brendan Schulman. How did that Coalition thing work out? Lets see, what happened to Brendan Schulman "the Drone Lawyer? Oh...

Some of us spoke up loudly and often way before any of this crap started and were pretty much told to shut up if I remember correctly... http://www.acuas.org/

I see your point. Its like everything the government does, they will tell us how to do something then there will be the actual way it gets done. Hey I was going to bring women, but ok foil it is..

Did you expect anything different? Pat are you becoming a prepper? I'm working with a joint task force which includes the Navy, FBI, Coast Guard, Army, all the usual suspects, I know you've worked in that environment too, and the regulatory issues effects them as much as us and they react...

If no one registers what are they going to do? Its not like they can afford to enforce this. [note to IRS, I'm just quoting Pat...]

EVERYONE should mail in their $5 in pennies. Make the bastards count them.