Recent content by Treeman

Interesting - thanks for posting that jsmichel. That's the first reasonable approach I've heard. I'll keep an eye on the Transport Canada site in April and keep my fingers crossed.

Yes we are OK until June. But right now when you go into Register your drone (to obtain a Registration # all drone operators must have in Canada come June) the last question on the 1st page asks if your a Canadian Citizen & states FOREIGN RESIDENT ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO REGISTER A DRONE IN CANADA...

Beware that if your a Non Canadian resident you must have Special Flight Operation Certificate ! This is not apparent anywhere in the guidelines UNTIL you go to REGISTER your drone with Transport Canada. This is for all non-Canadian recreational pilots. This is a difficult burdensome process...

This list of rules assumes your a Canadian citizen. If your not, your outta luck when you go to register your drone for recreational use.

I really do wish I was wrong here and you are correct, but I don't think so. When any non-Canadian goes into REGISTER your drone, this is where your told you MUST fly with a Special Flight Operation Certificate. For some reason they don't tell you this when you research the pilot cert/license...

I'm a US Citizen, and before I prepared to take the Transport Canada Drone Cert Test I thought I'd register my drone first. While filling out the registration form, I came to "Foreign residents are not eligible to register or operate a drone in Canada. If you are a foreign resident and wish to...

Agree with the statement above. Buy a $30 - $50 toy drone without GPS to start out. It's the best training for when the day comes that something goes wrong, the dji loses trajectory data and you don't know how that little dot is the sky is oriented. I walked across a lot of fields in the early...

How much does the recert test we gotta take every 2 yrs cost ?

Blade Chroma drone has no restrictions whatsoever - you can fly them anywhere (legal or illegal) and at any height. I had one, sold it for the much better dji phantom. Blade stopped building the Chroma's ~ 2 yrs ago.

Next time you get a compass error, switch out the sd card with another and retry. I know it sounds crazy, but this solved compass errors for me (and others found the same to be true). Worked 5 times out of 5 times in the last ~18 months.

I've encountered them 3 or 4 times, right out of the blue. Usually around the river. The only temporary defense is full throttle straight up as was stated above. Then I get her home, let me blood pressure return to normal, and cross that location off my list!

Me too, I had to wait ~ 2 months.

My stuff, mostly upstate NY. RC Owego