Incredibly hard finding places to fly in USA

[Tanushiheadbash]

A week into our US Road trip and I hoped to have flown the drone a few times and got some decent footage. But finding somewhere that you are allowed to fly seems almost impossible. I got the B4UFly app before coming and nearly everywhere seems to be within 5 miles of an airport. The definition of an airport seems to take in hospitals with helicopter landing pads. Also while the app seems to have all sorts of useless info about the nearby airport and tells you to contact the control tower to report a flight (if it doesn't say its banned first which it usually does) it doesn't quote any phone number and I have no reasonably easy way to find out.
The irony is, the one place we have been near Williamsburg, VA that had no restrictions shown, I flew it over the farm we were staying on.
Drone was at a height of about 80mtrs to clear surrounding trees. Suddenly two very low flying aircraft passed over only maybe quarter of a mile away. I crapped myself as I could hear them before I could see them as they cleared the tree line. I thought it was a chopper but it was two light trainer aircraft flying in formation presumably from some military base.
So far been in DC (I knew you couldnt fly there or in state parks along the way), Williamsburg, VA, Roanoke VA, Asheville NC, and now Savannah GA. Off to St Augustine, FL tomorrow and I see if I drive off the end of the country I might be able to fly without some airport restrictions.

 

[skippyscage]

Just because there are no restrictions, doesn't mean you wont find aircraft.

Crop dusters will be real low, I used to spray at approximately 5' and in turns you're only clearing obstacles and making room for a turn. They can also appear from nowhere, as low flying aircraft are only heard when they are much closer than higher flyers, although they'll do a recce before starting to spray to make sure the area is clear.

The military can be low certain routes and areas, easily down to 200', and civilian aircraft have to be 500' from any person, fixed object or structure, but that 500' doesn't have to be height, it's a distance so can be it horizontal as well as vertical.

Basically the app isn't a green light that you can fly with no cares in the world, you still need to aware of surroundings and be vigilant.