Rather than commercial passenger flights, it used to be one could get
connections and fly along on transport, ferry or private flights,
typically for a (no-frills) low fee.
There are also flights made for testing equipment at altitude, including
radio, satellite, imaging or other sensing equipment. Rather than hiring
such, if it could be demonstrated that your experiment wouldn't
interfere with their test/survey/experiment instruments, you may find
someone sympathetic to letting you tag along. Local universities may
know of sympathetic companies or pilots. Or check with local flying
instructors or inspectors, who seem to know everything that's going on.
(A friend once had to accompany an imaging package on a Lear Jet. With
three hours rented and his tests completed in one, he got to sit at the
controls and buzz around the north until they had to return.)
The above would not only let you bring your powered experiment package
along to altitude, but not create a panic when commercial passengers or
cabin crew saw blinking lights or some such. And imagine if you're seen
hooking up a cable to a device and collecting data into a laptop... And
you could even be in trouble if seen doing anything with numbers that
wasn't obviously accounting.
On 22/03/2017 10:59 PM, Bob Bownes wrote:
It's not getting one past the airport authorities that's the issue. It's
getting one that's powered up past them. ;)
Written from about 10,000'. :)
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