UAV Posts

ASRS Callback Drone Challenge
Oct. 30, 2023

ASRS Callback Drone Challenge

October kudos to the editors of NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) Callback for selecting atypical reports for their periodic “What Would You Have Done?” issue. In all the years I’ve been reading the selected scen…
Commercial Drones Facing Pilot Shortage
June 7, 2015

Commercial Drones Facing Pilot Shortage

To learn more about commercial drone operations, I recently attended a 4-hour introductory course for pilots conducted by Vortex UAS. The thorough presentation covered everything from history to the current legal landscape. What I did  not expect wa…
Droning on About UAS
Nov. 19, 2014

Droning on About UAS

Dear Reader / Listeners – You now have the option to listen to The Aviation Minute podcast or read the text below. If you receive Jetwhine via e-mail, you can click here to listen as well.At the risk of droning on about a topic my pals David…
J-bot Drones Give Journalists a New View
March 31, 2013

J-bot Drones Give Journalists a New View

Not long ago, the periodic newsgram from my alma mater reported the birth of a new course at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Science Investigative Reporting/Drone Journalism. The nation’s first J school, now more than a centur…