May 14, 2019, issue of 'AOPA Drone Pilot'


VOL 3, ISSUE 10	May 14, 2019

Top Stories

Drones deployed at AOPA homecoming

Attendees got hands-on with drones at the homecoming AOPA Fly-In May 10 and 11 in Frederick, Maryland, though weather doused the big drone light show. The LED-toting drones will now make their AOPA debut in California in June. Read more >

Return to home(stead)

A Canadian aerial photography firm grown from barnstorming roots uses modern tools to connect prairie families with their past. Read more >

Training and Safety

Have drone, will travel

Bring your drone on vacation and use these tips to skip the headaches when traveling by air, land, or sea. Read more >

Teaching STEM with unmanned aircraft

A New York school district details how it created curricula that incorporate drones. Read more >

Gear

Hollywood drones large and in charge

It takes a fancy drone to make a movie. See what the pros use >

Flyability updates Elios

Flyability hopes Elios 2 proves to be the ultimate indoor inspection drone with seven vision stability sensors and 10,000 lumens of external lighting. Read more >

Land like an eagle

Yale University has enabled drones to perch like birds and conserve power. Read more >

News from Teledyne, Yuneec

Compact lidar, an 86-megapixel camera, and a secure telemetry solution were announced in Chicago. Read more >

Teen demos drone hack

A 13-year-old demonstrated how easy it can be to hack a drone's camera, flight controls, and data. Watch the video >

Lifestyle

JSfirm partners with SkyOp

JSfirm.com, an aviation jobs website and an AOPA partner, has connected with SkyOp to bring awareness to career opportunities in the UAS industry. Learn more and find a job >

Apple peek

Duncan Sinfield posted this aerial tour of Apple Park in Cupertino, California. Watch the video >

Public Safety

Trouble with the tether

Pierce Manufacturing of Wisconsin aims to drive drone-equipped fire apparatus straight through a regulatory loophole opened by Congress in 2018. Read more >

'Drop and chase'

Evolve Dynamics developed a tether that supplies in-flight power from the ground, with the option to drop the cable and chase a target. Read more >

Illegal procedure

The FAA said Miami police may have violated federal law by jamming drone signals around a music festival. Read more >

Honoring humanitarian droning

The North Carolina Department of Transportation was among five organizations honored by DJI and AUVSI for putting drones to work on humanitarian missions. Read more and watch a video >

Regulation and Policy

FAA underestimated drone growth

While the hobby market is cooling, the opposite is true for commercial drone operations. The FAA now expects the remote pilot population to triple within five years. Read more >

UAS pave the way for air taxis

The first certification of a drone delivery operation could help enable electric air taxi service. Read more >

Senators press for remote ID

Two senators wrote to the FAA seeking to expedite regulations to track drones for safety and security. Read more >

Private sector needed to ID drones

Many technical challenges remain before remote identification of drones is feasible, and the FAA may have to outsource the service. Read more >

News

Chernobyl, 33 years later, by drone

Using lidar and gamma-ray technology, researchers from the University of Bristol used drones to measure radiation decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Read more >

Drones aid in reconstruction

The University of Denver is working with SenseFly to create maps that will aid in the restoration of a World War II internment camp. Read more >

Former DJI developer jailed

A software developer has been jailed, accused of releasing DJI encryption keys that could allow sophisticated users to bypass geofencing, among other things. Read more >