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Kyiv confirms Ukrainian drones destroyed six Russian planes at air base, as many as three sites blasted
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The Ladoga was the Soviet Union’s plush nuclear-war command vehicle. A drone just blew one up in Eastern Ukraine.
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Russia awakes to biggest attack on Russian soil since World War II
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World's fastest camera drone vs F1 car (ft. Max Verstappen)
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World's longest-distance drone delivery – Norwegian start-up Aviant has expanded its drone delivery service in Lillehammer
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The extraordinary world of fake cities, and simulated urban environments
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Russia has massed 500 tanks for an attack on Kupyansk. Thousands of Ukrainian drones await them.
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Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way
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Guinness World Record Christmas drone show (1,500+ drones)
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Sharing drone photography?
I recently got in to drone photography. I got a DJI Air 3 and have been having a blast flying it around and taking photos. I have been messing around with Adobe Lightroom touching up the photos I...
I recently got in to drone photography. I got a DJI Air 3 and have been having a blast flying it around and taking photos. I have been messing around with Adobe Lightroom touching up the photos I take. I even got my Part 107 cert on a whim because I thought it would be cool to have; whether or not I actually use the thing commercially is kinda beside the point for me.
Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find and share drone photos? I'm kinda hoping to see what others are doing in the space to get inspiration and maybe some critical eyes for my own work. I reopened a long dormant Instagram account and started posting here and there only to find that most of my feed is ads...
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Future technology: Twenty-two ideas about to change our world
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Swiss research team builds autonomous drone that beats humans in first-person drone racing
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2/3 of foreign components in Russian drones are made in the US; China is the main supplier, according to the Yermak-McFaul International Working Group and KSE Institute
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Was asked to create a hole-by-hole tour of a local golf course. They wanted a flyover. I sent them this and they were blown away.
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The robots are coming ― to pick Northwest apples
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Welcome to the next generation of agricultural drones
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Drone Pilots looking to get their FAA 14CFR Part 107 license. Here is the study guide I used to pass with a 93%.
Read Part 107 from the official government website of the Cod Of Federal Regulations This is a very easy to read list of the do's and don't under Part 107. Any study guide that does not tell you...
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Read Part 107 from the official government website of the Cod Of Federal Regulations This is a very easy to read list of the do's and don't under Part 107. Any study guide that does not tell you to read this is a bad study guide.
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Read Remote Pilot -- Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Study Guide - This is an official study guide put out by the FAA. Either save it to your computer/phone or print it off and mark it up as you read. But read this cover to cover and comprehend it. It is 88 pages, but this alone could pretty much get you to pass the Part 107 exam. There isn't a single YouTube video out there that covers all of this.
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Read the official FAA ruling on "Operations Over People General Overview". This details new requirements for flying over other people. There are 4 categories and this can get a little bit confusing. There is a great dedicated Youtube Video from a small channel run by a gentleman named Tim McKay who explains it all crystal clear.
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Read the official FAA requirements for Night Operations. This has changed in the last year.
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By this point you pretty much know everything you need to. But we want to have a thorough understanding of everything not just basic knowledge so we can "just pass" the test. Fog is a topic that will come up on your test. Make sure you understand the characteristics and causes of each of the 6 major types of fog. A great resource for this is Fly8MA.Com Flight Trainings video.
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Sectional Charts. You've already read about them in the study guide, but practice these. Try to memorize which lines mean what. But if you forget always remember there is a legend in the front of your supplement book that you will have on test day. Some great tools I used for this were:
- Altitude Universities FAA Part 107 Study Guide [How To Read A Sectional Chart]. They teach you almost all of what you need to know, but he also teaches you a great "game" you can use to practice.
- Fly8MA.Com Flight Trainings - Video on Advanced Sectional Chart Knowledge. You see a lot of lazy videos out there on "5 Tricky questions about sectional charts on the part 107 test". Well this video will make it so there are no tricky questions!
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Understand abbreviations for METAR and TAF reports. Weather.GOV has a chart of this. You certainly do not need to memorize every single one of them. But the major ones regarding precipitation, cloud, winds, max, min, began/begin, end, etc. A great way I learned to read these was to install the Avia Weather app on my Android phone and use that for my weather app for a few weeks. It presents weather in METAR format. It forced me to learn to read them. I would see new abbreviations pretty regularly and then look them up and know them. You can also spend some time using the Aviation Weather Center website. It provides METAR reports and you can decode them to verify your answers.
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Understand air masses, fronts & clouds. This too comes directly from the FAA. It is comically old looking, but the information was incredibly helpful. It is 30 pages with tons of pictures. It helped supplement the knowledge from the official study guide on the 3 phases of every storm cloud. I probably have 4-5 questions on this during my test. If you understand weather you almost don't even need to study much on the effects it has on and aircraft because it all becomes incredibly easy to process.
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Density Altitude & Pressure Altitude. This is one I see almost never talked about. Sure enough I had a question for this on my part 107 test.
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Know how to talk on a radio. You will basically never have to do this, but I had two questions on radio procedure come up. One was how to contact ATC for authorization via radio (you never ever do this) the other was how something would be properly announced using phonetic alphabet. This video from Fly With the Guys does a great job of digging deeper into this.
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Spend the time to understand Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) The video series I watched was 4 parts. Here is part 1. When I initially read through the study guide this didn't quite click with me, but the videos helped a ton.
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Understand Weight & Balance basics for aircraft. A guy named Jeffery Bannish has a pretty great video on this. Understand loads during banked flight. I had multiple questions on this on my test as well.
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Lastly. This one is completely optional. It cost me $15. John Peltier of Peltier Photo Courses has a bank of $300 questions he put together into a test that you can take as many times as you like. It picks 60 random questions so you are not taking the same test over and over. When you buy it you can access the test for 2 months. I probably took his test 10 times over the course of the month I was studying. What I would do is take the test once each day. Then review any questions I got wrong and I would spend time to learn the correct answer. As I would learn the correct answer I would absorb additional information. The next day I would take the test again. Get some new questions and repeat the process. After about 4 days I started routinely getting 94-98% on the practice tests.
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MIT-founded drone company Aviant launches home delivery service Kyte in Norway
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Incredible invention - this drone could change everything
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Toroidal propellers: A noise-killing game changer in air and water
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Twitter thread on a drone-delivered network exploit
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US physics body concedes mistakes in study of missile defense
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These seed-firing drones can plant 40,000 trees every day
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Pentagon won’t punish any troops over errant drone strike in Kabul that killed ten civilians
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How I climbed a 1000m cliff wall with no ropes and filmed it
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Birds aren't real, or are they? Inside a Gen Z conspiracy movement
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Biden nearly ended the drone war, and nobody noticed
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This drone has legs: Watch a flying robot perch on branches, catch a tennis ball in midair
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Alphabet’s drone delivery service Wing hits 100,000 deliveries milestone
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I tried to film a volcano and it was a complete disaster
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It's so hot in Dubai that the government is artificially creating rainstorms using electrical charges from drones
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Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
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Multiple US Navy destroyers were swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California over numerous nights
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Denmark has committed to spending 1.5 billion Danish crowns on defence in the Arctic, utilising long-range drones to survey the area
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In Iceland, testing the drones that could be the future of Mars exploration
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US to allow small drones to fly over people and at night
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Drone sightings caused Gatwick airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky?
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Winners of 2020 Drone Photo Awards
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From lava to water: A new era at Kīlauea
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Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
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Caleb Kenna shares a collection of drone photographs from Vermont
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US Army awards pocket-sized drones $20.6 million contract
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
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Changing the world with drones – Helena Samsioe is widely known as the 'Drone Queen' since founding GLOBHE in 2015
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DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time
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The mysterious drone sightings in Colorado seem to have been a classic case of mass hysteria, with no evidence of illegal drone activity ever found
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The launch of the Green Flyway research project between Røros, Norway and Östersund, Sweden marks a world-first test area for electric flights
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