Hey BSquared.
You seem to know a lot about this stuff, so I thought I'd ask you.
I've been itchin' to fly and we've had rain or wind the past several days. But I knew today would be good. So this morning as soon as the humidity dropped, I took it out and ran it from my back yard - 5400 feet horizontal distance (no booster) which is my record so far, being the noob that I am. But it ran at 39 mph going North, which is also a record. It came back RTH at 13-14 mph. Obviously I had some wind at my back on this run going, and wind in my face coming. That surprised me. But I forgot to check the weather site this morning. It was a little windier than I had anticipated.
A little while ago I checked the uavforecast site to get an idea what the wind was doing a few hundred feet off the surface.
UAV Weather Forecast
There's some text there. Something about a warning. It's in red. I click on it.
And this map of my area and a huge TFR bubble came up. It's concentric with the nofly zone, but it's friggin' 60 miles in diameter or something close to that. It looks like they just decided to double the distance from the White House. And this seems to be in place "until further notice". It expands all the way to friggin' Baltimore and encompasses Annapolis completely.
Are you kidding me?
I know you're in the DC area. Kinda. You said you were 25 miles south of Dulles. Not sure if you're in the bubble or not.
Then I clicked on another link and saw this:
SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts
It seems to be telling pilots not to fly in this area until further notice.
Now I did notice a Cessna flying while I was flying. Maybe this TFR just came up over the past couple hours? I flew about three hours ago or so.
In your opinion, what does this mean to hobby drone owners?
Thanks.