[I really appreciate your response, I am wondering if I should even have bothered. The government is good at making things difficult. I will take your advise to heart and try to sort this out. I bought my Breeze yesterday and have yet to try to fly it.
QUOTE="robport, post: 137020, member: 14805"]
Federal UAS Laws & Guidance
In my opinion, B4UFLY app isn't very good, but if you are within 3 miles of ORF, it should be telling you not to fly.
Norfolk is not the greatest place to fly with ORF and the NAVAL Air Station, which has fixed wing and helo's, Little Creek with places they will not be happy if you venture near. Then you have Oceana, Fentress and some restricted zones at the beach. Get near downtown and the shipyards, especially Norfolk Naval, is not going to be happy if they see you. Hampton/Newport News isn't very good either.
The requirement says that you need to contact ORF to fly. I believe the app has their number in it. When you reach them, they will probably tell you not to call every time you want to fly as long as you do X and Y. Document the call in case something goes wrong.
The FAA expects you to call Heliports within 5 miles too and they are all over (good luck reaching them since they aren't even manned unless flying). If you do reach them, my experience is they will have absolutely no idea why you called or know what to say about it). Even some of the FAA people I've asked are conflicted about that requirement, since it isn't really practical. Almost every Hospital around here has one though.
You may want to try Airmap, which is not perfect, but has worked a lot better for me than the other one.
I have a Breeze though and love it.
Spend a little time looking at the rules. I had an agreement with my local airport (4 miles), Hampton Roads Executive to just limit it to 400 feet (the FAA limit anyway) and not to call them again unless I need to really get close to it. They don't have a tower though.
Chances are, you will never get caught breaking a rule, but sometimes, these drones, especially with GPS and compass, have a mind of their own and wander off. Where they go, when they do that can get people into a lot of trouble so it doesn't hurt to follow what rules you can, if you are ever asked. It's also why most of us that fly FPV (even really badly) have it set, in BetaFlight, Cleanflight, whatever, to drop out of the sky, if it loses controller signal. You can't set the Breeze up to be able to do that. Yours should come back and land where it took off. Make sure you do the calibrations, especially if you move to a different location so it knows where it is.[/QUOTE]