![]() ![]() ![]() I thought I was signing up for a NASA space walk. Then a registration so they get all of your data. The first page is actually several pages of legalese and disclaimers, tons of legal stuff that was too small to read without pinching out. As Nancy Pelosi says, we have to pass the bill before we can see what is in it. Just for a lark, I installed this app on my phone to have a look at it. If a plane is below 200ft 3 miles from the airport, I am least likely to be his problem. I see little reason there can't be a limited altitude, gradually increasing from 100ft after 2 or 3 miles from the runway. In the meantime there are major power distribution lines about 120 or so feet cutting across the approach at about 3 or 4 miles from the airport, not to mention tall trees along that path. Near me is a class E controlled airspace with runway approaches at 0 altitude as far as 5 miles from the runway. Personally I feel FAA overreaches with altitude restrictions on runway approaches. They also add TFRs to their database, which is lacking in Airmap and probably Kittyhawk. That's all you need to be safe and legal, other than TFRs/NOTAMs.ĭJI's map typically goes by the facilities map, though they also add zones for G space airports, particularly their runway approaches. The LAANC equipped apps I mentioned include the facilities map. You are allowed to fly in controlled airspace, just as long as you get authorization either using LAANC via Airmap or Kittyhawk app, or through FAA's DroneZone website.įAA has a facilities map that shows 1 mile square grids within a controlled airspace, and how high within that square you can easily get authorization. So, at least to me, it sounds like an increasing problem.Īlso.if you have a mobile connection, these websites might help too: (although most on this forum are probably savy enough to know about them already.) This is approximately my second time in a month hearing of this and something like the 3rd time in 6 months. And if done with proper care, we would avoid some of these cringe-worthy moments of hearing about drones making incursions into controlled airspace. Obviously, your drone's position is something you're going to have to ascertain for your self. If we used an app like this FltPlan Go, assuming you're in the USA, one could see a nice little dot on a Sectional Chart to make a very good assessment as to how clear one is from that controlled airspace. DJI themselves will tell you, do not use them and their app to determine your legality! Their airspace starts at the surface and contains everything out a 5 mile radius. It sounds to me, and the way it appears on the DJI Fly app, as if one could possibly be flying in an area where the app allows unrestricted flight, but still be within Class C around KRSW. I'm not sure what dimensions DJI uses for those. After shutting down at the gate, I checked my DJI app and yes, there's the usual prohibited zone around the airport, with ceiling limitations depicted in grey along the approach corridor to runway 23. If he spotted them, I'd say they were probably pretty close. Was he outside the 5 mile radius of the class C, or just a bit inside? Nobody can be sure. He estimated their altitude as 500', but of course we know it *could* have been 400' since it's an estimate. Tower then proceeded to take down whatever info he could give. We landed in Ft Myers today and a SWA 737 landing behind us, was checking in with the tower, reports not ONE, but TWO drones SE of the final approach course. I fly part 121 for an airline and I also own a Mini and an Air-2. ![]()
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