Recent content by Mark Brimblecombe

Thanks Callum for your comments. I think you're right. Another reason I can think of for always being able to see the drone is in the event of a loss of signal, GPS, or even the flying app crashing on your phone/tablet/monitor. You need to be able to manually fly the drone home or manually fly...

Thanks for this reference to the New Zealand CAA Circular which predates the current law by about 18 months. It does interpret the law at the time in 2015 as VLOS meaning visual "contact at all times, with the aircraft..." It is strange, and perhaps intentionally ambiguous, that this is left...

This is I guess the reason why there is no mention in the NZ rules, or official interpretations of those rules, that VLOS means being able to actually see the aircraft/drone being flown. But of course you need to know exactly where it is to know the 'straight line' between you and the drone.

Not according to the law in our part of the world, where it defines VLOS as “a straight line along which an observer has a clear view” which is both unobstructed and enables a view of the surrounding airspace.

In the rules of the Civil Aviation Authority here in New Zealand it says “Maintain visual line of sight with the aircraft.” It also says that this is “a straight line along which an observer has a clear view”. It does not say that the aircraft/drone itself must be visible to the remote pilot...

I have the same problem. My ‘Flight Records’ have been synced with the DJI servers (through DJI Go 4 on iPhone 7+), but when syncing the account with Airdata UAV (i.e. the auto sync to the DJI servers to see the flight logs), only some of the flight logs sync. According to Airdata, “the DJI...