Recent content by CalOldBlue

I would ask for two hours and if I get rejected then I'd try a shorter interval. This is all automated so you're not going to annoy a real human being.

You could run afoul of two things: 1) Restrictions (approved by the FAA) based on protecting a wildlife refuge, 2) LEOs who can make your life unhappy regardless of your legal status.

Welcome! I bought a copy of your D700 book a while back. (Currently shooting a D850 but didn't buy anybody's book... no money left after buying the camera I guess.)

Thanks! Will keep that in mind as I finalize things.

Hallelujah for that! Live in the SF Bay Area but have a 'full reverse Route66' planned for later this Spring. Hope to unleash my Air 2S along the way.

Not their job? Wonder if the police would say the same thing.

It is a little more nuanced than that. Lots of exceptions for things like commercial flights within a 10nm radius, and private pilots between 10 and 30nm. They do, however, specifically call out things like drones. https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_2_1850.html " G. THE FOLLOWING...

Wow! Not quite a thousand square miles. Stretches from Santa Clarita to Newport Beach (north to south), and out to Pomona. Most of the LA basin, San Fernando Valley, ... Approximate coverage:

Welcome from a San-Francisco-born grandson of a Kerry farmboy!

Aerial reconnaissance in 'armed conflict' goes back to the 18th century (via hot air balloons). Ask Robert E. Lee how important reconnaissance was, after he (lightly) dressed down J.E.B. Stuart, his Cavalry chief who showed up late to the party at Gettysburg, denying Lee the critical...

I am willing to believe that a product with a dedicated mission in life may be better than a 'swiss army knife' of a product, but that still leaves some questions: Which release/product of LR are you using? 'Classic' I assume, but 11.1 (Camera Raw 14.1) or an earlier version? LR is...

Nope. In fact, under strict reading of the regs, if you use your drone to inspect YOUR OWN roof for storm damage, that's not recreational. I did exactly that a month back due to a massive storm here... thankfully I went ahead and got my Part 107 license even before I got my drone. Here's...

That is from an FAA sectional chart, which one gets painfully familiar with as part of trying to pass a Part 107 test. You can download these for free here: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/vfr/ The yellow is urban areas, I believe. Not actually shown...

Coyote hills is administered by EBRPD, so nope. Don Edwards is a wildlife refuge, so nope. See section chart below... everything within the blue line that has a straight line on the outside and a dotted line on the inside is no-fly. The rest is within various and sundry airport airspaces and...

In 2001 I took a three week trip to Alaska with my film 35mm camera. Flew in and out of places like Anchorage, Juneau, Saint Paul... never had an issue. By the end of the trip I had accumulated over 4 dozen cannisters of film. Flying back to Juneau from Glacier Bay on August 13th the...