Permissions to Fly

[SteveMouzon]

I live in an Authorization Zone that's 2 blocks away from an Advanced Warning Zone, both for your regional airport that's across the river. When I first got my Mavic 3 in December, I got my FAA authorization and flew a few times with no problem, including into the Advanced Warning Zone. But I haven't flown this year, and now it's not letting me. I don't know if it's software changes, firmware changes, FAA permission changes, or something else. In any case, I ask permission and enter my phone number, then it says "couldn't send code" or something like that. I checked and didn't get a text; is that the way the code arrives? And do I need a +1 country code for the US? Should there be dashes between area code, prefix, and number? I didn't see a way to enter dashes. Or am I missing something entirely?

 

[MS Coast]

I live in an Authorization Zone that's 2 blocks away from an Advanced Warning Zone, both for your regional airport that's across the river. When I first got my Mavic 3 in December, I got my FAA authorization and flew a few times with no problem, including into the Advanced Warning Zone. But I haven't flown this year, and now it's not letting me. I don't know if it's software changes, firmware changes, FAA permission changes, or something else. In any case, I ask permission and enter my phone number, then it says "couldn't send code" or something like that. I checked and didn't get a text; is that the way the code arrives? And do I need a +1 country code for the US? Should there be dashes between area code, prefix, and number? I didn't see a way to enter dashes. Or am I missing something entirely?

Are you requesting LAANC approval? What software are you using to make the request?

 

[SteveMouzon]

Are you requesting LAANC approval? What software are you using to make the request?

I'm not sure what LAANC is, but figured out one way of doing it. I seemed to recall submitting a request on the DJI site last time, so I found the DJI FlySafe page (fly-safe.dji.com) and submitted a request. It was approved almost instantaneously. I went back out for a test flight, but still the same problem. Then I noticed that within the DJI Fly app on my iPhone on the unlock request page, it had inserted +1 at the beginning of my phone number and lopped off the last two digits, so I added them back and it flew. And maybe it would have flown just by fixing the phone number and without getting permission on the web, but in any case I know what to do next time that works for sure.

 

[MS Coast]

LAANC is the FAA system for providing approval to fly in controlled airspace like the Class D airport at Tuscaloosa. DJI can unlock their controls on specific locations but they can't give approval to fly in controlled airspace.

Here are a couple of references that you might find useful.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/programs_partnerships/data_exchange - LAANC

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/b4ufly - B4YouFly app - Check locations for flying per FAA

 

[SteveMouzon]

LAANC is the FAA system for providing approval to fly in controlled airspace like the Class D airport at Tuscaloosa. DJI can unlock their controls on specific locations but they can't give approval to fly in controlled airspace.

Here are a couple of references that you might find useful.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/programs_partnerships/data_exchange - LAANC

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/b4ufly - B4YouFly app - Check locations for flying per FAA

Thanks MS Coast!!