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<blockquote data-quote="Fortkentdad" data-source="post: 632615" data-attributes="member: 24285"><p>.</p><p></p><p>Yes - those are the revised rules.</p><p>At one time nothing close to any vehicle, vessel, building, person or animal (no word on how big said animal would need to be) ... and for good measure there was a sort of "and anything else that could be considered a problem" open ended prohibition on flying to close to something we have not yet specified. </p><p></p><p>This cop from Ottawa who has a side business of making drone videos of your sailing boat (aka vessel) has a great rant about how stupid they were. </p><p>They are now slightly better. He did a follow up to his viral "Canadian Drone Laws are crazy" here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2ARvLOklg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2ARvLOklg</a> </p><p> </p><p>his original rant is here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtQIa5wm3Y&t=1s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtQIa5wm3Y&t=1s</a></p><p></p><p>Initially it was 9 kms away from any airport, heliport or anywhere a plane (including sea planes) or helicopter may land, taken to a crazy level one could say a helicopter can land anywhere pretty much, except on open water (unless float equipped but sea planes can - so that law prohibited flying anywhere. period, when taken as laws should be taken, very literally. That's been relaxed to 5 kms for airports and 1.8 from heliports. Still have to stay clear of emergency vehicles (including air ambulances) but at least they didn't include that 'anywhere a helicopter could land'. That would come into effect if you buzzed an accident scene for example and got in the way of an incoming helicopter. </p><p></p><p>But I wonder what kind of damage even a 2 kg drone could inflict on even a smaller helicopter or cessna. These things hit birds all the time - and a bird would not shatter on impact like a drone would. Apparently no aircraft of any kind has had any sort of accident, crash or even damage due to collision with a drone. </p><p></p><p>Biggest change is the introduction of classes of drones, there are three classes, under 250 grams (no rules) 250 grams to 1 KG, can fly closer to things (30m) and over 1 kg - need to be 75m away. And the things we need to say away from now is "vessels, vehicles and 'the public'" They took out "people" which didn't exclude the operator or people participating in the drone activity (your subjects). And most notably they took out buildings and animals. Previously any structure, including that abandoned outhouse, and any animal (no effort was made to define animal). A housefly is an animal technically. Even if they said we didn't mean insects, did they mean birds? how about small rodents? Thankfully that is gone. </p><p></p><p>I was part of a petition sent to Ottawa asking them to get real with the drone laws - there was a big push back against the stupid laws. </p><p></p><p>Now they are improved. </p><p></p><p>BUT it does make drones under 1 KG much more desirable such as the Spark, Mavic, Bebop, but all the Phantoms and Typhoons are over the limit. </p><p></p><p>I wonder if waiting for Spark II to come out would give DJI time to perfect this new wonder? </p><p></p><p>....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fortkentdad, post: 632615, member: 24285"] . Yes - those are the revised rules. At one time nothing close to any vehicle, vessel, building, person or animal (no word on how big said animal would need to be) ... and for good measure there was a sort of "and anything else that could be considered a problem" open ended prohibition on flying to close to something we have not yet specified. This cop from Ottawa who has a side business of making drone videos of your sailing boat (aka vessel) has a great rant about how stupid they were. They are now slightly better. He did a follow up to his viral "Canadian Drone Laws are crazy" here: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2ARvLOklg[/URL] his original rant is here: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtQIa5wm3Y&t=1s[/URL] Initially it was 9 kms away from any airport, heliport or anywhere a plane (including sea planes) or helicopter may land, taken to a crazy level one could say a helicopter can land anywhere pretty much, except on open water (unless float equipped but sea planes can - so that law prohibited flying anywhere. period, when taken as laws should be taken, very literally. That's been relaxed to 5 kms for airports and 1.8 from heliports. Still have to stay clear of emergency vehicles (including air ambulances) but at least they didn't include that 'anywhere a helicopter could land'. That would come into effect if you buzzed an accident scene for example and got in the way of an incoming helicopter. But I wonder what kind of damage even a 2 kg drone could inflict on even a smaller helicopter or cessna. These things hit birds all the time - and a bird would not shatter on impact like a drone would. Apparently no aircraft of any kind has had any sort of accident, crash or even damage due to collision with a drone. Biggest change is the introduction of classes of drones, there are three classes, under 250 grams (no rules) 250 grams to 1 KG, can fly closer to things (30m) and over 1 kg - need to be 75m away. And the things we need to say away from now is "vessels, vehicles and 'the public'" They took out "people" which didn't exclude the operator or people participating in the drone activity (your subjects). And most notably they took out buildings and animals. Previously any structure, including that abandoned outhouse, and any animal (no effort was made to define animal). A housefly is an animal technically. Even if they said we didn't mean insects, did they mean birds? how about small rodents? Thankfully that is gone. I was part of a petition sent to Ottawa asking them to get real with the drone laws - there was a big push back against the stupid laws. Now they are improved. BUT it does make drones under 1 KG much more desirable such as the Spark, Mavic, Bebop, but all the Phantoms and Typhoons are over the limit. I wonder if waiting for Spark II to come out would give DJI time to perfect this new wonder? .... [/QUOTE]
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