Recent content by N2001X

During all the ruckus about the FCC and banning of foreign drones in the late fall of 2025, I was able to buy the highly rated DJI mini 5 Pro at the end of December., delivered on 7 January from a reputatble vendor. Then easily registered with the FAA. Any of the previously certified imported...

Welcome, frozen. I am a canoe racer and wilderness guide. I have paddled the Yukon River races 5 times, Including the 1000 mile race. I love the wild beauty of the area, including the cities of Whitehorse and Dawson. My wife loves Dawson best becuse as my pit crew, she gets a gold nugget from...

Sintering transforms loose snow into a durable, interconnected ice structure, a fundamental process in snow science that governs everything from avalanche risk to glacier formation. Sintered snow is snow where individual ice crystals have bonded together to form a stronger, more cohesive...

This is what I do not understand about my area. Skyvector is the only app that shows this dark blue circle (Class B?) around Fort Drum (KGTB) with the UAS NOTAM as depicted from the SFC to FL290. I grew up near the small village of Lowville, which is inside that blue circle. With the 'Perm"...

Sorry for the thread drift. This hardly relates to the topic of drone flight. I do plan to fly here in warmer weather times. Unless I include the fact that this area is near Fort Drum army base and is within a large area MOA that often has Notam warnings due to low level army chopper and high...

So you miss the NY snow? This is a small remote hunting camp on an unplowed road that I inheriited from my Dad, property originally belonged to my Uncle on my Mother's side. known as "Running George", a bonifide hermit who lived on the Tug Hill Plateau, a broad region of geologic uplift...

If I have to pay the full $175 test fee, it would be worth it to me to stay local and not have to travel a great distance, especially around here in February. So I will plan to test at Mohawk Valley/Griffiss, regardless of the fee. NYSDHSES/SPTC in the past had offered many types of training...

I was in SAC at Griffiss from 1979 until I separated from my 9 years of active flight duty as a KC-135 senior Stan-Eval instructor navigator, in 1982. The Air Force research laboratory at Griffiss was for many years known as the Rome Air Development Center (RADC), (we did not develop ‘air”) then...

My local testing center is at Giffiss, 30 miles away, Ft Drum is in tho opposite direction somewhat further away.

Thanks for all the tips. I am very familiar with the regulations and my need to fly my ambitions only after I pass the exam and receive my part 107 certification. I do have my Trust certification. And of course with 4 feet of snow on the ground and the lake solidly coated with ice, I have no...

Hello from Lake Effect area snowbound northern NY State. I just got my first drone this week, a DJI Mini 5 Pro. Kind of surprised I could get it so soon, now that it after the 23 Dec restrictions are in place. I spent my early days as an Air Force senior instructor navigator for 9 years (call...