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Offline dave siegler

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B4ufly app from FAA review it sucks!
« on: February 18, 2016, 04:09:54 AM »
FAA ha a phone app to "help" you comply with rules about airport near your flying area.  it's junk.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/b4ufly/


The app list several airports and helipads near me.  They are not on the sectional charts I have.  Trust me these residential neighborhoods have not been an airport in 15 to 20 years.  I have lived in the same area for 25 years and was not aware of them.  The airports are not on the sectional charts that I have.   Some of the helipads listed are someones backyard, with mature trees all over them.
Problems without solutions.  Very poor.  The app gives you a warning and no way to comply. 


Below are 3 samples.  this has not been an airport in a long time.  WI62
https://www.google.com/maps/place/SSS+Aerodrome/@43.2690162,-87.9979913,817m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xc0b924577ffb90c5!6m1!1e1

this one is listed on google map as permanently closed.  It is only a few miles from home, I go past it almost daily, never seen any activity there.  I can see the remnants of a hanger.  9WI4
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9792505,-88.1515932,548m/data=!3m1!1e3

this one is near my job, a ritzy neighborhood.  Maybe he has a little chopper in there.  Looks like and old barn the neighbors would bitch if someone operated out of there on a regular basis.    71WI
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hoffman+Prop+Inc+Heliport/@43.2661908,-87.9658736,167m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x4ecf4092299c86f9!6m1!1e1



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