Philadelphia No Fly Zone

[Bill Nicely]

Attention if you fly in the Philadelphia, PA, USA area. The FAA has put in place a 34.5 mile radius no fly zone from the Philly International Airport due to the Democratic National Convention.

attached chart is from SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts

 

[MPPilot]

Starts Monday at 10am, so at least it doesn't screw up my weekend plans.

 

[Bill Nicely]

Guess dates would have helped right!

July 25-29, 2016. I wasn't aware of the actual times, thanks

 

[LosDosMonitos]

I wonder how quickly they'd shoot the drone down if you flew it within a mile

 

[BigAl07]

I think every UAS operator should sign up to get FAA TFR notices at
Safer Skies Through Education - FAA - FAASTeam - FAASafety.gov

This way you'll get an email notification in ADVANCE of the TFR if it's a planned one (wild fires etc are not planned ahead of time)
Here's an example of what a search returns on the site above:
https://www.faasafety.gov/search/default.aspx?keywords=atc+notices&submit=Search

 

[CactusJackSlade]

34.5 miles is ridiculous... this is why the FAA should consider a micro class set of sub-rules. You could not load enough batteries on a Phantom to get 17.5 miles with anything dangerous on board...

 

[jason]

34.5 miles is ridiculous... this is why the FAA should consider a micro class set of sub-rules. You could not load enough batteries on a Phantom to get 17.5 miles with anything dangerous on board...

That NFZ isn't just for UAV's smarty.

 

[BigAl07]

Remember we're playing in the Big Boy sandbox now and we aren't alone. That size TFR is for really BIG and/or really dangerous aircraft. I can assure you 100% they aren't going to make a special set of TFR's for UAS. We play by the big boy rules if we want to play in the big boy sandbox.

 

[drm]

The NFZ needs to be big enough to give them time to shoot down a non-compliant aircraft if necessary.

 

[MapMaker53]

Probably limited to just balloon flights in the area, fueled by all of the politicians' hot air.