by Michael Niggel | Nov 9, 2020 | Community
FPV is still in danger. You might remember an uproar back in January, when the community came together to comment on a proposal by the FAA regarding Remote ID for drones. While the process to put it in place stopped being public, this terrible proposal did not simply...
by Michael Niggel | Jul 24, 2019 | Community
The FAA’s new system for managing low-altitude airspace had a big expansion today—the LAANC system is now handing out authorizations for recreational pilots. This gives U.S. pilots back a lot of the airspace that was lost back in May. While there are a few areas...
by Michael Niggel | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog, Community
We’ve reviewed and compared a good selection of race timers in the last year or two. While they all have their individual advantages, none of them hit the sweet spot for community-driven race groups that make up so much of our sport. Of those we looked at, one...
by Tyler | Sep 3, 2018 | Community
If you are interested in drone racing, you will eventually need to find other people to fly with! It’s hard to push your flying skills further if you have nobody else to compete against. Even if you aren’t interested in racing, finding some like minded...
by Michael Niggel | Jun 18, 2018 | Community
A few moths ago, we made some noise about race specs. The sport as a whole is heading in a unsustainable direction and we called on race organizers to try new things to help restore balance—and fun—to the race course. Noah Katsma and the Bladed Fury chapter in Juneau,...
by James | May 30, 2018 | Community
I must have been sleeping under a rock, but I totally missed an incredible new series of tests that QuadMcFly is doing over at his site Mini Quad Test Bench: Dyno tests! Here is the MQTB page on the “community dyno project”. You can click here for the test...
