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Where To Fly My Drone Safely and Legally

If you are lucky enough to live in a rural area, it may be easy to fly your drone safely and legally.  For some of us, this is not always the case.  Living in South Florida, such as I do, you must always be on top of everything.  There are constantly Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR), low flying aircraft, and special-use airspace to be concerned with.  Not to mention, somebody is always watching that would love to turn you in.

Always Look For TFR’s

Use the official FAA Tfr Website Here for quickly checking for Temporary Flight Restrictions in your area, or anywhere in the country for that matter.

Use An App

With today’s technology, there are zero excuses for not knowing what is around you.  Here are my top free solutions that are too simple not to use.

B4UFly

When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) turns out with an application that they encourage drone pilots to utilize, it’s most likely smart to take their recommendation. This application offers a status indicator for fly or no-fly conditions, a planning mode for flight creation in the correct zones (maintaining a strategic distance from air activity and unlawful zones), and a lot of other assets. At the point when first exploring a territory, especially a more urban or populated zone, this application is a priceless asset.  

Hover

Hover is a phenomenal application that new drone pilots ought to download as they make their first flights. It joins various helpful data vectors to give a central point of significant information that incorporates real-time reports, fly zones (and a fly/no-fly marker), and a flight log for you to record your information. It’s a genuinely straightforward application. You might need to upgrade as you advance and become more experienced. It offers extraordinary data readable by anybody.

Tesla Field Recorder

The Tesla Field Recorder is a fun — and possibly critical application — that you can use to identify magnetic fields and record them. In the event that you encounter a great deal of interference with your automaton, there’s a possibility you may keep running into a disturbance that threatens your operation or possibly makes the task genuinely impossible. When you encounter something to that effect, you can pop this application open to gauge and record the disturbance. At that point share it with your drone mates or geocaching companions so they know about it as well. Win-Win for everybody!

UAV Forecast

UAV Forecast is an unfathomably straightforward application that is especially convenient: It gives you nitty-gritty data for climate conditions in your general vicinity, from a UAV viewpoint. That incorporates definite data about wind, precipitation, cloud layers, and visibility. All while showing how this information changes from hour to hour. Pop it open to perceive what conditions resemble today, how they are changing, and where is a decent place to fly. It’s a decent option in the event that you don’t particularly enjoy B4UFLY.

Conclusion

There are plenty of apps out there to help fly your drone safely and legally.  Regardless of which ones you happen to choose, make sure you use them.  This is an extremely rewarding hobby and an amazing opportunity as a career.  Keep it professional and safe for you and everybody else.

If I missed one of your favorite apps, please let me know in the comments and I will add it to the list.  There are a ton out there, and more are being found every day.

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