"Where to fly your drone" - Zoning

[Mystique]

Similar to gliding…the first aircraft to catch a thermal dictates the direction you should turn to follow.

[HantsFlyer]

@TheJohnster

keep in mind that the commercial pilot will likely be flying to a plan, possibly waypoint, and has specific objectives and tasks to carry out, so it will usually be easier for you to keep out of his/her way than the other way around.

Just because a commercial pilot has filed a plan to fly in a particular location, doesn’t mean they have booked that piece of airspace out for a particular timescale to be used by themselves exclusively. I’ve flown in the same location on the same day as commercial flights, they don’t own the airspace and neither do I. But it’s an informative way to find out what’s around you at the time.

[JockyB]

@TheJohnster

I’m implying that if someone else is flying before you got there, especially in a restricted space, you should ‘yield’ the airspace to them by the law of first come first serve

That’ll work at a meet up “I was first in the air, you lot can wait till my battery runs out.”

[UAVShipSpotter]

Yield to noone else with a drone its not necessary. Speak to them and ask them what height theyre flying and agree on seperation. Works for planes and works for us too.

[TheJohnster]

That’s so crazy it might just work…