TOAL From Raised Platform?

[CadrePilot]

USA topic

As local jurisdictions seem fond controlling airspace usage by controlling ground usage, I got to wondering if taking off and landing (TOAL) from a raised platform would qualify as a loophole in their rules and/or laws. In fact, most of my flights TOAL from the tonneau cover of my truck. I'm guessing no, but maybe?

 

[MS Coast]

USA topic

As local jurisdictions seem fond controlling airspace usage by controlling ground usage, I got to wondering if taking off and landing (TOAL) from a raised platform would qualify as a loophole in their rules and/or laws. In fact, most of my flights TOAL from the tonneau cover of my truck. I'm guessing no, but maybe?

No more legal than standing on the roof of the truck and selling heroin.

 

[CadrePilot]

No more legal than standing on the roof of the truck and selling heroin.

hehehe

 

[CadrePilot]

No more legal than standing on the roof of the truck and selling heroin.

I've thought about it a bit...

There are significant differences, as flying a drone is not inherently illegal.

Lower jurisdictions have issued de facto flight bans by outlawing TOAL. They don't give a **** about TOAL, but want to keep drones out of the sky, the NAS, which they have no authority to do.

 

[MS Coast]

I've thought about it a bit...

There are significant differences, as flying a drone is not inherently illegal.

Lower jurisdictions have issued de facto flight bans by outlawing TOAL. They don't give a **** about TOAL, but want to keep drones out of the sky, the NAS, which they have no authority to do.

Launching the drone from a platform rather than the ground has the same effect on jurisdiction and applicability of the law as climbing on the roof of the truck to sell illegal substances. None.