Vermont banned billboards in the 1960s and never changed its mind. That one decision tells you more about planning an event here than any airspace chart will. This is a state that has spent sixty years deciding, deliberately and repeatedly, what it is willing to let into its sky and its sightlines, and it built […]

Utah compresses an extraordinary amount of its celebration calendar into one month. The Fourth of July and Pioneer Day on the 24th bracket July, and in between there are municipal celebrations in practically every city on the Wasatch Front, most of them wanting a finale. If you are shopping for a drone show in Utah […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]