Reddit reviews DS-30A-1 White Lightning DJI Drone Strobe Light
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4 LED, FULL 360 VISUAL DJI DRONE STROBE VISIBLE FROM ALL ANGLESGOVERNMENT TESTED OVER 5 NAUTICAL MILES AT NIGHT MEETS 107 REQUIREMENTSFAA COMPLIANT 60 hz AIRCRAFT ANTI COLLISION FLASH RATE.OPERATING VOLTAGES 4.0 to 16.0 Volts..
I had great visibility from the roof of the parking garage and the dark drone is easy enough to pick out in the light sky, but to further bolster viz, I highly recommend investing in one of these bad boys!
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You're right. I jumped quickly. Looking at your other photos, it seemed like you might do photography professionally, or at least as more than a minor hobby - so I assumed you would be operating under Part 107. I apologize.
It's become so common to see people flying around doing stupid shit, and in the last couple years it's starting to burn those of us who fly responsibly. Case in point: I used to be able to fly at Colt State Park in Bristol. Beautiful place. Too many dummies crashed into people (including the park rangers trucks) and now when I want to fly there it requires filing a filming permit and dragging along more than a million in insurance coverage.
For recreation use, you're right, the FAA is vague. They've published a bunch of guidelines, which while not laws, basically give the FAA the ability to make judgement calls about what's safe and what's not. In Rhode Island we don't have any specific drone regulation yet other than a law that prohibits cities and towns from establishing their own laws.
The best advice I'd offer would be to follow the AMA's recreation guidelines: http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/105.PDF
The night flight falls into a line of site issue. On a clear night you have about 200' of LOS on a typical DJI style drone - meaning we cans till see the lights clear enough to immediately determine the orientation. The LED's on those aircraft aren't true aircraft-level lighting systems. That said, if you want to go further safely, I have several of these on the drone I fly for emergency management / SAR. These meet the FAA visibility requirements for day and night flight. Ridiculously bright. That said, the real issue isn't if we can see our drones, it's whether the other inbound aircraft can see our drones. They come in quick and low near the hospital.