hallmark007 Posted at 5-2 05:47
This guy is completely obnoxious, I’ve watched some of his videos particularly on Air 2 s and he really hasn’t much of a clue.
He says he was flying with a Guy that is allowed fly BVLOS, but polish and European rules do not allow this under any circumstances, yes there is a rule that allows flying BVLOS with permission and you need to put forward in writing a risk assessment “which obviously hasn’t been done in this instance” But his friend is supposed to be pro or at least proficient flying drones, but made the most basic mistake of flying out downwind and back straight into a headwind. He lost his drone “thats what Happens”
And yes Clickbait is very obvious here...
To fly in BVLOS in Europe, depending on the country you need to ask for permission and reserve airspace, a procedure which can take about a week or more.
There's a BVLOS scenario where you can fly BVLOS if you have the STS certificate (wich I have btw), the STS-02, but you need a C6 labeled drone... drones can't be C labeled yet, so the only way to do a legal BVLOS flight is to ask for permission and reserve airspace.
You can also get a LUC (Light UAS operator Certificate), so that you can self approve your own BVLOS operations, but to obtain that you need to be an enterprise, you can't get a LUC as a person.
Certain day from certain hour to certain hour you can do the flight. Some people do it, as sometimes in my area appear some chunks of airspace reserved for drone flight, but it's not the common thing, so doubt they had any permit to do BVLOS over water.
That being said, I can easily spot the Air2S at 1Km after looking at the screen and back to the sky, so with a dedicated observer with good sight maybe up to 1.2Km is possible, but not much more (well in daylight conditions, at night those green leds can be seen at 2Km easily)
For the Mini 2 on the other hand I've never been able to relocate it in the sky past 150 meters, but with a dedicated observer can be seen up to 550 meters in daylight and about 750 meters at night.
The bigger the drone, the bigger the VLOS range.
From the new european rule, VLOS definition (member states can add their own subrules, like a 500 meter VLOS limit, for example):
‘visual line of sight operation’ (‘VLOS’) means a type of UAS operation in which, the remote pilot is able to maintain continuous unaided visual contact with the unmanned aircraft, allowing the remote pilot to control the flight path of the unmanned aircraft in relation to other aircraft, people and obstacles for the purpose of avoiding collisions;
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