Drone News: Drone Rescues 2-Year-Old, DroneUp Expanding Deliveries, Holiday Reminder

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In this week’s drone news update, we’ll talk about a rescue with a drone, DroneUp Expanding Deliveries, and a reminder for the holiday season.

00:00 Introduction
00:08 Drone to the Rescue!
00:49 DroneUp Expanding Deliveries
01:16 Holiday Season Reminder

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Your first story this week is a rescue with a drone.
Police from Dartmouth, Massachusetts used a thermal drone in the search of a missing 2 year old.
Within 15 minutes of launching the drone, the child was found and rescuers were guided to the child’s location.
The Dartmouth Police Chief said “Had it not been for the use of our drone and the excellent communication between my two officers, the outcome of this incident would have most likely been grave”
This is another great use of drones and goes to show how powerful drone are as a tool!

The second story this week is DroneUp expanding deliveries into North Texas.
DroneUp now has drone deliveries from 11 additional stores and can deliver over 10,000 items, weighing up to 10lbs.
The delivery fee is just $3.99.
Walmart and DroneUp aim to be in 5 states by year end (Which is pretty close…) and making deliveries from 34 stores.

The last story this week is about drone registrations. If you know someone who is getting a drone this holiday season, remind them that drones over 0.55 lbs or 250 grams that are flown recreationally need to be registered with the FAA. The ONLY place to register is the FAA DroneZone website and the cost is only $5 for 3 years. If you are being offered cards or lanyards, and it’s more than $5, you’re on a scheme website and NOT on the FAA website. Look for the .gov extension in the URL.

One more thing before we go, from myself and the entire team at Pilot Institute, Happy Holidays to you and your family! We hope you have a fun and safe time… and we hope you get that drone you’ve been wanting!

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36 thoughts on “Drone News: Drone Rescues 2-Year-Old, DroneUp Expanding Deliveries, Holiday Reminder”

  1. At national parks even agents for the parks are not allowed to use drones to search for missing people. It makes no difference if a hiker is lost & starving, you still can't use a drone.

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  5. Can you comment on the recent "required" firmware update for DJI Air 2S (and other models) that doesn't work? Many pilots on the web are reporting a code 30064 error "Unable to take off" after the update. I am now grounded thanks to the update. DJI offers no solution. Do you have more info on this?

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  22. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! My wife and I agreed many years ago to stop getting each other gifts which we may or may not want, so we started getting our own. We used to let the other wrap them but when the kids left, we quit wasting paper. I don't have much patience though so last year I started flying my Mavic 3 before Christmas, and this year have already flown my new Mini 3 Pro, but now it is too cold to even go outside.

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