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Mission was scrubbed due to poor visibility and visible moisture at the venue. But I did enjoy the ride.

Thanks. Vimeo struggles with 4K/60, too.

My old GTX 1660 was struggling to render in 4K, so I replaced it with an RTX 3060. I'd been looking for an excuse to make the 2-hour plus drive to Micro Center anyway. I threw together some old footage with challenging textures, and threw in a bunch of random effects in DaVinci resolve studio...

This was the video I was shooting when I hit the ice patch. It wanted to get some footage from the top, but a bunch of people showed up -- on Christmas day, mind you -- and the drone I was using was too heavy to safely and legally operate over them. It was just a personal job anyway, so no...

Snow tire tracks in the snow. Firestone WinterForce 2, studded. I'm pretty happy with them.

That is all. Carry on.

My younger relatives think I'm some kind of car guru because I can do an oil change or a brake job. If only they knew that I used to swap engines in my driveway. As for this case, I'm pretty sure it's still SOP to tag out unairworthy aircraft. I wonder if that was done.

Yeah, I read that earlier. Totally ridiculous. They let a spy balloon loiter over the country for a week, but they're shooting down hobby balloons on sight.

It's actually not the Chinese. https://babylonbee.com/news/ok-take-us-to-a-different-leader-say-exasperated-aliens-after-trying-to-communicate-with-joe-biden

Thanks. That was in November of 2021. It probably was one of the trips I made trying to get the frost on the trees.

Here's a shot of the dam at Waneta Lake in Sullivan County, New York from November of 2021.

Okay, thanks. Let me go try to rustle up some people.

That would be fine. A rose by any other name and all that. As for "random drone guy," there's a story behind that. I was shooting some footage of one of the old buildings down at Letchworth Village when some young people walked behind me. One asked the other, "What's that guy doing?" The other...

Maybe "Remote Pilots and Unmanned Aircraft". That's broad enough to encompass it all.

I have to admit that "Droning On and On" is catchy. The official name for a drone is sUAS (small unmanned aircraft system), and the official name for a certificated drone pilot is "Remote Pilot with a Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems rating." The certificate is issued under Part 107. There also...

It could be mutually beneficial. Most drone pilots have no experience flying Part 91, so they could learn something; and there are enough of them to create some content, some of which would be nice to look at. Add a few sub-forums for drones, training, pictures and video, rules and regs or...

Test flight done.

I did firmware updates on the airframe and all six batteries, and got my biennial recurrent training out of the way three months early. (It's easier to find the time in February when it's still dead, anyway.) The next reasonably-dry day that rolls around I'll run down to the state forest and get...

I think they're all in Ukraine.