DJI, the world’s largest designer and manufacturer of consumer and professional UAVs has opened a “drone arena” in Korea. The 1,395-square-meter arena is located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, 49 kilometers south of Seoul, and is designed for novice and expert drone pilots alike. This indoor venue features safety nets, charging stations, video screens and areas to do basic repairs...

While many people take to flying drones for sport or as a hobby, there are more and more cases where people are flying for hire. Of course wedding photography and videography has become a big use-case for flying drones. But also consider the many industrial and environmental situations where drone flying can help tremendously. These are the areas where professional pilots are really “taking ...

Drones are currently used to monitor many different kinds of environmental concerns around the planet. Things like melting glaciers, forests, and herds of animals have benefited from the use of drone technology in recent years. Now, a team of scientists have begun to use drones to monitor light pollution. It is currently estimated that more than one-third of the Earth’s population can’...

Okay, I have been on a bit of a FPV kick lately, but I have one more device to add to your FPV arsenal. It’s a 5.8Ghz FPV wristwatch called the GTeng T909 and it’s less than $40 US dollars. The performance is pretty good for a screen at this price and the picture quality is certainly high enough quality to follow the action of your FPV racer as it zooms around. To see the specs or buy ...

Since yesterday’s post was about FPV goggles, I thought I would continue the trend and talk about a new pair of FPV goggles I tested yesterday. They are called the KDS Kylin Vision goggles and they run on the 5.8Ghz band, which is the same as Fat Sharks. They don’t have a built in DVR like the newer Fat Sharks, but they do have a bigger screen, an “auto seek” feature to fin...