Recent content by Eric Gildersleeve

Garret Bryl has worked with a vendor that has been very helpful to PS. I think their are rules but if you PM me I will give you the company name. They developed a way to use a laser on your aircraft some can be remotely triggered. But it works quite well to shoot a beam from the sky downwards. I...

I am glad I looked at this topic. As many of you are aware I am an sUAS program manager and pilot but fly under COA while working towards my 107. While I am unable to do any for-profit under COA, I see the potential for special projects and have discussed with several roofers and a few realtors...

No warning showed on my devices, so perhaps they just pushed this?

I am wondering the same! I am beginning to think they figured this was an interval update and not worth deep testing.

I had an issue where we updated the iPads during a routine backup and didn’t think anything of it. Went out to fly a major grassfire and couldn’t. Worst part and this may be coincidence but one of my I1P RC is now dead. It appears to have bricked the controller. I can control the airframe...

Hello. I am a Public Safety COA Program Coordinator in the DFW airspace. I wrote three COAs and would be happy to share. Our primary jurisdictional is Class B, D, G, and E. Up to 500 ft AGL and Night Authorized. I have an allowance up to 2000 ft AGL 1/4 mile around a tower outside our county...

No. I am paraphrasing an official document and speaking in geralities. The document is FOUO LE Sensitive so can not be posted online on a public forum.

DHS

The administration has nothing to do with the briefings we received. One agency that wasn’t even military put out the first briefing because someone that was an Information Technology analyst happened to setup a packet sniffing program and compared DJI software to something he personally ran on...

I will go one step further and say there are some missions related to critical infrastructure that we would not be allowed to hire someone that uses a DJI for the mission too.

While old news those of us using these aircraft in public safety are also now running into issues due to the informational bulletins that are classified or FOUO. I can not go into details on a public forum, but suffice it to say several non-military agencies are being told to mothball their...

This is interesting. I have been told by multiple FAA representatives that if the aircraft is owned by a public agency then the aircraft itself must be covered under a COA. You can fly under 107 but the aircraft itself must be under a COA. We are in multiple airspace’s of DFW, Alliance, and...

Hello, I am flying public safety missions using GS Pro to capture imagery for post processing in Drone2Map. We have the Inspire 1 Pro and the Zenmuse X5 with the DJI lens. I am having a lot of difficulty figuring out the best camera settings to get images in focus and of the highest...

Oh. Thanks. Yeah I keep that turned off. Since I can fly inside some Airports. :)

I am all good. Not sure about Adelberg. How do you turn off geofencing?