This may have been discussed somewhere on here already, but can you make the XSP exceed the maximum height setting?
There you go...just that simple.I have had mine up to 600' or a bit over that so far. Just increase the height settings in the configuration and off you go.
You said above maximum level... that would be higher than the settings allow. Honestly, I doubt anyone has needed to hack this as the X-Star will go 1000m (3281'), making it one of the highest flying drones out there in the prosumer class, that's double the height of the Phantom. I little bird told me this may change with the new firmware. We will have to wait & see.There you go...just that simple.
It's important to note that the FAA limit for the USA is 400' AGL, or within 400' radius of a structure. [See 14 CFR 107.51(b)(1) & (b)(2)]. That means you can be 400' above the top of a 500' foot tall building or tower, for example, and still be both legal and arguably safe (assuming you are still within Class G airspace at that altitude).In the USA the FAA set the limit to 400'.
Manned aircraft are not allowed to fly below 500 feet AGL according to my pilot friend, thus the 100 foot cushion of space in case things get close from 400 feet. We are also supposed to keep a horizontal space of 2000 feet from clouds distant, 500 feet below the ceiling, and not fly when visibility is under three statute miles...
Great information! Like I tell my pilot friend...I think I learned all about the air spaces, flight patterns, etc., of manned aircraft in my sUAV training in order to completely avoid it. The point about sparsely populated areas is a good one. That is why it is recommended that visual observers work with the drone PIC to give him extra spotting eyes.Well... that is mostly correct. As an Airline Transport Pilot, CFI, UAV, and FAA training center examiner with nearly 10,000 hours in a lot of different aircraft, I am going to cite the FAR's: but pay close attention to (c)
§ 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General.
Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitudes:
(a)Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface.
(b)Over congested areas.Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.
(c)Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure. ()
The point I want to make is that I could be out flying in a Cessna 172 in class G airspace, sparsely populated or in a Pawnee crop dusting a corn field, with what I think as nobody around descending as low as I am comfortable to go when out pops a drone.
We has drone pilots should exercise caution and use discretion. Because fixed wing aircraft may go lower than 500 feet if they think there is no persons, vehicles, vessels, or structures around and may not see us until it's too late.
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The 400-foot maximum height recommendations purposes are well apparent, but those mature enough to not endanger others should be informed that this FAA ceiling, so far as recreational use is concerned, is only a recommendation and not law. Like most federal regulation, its application is as clear as muddy water.
Here's recent clarification of the Rule from the FAA's UAS director:
amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/files/2016/07/FAA-400feet.pdf
Before taking any liberties with any FAA "recommendation," an operator must understand the potential danger, ramifications and liabilities of his actions. America is a great place, and professional regulatory agencies entrust us to exercise great personal responsibility for our behavior.
This is big-boy stuff, and we're expected to behave like responsible adults with potentially dangerous tools.
Since this document was mentioned nowhere in my remote pilot training, I will pretend I never saw it. No such thing as UFOs either...just swamp gas...High altitude views are indeed less exciting. As was well said, Google Earth photos are already available, and DroneDriver makes the vital point that opposing aircraft can appear virtually anywhere.
The 400-foot maximum height recommendations purposes are well apparent, but those mature enough to not endanger others should be informed that this FAA ceiling, so far as recreational use is concerned, is only a recommendation and not law. Like most federal regulation, its application is as clear as muddy water.
Here's recent clarification of the Rule from the FAA's UAS director:
amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/files/2016/07/FAA-400feet.pdf
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