I've looked around and can't find anything definitive on restrictions in place for flying near jails.
Does anyone know any federal rules for this? Laws for Indiana specifically would be even better.
I found that there is a federal restriction for anything within 400ft of certain large prisons.
My controller gives me warning that there is a restricted flight area in the vicinity (there is a county jail) and that I should check the map. But otherwise it says that I can freely take off.
Obviously I'm not going to fly directly over the jail or even too close.
But the question is what constitutes "too close"?
What made me even wonder about it is that after I started flying from my backyard today about a half hour later there was an ISP helicopter that started flying pretty low around my house. It circled several times but I had already landed the drone by then when I heard it in the distance and before it came into my area (safety first!) and I'm probably just being paranoid but I kept wondering when there was going to a knock on the door.
Does anyone have any good info to share?
Does anyone know any federal rules for this? Laws for Indiana specifically would be even better.
I found that there is a federal restriction for anything within 400ft of certain large prisons.
My controller gives me warning that there is a restricted flight area in the vicinity (there is a county jail) and that I should check the map. But otherwise it says that I can freely take off.
Obviously I'm not going to fly directly over the jail or even too close.
But the question is what constitutes "too close"?
What made me even wonder about it is that after I started flying from my backyard today about a half hour later there was an ISP helicopter that started flying pretty low around my house. It circled several times but I had already landed the drone by then when I heard it in the distance and before it came into my area (safety first!) and I'm probably just being paranoid but I kept wondering when there was going to a knock on the door.
Does anyone have any good info to share?