Amen brother.This is good.
Too bad there will still be people that ignore it.
DJI needs to make it impossible to fly there, then the FAA can give up on treating toys like manned aircraft.
Hopefully the implementation will be competent.
Yes - this is a big improvement. Hopefully the implementation will be competent.
I am cautiously optimistic too. But if I start getting warned that I am in Class B airspace at ground level at my home (when, in fact, Class B doesn't start until approx. 2,500 feet above our home), I won't be a happy camper. This new bowtie airspace implementation can extend over our house but it sure better not extend all the way to the ground.
As the crow flies, we are approximately 13 miles from San Diego Airport. It appears (from the graphic in the article) that DJI's warning zone bowtie will extend approximately 10 miles. So, I should be okay (fingers crossed).
The closest small airport (with ATC) is about 7 miles away. We are south of that airport and its runway is laid out east/west. So, the new bowtie configuration should actually allow me to fly closer to the airport (south side) than is possible now. Based on the graphic, even a medium risk airport's lateral warning zone would be 6 km (3.7 miles). That's 1.3 miles closer (south or north sides) than the current circle arrangement.
Mark
DJI needs to make it impossible to fly there, then the FAA can give up on treating toys like manned aircraft.
I live near many single runway private grass strips with no towers or control center that maybe land a small single engine plane a few times a year. Yet I still get warnings that I have to contact the CT , if they make these so I can't fly there I might as well get rid of my drone![]()
Do they show up on your GO4 app as a yellow circle? If not I think you would be safe IF they ever implemented it.well I hope they dont count as it would be very hard to find and area were one of these small farmer strips didn't exist.
Wow. You have a very stringent view of the drone world. He lives MILES away from a grass runway and you sardonically say he should give up drones. Totally disagree. He is not a threat using his drone as any plane using that "runway" would have a glide path well above his potential flight elevation. Just look at ALL of the accidents that have happened . . . Uh. None.I dont think those would count. But you only need to be outside the 5 mile circle for most airports anyway. If you live near an airport that is restricted, and you are not willing to go somewhere else that is safe to fly it, maybe a flying toy is not for you right now. Try RC cars or trucks.
And how do you know it won't be even MORE grossly inaccurate? The map has two no fly zones near me for a grass runway unused for decades but still registered and for two "helipads" never used as far as I can tell. The restrictions like these are a joke and completely degrade the system. I am not a fan of yet more restrictions. I am not a threat to these unused ports yet DJI says I can't fly there.This is a good thing. The airmap data is grossly inaccurate and unusable outside the US for most areas.
Replacing it with data that isn't a simply circle and based on reality is an improvement.
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