Recent content by glocke12

Negative on all counts. I've looked into all of that when I have the time to do so.

Yes it is an ag plane/pilot.. The problem is when that pilot is doing those low fly-overs and buzzing my house/property, I believe it to be a flight that is recreational in nature and they are using their status as an ag-pilot to get around flight rules. There are no airports or landing strips...

A sneaky person could also hide the drone fairly well with a bit of creativity. An even sneakier person would know how to modify and existing receipt for a drone bought in the U.S. with the information from the new drone bought in Canada. I am not endorsing either of those, I just have a...

I have an Atom 2 and an Atom SE they are not horrible and out of all the budget Chinese drones are probably the best and are a good introductory drone if one wanted to check out the hobby without spending $$$$.$$. They are nowhere near DJI quality though, not even close. Mine really don't...

All of this for me... I will also add the negative impression of drones that others have and the reactions I have gotten from them. I was 100% naive about that when I got into this hobby back in May. I viewed it as an innocent way to view the world, and an innocent thing I could do from my...

It's a privacy issue for me. I am not " up to no good ", but at the same time I am not happy about my drones broadcasting an ID like that, whether it is being picked up by anyone or not. That said, I also realize the following: a) No one is really actively watching for RID b) You will be...

Even from 200 feet detail will be difficult to make out. I'd have to go back to review the images to be certain, but I did a test with my air3s where I tried reading the writing on various things I had sitting out on my driveway (bags of mulch, soil mostly), but I seem to recall that even at...

This thread is pretty derailed at this point but honestly ? I think anyone who claims to maintain VLOS 100% of the time is lying. I'll say there are probably exceptions to that statement but they would probably be the Part 107 guys out on a job and a small minority of recreational flyers...

what the heck ? I've got at least two replies in this thread since I created it yesterday afternoon and I don't have the luxury of checking in to answer posts unless it's the early am or early evening. Not all of us are able to spend all of our time on forums.

I lose sight of this thing when it is 200 feet away unless I have a strobe on it. I am also not really flying over inhabited structures, it's pretty much all fields and some woodlands. In all other directions except a northerly directions, the wooded areas are rather thick/more dense, I...

I was at 350 feet when flying regardless of the direction...sorry, thought I put that in the OP. It's also not the middle of nowhere, we just have a ton of open land here, a good mix of fields and forests. I'm also not too concerned about losing connectivity as I have faith in the RTH function...

Today I decided to test the limits of my Air 3S by seeing how far I could fly to N,E, S and W. In short, I was surprised to see that if I flew in a North/Northeasterly direction I was able to fly well over one mile away before my signal strength dropped down to 4 bars. I didn't push it further...

I already said in the O.P. they appeared to be at 300'-400', " low enough that if I were flying a drone I'd have been concerned " is how I put it and thats an easy guess to make since I know what a similar size aircraft looks like flying low and above tree top level here. In any case, I'm not...

I've never encountered a police officer that has claimed to have these supernatural abilities, and I'd like to think that any police officer with any shred of intelligence would not cite someone for speeding without having proof. Honestly I am not sure why my post has triggered people here in a...

Thats helpful...I was wondering if it was a PFL or some other type of training exercise. It's a rare occurrence that I see these planes flying that low, like I said once a month or so but it being some type of training exercise is basically what I was wondering.