Hello from Dundee

[callum]

@B0M0A0K

I wouldn’t mind talking about hills as a newbie

We had these threads a while back that might help.

Height above hills?

Almost flew into the side of a hill yesterday! It was touch & go and just as I was getting panicky because the hill was obviously higher than 400’ I completely lost connection and I couldn’t see it for a tree! RTH worked even though it was still trying to connect. It was worrying because on the air you always got a warning to adjust antennas but this just lost it without warning. I seem to remember a thread that explained about height restrictions and hills but I can’t find it? It might sound…

The practicalities of the 400' AGL limit in the mountains

I do apologise for the length of this post but I do believe that having a full understanding of the rules when flying off mountains and hills is important. It appears to me that there are two interpretations of the 400’ AGL rule when flying a drone in hilly or mountainous areas. Basically, it boils down to how AGL should be measured. In the diagram posted by #MertOzkan and which was produced by the CAA, it clearly indicates (to me anyway) that the 400’ is measured between drone and ground paral…