Recent content by Zintoatree

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    Newbie here, I would love some verification of my interpretation of the hobbyist pilot rules.

    I believe it only works on certain airports. So I got my quad today and it wasnt a Phantom or a Mavic. I grabbed the little Spark for now. I'm going to try it out tomorrow after calling everyone. Thanks for all the help everyone.
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    Newbie here, I would love some verification of my interpretation of the hobbyist pilot rules.

    I have an absolute insane amount of helipads around me, but most are just stage fields with no aircraft launching from them. Can I just contact the fields that actually launch aircraft? For me that would be Knox, Hanchey, and Cairns for my house and Enterprise, Shell, and Lowe for Enterprise ...
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    Newbie here, I would love some verification of my interpretation of the hobbyist pilot rules.

    You're right, the more I think of it the more it makes sense. I would be basically covering my *** in case of a bad situation arises. Thank you for the info @BigAl07 I actually already have my registration number from a while back, I just never really used it because I was mostly flying...
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    Newbie here, I would love some verification of my interpretation of the hobbyist pilot rules.

    I have flown small quads up until now either in my house or maybe 30-40 ft AGL max, so I have ignored the UAS rules for the most part. I plan on buying either a Phantom or a Mavic soon, so I figured brushing up on the rules before hand would be a good idea. This is when it got frustrating, I...