Recent content by Pallidin

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Feel free to look it up on Google.......

Yeah, I had a fly-away with my Spark. Luckily I was already a little experienced in ATTI flying, and was able to wrestle my Spark to the ground. In my case it was also a compass error conflicting with the GPS and my stick push (which combined caused a fly-away), then aggravated when I hit RTH...

The Spark is IP-rated, but not high enough to guarantee flight in rain.

Getting out of the hobby... Getting way too excessive for me.

Look, I'm 4-miles from any airport/heliport. I'm cool with app-notification to ATC. But "authorization" at 4-miles away when my flight parameters are... Less than 400 feet high and less than 400 feet distance (VLOS)... Authorization seems excessive.

But isn't this more extreme? Like ... "You're allowed to drive on the roads to work, but you must receive prior "authorization" EVERY time you go to and from work." Probably a bad example, as a car is not a drone.

Does anyone know how the change from ATC notification, to now ATC authorization affects our ability to go out of our house and put the drone in the air with minimal regulatory fuss? In other words, instead of instant notification provided by an app, now I have to receive actual authorization...

Yeah, this is getting rough, on the surface. Hopefully there will be clarification on the new rules.

From what I am understanding, the hobbyist test will be "a greatly watered-down 107", no-cost, and on-line. But, that's what I've heard through the grape-vine and NOT through any authoritative source. Not sure how it can be authenticated if not at some cost-based testing center, though.

Great story, good job.