If you're in the US and flying in controlled airspace with LAANC authorization, be sure your return altitude doesn't exceed the limit prescribed in your approval.
Sad indeed, but it's hard to impartially discuss the merits of tariffs when their across-the-board imposition was a blatantly political act. The only justification we've been offered, without any valid supporting evidence, was that, in gangster...
Back in the late-1960s, I was a national park ranger on the Natchez Trace Parkway, stationed in rural Mississippi. In those days, and maybe still, it was legal to use dogs to hunt deer in Mississippi (bow hunters could legally use poison arrows...
The Superstition Mountains to the east of Phoenix, Arizona are stunningly beautiful in the spring. This is a 21 image stitch done in lightroom of 12MP files.
I think you're absolutely right. It's all about intent, and yes, to be compliant with FAA regulations, you'd need a Part 107 license to deploy a drone to inspect a roof, shoot a free promotional video for a church or charitable organization, or...