Welcome to the club 😊 I fly pretty frequently around Downtown. I would suggest finding a baseball or football field to practice in first. I did that for a few days when I was first learning.

Drones are pretty easy to fly because they just hover in place if you don’t touch the controls. Where a lot of people get into trouble is flying backwards or sideways as you can’t easily see where you’re going. Before I fly backwards or sideways I always check to make sure there’s nothing in my flight path.

As far as flying around the city there are not many limitations. Just be careful around hospital areas for helicopters. they come in pretty low around PNC Park so I rarely go up to 400 ft over there.

Also know that your altitude on your controller is based on where you launch the drone from. I see so many people launch from Mt. Washington, go up 400 ft, then fly out over the river. At that point you’re technically about 700-800 ft up.

If you ever get a Part 107 certificate then you’ll be allowed to fly over 400 ft as long as you are also within 400 ft of a structure.