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A commercial drone pilot in a lime high-visibility vest holds a controller with both hands while a DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual hovers directly above him against a deep blue sky.

DOCKET 26-189

FCC Drone Ban Comments Counted: 3,770 Against, 16 For

Pilot Institute read and coded all 3,824 filings in FCC docket 26-189. 98.6% oppose the military-grade drone ban as written. Sixteen support it.

Haye KestelooSep 3

DOCKET 26-189

FCC Drone Deadline Is Tomorrow. Fewer Than 3,000 Comments Are In.

Fewer than 3,000 comments have been filed in PS Docket 26-189 against nearly half a million certificated remote pilots. The window closes September 2.

Haye KestelooSep 1

UAV EXPO

Pilot Institute Warns Of A Drone Hiring Cliff In Two To Three Years

Greg Reverdiau told Commercial UAV Expo the affordable drone that created this industry is disappearing, and aviation already ran this experiment once.

Haye KestelooSep 1

Matt Collins presents a bar chart titled The Gap Is Skills, Not Headcount on stage at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas.

UAV EXPO SURVEY

FCC Covered List Has 45.8% Of Operators Frozen, Expo Survey Finds

A survey of 885 drone professionals at Commercial UAV Expo found 45.8% in wait-and-see mode on fleet procurement, and only 13.8% actually moving.

Haye KestelooSep 1

A hand holds a DJI Osmo Pocket gimbal camera with its 1-inch dual-lens head and touchscreen facing the viewer, with COLOR GRADE GUIDE text overlaid

Drone Supremacy

Stop Color Grading Your DJI Pocket 4P Footage Wrong

Mihail Svilenov shares his exact DJI Osmo Pocket 4P camera settings and DaVinci Resolve color grading workflow for D-Log and D-Log 2 footage.

Mihail SvilenovAug 28

Five panelists seated on stage in front of a Commercial UAV Expo backdrop as an audience listens

EVENT

Commercial UAV Expo Opens As FCC And Tariff Deadlines Hit Mid-Show

Commercial UAV Expo runs September 1-3 at Caesars Forum. The FCC import comment window closes on day two and Section 232 tariffs start on day three.

Haye KestelooAug 26

Aerial view of a hilltop stone fortress above a red-roofed town, transitioning into a cyan lidar point cloud

Video

I Used The Antigravity A1 To Preserve A 1,000-Year-Old Bulgarian Fortress In 3D

For Project Eternal, Mihail Svilenov flew the Antigravity A1 360 drone over Ovech Fortress in Bulgaria and turned a single ten-minute flight into an explorable 3D Gaussian Splatting model with Splatica.

Mihail SvilenovAug 24

DJI Mini 5 Pro hovering in front of blooming goldenrod with its LiDAR sensors forward

Deal

DJI Mini 5 Pro Amazon Bundle Packs Over $100 In Free Gear For $899

An Amazon bundle pairs the DJI Mini 5 Pro with $100+ in accessories for $899. What's in it, what reviewers say, and the 250-gram registration catch.

Haye KestelooAug 22

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