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Welcome to the 48 Pegasus Blog: What We Will Write About and Why

Writer: Jonathan G. Browning
Jonathan G. Browning
Oct 7
4 min read

Updated: Oct 8

Welcome. We hope this becomes a long, useful run of posts, and if you found your way here, thank you. Here is what this blog is, what it is not, and how we plan to write it.


Who we are

48 Pegasus is based in Red Boiling Springs, in Macon County, Tennessee. We focus on drone and ground photography, listing video, and what we call property intelligence: putting the right information about a place in front of the people who need it, in a form they can actually use.

48 Pegasus is focused on the area around us, serving properties within 75 miles of Macon County, Tennessee, across Middle Tennessee and South Central Kentucky. That means farmhouses and pasture, lake cabins and campgrounds, downtown storefronts, timber tracts, and development sites. It is a varied part of the state, and the properties are just as varied.


What the blog will cover

We have organized the blog into categories that match the work. A few examples of what you will find:

  • Housing. Rural homes, the systems that come with them, and how to present them honestly.

  • Working Land. Farms, timber, and Greenbelt land, and how to see them clearly through the seasons.

  • Drones & Field Operations. Airspace, rules, and how aerial work actually gets planned.

  • Mapping & Spatial Visualization. Public map tools and how to layer them.

  • Progress & Asset Documentation. Building records you can compare over time.

  • Hospitality & Outdoor. Campgrounds, cabins, and lake properties.

  • Commercial Buildings and Development Sites. What buyers, tenants, and builders need to see.

There are also categories for photography, video, design, virtual tours, technology, AI, energy, projects, and news from inside the company.


How we will write it

A few ground rules we are holding ourselves to:

  1. Practical first. Every post should leave you with something you can use.

  2. Sourced. When we cite a rule, a number, or a program, we link to where it came from, and list our sources at the bottom of the post.

  3. Local where it counts. Tennessee rules, Tennessee agencies, and examples that fit this region.

  4. No hype. If something is uncertain, we will say so.

  5. Honest about where we are. We will not overstate what we have done or what a tool can do.


Green forested mountains under a partly cloudy blue sky

Where we are right now

In the spirit of that last rule: drone services at 48 Pegasus are delivered by licensed FAA Part 107 remote pilots. The FAA's Become a Certificated Remote Pilot page says that to fly a drone under Part 107, you must obtain a Remote Pilot Certificate from the FAA.

The FAA's page for Certificated Remote Pilots including Commercial Operators lays out the steps: learn the Part 107 rules, pass the Unmanned Aircraft General knowledge test at an FAA-approved testing center, complete FAA Form 8710-13 through IACRA, and register the drone. The eligibility requirements include being at least 16 years old, being able to read, write, speak, and understand English, and being in a physical and mental condition to safely fly a drone.

Those rules will show up here often, because the rules that make aerial work safe are also the rules property owners, realtors, and project managers should understand when they hire anyone to fly.


Why a blog

A lot of property decisions are made with incomplete information. A buyer sees a few photos. An owner remembers roughly where the septic field is. A project manager has a folder of undated images. Public data that would help is scattered across county, state, and federal websites.

We think a lot of that can be better. Some of it takes a camera. Much of it takes knowing where to look. The USDA's Web Soil Survey, for example, gives anyone access to the soil data needed to make land-use and management decisions. It is one of many public tools we will write about here.


What to expect next

New posts will come in each category over time. Some will be how-to guides. Some will explain a rule or program. Some will walk through how we approach a particular kind of property. When we write about specific projects, we will be clear about what we did and did not do.

If there is a topic you want covered, tell us. If you are a property owner, realtor, or builder in this part of Tennessee and something here is useful to you, we would like to hear about it.


Practical takeaways

  1. The blog covers property imagery, land, drones, mapping, and documentation for this region.

  2. Every post links to its sources.

  3. Tennessee-specific rules and agencies come first.

  4. We will be clear about where 48 Pegasus is and what it has done.

  5. Topic suggestions are welcome.

Have a question or a topic you want us to cover? Contact 48 Pegasus.


Sources

Photos: cover by Annie Spratt / Unsplash; inline by Mark Bosky / Unsplash. Free to use under the Unsplash License.

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