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randy.sauder Posted at 2017-8-18 17:30
Good poll. Anyone who says "yes all the time" is straight-up untruthful. The reason why most say "use common sense" is because the rules/regulations as they stand now are FAR too restrictive in most jurisdictions. I've no desire to normally need to fly higher than say 20m; but I'll for sure fly 10x that if I need to, so long as it is safe- this is where it is nearly impossible to define what is 'safe'. Recently I had to push well over 300m - over a cliffside where there is no people and no airplanes. There was zero risk to aircraft or people, if there were I would not have done so. I've done the same around waterfalls; again if people were in my flightpath it would mean that they were already at risk or worse ( ). I think noone has any need or desire to be anywhere near an airport...the land around airports are almost always flat/boring- by design no? That being said, 7/9 or 5 km rules around airports is a joke; 2 should be sufficient as long as you don't go higher than say 400' since no aircraft at even 1.5km distance on approach or takeoff is going to be that low; and UAVs really don't need to be that high to begin with. As long as the authorities enforce the rules WITH common sense all should be good. Easier said than done, especially in areas like Canada where they tend to throw the book at you or in the USA where government helis will actually attempt to crash into your drone or blow them out of the ski with their prop's down-draft (without any backlash at all, true story) if you are flying where you should not be.
ya, I also live in Canada and whenever I'm flying it says I'm flying in a "class c airzone" also luckily for us they don't use LOS they just say 500 metres. |
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