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Ralph thompson reacted to Cymruflyer's post in the thread Air 3 Helicopter passing over my drone with
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Ralph thompson replied to the thread Air 3 Helicopter passing over my drone.Living and operating most of the time in an urban area and on a VFR site seeing route, we get fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft flying over us all the time, most of the time at their min alt. Helicopters operate at a min alt of 500’ AGL in...
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Ralph thompson replied to the thread Canadian SFOC process for an advertised event.My point was that you don’t need an SFOC as long as you remain 100’ away from the public event (the perimeter fence or whatever delimits the event) its perfectly legal (provide all else is legal). And if you apply for an SFOC they’ll almost...
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Ralph thompson replied to the thread Canadian SFOC process for an advertised event.You might find it easier to just follow the AIM, obtaining an SFOC is a time consuming process (done it many times before 2019) and you won’t get permission to fly over the event anyway with a standard micro drone and unless you’re taking very...
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Ralph thompson replied to the thread We Ask Again: Where Were the Drones?.You make good points. As a journalist, I’ve often seen people walking on roofs while operating a drone, somehow they stand out in an otherwise static space. A figure moving around a grey roof is quite visible. Hiring a couple of well trained...