Renna
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Flight distance : 307395 ft
United States
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NM_Quad Posted at 1-14 14:35
Renna ... odd you mentioned your purpose. I have used my drone to video training sessions at our local state Fire Training Academy to evaluate the sessions. The Fire Academy is not far from our local small town airport. To say they get one aircraft a day would be a push. A friend of mine is an instructor at the Academy. They bought a P4P for this purpose, but it doesn't work due to the airport geofencing. I offered to try my P3S, which worked just fine. I flew towards the airport and didn't get an alert until I was within about a quarter-mile of the airstrip; the P4P is locked out over a mile away. I bought my P3S new shortly after they first came out, still works great, and I have NEVER applied a software or firmware update. If it ain't broke - don't fix it IMHO. I just don't see what the updates do except to expand the geofencing distance around airports and the like. So my suggestion is to keep your P3S as it is, without any further updates, to prevent adding more restrictive no fly zones ... they may be facilities where you might be responding for a call or training and wish to use the drone for official purposes. Where to fly and not fly should be the pilots responsibility, not a hardware lockout in my opinion.
Honestly all the college should have to do is go through the process to acknowledge the airport and accept the responsibility to fly in that airspace. Which can be accomplished through the airport control and FAA.
The other thing that they might want to keep in mind is if they are flying the drone for the fire academy they need to have at least a part 107 pilot. Even though it is used to film the students, it can still get them in trouble with the FAA for flying with a commercial pilot. After all the students paid to be there, the instructors are being paid, they can say it is for financial gain.... Just a heads up.
We want to use them for training our pilots, not necessary to film our people.
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