About Windhorse

A drone page is only useful if its numbers are right, and weights, limits and rules change. So this is how every page here is made and kept:

Sources

Every rule and figure names the document it comes from, as text.

Last checked

Pages that state a rule show the date it was last checked against its source.

How often

The trackers and the News log are checked every week; tools read their data live.

Errors

Anyone can report one by email; we check it against the source.

We read rules in their own text: the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, FAA advisory circulars, and the FAA's and FCC's own notices. A summary on another website is never the source. A legal limit, such as a height, a weight or a distance, appears on a page only with the document it comes from named beside it, and the same number reads the same everywhere on the site.

Drone figures, such as weight, flight time and wind rating, come only from the maker's own specifications or manual, and Remote ID status from the FAA's list. If a maker does not publish a figure, the page says it is not known rather than guess. No number comes from memory, a retailer or another site's review.

When a rule changes, the page that explains it changes too, and the change goes in the dated News log with the document behind it.

The trust we ask for rests on the sources, not on a name: each page shows the documents it relies on and when it last checked them, so you can check them too.