Recent content by makneyse

I had an issue with Aloft where it wouldn't give me LAANC authorization within the 24 hour period leading up to a TFR. I'm thinking it was just a bug but I had to use Airmap instead to get the permission I needed. I was flying on a Thursday and Aloft informed me there was a TFR on Friday...

Thank you for this. I moved to Canada from the States and it drove me nuts that I couldn't find any similar type of documentation up here. Nav Canada doesn't post their air charts online and I couldn't even find a legend/key describing how to read them. I had to buy a hard copy of my local map...

Thank you for this!

Thank you for posting this. Good go know!

I was hired to shoot a protest/march followed by a concert and had done a location scout earlier in the week with the client. I had all the permissions I needed and then when I arrived on site the day of the shoot I checked the airspace again. There was suddenly a TFR covering where our concert...

Luckily, my 4 year old already tells me every time he sees an airplane so I guess we just need to work on heading and airspeed.

Thanks again Everyone for the help! I've been able to find a couple FB friends that are interested and then got a few more from a local drone Facebook group I'm a part of. Luis, your training materials are already getting used. Thank you! One follow up question: For you guys that are doing the...

Thanks Dave and Fred. That's interesting! I guess I just assumed they had to take a course so that's how I worded my application. But based on your successful applications, I suppose if the VOs are trained, tested and there's a paper trail, I guess the FAA is happy. In my case, I'm prepared to...

Hey All, I recently got my Daylight Operations waiver and need to add some nighttime visual observers to my crew. Before I reach out to my network of friends on Facebook, I wanted to see if there was a good resource in the drone community where one might find them? I know the nighttime VOs...