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  1. clolsonus

    Flying in potential icing conditions

    This is true in full size aviation too ... the passengers can try to convince/pressure the pilot to go in questionable circumstances and so a pilot at any level needs to make good, clear, decisions. There was a bush pilot picking up hunters on a lake in northern canada. When the pilot saw all...
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    Flying in potential icing conditions

    I don't have a lot to add except I inadvertently flew a fixed wing drone (xuav talon) in icing conditions one time. I can share a few comments/observations from that experience. 1. I didn't realize it was icing conditions aloft. On the ground there was a really fine, very light, intermittant...
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    Deleted posting question

    Someone is most certainly paying for this forum to exist and I think it's only fair that they get to dictate the rules here. I know there is a big debate about online freedom of speech, but technically (in the USA) freedom of speech means no one is going to come arrest you for expressing a...
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    Part 107 Test/Recurrency go LIVE 4/6/21... Important notes . . .

    Thanks, I appreciate the clarification on this. I only worry about this every other year, so I'm not an expert in the process, especially for how it looks to a true first-time pilot. Can I ask a follow up question. I'm trying to coach/encourage a colleague to go take the part 107 test to be...
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    Part 107 Test/Recurrency go LIVE 4/6/21... Important notes . . .

    This is a dumb question, but I just realized I do not know the answer, or may have misunderstood some things so I will ask. (please go easy on me!) (Background, my part 107 expired last January so I paid the $160 and took the test at the local testing center before the new online course became...
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    Drone or quad copter future?

    Well, I can't even find my way to work and back home now without using google maps, so I definitely hear your point. :)
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    Drone or quad copter future?

    I don't know the answers to any of this, but NASA (and probably others) are actively exploring this topic. Lots of challenges ... dealing with vehicles of wildly different capabilities and performance, you probably can't stuff someone in a holding pattern for 20 minutes when they only have 30...
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    Drone or quad copter future?

    One thing to keep in mind is fewer longer blades are a lot more efficient than many shorter blades, so advantage helicopters over multi-rotors for efficiency and flight duration. Personally, I think the serious eVTOL designs will transition to forward fixed-wing flight once they are airborne...
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    The Things you find from the air.

    (shhh, the original image posted here still had the gps meta data attached.)
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    FAA considers fining NASA over drone "stunt"

    That didn't take long ...
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    Another FAA delay on Part 107 for March 2021

    I'm only being super pedantic because the FAA tests are stupid picky and they merrily ding you on any little thing they can catch you on. As I'm glossing through the AIM: Aeronautical Information Manual - AIM The part where it talks about class D reverting to class E when tower is closed, they...
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    Another FAA delay on Part 107 for March 2021

    I think I figured out one question I missed. I didn't know (or forgot) that class D reverts to E or G when the tower is closed. In my area the tower hours are: ANOKA TOWER: 132.4 [0700-2100 OCT-APR; 0700-2200 MAY-SEP] So would that mean before 0700 I'm clear to fly anywhere in the class D...
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    Another FAA delay on Part 107 for March 2021

    That's great. In my case I got a printout that listed a code for each question I missed. I went and looked one up and what it amounted to was "understands class D airspace". The other two were similarly vague. And I thought I did understand airspaces. I live inside class D (as do a lot of...
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    Another FAA delay on Part 107 for March 2021

    Well good news I passed just fine <whew> so nothing to worry about in restrospect, but it still feels like a big deal ... I suppose with $160 on the line and playing you bet your job, all that contributes to the stress factor. Most of the questions were pretty standard stuff like you'd expect...
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    Another FAA delay on Part 107 for March 2021

    I'm up, so I've scheduled my test for thursday. Now the cost is up to $160. But I can't wait around. Hopefully the nature of the questions hasn't changed much in 2 years and I don't have any trouble passing.