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Class A airspace is not something on the Part 107 exam, but I think all pilots should be familiar with the regulations on Class A. In this episode, I share the audio from my what is Class A airspace video on my “Airspace and VFR Sectional Charts for Drone Pilots” course.
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What is Class A Airspace for Remote Pilots?
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Discover drones is your go to resource for learning about drones, drones in business, emerging drone technology and drones in STEM education. I am Dr. Heather Monthie an FAA certificated flight instructor, commercial pilot, remote pilot and dedicated stem educator. Join us as we discover more about drone safety, urban Air Mobility, business and education. Let’s get started.
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that intro music it always gets me going every time I hear it. I just love it. So welcome back to the Discover drones Podcast. I am Heather Monthie. And this is Episode Seven of the podcast. And in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about what is Class A airspace or class alpha airspace and what you need to know about it as a remote pilot for the part 107 exam. In fact, you don’t need to know anything about it for the part 107 exam. It’s not even on your exam, but it is something that I think you should that you should know about it that it exists and what it is used for. So This is a free preview of my understanding airspace and VFR sectional charts for remote pilots course that you can find at WWW dot fly electric monarch comm slash courses. And I am giving you a free preview of the audio from the videos that are in the course in this podcast. If you would like to watch the videos, the corresponding videos that go with the audio, just go to my website at fly electric monarch COMM The link is in the show notes to the spot where you can watch this particular video and all the other videos that I’ve given you for free in this podcast as well. airspace is something that is somewhat visual and it is helpful to see some of the different things that I am talking through in the videos. But I wanted to be able to give you another way to hear and get a free preview of the course through this podcast. So in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about class eight airspace. But first, I wanted to share with you my free part 107 exam prep guide, the FAA has put together all sorts of really great information to help you prepare for the part 107 exam. What I did is I put it all together in one spot for you in this free ebook. So you can go to fly electric monarch comm slash FAA part 107 test prep, you can download the PDF there. Like I said, the FAA has got all sorts of information all over in lots of different places. And I just put it together into one easy convenient spot for you all the different links all at different spots that you need to study, that sort of thing. And you will then be added to my mailing list. So if you’re looking for somebody to help guide you through this a little bit more you want a course you’ll be the first to be notified that the course that I’m putting together is available. And finally, head over to discover drones podcast.com to check out other episodes of this podcast and let’s get started. Class alpha airspace. What is Class A airspace for drone pilots? So Class A or class alpha airspace is the airspace that extends from 18,000 feet MSL so mean sea level up to flight levels 600 so that’s 60,000 feet and that is what is called class alpha airspace. So an instrument flight plan is required to fly in class alpha airspace that is for that is something for manned aircraft pilots. So you as a remote pilot will not be operating in the class alpha airspace you can see that I designated this here this is a not a spot where drone pilots are going to be flying their drones. It is not designated on VFR sectional. So if you’re looking at a sectional chart, and you’re trying to find that class alpha airspace, it is not going to be on there. It’s just known that from 18,000 feet MSL up to 60,000 feet flight level six flight level 600 that is class alpha airspace so it’s not designated on VFR sectionals. It’s also not going to be on your part 107 exam. It’s just not an area where remote pilots are operating their their drones, so it is not on the part 107 Are you a teacher, a pilot or a STEM education advocate? Are you interested in collaborating with others to help bring drones to your local school, whether it’s in the classroom or as an after school club, join my free educators who drone online community to share ideas, collaborate and get help started with drones and STEM education. Head over to www dot educators who drone com now to join us today.
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