Hello,
I'm an FAA 107 commercial drone pilot, I mainly fly for hobby but occasionally take real estate photos for realtors.
Recently I was contacted by a construction company asking for photos every week of a site. The only issue is the site is one mile from an airport. The airport is Class E with a floor of 700' so Class G where I'll be. Even though I'm technically allowed to fly there, I turned the job down as I don't want to risk any issues with air traffic.
I visited the site for about 30 minutes and when I got there skydivers landed at the airport and as I left a plane flew directly over at low attitude, then circled around and landed.
Obviously I feel it's not a good idea to have a drone out there, but I'm just curious what other commercial drone pilots would do? Thanks!
I'm an FAA 107 commercial drone pilot, I mainly fly for hobby but occasionally take real estate photos for realtors.
Recently I was contacted by a construction company asking for photos every week of a site. The only issue is the site is one mile from an airport. The airport is Class E with a floor of 700' so Class G where I'll be. Even though I'm technically allowed to fly there, I turned the job down as I don't want to risk any issues with air traffic.
I visited the site for about 30 minutes and when I got there skydivers landed at the airport and as I left a plane flew directly over at low attitude, then circled around and landed.
Obviously I feel it's not a good idea to have a drone out there, but I'm just curious what other commercial drone pilots would do? Thanks!
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