Start with the hard part, because in Virginia it is genuinely hard. A thirty nautical mile Special Flight Rules Area is centered on Reagan National Airport, and inside it a fifteen nautical mile Flight Restricted Zone covers Arlington, Alexandria, and a large piece of eastern Fairfax County. Drone flight inside that inner zone is effectively […]
Start with the part nobody wants to hear. Washington, DC sits inside the DC Flight Restricted Zone, a roughly fifteen-nautical-mile ring centered on Reagan National Airport that covers the entire District and a wide band of the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Inside that ring, unmanned aircraft flight is prohibited. Not restricted, not waiverable on request, […]
Washington is really two states wearing one coat, and a drone show has to be planned for whichever one you are standing in. West of the Cascades you are dealing with a marine climate that delivers cloud ceilings for eight months a year and a Puget Sound Convergence Zone that can park a rain band […]
In most states the hardest question is the airspace. In West Virginia it is finding a flat piece of ground. A drone show needs a cleared, controlled launch area with the audience at a safe standoff and an unobstructed view of the entire flight box, and in a state of steep ridges and narrow hollows […]
The real customer base for drone light shows in Wisconsin is not a corporate client in Milwaukee. It is the county fair board, the village centennial committee and the parish festival that has been running the same beer tent and chicken dinner since the 1950s. Wisconsin has a county fair in nearly every county plus […]