Have you done your advanced flight review?

Cariboo Drone · May 12, 2019

drone111 said:
that would be nice, too bad TC isn't letting new reviewers in ... makes me wonder if they are going to scrap that whole part of it?

Wouldn't that be a treat!

drone111 · May 13, 2019

Cariboo Drone said:
Wouldn't that be a treat!

might be getting my hopes to high, they could also be streamlining it or fixing mistakes and holding off adding one until they make those changes.

trueblog · Jun 3, 2019

drone111 said:
And the VAST majority of commercial work is going to take place 1) flying over a building or within 30 m from it (which would be any real estate photograph) 2) Flying over people (MANY 2d/3d mapping would require flying over people if you look at industries like mining or search and rescue) and 3) many many businesses are within these boundaries of the control zones of airports or the km distance you speak about.

So yes, it will keep many hobbyist who think they can just start up a business think twice.

I confirmed with many people and asked a TC member as well. the 30meters only applies to PEOPLE / BYSTANDERS. Building, Trees, Trucks, Boats Vehicles are not applicable

You fly it more than 30 meters (100 feet) horizontally from bystanders

I am doing my real estate shoot with Basic Pilot Certificate and i am not in control airspace

drone111 · Jun 3, 2019

So what happens if you fly over a saileboat that has a person in it (with nothing covering their head) .... the courts I imagine would say this is a person and you violated the CARs.

drone111 · Jun 3, 2019

trueblog said:
I am doing my real estate shoot with Basic Pilot Certificate and i am not in control airspace

Honestly, there is no way your doing real estate shoots and not going above 30 meters

No offence but that would be some pretty crappy shots. Just get the advanced and be stress free. The written isn't hard.

trueblog · Jun 3, 2019

drone111 said:
Honestly, there is no way your doing real estate shoots and not going above 30 meters No offence but that would be some pretty crappy shots. Just get the advanced and be stress free. The written isn't hard.

You got the whole thing wrong... 30m is near people not how high you can go which is 122m.

I tell my client to vacate the property while I am shooting.

My friend in the mean time with advanced is waiting on nav Canada to approve the job ( some approvals are taking 7days )... I am just avoiding jobs at controlled airspace as there are so many requests.. Housing market indeed picked up so much in Orangeville, stouvillle, North Brampton above boviard (below is control airspace)

All I am saying is you don't need advanced for all the jobs ...

Krieger’s Drone · Jun 18, 2019

Have someone done a advenced flight review near Edmonton Alberta ? I past
my advanced pilot test. Looking for recommendations

tangy07 · May 5, 2020

seems like not a lot of ppl have not done the advanced test. Wonder if i should do the test or just get the mavic mini. i'm not doing anything commercial, just want to take some pictures for myself.

drone111 · May 5, 2020

tangy07 said:
seems like not a lot of ppl have not done the advanced test. Wonder if i should do the test or just get the mavic mini. i'm not doing anything commercial, just want to take some pictures for myself.

One of the reasons I did it was to have the freedom to fly where ever and wanted to have 4k footage....

tangy07 · May 5, 2020

drone111 said:
One of the reasons I did it was to have the freedom to fly where ever and wanted to have 4k footage....

ya 4k footage would be nice.

I just wish they have some better study guides. I don't have any aviation background and with some many questions that arent related to drone usage, that's what pushing me off in doing it.

drone111 · May 5, 2020

tangy07 said:
ya 4k footage would be nice.

I just wish they have some better study guides. I don't have any aviation background and with some many questions that arent related to drone usage, that's what pushing me off in doing it.

Friend of mine has his pilot license and he tried to take the advanced written exam and failed...not by much..but yeah, kinda speaks to the questions they asked. To this date he says some of the answers they marked wrong are actually right.

I don't have any background but for a study guide I bought for a few hundred a ground school class..but that's probably over kill but got some certificate at the end. Although if the cops come I have a wackload of stuff I can present to them which might help along with licenses, insurance, approval emails, vfr maps... Im just electing one day to get tapped on the shoulder.