I guess I’m just looking for opinions, and whether there is a similar trend in your area.
Great Parks of Hamilton County (Ohio)
I’ll start out by saying that these seem more reasonable and forward thinking than the county park system in my county, Butler, which is adjacent to Hamilton. Butler County Park’s rules can be pretty quickly summed up as “nope.” [I did call Butler County and they said they might grant permission if you lost something in the park and wanted to try to find it.]
For Hamilton County, I like that they have designated areas in most of their larger parks. The private use application seems for the most part pretty reasonable to me. Having to request permission a week in advance for a specific park, day, time, area, and having to provide a “description of the project” all seem somewhat in conflict with “recreational use” to me, though. It’s definitely more than you’d have to do to launch a boat. Looks like you also have to provide proof of registration even for aircraft the FAA does not require registration for.
For commercial permission, there is a $250/day fee, per park. For a Hollywood feature film, I doubt that would impact the budget too much. I’m thinking they don’t see too many Hollywood film crews though? For someone with a fledgling YouTube channel, I would think they’d be hard pressed to get the return on investment out of this fee.
So I guess my opinion is that these rules could still use a bit of tweaking. I will give them credit though. At least someone on the park board has sat down and thought about how they can allow pilots to operate drones within these parks rather than banning them completely.
What do you all think? Are you seeing similar rules in your city or county parks?
Great Parks of Hamilton County (Ohio)
I’ll start out by saying that these seem more reasonable and forward thinking than the county park system in my county, Butler, which is adjacent to Hamilton. Butler County Park’s rules can be pretty quickly summed up as “nope.” [I did call Butler County and they said they might grant permission if you lost something in the park and wanted to try to find it.]
For Hamilton County, I like that they have designated areas in most of their larger parks. The private use application seems for the most part pretty reasonable to me. Having to request permission a week in advance for a specific park, day, time, area, and having to provide a “description of the project” all seem somewhat in conflict with “recreational use” to me, though. It’s definitely more than you’d have to do to launch a boat. Looks like you also have to provide proof of registration even for aircraft the FAA does not require registration for.
For commercial permission, there is a $250/day fee, per park. For a Hollywood feature film, I doubt that would impact the budget too much. I’m thinking they don’t see too many Hollywood film crews though? For someone with a fledgling YouTube channel, I would think they’d be hard pressed to get the return on investment out of this fee.
So I guess my opinion is that these rules could still use a bit of tweaking. I will give them credit though. At least someone on the park board has sat down and thought about how they can allow pilots to operate drones within these parks rather than banning them completely.
What do you all think? Are you seeing similar rules in your city or county parks?
