ok to fly in chicago?

[chapsrlz]

next saturday im travelling to chicago, ill be running the marathon on sunday, and im planning to spend a week and im thinking in traveling with a p3 or a 5d mark iii (not both).

so the million dolar question, is chicago drone friendly?

i would love to fly over millenium park or the city, is that ok?
what do you recommend?

thanks in advance!!!

 

[RoyVa]

Cities have tall buildings and obsticles. Easy to lose communications with Phantom. Not a good idea to fly over people or in downtown area. Best bet is to be safe and be smart.

 

[chapsrlz]

Cities have tall buildings and obsticles. Easy to lose communications with Phantom. Not a good idea to fly over people or in downtown area. Best bet is to be safe and be smart.

i guess ill go with the 5d

 

[wotblake]

i guess ill go with the 5d

Fly out over the lake and get amazing video of the skyline. That's what I do - I live in Chicago.

 

[chapsrlz]

Fly out over the lake and get amazing video of the skyline. That's what I do - I live in Chicago.

do you have a link to youtube?
or an example?

thanks!

 

[natvtrader]

I agree about the buildings and the lake. I flew in Madison last week and lost signal behind a parking structure. I was glad the RTH button worked. I did fly out over the lake and got some cool pictures of the city sky line.