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This is what I use: https://www.pilotmall.com/collections/yaesu-aviation-radios/products/yaesu-fta-550-aa-handheld-vhf-transceiverhttps://www.pilotmall.com/collections/yaesu-aviation-radios/products/yaesu-fta-550-aa-handheld-vhf-transceiver It runs on AA's. Rechargeable units go bad quickly...

Save your money. Buy a nice simple transceiver from an online pilot shop. I think a $28 radio is probably not the way to go.

You got in just before me... Also, the altitudes set in controlled airspace have already taken trees and structures into account. I can prove this by referencing: JO_7200.23A_Unmanned_Aircraft_Systems_(UAS)

Not sure I am in agreement with statement #1.... I'm pretty sure that in controlled airspace requiring a waiver, that the altitude limits set by the FAA are based on factors of manned flight paths. Going above the ceiling limit set forth by the LAANC system would be a violation. I did...

I think I may not have been adequately clear in my original post. The 100 foot box is the maximum altitude in a section of class D airspace where I am flying. Not legal to fly higher. The area I’m mapping is fairly small. About a 15 minute flight at 100 feet AGL. Tower obstruction...

This is an automated flight. As per flight rules I’m eyes on the drone and not the screen LAANC done already. Not sure about the reference to increased authorization by limiting the flight grid.

I’m working on a survey which is in a 100 foot box near my airport. It looks like there may be a cell tower higher than the 100 foot altitude in the area I need to survey. I’m wondering what to do? My gut feeling is to fly the mission and if the throne appears as though it will intersect with...

It should be noted that seeing a drone at great distance and being able to clearly identify altitude and direction are different. I can see the drone at distance, but having someone nearer to the drone is a much better expierence. Personally, I think all of this will change in the near future...

Not if used by an additional person as a spotter as long as someone has eyes on without an aid to vision. So I'm following the bird going out. My spotter says "I'm picking up the bird thru the glasses coming my way" ... I say "bird getting small can you get eyes on?" Spotter says "eyes...

Thanks..... I'll look into that! We did shoot last Wednesday. We encountered an issue with Pix4D where after succesfully getting thru battery one, the drone went back into mission for battery two and started skipping photos!! After battery three, it went back landfilled in most of the...

This was helpful.. Thank you. We have a team set up for Wednesday if the weather works out. I may have short changed the size of the property in my initial estimate. May be closer to 500 acres. Thinking of self announcing on the CTAF even thou I'm not supposed to because helios tend to com...

It was a simple question really...... Setting RTH to follow controller was a thought, I guess I was wondering how much control the survey software takes at low battery. With Pix4D, the DJI software is NOT running at all. I'm assuming that the pix4D software gets its low battery warning from...

How to do a 15 mile corridor? By the rules... Get a waiver I agree about the clouds, but they do foretell the weather very well. The FAA is in over their heads on enforcement.... I grant you this. OK.. maybe my example of a wildfire was a long shot, but in the litigious society we live in...

Huh...... I'm actually quite shocked by this. I'm not sure the FAA would agree with your "rule of thumb". Granted, you can break the law all day long and if no one is there to see it............ God willing, your bird won't go rogue at that distance and crash into power line causing a...

I'd still like to try to get the original question answered if anyone can?