DJI drops AirMap and increases size of airport No Fly zones.

[dawgpilot]

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Looks like Blackwater Airfield. If you zoom in on the area with Google Maps, you can see several single engine aircraft parked on the lower left side.

 

[Lon Denard]

Who is LT Klink,? Theres a Col. Klink but he KNOWS NOTHING! Like you

You're both dumb, it was Sgt Shultz that knew nothing! Hahaha!

 

[Lon Denard]

It just looks like some of you are bent on worrying about what DJI might do...it's pointless.

 

[Prmath]

Black coffee.....
Bread pudding with whiskey sauce......
God bless All of our Veterans

 

[Manitol]

And how do you know it won't be even MORE grossly inaccurate? The map has two no fly zones near me for a grass runway unused for decades but still registered and for two "helipads" never used as far as I can tell. The restrictions like these are a joke and completely degrade the system. I am not a fan of yet more restrictions. I am not a threat to these unused ports yet DJI says I can't fly there.

I'm in the same situation. Grass strips that are miles away, a once tower controlled airport that has been abandoned for two decades and formally closed by its University owner a couple of years back ( still on Airmap). Helipads at businesses that no longer own or use helicopters. The problem with unrealistic restrictions is that they do become jokes, and thus get ignored which degrade respect for the regulations that actually matter.

 

[PoonDog]

it's a sad comentary that only DJI an other high dollar Drones are regulated by electronics and any idiot can go to WallMart, buy a $50 dollar drone and fly it anyplace he likes. Also it's rather sad that the FAA has no teeth.

 

[PoonDog]

Black coffee.....
Bread pudding with whiskey sauce......
God bless All of our Veterans

Most sensible thing I have read today.

 

[Bigbird48]

Let me see were can we fly today

 

[DronePilotNH]

Let me see were can we fly today View attachment 81966

Tell me about it. I live in that mess. Not easy to find a place to fly. At least the ocean is some what unrestricted.

 

[DanMan32]

You can fly in the orange areas, they are only enhanced warning areas.

 

[DanMan32]

it's a sad comentary that only DJI an other high dollar Drones are regulated by electronics and any idiot can go to WallMart, buy a $50 dollar drone and fly it anyplace he likes. Also it's rather sad that the FAA has no teeth.

Typically a $50 can't fly very high without losing signal. It might not even be heavy enough to require a registration.
My Syma X5 didn't require registration as it is under the weight requirement but I registered anyway when FAA came out with it.

 

[Bigbird48]

Tell me about it. I live in that mess. Not easy to find a place to fly. At least the ocean is some what unrestricted.

and the one at the south end of lake Wini at Alton Bay is an ICE airport only used a couple of months during the winter when the Ice is thick enough for a plane to lane on it, yet it is a FAA Registered Airport.