QuadKid
Well-Known Member
I recently was doing a shoot at a National Monument here in Florida. Was there before sunrise as I wanted to do a time lapse of it rising over the monument.
I was approached by a very polite park ranger and was told I could not fly directly above the monument ( it was a historic fort ) once the park opened due to crowds of people, he informed me that I could fly all around it as there are no federal regulation(s) governing the air space as long as I was flying within FAA guidelines/regulations, but and this is it:
You can fly over Federal, State & Local Parks within FAA requirements but you cannot Launch or Land on Federal Property, so he politely asked me to walk 30' to the edge of the Federal Monument Parking Lot step onto the sidewalk which he told me was city property and takeoff and land there, which I did and completed my shoot.
And yes the city I was in had no local ordinances banning the launch/land of a drone.
I was approached by a very polite park ranger and was told I could not fly directly above the monument ( it was a historic fort ) once the park opened due to crowds of people, he informed me that I could fly all around it as there are no federal regulation(s) governing the air space as long as I was flying within FAA guidelines/regulations, but and this is it:
You can fly over Federal, State & Local Parks within FAA requirements but you cannot Launch or Land on Federal Property, so he politely asked me to walk 30' to the edge of the Federal Monument Parking Lot step onto the sidewalk which he told me was city property and takeoff and land there, which I did and completed my shoot.
And yes the city I was in had no local ordinances banning the launch/land of a drone.