Hummingbird.UAV
Captain
Flight distance : 8330174 ft
Canada
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This will be a tough job. I have been involved in reviewing new drone laws for the past two years. The package that was issued on Mar 16 is nowhere near what was issued for review and comment. Please take the time to voice your displesure to Canada's Transport Minister marc.garneau@parl.gc.ca
In my email to the minister I requested that pilots with experience and liabilty insurance should not be subject to these new laws. You can add something similar. No matter what the rules are going to change, the best we can hope for is that they are not so oppressive.
The other important and responsable thing is to get public liability insurance. It has been hard to find for hobbyiest, however I have found a company that will, at a reasonable cost. Please email brad.borle@hubinternational.com
Cost for $1,000,000 public liability insurance is around $100 to $150. You can also add hull coverage.
Once you have insurance, you can apply for SFOCs which chould be obtained with less restrictions, at least that is my plan. Initally these SFOCs are mission specific but after appling for a number of them Transport Canada will issue a permanent SFOC. Of course your missions must be reasonable, safety wise, thats the whole point of the regulations. Personally I have always flown geofenced to 500m and 120m ASL. If I need to go farther I walk, land and take-off with a new home point. (50 hrs of airtime per year)
So speak up, if not, you will be stuck with what ever gets written into law.
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