Recent content by johnny

Oh I agree 100% the 400 ft limit is agl and if there is a 1000 foot hill you should be able to go to 1400 feet. As you said it is up to us to self police otherwise eventually there will be nowhere to fly unless you gave completed 100 pages of paperwork, signed your life away and donated your...

I'm curious about one thing. you have mentioned "Some of the hills I want to fly over for photos and to check on livestock are at best 4 wheel drive country.". This implies that you will be flying over the top of the hill and onward. How are you maintaining the "visual line of sight" rule...

400 is the ceiling set by the FAA. It's there for a reason. Don't violate it and ruin the sport for the rest of us