UAV - Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 66; Flight Crew Type 35
Confusion; Human-Machine Interface
Deviation - Altitude Overshoot; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors
Operating on a FAA approved flight plan in controlled airspace under authorization. The flight plan was filed for and approved by the FAA LAANC UAS [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] System. The flight plan was filed and approved in a 400 feet sector per the UAS FAA Facilities map. Pilot normally has lock on vertical altitude of 400 feet in third party app. When UAS unlock was required due to airspace; the altitude restriction normally set in the app was deleted therefore causing pilot to inadvertently ascend through the 400 feet UAS ceiling to an altitude of 489 feet for a period of 8 seconds and the altitude deviation was noticed. After descending immediately; I completed the photo mission and landed without incident. No property was damaged or injury of any kind happened during this altitude deviation. Two flights were flown during this mission. The first was a total flight time of 1:04 Minutes and the second was 01:36 minutes.
UAV operator reported exceeding maxumum allowed altitude.