Recent content by wxfloyd

My company has not purchased a drone yet. We're currently using our surveyor's Phantom 4 Pro and standard survey equipment for ground control points. We have been looking at other options outside of DJI, that are better suited (and, frankly, better designed and built) for what we need to do.

Any analog only police scanner should be able to handle air-band. I use a Uniden BC125AT, with pre-programmed frequencies for my local airports. It also can do a broad scan of the general chunk of the air band. There's other options from Uniden and Whistler. New you have a few options under...

I commented on a recent thread about DJI's decision to only support TB55 batteries on the new Matrice 200 series v2. Has anyone had any experience traveling via airlines in the continental US with multiple sets of TB55 batteries? From all the research I've done, it sounds like one would be...

I thought about that, but at most there may be two of us going to a site. Even so, as you mentioned, TSA limits batteries up to 160Wh each. The TB55 batteries are 175Wh each. And holy cow are they expensive!!

Supporting only the TB55 on the v2's may be biggest detriment in my company buying one of these. A good portion of the work we do requires airline transportation to sites across the country, and I need at least 3, probably more like 4, spare battery sets when I go on location. If I'm limited...