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Recent content by finlayson

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    New Zealand Flying Advice

    Yes, DOC areas are almost always signposted (with their standard green-signs-with-gold-lettering), though few areas have explicitly posted 'no drones' signs. However, according to the DOC map that I linked to above, most of the shoreline of Lake Wanaka (including the area around 'that famous...
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    New Zealand Flying Advice

    The ban described under QLDC here - Property Owner Consent Information | airshare NZ hub for drones and UAVs - applies only to the QLDC's own parks/reserves. For other land, it depends upon the owner/manager of the particular land that you want to fly over. There is a lot of DOC (Department of...
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    New Zealand Flying Advice

    The most important thing to know about flying drones in NZ is this map of no-fly zones: https://app.airshare.co.nz/app/apps/airspaceMap/ As you can see, most of the Queenstown area is a no-fly zone, but you may be able to get permission by contacting the appropriate airport/airfield
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    corrupt video files.

    I have (free) software that can repair many of these corrupt DJI video files: Repairing Corrupt DJI Video Files
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    My spark went down.....into the water.

    Please stop with the 'clickbait' video headlines ("Shocking"). There's far too much of this already.
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    (Solved) Repair corrupt video file on Spark

    Were you asked to enter a 'format code'? If so, try several different codes. (People are often mistaken about which format their video as recorded in.)