Drone News: 128MP Survey Camera, Aloft Expanding to AAM, New Waivers Course, and Black Friday Sale!

Published: Nov. 17, 2023, 1 p.m.

Welcome to your weekly news update, we have 3 stories for you this week, Phase One releases 128 MP survey camera, Aloft expanding to AAM, new waivers course and our Black Friday sale is now live!

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Phase One has released the P5 Survey Payload, coming in at 700 grams.\nThe P5 has an electronic global shutter capable of capturing four frames per second at 128MP.\nThe P5 also comes with a 1G ethernet connection port, 14 pin JST-ZE, and MAVLink/Auterion connections. \nTwo lens options are available, with a 35mm and an 80mm lens.\nWith the 35mm lens, the ground sampling distance at 394 feet (120m) is 1.16cm, or 0.45 inches.\nUsing this information and working backwards through a GSD calculator, we estimate this means with the 80mm lens, from 120m would be 0.51cm.\nPretty awesome new camera for those in the surveying field! \n\nNext up this week is Aloft, who is combining low altitude monitoring of UAS and AAM.\nThe Project, called the North Texas Airspace Awareness Project, hopes to basically create a dashboard of low altitude aircraft operations specifically around UAS and AAM.\nThis dashboard will allow local municipalities to publish and disseminate localized safety advisories for certain types of users such as governmental users, commercial, and recreational. \nAdditionally, this will allow a direct connection between operators of both AAM and UAS and the local governments to share information such as local rules. \nIf you\u2019re unfamiliar with Aloft, they are the largest UAS Service Supplier of LAANC and the current maintainer of the FAA\u2019s B4UFLY. \nAloft provides 80% of all UAS airspace authorizations in the US.\nWe\u2019ll keep you updated if we see more about this project.\n\nLast up this week is our Black Friday Sale, which is now live! \nAll of our catalog of courses is currently on sale for up to 50% off!\nThis is our largest sale of the year and as usual, all of our courses are on sale for the lowest price of the year! \nWe also JUST released a new paid course for drones on how to apply for waivers! \nThe course includes information on the process, supporting documents, what the FAA wants to know, where to submit, and what to do after you get your waiver!\n\nThat\u2019s it! Have a great week and we\u2019ll see you on Monday for the live event! \n\nhttps://dronexl.co/2023/11/15/phase-one-p5-survey-payload-drone-camera/\n\nhttps://www.nctcog.org/getmedia/63742e52-4c0e-40c2-97c8-3ec7bb63a28c/North-Texas-Airspace-Awareness-Pilot-Program.pdf\n\nhttps://www.aloft.ai/blog/aloft-selected-for-pioneering-north-texas-airspace-awareness-project-leading-the-way-in-advanced-air-mobility/