Open Fly Drone Meetup -- Satsop Business Park, Elma WA -- Another NUCLEAR event!

Hello all, and welcome to our next Open Fly event!

This event is of course open to all... Whether you're brand new, or bringing 10 years of experience and $10,000 worth of gear!

We're back at the abandoned nuclear power plant - the Satsop Business Park in Elma, WA! This is the location of an unfinished nuclear power plant that lost it's funding right after the main towers were erected back in the eighties. Great views, great shots, and overall just a fun place to explore! Whether it's the old tunnel boring machine, the stacks themselves, or various other buildings and structures on the site, it's an awesome place to check out!

The park is open to the public, but they do ask for a few things:
1. Be respectful to other people visiting, and especially workers. It is a working business park - So while it is open to the public, there are still people that rent various locations and work various jobs on site - So basically, respect everyone!
2. Do not fly directly over the towers. This is asked by the site personally. These towers are made of THICK concrete, and as such can be signal-killers. They will not provide us with workers to go inside the fences, so if your drone loses connection and falls into the tower - It's gone. the towers are over 400' tall, so many people will not be authorized for these flights anyways. Better safe than sorry!

This will be another chill event where we all hang out, talk shop, and fly! we're especially excited this time to hopefully see some of our more south / southwest members, and also to see what footage of this awesome location people come up with!

As always, other than the special rules at this location there are some basic rules, laws and etiquette we ALL need to follow, so we're listing these below:

Follow all local, state, and federal regulations - Under 400ft, LAANC as required, etc
Follow any rules set forth by property / park owner
Do not fly over people
Do not fly over vehicles
Keep a minimum distance of 5ft from people and property
Respect others - This means everyone, including their property! We aren't here to break each others stuff, or the confidence the public has in us.
Safety is priority #1! If ANYONE sees ANYTHING dangerous, even if you're not sure, call it out! We would rather have 100 false alarms as opposed to 1 accident due to someone being unsure!

For FPV Specifically:
Check Band and Channel with other FPV pilots BEFORE power-on
Respect others - Yes, we're saying it again! FPV is typically rowdier than cinematography drones (It's just part of the territory), so it's worth saying twice! This just isn't the place for guerilla flying, so please pay extra respect to civilians, vehicles, and other pilots / their aircraft.
By keeping to these rules we can keep these events safe and fun for everyone, as well as making sure they don't get shut down, so thank you so much for adhering to them! Now let's go have some fun!

Parking info:
Parking at the pin, check the picture! If tons of people show up we may move to the parking lot directly across the road from the pin, but we believe this spot should be fine.

As always, we're excited to see and fly with you all again!