April 30th, 2012
As we talked about earlier this year (here, here and here), the FAA has shutdown US airspace to all commercial drones that don’t have specific authorization from the FAA. The FAA is working on a approval process that commercial drones (real estate photography) will have to go through to fly in the future. Hobbyists flying drones [...]
February 17th, 2012
NICK WINGFIELD and SOMINI SENGUPTA of the New York Times just posted an article summarizing the current state of the commercial drone operation. It also summarizes another drone operator in the LA area shutdown by the LAPD. “Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when the Los Angeles Police Department [...]
February 12th, 2012
This article appeared in USA TODAY last week. Apparently, On Monday, the Senate sent to President Obama legislation that would require the FAA to devise ways to safely allow commercial UAVs (UAVs with DSLRs) to operate in US airspace within three years. This gives formality to the schedule the FAA was already working to. The good news is the FAA [...]
January 24th, 2012
Yesterday I had a phone conversation from NYTimes reporter, Nick Wingfield, who is working on a story about the fact that the FAA has shutdown of US Airspace to Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). I told Nick that over the last few posts I’ve done on UAVs that there were some knowledgeable sounding pilots and hobbyist’s commented [...]
November 7th, 2011
Ryan Ward an Atlanta Real Estate photographer and Realtor told me last week that after spending more than $100 in repair parts for his AR Parrot drone he’s going to upgrade to a bigger drone that can carry more weight. Ryan says: I’ve concluded that after crashing and fixing and needing to spend more than [...]
October 26th, 2011
Last week GoPro announced a new version of their popular extreme sports camera. I know, you’re saying what does this have to do with real estate photography? Well here’s the connection: As I pointed out in a previous post, that the AR Parrot drone can carry a GoPro camera and do some pretty cool aerial [...]
October 12th, 2011
The OM-Copter gives wings to the Red Epic from omstudios on Vimeo.
October 10th, 2011
Daniel Owren maker of the AR Parrot under mount kit has offered us an evaluation unit to evaluate and test. This is the device that we talked about back on Oct 2. The only condition is that you need to write a evaluation post for the PFRE blog. Daniel’s site for people interested in real estate [...]
October 2nd, 2011
Ryan Ward was asking me the other day about the possibility of the AR Parrot Drone ($299) carrying a more sophisticated camera than the built-in one. I was skeptical because the AR Parrot people claim that “The AR.Drone has not been designed to lift or carry loads, however light they might be. Adding weight would make [...]
July 26th, 2011
Thanks to Michael McCreary for pointing out this recent article on helimalibu.com. UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) technology is evolving very fast. The UAV the Helimalibu.com guys use is a rig worth about $20,000. This is typical for a UAV that will carry a DSLR. To me this seems far too expensive to be a practical [...]
