• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    1.). Yes you do it’s called a pilots license.

    2.). It’s called the FAA and they will find you quick

    Violate some air spaces and the military will be coming for you faster than the FAA will.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, this. FAA does give a fuck. A lot of people fly drones extremely illegally but they’re too small for the FAA to notice or bother with, and most of them can’t get to real dangerous heights anyway. But try flying near an airport and you’ll find out real quick.

      I still haven’t figured out if people just aren’t aware that it’s illegal or if they’re just too brazen. I think it’s the former but not really sure.

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        10 months ago

        from me all the FPV pilots I know don’t have the license, because it’s very difficult to do because they are almost all the same things that a real airplane pilot needs to know,

        Also I have seen FPV 6S drones at maximum speed even in densely populated areas always exceeding the legal limit of 120m if they had a license

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      10 months ago

      The FAA are an American organisation that only has jurisdiction in the USA, so no they won’t unless you do it in the USA.

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        10 months ago

        Though that last paragraph does apply in many places outside the US. Sometimes it’s even the US military responding outside of the US (I mean I assume they protect the airspace around their bases, but I guess I’m not really sure what kind of jurisdiction they’d have just because they have a military base).