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Interesting, the FAA has announced the first drone delivery air carrier approval in the US will happen in April. I would have thought Flirtey would win this race but according to the NYT the only application listed is from Google Wing.

The amount of oh gotchas and keyboard guesses from lots of google searching is quite comical. Think any real in-depth analysis has been done yet? Silly.

How do you know?

It doesn't take much to be a qualified investor (angel investor). And I don't mean to downplay it or anything either. Really just making the point that good on him for realizing you have to get out and sell. I cheer for anyone that can be an engineer and sales lead. Powerful combo.

Startups aren't for everyone, and especially if you haven't worked in one or understand what it means to "hustle". The odd thing is, his next startup will be a rocket ship because now he knows the most important fact - have someone willing to pay for what you're doing.

Amazon's reach into the FAA is particularly hysterical. Given that Amazon would like to do drone deliveries and has pissed off the FAA in some regards in the past - specific regulatory language confirms this - they have a huge footprint and open door policy in the DC offices. Companies competing in the delivery space like WalMart, UPS, etc should be very nervous about the drafting that goes on now at Amazon's becking.

thank you!

I will throw in a flightchops and premier1driver to satisfy the entire query!

No, it can be and is used by pilots of all flavors. I have a commercial rating but not an ATP and use it every time I fly.

This brings to mind that recently someone posted in my city's subreddit questions about their visit and where they could park their van. The comments were outrageously unwelcoming and basically forced this person to consider the next city along their trip as the place they should stop. I think what works in one part of the nation doesn't necessarily translate to all of it.

Holy mackerel. D3 actually already has the graphic type I need. It is possible I may have a working prototype today.

You have helped me so much!

Thank you much so far, I installed Django and am trying that with bootstrap to see how far I can go.

This is one thing I can't tell if I'm being "tin-foil hatty" about. What is embedded in that processor?

No both separately. But I'm going to look at OpenOCD now.

I feel like I constantly read things 2 weeks late on HN. I just got done integrating a SAM32 with a raspi. Insulting to say, I have a BBB on the shelf, in a box.

The FAA thinks that cockpit automation leads to complacency. It's a question on the commercial pilot written test.

Very cool. Just this morning I was looking for a FIS-B decoder.

I chased and successfully won a huge customer for my small and fledgling startup. I chased and successfully won a sole service contract for a key part of their business process. I allowed a credit situation with them to grow over the course of 3 months while I allowed them to have 60 day terms. And then, they went out of business and left me holding the bag with $150,000 in unpaid AR after I spent $90,000 generating that AR with them.

The lesson is never trust the size of a company as sufficient reasoning that they can and will pay their bills.

When the USG writes an RFP/BAA, they already know who they want as the provider.

Mattress Mack?

10 bucks says the way this eventually gets solved for BVLOS will be a combination of RVSM on the cardinal points and ADSB.

So, so many people trying to solve this problem. This is just the flavor of the month.

I don't know if I've been unlucky twice, but I think the biggest problem I see with working at a startup is the lack of transparency on runway and the security of whatever form of compensation I am getting. Twice now (in 2 diff companies) I have been stuck in the position of finding out with only a few days' notice that paychecks are not getting wired and we're hunting an investor to bail us out.

Somehow it has become ingrained that a CEO's job is to build everyone up and paint the vision. Well, that's great but somewhere along the way we forgot about the basics of personnel management. Think a co-founder is taking a chance by going without a salary? How about the dude with options and a family.

Sure, people know what they are getting into when they join a startup - or should - but I yearn for YC's next class on "Startup Ethics 101".

Is working for Elon just awful? I heard SpaceX people flock to Virgin Galactic because of this.

oh hell no.

What's the glideslope of a multirotor vehicle?

10-4

pursue flying now, you won't regret the freedom it brings.

no..."Compensation" according to the FAA is frighteningly broad.

Example. Compensation can be interpreted as "the prospect of a return favor".

like a stick of gum.

The problem with your comment is that you are wrong in your interpretation. Your interpretation is that it's black and white on what the FAA can do. There's famous saying among pilots when doing something that isn't explicit in FARs. "That sounds like a grey area". For a conservative pilot, they'll never do it because it could be a license suspension or at minimum dialing a number to talk to an FAA investigator. To a more liberal or adventurous pilot, they might bend the limit and see if it comes up.

I am curious if you're a pilot and if so have your CPL or ATP.

It's not about the PPL vs. CPL (and by definition they need more than a CPL). The difference is in what might be considered "compensation". The FAA's interpretation of this is so incredibly broad, it should scare the pants off anyone considering bending the rules here, and their lawyers should have picked up on this. Did the flights with vendors increase a relationship that might further an interest or negotation later? Did the flights help them improve their app? Did it result in a prospect of a return favor?

It may not be fair or just, but the FAA put those rules out there and a whole lot of people have been inconvenienced by them. I love that Tapjets is doing this, but they moved fast and not particularly wisely. If they thought they could run like Uber and ask for forgiveness later, they never worked with the FAA.

I mowed yards for 2 summers in 1987 and 1988 so I could save up enough money to buy an Amstrad PPC512.

I loved that computer

Wow, can't believe this is the first time I've heard of this. It actually makes a ton of sense and explains away alot of issues.

I was flying both a manned aircraft yesterday as well as a very expensive drone. I saw some really weird stuff all day long on both of them.