Recent content by Ronan87

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    National Association of REALTORS just Tweeted this...

    Expect proper laws to be put in place to filter & tax commercial drone pilots (or w/e they are called). That's about it, maybe some guidance to make sure average joe doesn't do something too stupid with his $500 toy drone. Multi-billions dollars companies are already looking into purchasing...
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    Id be more worried about a bird strike or hitting a tree/electrical pole... Props to your friends, my cousin does the same thing. High stress work (and in France paid very little).
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    Boscam LCD5802 Monitor Observations

    Woah i just spent $350 in that setup... i hope this isn't 'normal'...
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    Documents to avoid arrest / confiscation

    Didn't that change? Something about the Patriot Act and having to carry ID around or something... Don't quote me, been ages...
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    Ozzyguy reminds me of people that i have encountered when working in the news industry. :lol:
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    Or he reads internet forum and knows a lot of people are VERY quick to judge.
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    Abuse of power. Big problem in a lot of places. Only reason we hear of it more often is because everyone is 'armed' with a camera now a day. Now this doesn't mean that all cops are bad or anything like that (i have quite a few friends that are police officers and they are all great chaps)...
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    I wonder that too... :lol:
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    Completely, 100% spoken like someone with smarts. If more people thought like you, the world would be a better place.
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    Drone Hinders Medical Chopper According to Police

    I'v done photojournalism work previously... i wouldn't believe everything you read in the newspapers :roll: The drone owner makes a good point, if they would have told him a helicopter is coming, he would have put the drone down ASAP... like he said, he isn't stupid. If/when i was on scene a...
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    Have you ever been told off?

    Yupp gated communities are notorious for having ZERO tolerance to pretty much anything. I'm surprised your HOA doesn't cover it, they are usually absurdly long and you find all kind of restrictions, sometimes even on curtain colors... and even hue's of paint colors for various things like...
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    Have you ever been told off?

    AFAIK above the US federal gov considers anything above 500 feet to be public highway based on a 1946 supreme court decision. It differs of course and their's nothing set in stone AFAIK.
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    Have you ever been told off?

    That's just the way it is, i use to shoot professionally and i can tell you it often happen that when shooting in public, people didn't like it and if i was in a neighborhood minding my own business, some people would still get pissed off and come 'talk' to me. Stay professional and that's...
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    Do NOT Order from HELIPAL.com

    Thanks, never seen them before, i just took a look and they are about 50% more expensive than helipal :shock: Not as expensive as certain websites but still quite a big sticker tag! OP i hope you will post some news about helipal!
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    Color Blindness

    Maybe stick some tinting film to change the colors of the LED's to something you can make out?