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WC Mn/Dakotas | FAA rules are not written to define people on the grounds rights. Not even close. It is to define pilot safety from plane to plane and plane to obstacles on the ground. Min flight over a populated area is 1000'. Over unpopulated areas it is 500'. Has nothing to do with property owners rights. It is time to react to avoid damage to persons or property in the event of an emergency. Now out in the country a pilot could fly 1 foot off the ground and stay 500' to the side of a person or structure. Or said pilot could fly directly over at 500' above. A 137 Ag pilot can deviate from that when conducting aerial applications. They can not fly over a populated area ever, unless they have a waiver approved for each situation.
When aviation was booming decades ago the FAA. Had 3 employees in a rural state. Today there are 60 in that same state. And most don't have much reality of Ag aviation.
Your asking for rules regulations lawyers that I don't think you truly want or realize the costs to the end user to try to implement what you propose.
There are a few thousand planes and current FAA staff can't handle current regulations in a timely manner now. In drones were talking a few hundred thousand to a few million new aircraft.
These drones can't be seen by pilots like they can see another plane. And there is no drone pilot on board that can see a plane.
Its a 50/50 thing.
I don't have a problem with drones at all. But a drone pilot should be knowledge an . Certified as a. Real pilot. And obviously a drone pilot cannot perform there duties as a pilot to see and avoid. Drones need to make themselves "visible" somehow. That is a drone. Pilots responsibility.
Figure out a way to police drones entering aviation airspace yourself. Do Not Leave that to the FAA. No one could afford that. Drone pilots nor airplane pilots.
An small example I can think of is Garmin avionics for experimental aircraft verses general or commercial aviation. You can buy the latest garmin glass panel and auto pilot for an experimental for $14,000 or pay 10-20 times that for a real plane that is FAA certified.
Your proposing to make a $1500 drone into a $30-50,000 drone and the same extra expense for each and every airplane currently out flying now. | |
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Crop dusters in the drone zone (pic)
