Where to fly a drone in san diego
Best Place in San Diego California to Fly a Drone
everybody John Cooper donors by squadron
San Diego drunk on we just wanted to
make a quick video and just let you know
we had a couple of questions on joiners
by drone people coming into town
wanting to know the best place does it
fly I gave the best pictures with a
minimum hassle so I just wanted to show
you a few spots and watch some of the
other more popular spots may not be a
good idea if you just want to get in get
some beautiful pictures and get out so
let's go ahead and show you here all
right so this is San Diego easy to see
downtown Mission Bay San Diego Bay all
the way up the coast to Carlsbad
Oceanside
let's hit the satellite view and we can
kind of show you a little bit
differently fill in the blanks a little
bit here but let's point out some
important things here we've got San
Diego International Airport we've got
you know the big passenger planes coming
in and out they're flying out to the
west over Ocean Beach and they'll come
in over downtown San Diego through this
area
another big airport and I asked North
Island there again usually taking off to
the west here and coming in from the
east and these could be anything from
cargo planes two f-18s point loma this
is all military installations from you
know back in World War two
there we got Mission Bay and we were
just talking about Mission Bay and
Fiesta Island here just island here
we've got La Jolla and Torrey Pines Del
Mar so another important thing to check
out is
Meryem are you silent aapke and it is a
big giant these are all f8 teens very
fast jet so usually again taking off
towards the west into the wind and
coming in from the east over scripps
ranch here so we've decided to fly
tomorrow and our meet up at la jolla
cove we really enjoy the first of all
it's Glass G airspace this is all you
know what let's look at what it looks
like from a manned aircraft point of
views alright so this is a aeronautical
chart this is what manned aircraft use
to navigate get around there's a lot of
information in here but with the PDF
it's pretty awesome we can actually
really zoom in and get into some detail
here so here's my quick primer there's
so much to learn about this of course
but quickly these blue lines designate
different Class B airspace the dotted
blue lines represent different Class D
airspace class there's Class A which is
basically airspace above 18,000 feet
Class B which we say busy that's most of
our big airports and you know military
installations
there's Class C which we don't have
really any of in San Diego Class D which
is some of our smaller airports
there's class key and then Class G is go
Class G is basically open airspace
anything goes
and that's where we're going to want to
concentrate on so a little bit about how
to read this let's go in a little bit
basically I guess these blue segmented
areas are different areas of Class B
airspace which is some are controlled by
Miramar so I'm they're controlled by
North Island some they're controlled by
Limburg so as you can see this area here
wants us from the surface to 10,000 feet
you want to always want to add two zeros
onto these numbers to figure out what
it's saying this one here is 1,800 feet
to 10,000 feet 3,000 feet to 10,000 feet
3,500 feet to 10,000 feet so Class B
airspace ends at 10,000 feet
that's not much reason for you to know
that because drones can only go to 400
so we're looking for places that are
Class G up to 400 feet so as you can see
here a lot of San Diego is right out
that's surface to 10,000 feet here's
this is all surface of 10030 surface to
10,000 here you can see how the
airplanes are flying in you know this is
3,500 feet 3,000 1,800 get slower as the
airplanes are descending and coming in
and of course landing and taking off
this is Ocean Beach Sunset Cliffs so you
can see all of this requires some sort
of authorization notification anything
within five miles of an airport
obviously but this is for sure Class B
airspace but if you notice past this
blue line here something interesting
happens now of course this is Miramar
and this is Gillespie and they're their
own air spaces but pretty much past
crystal pier as you can see this is all
designated Class G we
outer space right here starts at 1800
feet right here starts at 4800 feet this
air space here is Class G from 18 v 1800
to 3200 and then again from 6800 to
10000 feet right here 6,800 feet so
where as you can see basically from
Crystal Pier north all the way until you
get to Palomar this is all Class G
airspace Class G means go and drones are
okay and welcome there's only one part
we were talking about earlier Torrey
Pines is an ecological preserve so they
technically don't allow drones anywhere
around Torrey Pines or the the slough
around there is a drone free area
because of the animals be aware that the
Park Rangers will come and find you if
you're flying up here but now this
brings me to where we've decided to fly
for our flying tomorrow la joya which is
basically Mount Soledad all the way up
through Torrey Pines is all class G's so
Google Earth is Mission Bay again we're
really looking for anything north of
this is called the vor vortac this is
how airplanes navigate or how they used
to before GPS but basically anything
past the Crystal pier here is Class G
airspace and here we are here with our
drone coming up tomorrow we decided it's
hard to choose between this particular
location and my other favorite spot to
fly out here in La Jolla first of all it
is really the perfect place of to fly a
drone
I think it's the most picturesque beach
in the world really cool residents in La
Jolla they don't freak out when you
photograph their house they've been
doing aerial photography since before
airplanes were even invented with
balloons and such but basically this is
La Jolla Shores here there's a nice
little area to take off from this park
but we are going to be here at by the
cave store as you can see this is
Prospect Avenue I believe here then you
do the little turn off and this is the
cave store they call it there's actually
a cave you can go down and come out on
the other side and you can walk all the
way underground and forget where the
actual entrance of the cave is but lots
of cool history there but we will be
meeting right here it's nice a little
patio deck area we can launch from and
we keep people away from our landing
zone I will be busy because it's spring
break and really it's busy all
throughout the year if you're visiting
San Diego but we usually Park here in
this parking with the street parking
here and yeah you can pretty much go all
the way out to the children's pool
without losing the line of sight of your
drone so yeah we look forward to meeting
everybody and seeing everybody give me a
direct message if you have any questions
at all or if you want to fly somewhere
else in San Diego that needs
authorization or you might be close to
an airport again we're more than five
miles away from any of these
airports we are we're close to a glider
port but obviously we keep them in mind
and of course there's the low-flying
sightseeing aircraft we always want to
stay out of their way and land
immediately
you know it's never a a legal to go
above 400 feet and it's never legal to
fly directly over person our crowds but
yeah keep it tuned here San Diego drone
con drones by squadron and we'll see out
there
