Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Bugs don't attack healthy plants
It's not just flying cameras
I never heard of precision agriculture until I started delving into the UAS industry. I was working on defense related projects for the Middle East and my guy came back asking for an agriculture project and I couldn't just deliver Drones with cameras to find the bugs, I had to find way to kill the bugs. I heard that they were injecting palm trees with pesticides in Israel so that is what I was going to do. Then I was asked "Would you eat a date from a tree that was injected with pesticides?" The answer was obvious. Then I was told about a product that was primarily used to clean up oil and grease by separating the molecules in hydrocarbons. It makes them non-toxic, then I found out it kills bugs when mixed with water, reducing the tension on the water and softening the exoskeleton of insects so the water can penetrate and rupture their internal organs. It had been used effectively on the cotton bowl weevil but the client wanted to know if it was effective on Palm Weevils. I couldn't find Red Palm Weevils in the USA but there were South American Palm Weevils in San Ysidro California and Englewood Florida. The county entomologist in San Diego wouldn't let me kill their bugs and I couldn't get an intern from The University of Florida to test ECO-Agri Formula (Go to the lower right of the globalutc.com site) this colloid so I did it. Two landscapers help us find two Palm Weevils a large male and a small female and after spraying the male with a mixture of 60/1 he died in 45 minutes. Then the smaller female took 30 minutes to die. The next day they took us to an infested palm tree in some ones' yard I put on rubber gloves and dug into the crown of this tree and it as like soup, warm and goopy like I was field dressing a freshly shot dear. I retrieved 20 larvae and 15 weevils. We took them back to the landscaper's house and applied the colloid to the bugs.
One tough bug
The colloid had the same results on the adults as the day before, big bugs die in 45 minutes and small ones die in 30 minutes. Then we tested four larvae and right away they went into convulsions, they off gassed from behind their scull cap and their ass, they spit up dark tobacco looking substance, they started to darken in color but four hours later they were not dead. Then the landscaper lady said "What if they eat it?" and she took one of the larvae that hadn't we hadn't sprayed with the colloid and she sprayed a piece of palm tree with the colloid and let it nibble on it. The same thing happened, it convulse, it off-gassed out of the back of it's skullcap and it's ass, it spit up tobacco but in an hour and a half it was dead. That very minute Robin Giblin-Davis from the University of Florida returned my call from the previous day and I told him what had happened and his response was "I am impressed, those are tough bugs, they are borrowers, my best non-toxic solution is a beneficial nematode and it take five days to kill the bugs".
Spreading the word
I wrote up a newsletter and distributed including Dan Gerling the Red Palm Weevil expert in Israel. Shortly after I received a e-mail from Dan Gerling telling me he was going to be in Maryland. I scheduled a conference call with him and my witnesses and the next day I received a call from UC Davis telling me that he had called them and told them to look into this solution. I was then contacted by Christina Davis and she told me about her research on the Huanglongbing disease. Then she told m about Ted Batkin. She told me that I should get to know him. He is a fascinating guy, not only is he expert on everything to do with agriculture, he was a Vietnam vet, boat Captain on a mine sweeper. We hit it off! We meet at the opening of the CAL UAS test center grand opening located in Inyokern California just outside of China Lake Naval Weapons Test Center. I directed him to my source of the colloid, they gave him ten gallons to run tests on and he pushed it through the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and got it to the top of the stack and they certified it as "Exempt" due to no toxic ingredients. Then I had a former Navy SEAL buddy who has a lot of high level contacts in the Middle East and he pushed it through the Pesticide Regulation process in the UAE to be certified specifically use on the Red Palm Weevil. Now that Ramadan is over we expect certification very soon. From my reports they are very enthusiastic about the colloid in the UAE.
There are a lot of bugs to kill
Ted Batkin gave ECO-Agri Formula an endorsement as a non-toxic, indiscriminate insecticide, it kills all bugs, even the beneficial ones. I have used in on Stink bugs and it's been used on mites, nematodes and potato bugs but none have been certified with any of them. There are a lot of bad bugs Lauel wilt fungas spread by the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, this disease has a deadly effect on Avocados, The South American Palm Weevil is the sister bug to the Red Palm Weevil and I was informed that the state of California has decided that since Mexico wasn't doing anything to stop the migration of the bug, it was fighting the inevitable so they stopped putting pheromone traps. I wonder if the California Department of Pesticide Regulation will recognize the results of the UAE's certification. Then there is the Deadly Kising Bug in Texas and Virginia that spreads the Chagas disease which can be deadly if not treated.
Other uses
I mentioned that this colloid is used to clean up oil and grease but it is also used in agriculture to soften water making is easier to penetrate hardpan and it also remediates the effects of over using nitrogen based fertilizers that cause hard pan. Because it is all natural, it is perfect for organic farming.
I never heard of precision agriculture until I started delving into the UAS industry. I was working on defense related projects for the Middle East and my guy came back asking for an agriculture project and I couldn't just deliver Drones with cameras to find the bugs, I had to find way to kill the bugs. I heard that they were injecting palm trees with pesticides in Israel so that is what I was going to do. Then I was asked "Would you eat a date from a tree that was injected with pesticides?" The answer was obvious. Then I was told about a product that was primarily used to clean up oil and grease by separating the molecules in hydrocarbons. It makes them non-toxic, then I found out it kills bugs when mixed with water, reducing the tension on the water and softening the exoskeleton of insects so the water can penetrate and rupture their internal organs. It had been used effectively on the cotton bowl weevil but the client wanted to know if it was effective on Palm Weevils. I couldn't find Red Palm Weevils in the USA but there were South American Palm Weevils in San Ysidro California and Englewood Florida. The county entomologist in San Diego wouldn't let me kill their bugs and I couldn't get an intern from The University of Florida to test ECO-Agri Formula (Go to the lower right of the globalutc.com site) this colloid so I did it. Two landscapers help us find two Palm Weevils a large male and a small female and after spraying the male with a mixture of 60/1 he died in 45 minutes. Then the smaller female took 30 minutes to die. The next day they took us to an infested palm tree in some ones' yard I put on rubber gloves and dug into the crown of this tree and it as like soup, warm and goopy like I was field dressing a freshly shot dear. I retrieved 20 larvae and 15 weevils. We took them back to the landscaper's house and applied the colloid to the bugs.
One tough bug
The colloid had the same results on the adults as the day before, big bugs die in 45 minutes and small ones die in 30 minutes. Then we tested four larvae and right away they went into convulsions, they off gassed from behind their scull cap and their ass, they spit up dark tobacco looking substance, they started to darken in color but four hours later they were not dead. Then the landscaper lady said "What if they eat it?" and she took one of the larvae that hadn't we hadn't sprayed with the colloid and she sprayed a piece of palm tree with the colloid and let it nibble on it. The same thing happened, it convulse, it off-gassed out of the back of it's skullcap and it's ass, it spit up tobacco but in an hour and a half it was dead. That very minute Robin Giblin-Davis from the University of Florida returned my call from the previous day and I told him what had happened and his response was "I am impressed, those are tough bugs, they are borrowers, my best non-toxic solution is a beneficial nematode and it take five days to kill the bugs".
Spreading the word
I wrote up a newsletter and distributed including Dan Gerling the Red Palm Weevil expert in Israel. Shortly after I received a e-mail from Dan Gerling telling me he was going to be in Maryland. I scheduled a conference call with him and my witnesses and the next day I received a call from UC Davis telling me that he had called them and told them to look into this solution. I was then contacted by Christina Davis and she told me about her research on the Huanglongbing disease. Then she told m about Ted Batkin. She told me that I should get to know him. He is a fascinating guy, not only is he expert on everything to do with agriculture, he was a Vietnam vet, boat Captain on a mine sweeper. We hit it off! We meet at the opening of the CAL UAS test center grand opening located in Inyokern California just outside of China Lake Naval Weapons Test Center. I directed him to my source of the colloid, they gave him ten gallons to run tests on and he pushed it through the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and got it to the top of the stack and they certified it as "Exempt" due to no toxic ingredients. Then I had a former Navy SEAL buddy who has a lot of high level contacts in the Middle East and he pushed it through the Pesticide Regulation process in the UAE to be certified specifically use on the Red Palm Weevil. Now that Ramadan is over we expect certification very soon. From my reports they are very enthusiastic about the colloid in the UAE.
There are a lot of bugs to kill
Ted Batkin gave ECO-Agri Formula an endorsement as a non-toxic, indiscriminate insecticide, it kills all bugs, even the beneficial ones. I have used in on Stink bugs and it's been used on mites, nematodes and potato bugs but none have been certified with any of them. There are a lot of bad bugs Lauel wilt fungas spread by the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, this disease has a deadly effect on Avocados, The South American Palm Weevil is the sister bug to the Red Palm Weevil and I was informed that the state of California has decided that since Mexico wasn't doing anything to stop the migration of the bug, it was fighting the inevitable so they stopped putting pheromone traps. I wonder if the California Department of Pesticide Regulation will recognize the results of the UAE's certification. Then there is the Deadly Kising Bug in Texas and Virginia that spreads the Chagas disease which can be deadly if not treated.
Other uses
I mentioned that this colloid is used to clean up oil and grease but it is also used in agriculture to soften water making is easier to penetrate hardpan and it also remediates the effects of over using nitrogen based fertilizers that cause hard pan. Because it is all natural, it is perfect for organic farming.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Bugs and Lights
Focus on what is hot
The UAS/Drone industry has gotten a lot of attention for a
long time and with privacy and safety issues it will continue to garner
attention. At first it got attention because of its effectiveness in the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then about the same time the profits from General
Atomics, Northrup Grumman, Insitu and Areovironment. Then there as outrage over
killing American Jihadist without due process. Then there was a lot of
anticipation over the six FAA test sites around the country. Here was a lot of
excitement about the Texas Equuearch law suit and the appeal. There is a lot of
excitement but we are not hearing excitement about commercial UAS enterprises. It’s
a tough business when you’re business is not legal.
Well the markets where commercial UAS is targeting still
need product, agriculture, surveying, security and oil and gas. GUTC has
product that is marketable for these industries. For agriculture
ECO-Agri Formula has widespread uses, from softening water and breaking down
the effects of nitrogen based fertilizer to a non-toxic solution for killing
bugs, all bugs. They cannot develop an immunity to it either.
Then there are LED Lights, how they relate to UAS
applications? It help GUTC pay the bills until our foreign clients officially order
products and the FAA finalizes the guidelines for commercial UAS operations. Through
DX2 Broadcast we have direct access to 20 LED manufactures, pizza lights for
DOT road crews, video walls, bay lighting and bar lights. Municipalities,
churches, commercial buildings for retrofit or new construction. They save
energy and last significantly longer that incandescent and no issues with
hazmat if they break or need to be disposed of. I haven’t seem a market this
hot since the mortgage and real-estate market from 1998 to 2006. It might just
keep our lights on until these foreign markets order products and the FAA
figures out what they want.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Hidden in plain sight
Hidden in plane site
I just read where on a web-site that posts UAS news and that
a Drone school can’t fly. I know there are UAS operations going on all over the
place, every day. So all I did was look up on the FAA site to see if I could
find a list of authorized COAs and sure enough it is posted. Now the FAA is adamant
about “No commercial unmanned operations” until they say so and I am not going
to divulge the processes operators are able to get paid to fly their UAS but it
seems pretty easy when you follow protocols that other have to get
authorization. I am not going to spell out how you can get away with UAS
operation via a non-for profit. I am going to explain how and who can operate,
government entities, police, fire departments, US Forestry, USDA, DOT and
branches of the armed services. Colleges and universities used to be able to
get COAs but they were being sponsored by companies and that was in direct
conflict with the FAAs ban on commercial unmanned operations. Now if the
college or university can get the Department of Forestry, the local police or
fire department, the USDA or a branch of the armed services to sponsor their
COA, they can fly. It would seem that this would be easy for member of the ROTC
to get one. That way the military would have experienced UAV pilots coming into
the officer ranks. Then they could fly for all kinds of other research
applications.
What I have noticed is that UAS operators who have
permission either from the property owner requesting UAS services or
municipalities who have control over the areas where UAS services are
requested, don’t have any problems getting authorization to fly. It is possible
for a municipality to need research that a college or university could conduct for
them. This is not circumventing the FAA, it is just using the resources
available to move the ball forward.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
The Culling has begun
The Culling has begun
Paul Dietrich a leading economist spelled it out to me a few
years ago “Those companies that are marketing to the immerging market, have a
smart corporate board making smart decisions and low debt with cash reserves
are going to make it through this economy, everyone else is going to fall off a
cliff”. That is exactly what is happening in the Drone/UAS business. The big
fish are gobbling up the little fish and those companies who do not have the
where with all to last are closing up shop. I’ve been through this before in 1994-1996
with the military downsizing in San Diego, again in 2008 with the mortgage and
housing bubble and I am seeing the same thing now but is a condensed version.
This business is barely getting off of the ground in the US and it is
happening. However the one category that isn’t really addressed in the
statement is viable product. Now I am finding that having capital can mean the
difference of whether you have a viable product or not but it seems that the
established companies with product inventory do not have the most viable
products as I stated in my last blog post “Which is worse?”.
Part of it “The emperor’s new clothes syndrome” and the
other is lack of exposure. You not only want to have the right tool for the job
but you need everyone to know you have the right tool for the job. Let me try
and break it down?
Firefighting
Gene Robinson of RPFlight systems uses the Spectra flying
wing for search and rescue and firefighting. What makes this design optimal for
observing wildfires is its lift, giving it the ability to just float on the
thermal at the leading edge of the fire. Systems designed for forward flight
don’t have the surface area to just sit there, floating on the thermal. Other
systems with this capability are the UX5 by Tremble/Gatewing and the Zephyr II
which are used mostly for agriculture. VTOLs can fly over a fire but you can’t
shut them down and conserve on battery life.
Precision agriculture
This is where the VTOL capability has merit, flying low and
slow with a multi-spectral camera measuring the overall health of crops,
production estimates and detection of certain infestations. The ability to
cover large areas is a concern but most farmers only want imagery over their
whole field at the beginning of the harvest so they can determine the areas
that are coming up slow so they can remedy the slow growth with better
irrigation or fertilizer and be on the alert for infestations. Bugs don’t
attack healthy plants so these week areas will be most likely area to get
infestations first. You don’t need long flight capability if your just spot
checking these trouble areas so VTOLs that fly low and slow are optimal.
Multi-rotor VTOL is recommended for agriculture but a multi-rotor with stabilization
so you minimize the vibration which distorts the spectral data from these
cameras.
Surveying
This application is a balance between coverage and accuracy.
Current technology leans toward manned aircraft for LiDAR due to the power
requirements and battery weight. The greater the altitude the more area which
can be covered but you sacrifice accuracy. Synthetic Aperture Radar is optimal
for military application but there won’t be survey quality accuracy. UAS can
get accuracy but flying low and slow limits the areas that need to be covered. The
President of Tremble/Gatewing told me “UAS is perfect for that space that is
too low for airplanes and too high for surveyors on the ground”. This is where
you need a UAS to get accuracy under two centimeters, you don’t need to out of
range of people shooting at you, if you are covering a large area and you have
the time to get the job done. Then I would use an octocopter or a hexacopter
which range in price from $250.00 to $4,000.00. In this industry you get what
you pay for but you will be sold what you’ll pay for too. Do a thorough job of
checking out the system. Gene Payson or Patrick Egan would be great resources
to help you figure out what you need.
Oil and Gas
For GSR set up you need to have the contractor use a Panasonic
Tough-Pad, not a Toughbook. The Toughbook is too large, a Tough-Pad will fit
right in the nose of a Cyclops which only costs $5,400. You don’t need a camera
unless you are flying FPV. For gathering GAMMA and geospatial data you need the
capability to carry at least 20lbs and hover low to the ground once the
geologist recognizes the geographic contour that indicates reserves under the
surface and then the system needs to hover over that area and measure the
GAMMA.
Communications relay
There is a real need for regional connectivity for remote
areas. Google bought Titan UAS, the whole company, just for this purpose. There
are companies out there which will accomplish this function. Long duration,
days and weeks at a time. You have to really check out the system you are considering.
Know your niches
It’s just like anything else, not one size fits all. The
right system for the job can make all of the difference and so can the wrong
one.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Which is worse?
Is it circumventing
the law?
I was having a discussion with someone who is a law school
graduate and he took the bar but didn’t like it and chose administration. I was
discussing the ruling by the first judge in the Texas Equusearch vs The FAA
with the judge finding in favor of Texas Equusearch that their SAR operations
are not a commercial operation because they are a non-for profit and the
Spectra is not a drone but a remote controlled hobby plane. So when I asked him
for his opinion on FFA, 4-H and Boy Scouts flying these small remote control
aircraft for surveying and agriculture projects he told me “You are
circumventing the law”. So the law puts commercial use of these unmanned
aircraft in the same legal category as prostitution and using the weight of the
law to give an unfair advantage to the established military technology
providers and forcing research and development outside of the United States of
America. What is going to take for someone to sue over that?
I was sent a text of an article out of the “Up and Soaring-UAS”
Magazine and the first article is the University of Alaska getting a waiver to
operate within five miles of the Fairbanks International Airport. The second
article is the National Technical Systems Inc. getting a $1.4 million contract
to build to payload pods designed to support 25lbs payload per wing. I would
like to see them do that and keep the take-off weight below the 55lbs limit for
small UAS.
The next article announces the introduction of the Lockheed
Martin Vector Hawk. I would like to compare it head to head against the
Spectra. It has VTOL capability but I wonder how long it can float of a thermal
with the power shut off. It didn’t mention the price, I wonder if it’s less
than $10,000?
Then there was a nice article about how much more safely the
ScanEagle UAV can observe wildfires than a manned aircraft for fighting
wildfires. It didn’t mention how well it can float on a thermal either.
Then there was an article about Northrup Grumman and Yamaha
Motor collaboration on an unmanned Helicopter. Yamaha started making remote
control mini Helicopters about 12 years ago. They even carry pesticides to
spray for agriculture. There is no mention of the cost. I wonder why they didn’t
collaborate with SCION UAS an American company that has been manufacturing autonomous
Helicopters for 13 years.
The next article talks about how Sikorsky is going to
develop an autonomous Black Hawk. Did I just mention SCION UAS? Enough on that. The
next article mentions how The Center de Geomatique du Quebec is using a robotic
aircraft to collect aerial imagery. Did I mention that commercial UAS
operations are legal in Canada?
Then the last article on the page is about Freewave
developing a wireless roadmap for UAS to operate in Class A airspace. That
means flying in the same airspace as commercial airliners. I don’t remember
reading anything in the FAA proposed guidelines allowing for that. Oh, they
haven’t been published yet. There was no mention of the situational awareness capability developed by IPS/NexGen right now!
If is amazing how concerned some people are about circumventing
the law by trying to stay within a judge’s ruling allowing for non-for profits
to operate using a remote control plane when rules are circumvented for convenience
and overpriced technologies that weren’t thought through for the applications
they are intended are shoved down the industry’s collective throats.
This is circumventing common sense.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
It's better than sex
What other activity
is only legal is you do it for free?
I came to this conclusion a while back but I was talking
with a lighting contractor who is fascinated by unmanned technologies and she
asked me “Is there anything that is illegal if you do it commercially and legal
if you do it for fun?” I laughed and told her “Sex”. Isn’t that ridiculous? I
figured out that the Future Farmers of America, the FFA would fall under the
first judge’s reasoning that it doesn’t violate the FAA mandate of no
commercial UAS operations. I call MAPPS to see if there were any organizations similar
to FFA for students pertaining to geospatial and they told me 4H. Sure enough
there are geospatial 4H groups all over the country. Then I talked to my
brother whose birthday is today and I remembered that he was an Eagle Scout and
there is an aviation badge and agriculture badge.
One of my SEAL buddies who is a professional UAV pilot has
been telling me for almost three years “It is going to get like the cell phones
where they give you the phone and charge you for the service”. I can see
Trimble/Gate-wing, Hexagon Metrology, Optech and John Deer amongst other
companies sponsoring Boy Scouts, FFA and 4H to fly for free and they provide the
technology, airframes, sensors and cloud services to these kids and get this
party started.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
The FFA might have just backed into the drone business
Who is doing
commercial UAS business?
Last week the ruling came down from the appellate court
throwing out the law suit ruled by the previous judge that the FAA did not have
the authority to order a cease and desist because Texas Equusearch being a
non-for profit wasn’t operating commercially and the Spectra flying wing is a
hobby plane. The appellate judge justified throwing out the law suit, claiming
that because the FAA’s cease and desist wasn’t delivered properly because it
was e-mailed, making it invalid and unenforceable, giving no ground for a law
suit and the judge ruled that e-mail communications are not subject to judicial
review.
So not being an attorney, there doesn’t seem to be any
opening for commercial applications. If Texas Equusearch continues to use the
Spectra and maintains there non-for profit status Gene Robinson can continue SAR
operations. Until he gets a written cease and desist from the FAA.
So when the Benjamin Miller from the Colorado Mesa County
Sheriff’s Department surveys the county landfill, he doesn’t get paid by them
but he gets paid as part of his job and the entails flying a UX5 flying wing
UAS. So what makes it any different than a farmer flying his own hobby plane
with a GoPro camera over his field to see where his crops need more water or fertilizer?
The FAA is claiming that unless he is going to consume that entire crop
himself, it is a commercial operation. What they are saying is “Government and
non-for profits are the only non-commercial use.” Does that mean if the local
Future Farmers of America (FFA) collect the data it is okay? What if the farmer
donates to that FFA group, is that okay?
There is going to be this kind of tit for tat and legal
wrangling happening everywhere, until the commercial UAS guidelines are established
but it looks like the FFA is in business.
Monday, July 21, 2014
Is Darrell Issa being set up?
E-mails don’t count?
I the first hearing of Texas Equusearch vs FAA the judge
ruled that the FAA doesn’t have the authority to regulate a model airplane used by non-for profit. Then the appellate court threw out
the law suit saying “E-mails are not subject to judicial review”. I wouldn’t be
surprised if Lois Lerner’s attorney tried to use this as a legal precident.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
So you want to get into the comercial unmanned business?
So you want to get
into the unmanned industry
Well you can get a degree in robotics, photogrammetry or
aerospace engineering, you can designing and build a UAS platform and try and market
it, you could learn integration, you can learn to fly a drone and hold yourself
out there and try and pick up some work or you could find the people who need
the work done and contract UAS pilots regionally to do the work. The first
thing I recommend is join RCAPA. That is where I go to find the UAS pilots to do
the work I line up for domestic projects.
Litigation
I know an unmanned professional who has been doing a lot of
work and he gets the government entities who contract him to go after the
approvals and indemnify him. I would have whomever I am contracting to indemnify
me in the event that the FAA tries to come after me. If they don’t then move
on.
The right tools for
the job
Gene Robinson has made me a believer of the flying wing
system for search and rescue and firefighting. The ability to float on a
thermal and shut the motor down and save battery is amazing. His data and image
transmission and data storage from IPS/NexGen is remarkable and that is what
makes his product stand out. When it comes to hover technology, I think there
are a few but HoverFly seems to have a great product at a great price and then
when it comes to long duration for persistent surveillance or regional
connectivity, nobody beats CTJA/AirShip V2, V5 and V9 products. Then are
capital needs and that is where Eagle Capital comes in.
Where the market is
Precision Agriculture
There are a lot of people focused on precision agriculture
but if you aren’t already working in this industry, you need to focus on
setting up for next year. Farmers want to see what their crop is doing at the
beginning of the growing season and they want to focus on the challenged areas
where the shoots are slow to come up, making sure they are getting the right
amount of fertilizer and water.
Oil and Gas
Almost everyone is focused on pipeline security and there is
going to be a big demand for that but are areas of exploration that UAS
technology is applicable.
Firefighting and SAR
Gene Robinson has mastered the art of using his Spectra
flying wing UAS for firefighting. I would contact the department of forestry of
sugar cane growers and ask them if you can practice flying over the controlled
burns they are conducting get the feel for floating on the thermals and when
you get the hang of it, take the video to all of the fire departments in your
area and let them know you are available to fly whenever they have a fire and
learn the process for an emergency COA. Also let them know you are available
for search and rescue (SAR).
Surveying
There is no season on surveying. When it comes to DOT
applications you are probably going to have to either work with a university photogrammetry
department or get very friendly with your state DOT. They are going to be
anxious about the FAA regulations and safety but their real concern is going to
be safety, cost and accuracy. You may have to do some free flying and I don’t
mean “Untethered”. You may have to fly an area that has been contracted by a
manned aircraft and fly it with your UAS and show the difference in accuracy
and cost savings. You might want to reach out to some of the contractors who
are collecting the data for DOTs and offer your services. The areas you can
help them pick up more business is in architecture and 3D reconstruction.
Contact GUTC and we will direct you to resources that can give you the
advantages with these types of projects.
Surveillance
If you are willing to go into high risk areas and you have
experience with military UAV piloting, I know several contractors who are looking
for you. You may be able to get contracted by your local police or sheriff’s
departments. They have the most leeway as far as authorization for UAS
operations but they are doing this mostly in house. This is one of the only
applications that getting paid is authorized because you would either be
employed or contracted with a government entity (Until someone challenges the
FAA in court again).
Every other application, you need to be contract or employed
by a government agency, USDA, Fire Department, DHS, DOT, USGS, Forestry
Department, college, university, a one of the armed services, a state, county
or city branch of Government. Unless you are contracted by a property owner and
then not as a UAS pilot but for the data and imagery you are collecting. GUTC
has resources for data analysis for photogrammetry, spectral data, behavior
analytics or change overlay.
Until the FAA figures out the their operational guidelines,
you either pay an attorney to fight the FAA in court for each specific commercial
application or follow these methods others have been using to stay under the
radar of the FAA.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
GUTC comment of Texas Equusearch ruling
The appellate court
ruling on Texas Equusearch
Before I get started I want everyone to understand that I am
not an attorney and GUTC is not offering legal advice. I am outlining the situation
as I see it. Friday the ruling came down that the cease and desist was not
valid because the FAA did not issue the order properly. They sent an e-mail.
The court stated that Texas Equusearch and Gene Robinson could use UAS for
search and rescue as long as they followed the current guidelines issued by the
FAA.
What are the current
FAA guidelines?
In order for Texas Equusearch to be compliant with the
current FAA guidelines Texas Equusearch and Gene Robinson would have to fly a
FAA certified UAS airframe. Now that might lead you to believe that he must fly
a Puma, Raven or Scan Eagle but the Colorado Mesa County Sheriff’s Department
has received multiple COAs for their Tremble UX5 flying wing designed UAS. So
does Gene Robinson have to abandon his Spectra flying wing UAS and adopt the
UX5? When the FAA approved the LiveSky tethered quad-rotor they opened the door
for every other tethered quad-rotor with the same capability to operate as a
tethered device up to 149 feet. They might have to go to court but the judge is
going allow it. This will be the same for Gene Robinson’s Spectra, if they authorize
the UX5 they are going to have to authorize Gene’s Spectra or get sued. What is
amazing is that Gene has been using the Spectra before any of the FAA
restrictions and he probably has more flight time logged that any other UAS
that has been FAA certified.
All of the law suits
I was feeling sorry for Brendan Schulman, I was thinking
this one little law suit would open up the whole commercial unmanned industry,
multiple billions of dollars of business and he would just get his little
retainer from Texas Equusearch and Gene Robinson but now I am seeing that there
is a winnable law suit for requiring a UAS pilot to be contracted by a
government entity, another for requiring an FAA certified UAS, another for
restricting commercial use on private property, another for restricting
commercial authorized commercial use when authorized over public property,
another for limiting commercial UAS operations for government entities to only
high priced UAS systems used by the military, another to get authorization for
jobs typically performed by manned aircraft where a pilot is making the
decision on which technology to be used….etc.
So I no longer think Brendan needs my sympathy.
Friday, July 18, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Real-Estate marketing with Drones
Real-Estate marketing
with Drones
I wish I still had my Real-Estate Broker’s license. Using
some of the old proven strategies taught to me by the first Broker I hung my
license with. I would call up Coldwell Banker Brokers agent’s listing and ask
for permission to market their properties. I would gin up a flier of their
listed property and the day of their open house I would talk door to door for
three blocks in every direction and promote the open house and hand out the
fliers with my contact number and e-mail. With those that I meet face to face I
would hand them my business cards. Because I also brokered mortgages I would
let them know if they were interested in putting and offer on the property I was
promoting and that I could pre-qualify them.
No if I had a quad-rotor UAS/Drone I would create a blog
with the MLS data for that specific property but I would also be ready to show
some of my own listings with the aerial video from my quad-rotor. Then I would
ask if the neighbor wanted a free aerial video of their home that I would send
them a link of so they could post on their social media sites and if they
decided they wanted to sell their house and they wanted to list with Coldwell
Banker, they would be able to use the video I made for them but if any of their
friends who see the panoramic video I create for them express interest in
buying a property or selling their own, would they give me the referral? I would
let them also know that I would promote their property with the video I create
for them on my social media sites.
In the event I list and sell a property in that neighborhood
prior to the Coldwell Banker listing I helped promote. I would make an offer
for that agent to hang his license with me.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Technology's Effect on Real-Estate
Technology’s effect
on Real-Estate
You are about to see a dramatic effect of technology on the
Real-Estate market. I held my Real-Estate Broker’s license in California from
six years and I was a licensed agent for six years before that. It is more than
just finding buyers and sellers, the sellers what to get their houses sold fast
and the buyers want to close quickly too, the agents want inventory and
qualified buyers and they want broker support and the brokers to retain their
agents.
Government intrusion
Recently the FAA has been cracking down on Realtors using
off of the shelf UAS or Drones to capture aerial and 360 degree imagery of the
properties they are selling. I don’t believe the FAA has jurisdiction over
commerce but when a Realtor captures the aerial overhead and 360 imagery of the
property using an off of the shelf product, legally sold to stream on her marketing
web-site, that Real-Estate agent or broker is paid nothing to collect that
imagery. She doesn’t get paid a dime unless the house gets sold and there isn’t
even a line item on the HUD1 for the cost of advertising or for UAS services to
collect this data. As long as the Realtor isn’t paying a hobbyist to do the
flying for her she is not breaking any law even if there were a law restricting
the commercial use of the technology but this doesn’t even constitute an
infringement of the proposed FAA guidelines.
Free market backlash
So with Coldwell Banker restricting their Broker Associates
and agents from using these effective resource to showcase their seller’s
properties, why would a seller list with Coldwell Banker when they can use a
competing Real-Estate Brokerage and for the same 6% they can have this added
service to showcase their property? The agents can use it as a marketing tool
and go door to door asking the neighbors if they would like a panoramic view of
their property to post on their blog or social media web-sites. I’m sure this
generates more sales when the home owner gets inquiries asking if their home is
for sales. I think of the possible referrals for prospective sales that those
home owners might know or how many Coldwell Banker agents who were using
UAS/Drones to market in these ways will move on to other Brokers. I wonder will
other brokerages promote their agent’s ability to exercise their free market
rights to serve their clients to the best of their abilities. Will there be a
surge in patriotic marketing, promoting the American dream of home ownership
and property rights? I think somebody is going to feel like they walked across
someone’s yard and felt that all familiar feeling of something dogs leave
behind that stinks for allowing themselves to have the government dictate their
business practices.
Coldwell BankerSunday, July 13, 2014
Business models and artificial bearers
Business models to
follow
There is a concern that the big UAS manufactures, Aerovironment,
Insitu, BAE systems, Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin have undue influence
on the FAA and giving them an unfair advantage. From the beginning I have
wondered why the industry hasn’t adopted the strategy of the Japanese auto
manufactures by saturating the market with low cost, low maintenance, high mileage
vehicles and then once they have established a beachhead in the market come out
with the higher cost, higher quality products i.e. from Toyota to Lexus, Datsun
to Nissan. It appears that these established UAS manufactures have conspired
with the FAA to force their high priced systems on to the market claiming
because they have logged the most flight hours in combat. Look at how that
worked with HUMVEE/Hummers? The market doesn’t care about combat flight hours.
The investment advisors are promoting these established UAV Manufactures but
they should be looking at the smart companies who have already modeled the
process of the Japanese automakers and they are 3D Robotics and DJI.
These products are the perfect platforms to implement a
business model Brett Gardener the director of ACADEMI’s unmanned program has
been filling my ear with for a couple years now. He says “It’s going to be like
the cell phone industry where they give you the cell phones and charge you for
the service.” There are a number of cloud providers out there where the data
can be streamed to these cloud services and analysts can download the data and
do their analysis and find determine the actions needed based upon the information
they glean from the imagery.
The benefit of UAS
Sure there are cost and safety benefits compared to manned
aircraft but the technical benefit is the ability to slow down the imagery by
the analyst sitting behind a laptop and find whatever is desired. The human
eye, even with binoculars can’t deal with the movement. Gene Robinson’s Texas Equusearch
is successful for this exact reason. There are hundreds of examples where he
has been able to find bodies after search teams have walked past and flown over
the exact areas where he went back and flown over the same area with his
Spectra flying wing UAS. I really like this platform for firefighting too
because of the ability to float on a thermal produced by the fire and save battery.
That is a capability that is not practical with quad-rotor or from one of the
UAS used by the military. It is a pusher design where the prop is in the back
but he is hand launched which is an issue with most pusher design but Gene’s
system knows when it is being launched and doesn’t start up until after the
pilot throws it into the air.
Property rights
The news it all about the FAA restriction on unmanned aerial
systems. These fly in the face of individual property rights but while studying
for my real-estate broker’s license we were taught that individual property
right go from the center of the earth to end of the atmosphere. The hobby
restrictions are up to 400’ except in 5 miles from the path of established
runways. Congress has mandated that commercial airways be open for unmanned operations.
This is the law! Well the law for personal property rights is just as
established. Almost three years ago I talked with Jim Williams the manager of
the FAA’s unmanned program and he told me that the business owner had to be the
operator of the unmanned system. I challenged him on that and then shortly
after the restricted all commercial unmanned operations. The laws are already
established, no matter what the FAA says that protect property owners to
operate commercial equipment on their property and to contract professionals to
operate equipment on their property. There are attorneys who are just waiting
to take the FAA to task defending private property rights. The lines are being
blurred for commercial unmanned operations for operating with authorization
over private property and flying over public and private property without authorization.
The model is already in place with the use of manned aircraft where the
operator isn’t required to get permission from private owners or authorities governing
public property. They don’t need any special permission to capture imagery or data
over that private of public property.
Artificial barriers
There are plenty of examples from training flees and
elephants by establishing bearers that they just get used to so those bearers
are removed or now longer viable but the limits are still adhered to. This is
what is happening with the restriction on the commercial use of unmanned aerial
systems. Personal property right trump the FAA restrictions. They are going to
challenge that but they haven’t take that to court because they know that they
will lose. The mandate to open the airways by 2015 is law and they must do it.
This means the same ability to fly over public and private property just like
manned aircraft do now but if unmanned operations are conducted with expressed
written permission by the property owner or government authority of the
property of the operations are being conducted, it is authorized. Don’t take my
word for it, I hear from precision agriculture UAS professionals where the FAA
has turned their heads and countless news and TV stations who are using this
technology right now.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
GUTC responce to FAA’s Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft
With reference to the use of "First person view" devices. These devices are of most beneficial for persons who are most used to flying manned aircraft. They are accustom to flying from the point of view of the aircraft. It is well known within the RC hobby community that person with actual flying experience have the most challenges especially while landing RC aircraft.
Private property rights: In the event an RC/Hobbyist is flying over their own property or over another's private property with expressed written permission they should be allowed to fly using "First person view" devices and use these devices for commercial applications.
Safety: Safety is the primary excuse for restricting the use of unmanned aerial system for commercial applications. If the FAA has deemed hobby RC flight is safe than it should be deemed safe enough for commercial use, especially on private property.
The FAAs jurisdiction over commercial operations is for commercial transport where human beings are passengers or crew. In the event of autonomous flight of aircraft with human passengers or crew such as the Osprey used by the military where take off and landing is totally autonomous because it was found to be safer than the pilot and copilot coordinating with each other during landing and take off. In the event of the use of human passengers and crew, I believe that the FAA should have safety oversight of the autonomous mechanisms to be implemented.
Private property rights: In the event an RC/Hobbyist is flying over their own property or over another's private property with expressed written permission they should be allowed to fly using "First person view" devices and use these devices for commercial applications.
Safety: Safety is the primary excuse for restricting the use of unmanned aerial system for commercial applications. If the FAA has deemed hobby RC flight is safe than it should be deemed safe enough for commercial use, especially on private property.
The FAAs jurisdiction over commercial operations is for commercial transport where human beings are passengers or crew. In the event of autonomous flight of aircraft with human passengers or crew such as the Osprey used by the military where take off and landing is totally autonomous because it was found to be safer than the pilot and copilot coordinating with each other during landing and take off. In the event of the use of human passengers and crew, I believe that the FAA should have safety oversight of the autonomous mechanisms to be implemented.
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Hobby Lobby Case
Hobby Lobby Case
I mentioned that this Hobby Lobby Case might have something
to do with the FAA suspending the approval of Commercial UAS operations. Well
if it didn’t it will. If Hobby Lobby were a publicly held company it would not
have been able to exercise its first amendment rights but because they are not
a public company, that makes the company property of the owners and theirs
alone and as property owners they have the say in what goes on, on their
property. Just like a farmer or a rancher. The same right apply when it comes
to using equipment, like a Drone/UAS.
The right players playing this game the right way
Get in the game!
This whole domestic UAS industry is very fragmented and all
over the board. The FAA is like the poker player who comes to the game late and
trying to learn on the fly, trying to implement their own rules and holding up
the game. The big players let them do this because it is making everyone else
frustrated enough to fold. If you have enough chips it isn’t hard to figure out
what’s in every ones hand but everyone is waiting on the new guy to deal and
that is the FAA. The chips are out there but they are not on the table. Everyone
is waiting for the FAA to deal. There are not only investors sitting on the
sidelines but end users that don’t even know they are in the game. The backend
game for the high rollers is setting the FAA up so everyone can play. I am not
a conspiracy theorist but it is plain to see that this game is “Favorites”
right now.
While the high rollers are coaching the FAA to deal them the
high cards, the real players who don’t even know they are in the game yet need
coaching because they are really holding the high cards. The high rollers have
week hands and they know it. I have been saying “It’s like the story of the emperor’s
new clothes” but it is really just like a poker game. The established players
are bluffing and if they can keep everyone else from getting in the game until
they get the high cards from the FAA, they will win. The established UAS professionals
are playing penny ante when they have the skills to beat the high rollers. The one
guy who can break the game loose is attorney Brendan Schulman but he knows that
what he has the ability to do is going to make a lot of people a lot of money
and I assume that he wants to make sure that he is adequately compensated for
it.
We need to turn this
game into a team sport
If this case were to be turned into a class action law suit
that is where Mr. Schulman would get the compensation he is looking for. I am
going to recommend that the members of RCAPA file a class action law suit and
have Brendan Schulman do the filing. I recommend that every UAS and drone pilot
and professional become a member of RCAPA and for RCAPA to join forces with the
MAPPS organization. MAPPS is the hub of disciplines that commercial UAS operations
is perfect for. They have photogrammetry and geospatial professionals and
experts who may not know it yet but they want commercial UAS operations to in
the National Airspace and they want it at a competitive rate. This is where the
high rollers hand is week. They know they are overpriced for the market. Just
one example is the Scan Eagle vs the Cyclops. They both have about the same
5lbs technology payload capability and four hours duration of flight but the
Scan Eagle system is over a million dollars with the base price for the airframe
at $175,000. The Cyclops’ base price is $5,400. This is where the “Emperors’
new clothes” analogy fits. The domestic market isn’t going to pay those
inflated rates. These high rollers are jumping over dollars to get to quarters
anyway. The money is in “The law of large numbers” the cellular companies have
it figured out, give away the cell phones and charge for the service. Oh, these
service providers aren’t going to pay for overpriced technologies either and
they are more likely to buy a UAS/Drone company like Google did with Titan or
lease the services. The FAA will make a lot of money through UAS pilot and
airframe certifications, a subscribership to a web-site porthole for commercial
UAS pilots to upload their mission tasking. They just need to make sure that
they don’t use the same web-master that worked on the Affordable Care web-site.
IPS/NexGen has the right management system to do exactly this as well as the
situational awareness solution that solves the sense and avoid dilemma.
Everything is easy
when you know the answers
The Unmanned industry is going to be a boon once the FAA lets
the game get started. Everyone is so head down in their own technology’s they
are missing the big picture. I hope this post clear some of the fog.
Friday, July 4, 2014
Which is a greater infringement, commercial use of drones or the FAA's overreach?
Which is a greater
infringement, commercial use of Drones or the FAA’s overreach?
Right here from the start, I am not an attorney so consult with
an attorney if you plan on taking any action on what I am writing about in this
blog. Three years ago I had a couple of conversations with Jim Williams from
the FAA Unmanned Division. At the time it was put out that commercial
operations of unmanned aerial systems would be authorized as long as the
business owner himself were operating the device. As a California licensed Real-Estate/mortgage
Broker, insurance and securities licensed agent I knew a little bit about
property and business ownership and I called Mr. Williams and let him know that
under the law a business owner doesn’t have to drive or even own trucks to run
a trucking company or a charter airline company either so I asked “Where is the
law that requires a business owner to operate the equipment used for his
business? Can’t he contract operators to do that?” He got stymied and asked me
to call him back and I did and he then agreed that lease ownership would in fact
be considered ownership and he informed me that the UAV pilot would have to be
an employee of the company and I asked “Can they be a contract employee?” He
again became flustered and I could never get him on the phone again after that.
Then is came out the FAA would suspend all commercial use of Unmanned
operations.
At the time I was trying to sell a system, I worked for that
company for a year and a half and then I became an independent contractor,
lining up contracts for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). I talked with all kinds
of people in Ag consultants and crop scientist, surveyors and stumbled unto
applications for oil and gas exploration and food safety that I never knew
about. Then after a year I lost the consulting contract for the major reason,
the FAA still wasn’t allowing for commercial UAS operations.
I’m not alone but there are still commercial UAS operations
going on. How are they doing it? I had a conversation with an industry
professional who was also a Police helicopter pilot. He told me “They FAA came
to my house to shut me down, they were wearing suits, they looked like the ‘Men
in Black’. They told me that they were shutting me down. I asked them if I
could talk with them with my attorney present and they agreed. Then we sat down
with them and discussed how there is no law banning the commercial use of UAS
and if the government were going to shut me down then they needed to pay me at
years lost wages which I figure amounts to $250,000. They sat there silent. I’ve
got the best law firm in the country. If you need any help, let me know.”
There have been two rulings early this year one judge
hearing a case in Georgia dealing with a tethered quad-rotor where the local
FAA gave authorization and the Federal FAA tried to get them to resend it but
they wouldn’t do it in writing so they went to court and the judge ruled that
the FAA doesn’t have the authority to recant their own authorization. Now there
is the 1981 guidelines for hobby craft but that wasn’t a law either, just a
guideline and it does say “Commercial use is unauthorized”. The second ruling
was for the foreign UAS pilot filming in North Carolina where the judge ruled
that “The FAA cannot enforce laws that haven’t been written yet”.
Since then a UAS pilot who has been doing search and rescue
missions for ten years has taken the FAA to court with same attorney who received
the favorable ruling in the North Carolina case, which is in appeal. The attorney Brendan
Schulman is no dummy, the FAA is trying claim precedent “Chevron deference”
where the EPA claimed authority to fine Chevron in the name of public safety
where congress hadn’t passed legislation one way or the other because they don’t
have the scientific understanding enough to determine if there is a danger to
the public so they defer to the government agency that oversees that industry.
Well neither the EPA nor the FAA has the right to regulate commerce. By FAA
publishing their guidelines for RC use of unmanned hobby flight they have basically
established the commercial rule for UAS. Chevron deference or not, if it is
safe enough to do as a hobby or recreation it is safe enough to do
commercially.
I do like the pilot in charge where a licensed pilot is
accountable for commercial operations, so if someone is flying over private property
without authorization, someone has their license on the line. The pilot in
charge doesn’t have to be the pilot but they are accountable for their UAS pilots’
actions and training. I think it would be an awesome business for some of these
airline pilots to make extra money. They could hire out a bunch of military UAV
pilots, train them
and establish operational procedures, emergency protocols and operational
responsibilities to be briefed before every mission, just like they do in the
military, for everything.
All of this ado about sense and avoid technology, isn’t necessary
as long as the mission is planned and the plan and procedures are adhered to. No
as someone pointed out in a blog “If commercial airliners are flying below 400
feet, it’s not the UAS pilots fault if they collide.” If in the event that they
start automating commercial airlines like they do the military’s Osprey, then I
think sense and avoid should be required.
This is just common sense.
The 4th of July and what America means to me
The 4th of
July and what America means to me
As a Navy SEAL I had the opportunity to fight for another
countries’ freedom in Panama. For a long time holiday like Memorial Day and the
4th of July were hard for me because of the loss of my comrades in
arms. I actually look forward to the BBQs, parades and the fireworks so I can
get my mind off of my friends who lost their lives which still had so much more
in them to give. As free as we are there are still barriers to opportunity and
success but because we as Americans, as a people are fighters and we gravitate
to those whom we see struggling, we don’t just lay down and except out lot.
Trying to make a living in this Unmanned Technology industry I am seeing a
group of fighters, they keep pushing and adjusting to the situations and some are
just doing it, despite the barriers and they do it because they are Americans
and that’s what we as Americans do. We find a way and because of people like
those I see in this industry, opportunity is there for everyone. If you service
in the military, worked on Wall Street, owned your own business, worked in a
factory or in the fields, your attitude and spirit to fight is what made
America what it is today. Because you didn’t just lay down or give in and I am
surrounded by the men and women in the unmanned industry who are showing me
that America is still a nation of fighters, which makes me proud to be in their
company.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Full service solutions for the UAS market
Maximizing
your cash-flow with GUTC
There are four basic
applications for UAS technologies:
Surveillance
Precision Agriculture
Aerial Surveying
Oil and Gas Exploration
Anything more than $180 per
hour can be undercut by a manned aircraft. That can still make a good living
for the UAS pilot or even the business owner if he has about 15 systems working
an average of four hours a day and leveraging the cost of the systems,
airframe, sensor and ground station equipment with Eagle Capital financing.
This scenario can produce $35,000 per month.
Maximizing your cash-flow with GUTC
GUTC is in partnership with DELEC and Intracom
The combined technologies are capable of voice over IP with the capability to communicate/interconnect PSTN. Two-way radios, 3G/4G smart phones, computers and other audio sources over a variety of IP spectrum choices,-supporting unlimited devices. We will later be able to add RTSP video feed from any camera patched into the TOC and direct the live images to a patrolman near the situation, real-time. GUTC shares the manufactures rebate.
ECO-Agri Formula
I don’t know any UAS operators or companies doing precision agriculture business who are offering solutions, they gather data and turn it over to the farmer, crop scientist or Ag consultant. Plants need sun light, food and water to grow and bugs don’t attack healthy plants. ECO-Agri Formula kills bugs and it is not toxic. It was just designated Exempt by the Department of Pesticide Regulation. It kills bugs when mixed with water, softening the molecules so they penetrate the exoskeleton and rupturing their internal organs and disrupting their breathing apparatus. The same function of softening the water molecules allows water to penetrate the soil and the separating the molecules of hydrocarbons breaks down NPK which hardens the soil causing hard pan and resists moisture, causing erosion, washing away top soil. GUTC will share the manufactures rebate with UAS professionals who promote ECO-Agri Formula with their clients.
No FAA authorization required
The FAA has no authority to prevent the sale of DELEC/Intracom or ECO/Agri Formula. You can expand your markets and feed your family while you’re waiting for the FAA to produce their guidelines and when they do, you can increase your bottom-line with these products.
Maximizing your cash-flow with GUTC
GUTC is in partnership with DELEC
The combined technologies are capable of voice over IP with the capability to communicate/interconnect PSTN. Two-way radios, 3G/4G smart phones, computers and other audio sources over a variety of IP spectrum choices,-supporting unlimited devices. We will later be able to add RTSP video feed from any camera patched into the TOC and direct the live images to a patrolman near the situation, real-time. GUTC shares the manufactures rebate.
ECO-Agri Formula
I don’t know any UAS operators or companies doing precision agriculture business who are offering solutions, they gather data and turn it over to the farmer, crop scientist or Ag consultant. Plants need sun light, food and water to grow and bugs don’t attack healthy plants. ECO-Agri Formula kills bugs and it is not toxic. It was just designated Exempt by the Department of Pesticide Regulation. It kills bugs when mixed with water, softening the molecules so they penetrate the exoskeleton and rupturing their internal organs and disrupting their breathing apparatus. The same function of softening the water molecules allows water to penetrate the soil and the separating the molecules of hydrocarbons breaks down NPK which hardens the soil causing hard pan and resists moisture, causing erosion, washing away top soil. GUTC will share the manufactures rebate with UAS professionals who promote ECO-Agri Formula with their clients.
No FAA authorization required
The FAA has no authority to prevent the sale of DELEC/Intracom or ECO/Agri Formula. You can expand your markets and feed your family while you’re waiting for the FAA to produce their guidelines and when they do, you can increase your bottom-line with these products.
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