Ok, on 1/11/2016, I printed a map from DJI. I am close to an airport so I wanted to know where the NFZ was. On that date MKE had a red disc that extended to 2 blocks south of me and covered areas to the south east. Ok, I figure I will limit myself to my block and north and north west so I don't approach the NFZ. I know where the flight patterns are, so I am planning on staying well away from those.
I took that print home so I could have it with me if there were any questions when I was out flying.
So today, I was chatting with some other employees here about the P3A that should be delivered today. And during the conversation, I hit the DJI map again to show them. But the longer I stared at it the more in disbelief I was. Now (1/19/2016), MKE has a BLUE disc over it that barely covers the airport grounds, let alone out 5mi. Hell, it doesn't even cover the south end of the longest runway at MKE! So I am like WTF?
So does the GO app use the current data as seen on the map on the web or does it use other data?
If its using whats visible on the web, then its completely wrong as it would allow me to fly well into the flight paths if landing and exiting aircraft and I could actually buzz the south end of one of the runways! I won't because I have far more common sense than that. But something is way wrong here.
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I took that print home so I could have it with me if there were any questions when I was out flying.
So today, I was chatting with some other employees here about the P3A that should be delivered today. And during the conversation, I hit the DJI map again to show them. But the longer I stared at it the more in disbelief I was. Now (1/19/2016), MKE has a BLUE disc over it that barely covers the airport grounds, let alone out 5mi. Hell, it doesn't even cover the south end of the longest runway at MKE! So I am like WTF?
So does the GO app use the current data as seen on the map on the web or does it use other data?
If its using whats visible on the web, then its completely wrong as it would allow me to fly well into the flight paths if landing and exiting aircraft and I could actually buzz the south end of one of the runways! I won't because I have far more common sense than that. But something is way wrong here.
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