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<blockquote data-quote="Mrmund" data-source="post: 28854" data-attributes="member: 3648"><p>Hey Rickster,</p><p></p><p> I often fly in a spot out in Long Island. There are 8 heliports and 3 airports, one including with an Air National Guard station(the other two are grass airstrips). I have contacted or tried to contact all of them. This has been my experience:</p><p></p><p>-Three of the heliports don't exist anymore the other 5, I spoke with and told me I was fine and and could fly anytime I want and don't care because their helicopters won't be anywhere near me.</p><p></p><p>-One of the grass airstrips is used for skydiving and the guy on the phone was confused so I stopped by to talk to him and he had no problem with me flying, came out to my truck to check out my drones and told me he was getting one soon. The other one, the owner emailed me a letter with permission as long as I stayed below 400' and VLOS from where I normally set up to fly.</p><p></p><p>-The Class D airport. I call them every time. It takes me two minutes. They're always nice, never give me a hard time and some of them remember me when I call.</p><p></p><p>I found all of the contact info on Airmap, Skyvector or Google by searching the name of the airfield. Sometimes it was a person in an office, sometimes it was a guy on his cellphone. The guy at skydiving school was awesome. I showed him my drones and he took me in the hanger to show my his planes and the parachutes. We hung out for over an hour.</p><p></p><p>I fly safely and recognize my actions affect you guys. I just decided one day this was be part of my adventure as I started flying drones and took some time over the course of a couple of weeks and reached out to these airports. I was pretty intimidated when I started, watched a bunch of youtube videos searched about it on this very forum. It wasn't hard, I made a new friend and I feel great knowing I'm safe and legal. Give it a try and I hope your experience is as good as mine. </p><p></p><p>-FYI The logic behind the 5 miles isn't that you'll fly your drone 5 miles into the airplanes, it that the airplanes will still be low to ground 5 miles after they take off and fly over you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrmund, post: 28854, member: 3648"] Hey Rickster, I often fly in a spot out in Long Island. There are 8 heliports and 3 airports, one including with an Air National Guard station(the other two are grass airstrips). I have contacted or tried to contact all of them. This has been my experience: -Three of the heliports don't exist anymore the other 5, I spoke with and told me I was fine and and could fly anytime I want and don't care because their helicopters won't be anywhere near me. -One of the grass airstrips is used for skydiving and the guy on the phone was confused so I stopped by to talk to him and he had no problem with me flying, came out to my truck to check out my drones and told me he was getting one soon. The other one, the owner emailed me a letter with permission as long as I stayed below 400' and VLOS from where I normally set up to fly. -The Class D airport. I call them every time. It takes me two minutes. They're always nice, never give me a hard time and some of them remember me when I call. I found all of the contact info on Airmap, Skyvector or Google by searching the name of the airfield. Sometimes it was a person in an office, sometimes it was a guy on his cellphone. The guy at skydiving school was awesome. I showed him my drones and he took me in the hanger to show my his planes and the parachutes. We hung out for over an hour. I fly safely and recognize my actions affect you guys. I just decided one day this was be part of my adventure as I started flying drones and took some time over the course of a couple of weeks and reached out to these airports. I was pretty intimidated when I started, watched a bunch of youtube videos searched about it on this very forum. It wasn't hard, I made a new friend and I feel great knowing I'm safe and legal. Give it a try and I hope your experience is as good as mine. -FYI The logic behind the 5 miles isn't that you'll fly your drone 5 miles into the airplanes, it that the airplanes will still be low to ground 5 miles after they take off and fly over you [/QUOTE]
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