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Flying Drones in the National Airspace System (NAS)

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Recreational drone pilots do not have the legal ability to fly for hire or into certain conditions.  It takes the average FAA Part 107 remote pilot candidate anywhere from 4-6 months to study the required airman information material and be ready to take the test to become a remote pilot for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS).  And that is just for the airman certificate.  Remote pilots then need to learn about the individual drone they will be operating.

Sectional charts, terminal charts, LAANC approvals, coordinates, aviation weather, ADSB, FARs, TFRs, FAA, aeromedical factors, controlled airspace, wind, pressure altitude, military operations and restricted areas, etc.  Those subject areas all sound like knowledge that general aviation and airline pilots need to know, and that's true.  However, these subjects are also required knowledge for drone pilots, because, as the FAA has established, the drones they are flying are considered aircraft.  As aircraft, they share the low-level airspace (referred to as Class G Airspace) that larger aircraft also operate in around airports, heliports, and sea plane bases.  Drones also operate at the altitudes that crop dusting, banner towing, hospital emergency helicopter, and sparsely populated area sightseeing aircraft operate at.  

Drone pilots might only fly at 400' above the ground in class G airspace, but for a FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot, that 400' can be within and over a building or tower that they are filming, and that building can be a skyscraper.  Such altitude (adding up to an additional 400' over those structures) can put you right at the edge of class E airspace, where other aircraft are transitioning for arrivals into landing traffic patterns and approach fixes for IFR landing.  Going the other way, those are also departure altitudes as aircraft transition into their enroute airways and local traffic flows.  Commercial drone pilots can also operate in controlled airspace like class D, C, and B, with special permission.

Safely and legally flying in the NAS can be challenging.  Flying in the Northeast Corridor, the busiest part of the NAS in the entire country, can be downright daunting.  Add nighttime operations as another factor making this a tough neighborhood to fly around.

Let Sky Shield Services LLC handle the stress of commercial drone operations in the Delaware Valley.  Tim is highly skilled in piloting this area.  He will eventually hire similarly skilled pilots to work for Sky Shield as the company needs grow.