Max flight altitude inspire1

I appreciate your legal advice and I am generally concerned about causing injury to people. .I'm definitely not a know it all ,others have that covered on here..
 
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I also appreciate hearing all points of view and thank you, ems, for sharing it. I have not meant any offense to you or anyone else. We all have different risk tolerances, I guess. We need to share them between us to be sure we find that middle ground.

Please stay and have fun. We need you and everyone's voice!
 
i didn't notice that the creator of this thread was asking for free legal advice. I must have misread the first post.

My point was that people like you are derailing the thread, and it happens to every single thread discussing the boundaries of our machines.

I suggest you create a "Free legal advice" thread for law obeying citizens like yourself, so you can do your parenting in there and us criminals can keep discussing ways to increase our chances to go to jail.
 
I feel the same way and am afraid to talk about pushing the limits even though I think this can be done responsibly. .
 
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Knowingly and blatantly going against the FAA and the regulations will result in only more regulations. There won't be any distinction between the actions of a few and the actions of the many. If one person decides to push it, it may cause the death of permitted general use of UAS systems. That is the facts. It doesn't matter how you feel about the FAA, your piloting skills, or the advancements made. FAA owns the area you want to operate, and how EVERYONE conducts themselves there will determine the FAAs response.

So yes, blatantly seeking to break those regulations is going to get you ire from the community, and it should.
 
Since learning what those guild lines are I have adhered to them..I know the FAA owns the airspace. .I'm getting tired of hearing about it every post i read..to say it's people like me that will ruin it for everyone else is just malarkey. ..
 
my comment wasn't Directed towards you, or anyone in particular. I genuinely just want to educate and ensure that our passion gets the chance to grow into the amazing thing it is and can be. I'm not out to "get" anyone. I hope no one feels that I'm attacking them, just the mindset.
 
I kind of felt that way ..so thanks for clearing that up...
 
Everyone needs to stop taking the advice of those who know about the FAA's rules and enforcement of those rules so personally. It's not about you - it's about all of us. That includes the people (sometimes me, and presumably you, too) who are actually up there in the air along with the myriad drones operated by God-knows-who. Settle down, and let's approach this professionally, even if you're just a hobbyist.
 
I don't remember anyone saying rules are stupid so I'm not following them..
 
In my opinion the FAA is going to do whatever they're told from the higher ups regardless of what people do and will use whatever scenario that supports whatever law they want to put into place..
 
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I have a question. I am hoping someone on the forum would have experienced the situation that I may be in when my I1 arrives. I live on a Hill Farm in the Scottish Borders. Say I take of from the highest hill on the Farm. 2900ft above sea level. The Farm house is at 1200ft. With the inspire 1, I am assuming that I have 500m altitude limit from where I have taken off. Am I restricted to how low I can fly from the top of the hill to the bottom of the valley. Which would be 1700ft below me. Sorry if I have chosen the wrong place to ask this question.
 
You are correct in that the Inspire will allow you to go to 500m from your take off point (which it takes as zero).
There is no restriction on going negative height relative to your take off position but obviously as you are in the UK you are legally limited to 400ft above ground level under the Air Navigation Order.
 
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
It was the negative height part that I was interested in, not gaining 500m height at the top of the Hill.
If I can get to the top of the hill, it will allow me to view a large area on top and in the valleys below, for Sheep that are dead. Takes about 4 hours to drive around the Farm checking all the likely places where the sheep can be found dead. Normally they will go lie in a sheltered hard to get at area, before expiring.
 
Yes you can fly negative , I did several times. It wasn't much , but it flew below my position. I can't recall how altimeter was counting ( if there was - in front of the nomber ). As far it goes hight limit it counts AGL (above ground level) ,that means if you are standing on the hill you can go 400 ft above that hill.
 
I think that this is a valid question. I live in Switzerland at 1650m and the mountains around me are 4000+m... 500m altitude is not getting me very far.
 
From what i have read i don't think people here want to break laws but more are unhappy with the restrictions on the machines. as Zarick says above I have in a similar situation flown well above 120m AGL (in AUS under CASA rules) from the home point going up the side of a mountain. A lot of people travel with the gear too where restrictions are different. I too agree that whenever someone in a forum talks of pushing any envelopes or feeling restricted someone else steps in and says how wrong it is and that gets very old. we know the rules.
has anyone flown from a chairlift?
 
 
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