New rules for flying recreational drones in Canada revealed

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3 points·pfarnsworth··4 comments

I have to applaud them for what appear to me, to be fairly reasonable rules. Some altitude restrictions, and apparently people need to be told to stay away from areas where emergency operations are taking place... nothing burdensome.

What about "Within 75 metres of buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals or people."

How many places can you find outside of Antarctica where you can get 75 metres from buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals, or people? I mean, I was gonna say "hey, the wilderness", but it includes animals in here. What size animals qualify? Is a rat in the vicinity going to get me in trouble?

I would almost go so far as to suggest this is simply a ban on recreational drone flight.

> How many places can you find outside of Antarctica where you can get 75 metres from buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals, or people?

With a 90m AGL ceiling, there are lots of places that are 75m from those things most of the time (though birds may sometimes be a problem.)

Launching and landing may require some attention to site selection, but that's not too burdensome.

Yeah, presumably you're not going to get into trouble if a pigeon divebombs your drone, although, you know... you'd want to naturally avoid that anyway. I would hope the other restrictions would apply to "other than takeoff and landing", but I admit I'm not sure.

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