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I asked Airmap for authorization to fly 50 ft high and photograph my new habitat. Airmap said, "YOU MUST BE CRAZY!" That's not news, but I took that as a "No." Yea, Bartlesville Municipal is right over there.

I worked on getting the video to suit the music. Annoyingly, once uploaded, the first two cuts miss their beats.

I was at an event today, and a DJI Phantom was flying over the people. I spotted the guy and casually said something about "Part 107." He did not know what I was talking about. Nor did he know what Class E airspace was, though he was in it. "I'm just somebody they pay to take pictures of these...

I'm barely east of an airport's class E airspace, and now, just west of another's. The other airport wasn't there the other day. The park where I sometimes fly is in a slightly wider sliver of class g airspace. It was wide open on the east side. It shows in Airmap, but not on the sectional at...

Careful when flying under a surface. When you get close, your quadcopter will get sucked up to it. I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but I think what happens is the rotors get much more efficient when the surface blocks the vortex doughnut around the rotor. Then, Phoebe got a propeller tip...

You might have noticed that I haven't posted much the last few months. In December, the owner of the blue spark I had been flying decided I was no longer his friend, so I no longer have access to his spark or the camera I was using. But now I have something much better! A job! You know, where...

I didn't post this footage last October, because it was pretty ratty. Two mistakes, first, I forgot to check exposure and greatly overexposed it, second, I reverted to a habit I set aside in like 1980 and thumbed the sticks so I was flying pretty jerky. So I edited out the jerks and adjusted...

Was completely discombobulated!

... while it's looking right at him from a few feet away. This happened Monday as I was shooting the bike path video.

Anybody remember the "Oculoid Tracker" from Doctor Who (Planet of Evil)?

We're having tornados in Oklahoma today, so I got Sylvester ready to shoot some exciting cinematic tornado footage. I shot some jpgs for a hyperlapse. I had it in the air while a storm came with lots of exciting cloud activity. I set white balance, adjusted exposure, but didn't start the...

I heard the spark can do spotlight mode if you set up active track, draw the box around the subject, but don't hit "Go." So I gave Sylvester a work out while filling up dog holes. Eclipse digs faster than I fill. Yes, it would be easier to move the wagon to the hole, but the colonel...

It didn't seem able to follow the garbage truck this morning.

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Not today. Almost as depressing as getting a sled for my birthday.... in July. "Well, it was on sale and winter is coming."

Snuck out with the drone and visited an old bridge beside US 64 south of Bixby OK (South of Tulsa). Had a little trouble with yaw. Every time I started a great cinematic shot, I found I wasn't pointed the right way.