One issue I have problems understanding, which is "always keep drone in line of sight". I fly a dji mavic 3 classic (thus not real small), always fly below 400 feet, and do not fly all that far away - maybe a 1/4 mile most. It does not take much for me to lose "line of sight" of the drone. I can see where it is from the camera, plus while performing "return to home" I can see where it should be. However, many times I still cannot find it when looking to sky where I believe it should be; even when it is apparently close to me on the return. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance; Chuck Devlin
Aloft isn't that effective. Late last month I used Aloft to check air space before a roof inspection, it showed the address as "clear airspace." When tying to take off for the initial flight, my drone wouldn't start... I checked the controller screen which showed that I was in a NFZ. I started hearing and seeing low flying helicopters, I checked when I got back home and there is a heliport .6 miles from the address of the inspection site. How could that be missed by Aloft? Could've saved me a trip had I know that when planning the flight at home. Now I use the GEO Zone Map instead.
Hi, I'm not sure what happened in that situation, but Aloft is usually pretty accurate. The FAA just selected them to run their B4UFLY services on November 1. www.aloft.ai/blog/aloft-wins-faa-approval-for-b4ufly-services/ Did you report the issue to them? Perhaps there is a bug or an update needed for the area.
Hi, That's a good one to check for sure. We include checking the weather as part of the pre-flight check process. A lot of pilots miss that one. Thanks for the feedback!
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One issue I have problems understanding, which is "always keep drone in line of sight". I fly a dji mavic 3 classic (thus not real small), always fly below 400 feet, and do not fly all that far away - maybe a 1/4 mile most. It does not take much for me to lose "line of sight" of the drone. I can see where it is from the camera, plus while performing "return to home" I can see where it should be. However, many times I still cannot find it when looking to sky where I believe it should be; even when it is apparently close to me on the return. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance;
Chuck Devlin
Aloft isn't that effective. Late last month I used Aloft to check air space before a roof inspection, it showed the address as "clear airspace." When tying to take off for the initial flight, my drone wouldn't start... I checked the controller screen which showed that I was in a NFZ. I started hearing and seeing low flying helicopters, I checked when I got back home and there is a heliport .6 miles from the address of the inspection site. How could that be missed by Aloft? Could've saved me a trip had I know that when planning the flight at home. Now I use the GEO Zone Map instead.
Hi, I'm not sure what happened in that situation, but Aloft is usually pretty accurate. The FAA just selected them to run their B4UFLY services on November 1. www.aloft.ai/blog/aloft-wins-faa-approval-for-b4ufly-services/
Did you report the issue to them? Perhaps there is a bug or an update needed for the area.
not a single mention of wind conditions.
Hi, That's a good one to check for sure. We include checking the weather as part of the pre-flight check process. A lot of pilots miss that one. Thanks for the feedback!