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The post you are responding to is about a city, not a resort. I don't think a city can stop you from piloting within because cities have a lot of public land inside of their limits. Suppose I am standing on public property which is inside of the city limit. I don't think they can prevent me...

How about this one - just down the coast from Newport is the city of Laguna. Laguna has a big sign as you are entering the town: "Drone Flying Prohibited." A city can enact an ordinance that is criminally enforceable. You cannot be jailed, but you can be fined, subjected to police hassling...

It seems to me it's less a matter of legality or illegality and more a question of practicality. Suppose I launch from the beach (public land) and fly the quad over the resort? Resort vehicle pulls up. "Hey! Aren't you the guy we told not to fly your drone over the resort yesterday? Pack up...

We are staying at our timeshare at the Marriott Newport Coast Resort. I went out in the parking area and launched the quad. Within 15 seconds, one of the groundskeepers came up to me and told me I would have to bring it down. I asked him to call his supervisor, which he did. In a minute or...

Excellent comments, John. Couldn't agree more. Just yesterday my quad disappeared from view and I hit RTH until it was back in my sight. I do use RTH almost every flight at one time or another.

Yeah .... yeah .... just a minute .... yeah, sure now.

Correction. The height on my DJI Go app is displayed in feet, not meters.

Are you OK? :confused:

OK - I give up. You guys are right. I have not attempted to hover in Woody's back yard and don't plan to in the future. After all, I'm the guy who is constantly singing the song of, "even it it's legal, avoid controversy."

God DAMMIT! Now you've got me ALL messed up! 122 .... 122 .....122 ..... 122 .....

..... 400 feet ..... 122 meters ...........400 feet/122meters .......

Yeah, yeah, yeah ..... I'm doing it again this weekend. :)

Let's see .... 400 feet .... 122 meters. 400 feet/122 meters. OK, I think I have it. 400 feet = 122 meters. 400 feet ............

Most of you guys probably know this already but for those who don't, I hope it is helpful. It sure helped me once I discovered it. So you're flying your quad and you decide to get a little daring. Let's fly the sucker out of sight and then bring her home. How far away can we go? Well, you...

So I'm sitting on my front porch, running my quad up and down the street and here and there around the neighborhood when the devil got into me. I brought it back to my driveway and then flew it across the street and into Woody's back yard. I had it hover there at window height and rotated it...

That is so short-sighted. You have to have a metric conversion chart appended to your remote. The other day I had her up to 156. I thought it looked a little high for 156 feet. Then I noticed ..... 400 feet is 122 meters.

I notice height is displayed in meters in my app. Can it be set so that height is displayed in feet or yards? If so, how?

You really should read the book. It's a short read and it's hard to put it down. It really lays out a most probable scenario in the event something like that were actually to happen. You can pick it up on iBooks or Kindle.

Oh, right. Yeah - when it comes to quad flying in urban areas, there are two issues: (1) what is legal and what is not and (2) what the cops think is legal and what they think is not. My initial expression of apprehension over the city hall flight and cops, had to do with (2), not (1). I know...