Those are awesome. Do you have your 14 CFR part 107 certification or is this just “hobby” flights to where you don’t need them (not for Commercial use…)
I’ve been studying for that course since I’m going into Construction and drones are very useful in the industry so I was just curious.
I’m glad you waited until the site was unoccupied, because the biggest liability for Commercial use is flying over people without having a waiver signed. I’d love to see more pictures as it goes up though, but don’t want you to risk getting in trouble for flying in a potential “No Fly Zone”.
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Great pictures! Thank you!
If you’re serious about other shots downtown, then would you consider maybe a series? It would be awesome for downtown and a first for Raleigh to start an archive of “older” Raleigh via drones?
I’d love to participate in such a project. I’m probably not the best to determine which buildings, but I’m definitely interested in helping with the aerial shots.
These photos are the perfect example of why you cannot do 20 floors of commercial space under the 250 ft limit in the UDO. Just look how much larger the slab2slab distance is on the commercial floors than the residential ones.
Still not likely. If floors were evenly distributed, and if one attributed just 10 feet for the roof assembly, roof top services and parapet wall, that would leave each floor to floor distance of just 12 feet. Typical office spaces have 10 ft ceilings and a plenum above for mechanical, electrical, network, etc. Cramming all of that into a space of less than 2 ft isn’t going to cut it. Never mind that a first floor lobby/retail floor is likely to have a higher ceiling. if one did build a 20 floor office building all-in at 250 ft., it sure wouldn’t be a desirable building because something would have to give, and I suspect that would be ceiling height.