aviin
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I've been looking at Google Earth scouting for potential fun places to fly when I get my P3 (ordering it in a couple days) and I've been cross-referencing that with the No-Fly zones listed at http://flysafe.dji.com/no-fly (which I presume match what DJI Pilot enforces). I've noticed multiple small airports near me that aren't marked as No-Fly zones (this is in Ohio in the U.S.). Are only airports above a certain size marked in the app, with smaller airports unenforced? I'm all for personal responsibility, so if that's the case, I'm okay with it, but I am curious if these omissions are simply based, as I said, on airport size, or some FAA rule I'm unaware of? The FAA website pretty clearly states that you can't fly within 5 miles of an airport without contacting the airport and tower beforehand. Is it that larger airports are always no fly and smaller ones just have to be contacted first and aren't strictly no fly?
By the way, for anyone who was unaware, Google Earth Pro is now free and includes a handy tool for placing circles of any given size onto the map, so you can (as I have been) mark out 5-mile radii circles around airports as well as flight ranges around potential launch sites. Looking at where those circles overlap has given me alot of insight into where I can safely fly and where I cannot.
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