Well, I got a P4 last Christmas replacing my P2V (RP Gimbal). The difference in video is huge of course. I have gone around and re-shot some of my more interesting videos from the P2V days. Today, I hoped to redo the final one while between calls at work. I set the P4 up and got ready to go when I got a no fly zone notice. No way around it, no take off.
2 years ago I flew this site easily and as I remember, didn't endanger any aircraft or people. Well, it turns out this site is about a mile from a regional airport. Who knew! It doesn't upset me and I guess it makes my previous video more unique. Still, it makes me wonder if a blanket NFZ determined by proximity only without taking into account terrain and structures is the best we can do. This site is to the side of the runway where I wouldn't expect to see aircraft in take off or landing patterns. Oddly, my home is in line with an airfield runway, although further away, and I can fly there.
Perhaps as time goes by we'll see refinements to the NFZ system so everyone's safe and quad pilots can have as much freedom as possible. Then again, I keep thinking they'll sync the traffic lights!
Geo
2 years ago I flew this site easily and as I remember, didn't endanger any aircraft or people. Well, it turns out this site is about a mile from a regional airport. Who knew! It doesn't upset me and I guess it makes my previous video more unique. Still, it makes me wonder if a blanket NFZ determined by proximity only without taking into account terrain and structures is the best we can do. This site is to the side of the runway where I wouldn't expect to see aircraft in take off or landing patterns. Oddly, my home is in line with an airfield runway, although further away, and I can fly there.
Perhaps as time goes by we'll see refinements to the NFZ system so everyone's safe and quad pilots can have as much freedom as possible. Then again, I keep thinking they'll sync the traffic lights!
Geo
