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I've got a new email address. How do I change it in the forum. Tom Shelton

Jamaica Drone Laws | UAV Systems International

Flying after sunset?

I'm a Ham, so I use one of my handhelds to monitor local frequencies. However, my ham license doesn't give me privileges on the air bands. You might want to look at a receive only handheld scanner. A quick Google search turned up this one, but I suspect just about any handheld scanner would...

Beautiful. Hope to be moving to this area in the near future. One little critique, some of the shots moved to quickly to really appreciate the beauty.

The State Farm insurance is for hobbyist only, specifically not for professional flying. Also, it doesn't cover liability. Verifly is a great solution, just consider it a cost of doing business, and you can advertise that you have a million dollars of liability insurance which just might bring...

On a side note, upgraded the Mavic with no problems thru the app.

The weather here (Maryland) seems to be close to the end of the winter blues. Charged up my batteries and attempted to update the firmware. The Go 4 app told me to connect the drone to my mobile device using the the attached cable. The illustration showed an adapter cable, which I don't have...

I might be taking a work trip to Milan in a few weeks. I did a google search and found the attached. Is this still true? https://www.dronezine.it/english/

Correction to my previous: restricted area have blue hash marks and MOAs have red hashmarks....

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The first answer is for MOAs. The second is for Military restricted areas. Restricted areas show up on the sectional maps with Red hash marks and are labelled R-####. They all have altitude restrictions that you can look up, if you're under the minimum, fly on. If the minimum is the Surface...

The DJI multi chargers will only charge one battery at a time, starting with the one with the highest charge and working down. They recommend not charging both the RC and P4P batteries at the same time, and but I've done iff with no repercussions (yet...)

IACRA is showing "Received by Registry" with the last update being 5/11/17... Hope 6 weeks is still the best estimate...