{"id":62,"date":"2026-08-12T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/2026\/08\/12\/why-wind-not-rain-cancels-a-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:50:59","slug":"why-wind-not-rain-cancels-a-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/2026\/08\/12\/why-wind-not-rain-cancels-a-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wind, Not Rain, Cancels A Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question we get most often on a grey morning is whether we are still coming. Usually the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>Modern airframes handle drizzle better than people expect. What they do not handle is gusting \u2014 not the steady speed, the difference between the lulls and the peaks. A steady fifteen is a workable day. Eight gusting to twenty-two is not, because the aircraft is correcting constantly and the camera never settles.<\/p>\n<p>Gusts also make the battery estimate unreliable, which matters most on the long straight lines of a mapping grid.<\/p>\n<p>So when we stand a flight down on a day that looks perfectly calm from your office window, it is almost always the gust spread rather than anything you can see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question we get most often on a grey morning is whether we are still coming. Usually the answer is yes. Modern&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-safety","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-drone-services-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}