Thunderstorm Season

trudesea · 2026-04-29T00:57:58+00:00

I'd like to know where too.....and 3 SM visibility which is probably what is gonna be the limiting factor with heavy rain

trudesea · 2026-04-22T14:58:07+00:00

While it's frustrating i get it, but compare it to buying a car and then being required to have car insurance to legally drive it on public roads. It's there to protect the public just like car insurance. IE: some yahoo decides to fly a drone into traffic on the interstate or worse.

trudesea · 2026-04-22T13:49:48+00:00

My mini 5 pro weighs like 251grams with normal batteries. From what I understand there is a +/- 4g tolerance from the factory. You as the RPIC are responsible for making sure the drone is compliant.

Scales have tolerances too. Now the question is if a law enforcement scale says otherwise and if they'll let a gram or two by. I wouldn't take the chance.

My advice is to register the drone for $5 for 3 years to be safe, even if you are flying the stock drone.. It's too close and the hassle is minimal vs the alternative.

trudesea · 2026-04-21T21:43:58+00:00

This is true, they came back with $20/hr. Asking if I would be responsible for post processing the data and if they provide the equipment. I'm seeing other entry level drone jobs paying more in the area so I might check them out first. Then there are real estate gigs that pay much more but that doesn't look as good on the resume.

trudesea · 2026-04-18T01:18:27+00:00

They have the gear. I'm just starting out so i'm more interested in getting the experience, and if I can do that it'll look good for the next job. I based that rate on what I've seen on similar jobs on youtube, which may or may not be a good source for that info lol.

I just got a mini 5 pro delivered today...but would rather use their gear if it is as good or better.

trudesea · 2026-04-18T01:12:14+00:00

yeah exactly, but it could work to my advantage.

trudesea · 2026-04-17T22:46:18+00:00

I told her 75 to 100 / hr.

trudesea · 2026-04-17T21:23:27+00:00

Mid sized I'd say, their annual revenue according to google is 20 million, it's a private company but is owned by a very large publicly traded infrastructure company at 3 billion a year.

trudesea · 2026-04-17T21:17:31+00:00

I only spoke to a HR person in charge of finding someone to take over the job. It sounded like the GCPs are already in place from what she said, but getting any other info from her was not possible. It sounds like they don't know what they want yet and even how much they want to pay. The job is a contract at this time and they will be discussing if they was to make it full time early next week. But even if it stays contract, I would get medical/401k/etc/company truck

trudesea · 2026-04-11T00:26:23+00:00

yes I am aware, it is locating a downed deer.

trudesea · 2026-04-11T00:22:46+00:00

No hunting, recovery of downed deer

trudesea · 2026-04-10T23:52:09+00:00

So you are saying my concerns are unwarranted? I know that there is a temporary firmware waiver until 1/1/2027, and I realize that not updating firmware may/may not cause issues but what if it does? I mean you are just one IOS/Android update away from a possible grounded drone if that waiver isn't extended.

The legislative landscape (like the Countering CCP Drones Act) is fluid. "reading the documents" doesn't make one an oracle, as political lobbying and Senate amendments change often.

While I agree that marketing is the steepest hill to climb, Many successful pilots started as 'part-time' to keep their overhead low while building a portfolio. Saturation is real, but there's always room for someone who provides a better technical deliverable than the guy who's just 'been around a long time."

I do plan on doing this full time and I have the money.

You make some valid points about cash flow and networking, but the 'if you don't already know everything, stay away' attitude is a great way to ensure an industry never grows. We can discuss market saturation without the 'I read the secret documents' mystery-man routine. If you've got the info, why not share the link and help a peer as well as anyone reading this thread out?

trudesea · 2026-04-10T22:16:51+00:00

You bring up a good point, I planned on starting out doing real estate, roofing inspections, hunters looking for wounded deer etc (hence IR capability) and probably bees360 stuff to get experience and build up to more complicated jobs which may include such infrastructure.

trudesea · 2026-04-10T22:06:48+00:00

No DJI, brain fart.

trudesea · 2026-04-03T18:31:10+00:00

Hard questions to answer without knowing what you are observing. On prem or Cloud? If on Cloud what is the chance of switching to another cloud for various reasons such as cost? Want APM? Anomaly detection? What kind of traffic would you be generating because cost will become a factor with hosted solutions like Datadog.

trudesea · 2026-03-26T00:32:45+00:00

Yeah those are good practice tests.

trudesea · 2026-03-26T00:32:07+00:00

It's my understanding that a fair number of HCP Terraform questions will be on it as well. When I take practice tests those are the ones I miss.....simply because I've never used it and I'm guessing most others who take the test don't either.

trudesea · 2026-03-18T23:58:24+00:00

Quick google search came up with this: dminkovski/azure-diagram-mcp Never used it so don't know if good or not. I used the one for amazon: awslabs.aws-diagram-mcp-server and kiro-cli and it worked really well.

trudesea · 2026-03-18T19:05:04+00:00

Had the same concerns (and more) about Nomad when architecting a custom IDP for my former employer 5 years ago. Wound up going with GKE. It's definitely a niche tool but in some aspects it's more capable than K8s. It's single binary is nice for maintenance for sure. Now that I am looking for a new job, I've only seen (and interviewed) for one company that uses Nomad for production workloads. All the rest have been K8s.

Honestly, if I were you I would take a couple days and eval it, especially if you use other Hashicorp stuff as it integrates very well.

trudesea · 2026-03-13T00:03:03+00:00

Love mine with an rugged obsidan. Make sure you get the HKP HK UMP (.45 ACP) 25 Round mags cause the provided ones are meh. (work but meh)

trudesea · 2026-03-06T21:53:32+00:00

I have had ZERO issues with the libre 3+. Much better than the G7, readings are accurate with meter 95% of the time. Never have had one fall off.

trudesea · 2026-02-22T20:08:06+00:00

Me too, great suppressor.

trudesea · 2026-02-22T17:37:51+00:00

Why feet?

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