How to fly a drone Anywhere | Where to fly a drone legally Step by Step Tutorial

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] if you're watching this video whether you're an experienced pilot or new to the industry you probably realize by now that there's more to flying your drool legally than looking at the FAA guidelines setting up in a parking lot and taking off into the sky what about state regulations is there any restricted airspace around what about local ordinances are the local police going to show up park ranger well in this video I'm actually going to go through a real-world experience one I wanted to go on vacation in an area that I never flew in before I'm gonna go step by step on how I researched how I got my answers so I was fairly confident that I was going to be able to fly legally once I got there and I knew what footage I was gonna be looking for once I showed up now if you came here for an easy answer this is what you have to do ABC two minutes and you're done sorry you're probably not gonna like the answer [Music] hi this is Keith with daily injure thanks for stopping by the channel I always appreciate it's good to see you so if you're new to the channel I do mostly drone tech photography tips and tutorials and new product reviews related to drones in photography mostly so if this is something that might interest you consider hitting subscribe and also the notify Bell and that will let you know if there is a new video available that may be of interest to you so as I mentioned in this video I'm going to go through my experience and actually finding out how to fly my drone legally now there is again as I mentioned more to it than simply following the FAA guidelines looking on air map or looking on before you fly and finding out if there is a restricted airspace with regard to what the FAA says there's a lot of local regulations different states different municipalities have different rules and regulations on drones and you might find that you think you're in good shape and the police are actually going to show up so believe it or not local police and Park Rangers for instance have the authority to actually give you a ticket for doing something wrong and not only can they give you a local ticket they actually are in cooperation with the FAA to refer incidents which they figure are beyond their jurisdiction but might fall into the FAA stirrers diction for further prosecution at a federal level so this is important stuff and what I'm going to do is go through an experience that I had and how this started was I was going to take a few weeks and go to California I love to surf love to get out and I wanted to go to a new place and fly the Mavic I'm gonna run through the steps that I took and show how things unfold it as I sequentially went through the different things so first of course when you start looking at where you're gonna fly your drone the FAA and that the federal guidelines are actually going to be one of the most important factors if you can't fly because of a federal rule or an FAA guideline or a restriction you're pretty much done that is going to be the top level of the authority then we're going to run through some actual state laws and they are going to vary and then I'm actually going to peck into the local ordinances a little bit so let's with the FAA so I was going to California gonna run to San Clemente California and first I wanted to find out if there was any restricted airspace that I really needed to worry about air bunk an open air map however you can use any of the FAA authorized type applications whether it's before you fly things like that so first I'm gonna actually go to San Clemente which is where I was going to be going and here we are okay so first things first we're gonna find out if there's any major FAA restrictions which are going to prevent us from actually flying there so right away we noticed that just south of San Clemente there's going to be a huge area of which is going to be completely restricted and we have a military base camp Pendelton which is just going to be the South San Diego area so we know we're gonna have to stay north of this area so this is for the FAA so this is going to be a controlled airspace so let's zoom in on this just a little bit here so I know for instance we're gonna be up a little farther north so it looks like according to the FAA here we're okay with having controlled airspace where I actually want to take off so the reason I know I do see this peer standing out here and I know if I want to fly this pier and see what's actually going on there so as we're zoomed in on this area we notice that there's no advisories now so one thing we do have to be careful of if a local temporary flight restriction comes up from whether a fighter or responder for some emergency we have to make sure that if things change we don't just plot in there blindly so I would suggest right before you're good and ready to fly you would check to make sure no temporary flight restrictions have popped up our FAA rules and regulations are out of the way this is where a lot of people stop and they actually start flying now we may be okay but we may have a local regulation so once we looked at air map and we found that there's nothing in the airspace we know that we fundamentally can't fly in that airspace however we still have to follow the FAA rules and of course that video is up here and actually what the specific FAA rules are and I'm not going to go through them in this video again take some time just go through that video we'll go through the FAA rules that you have to follow while you're navigating the airspace now one thing that really helped us from the FAA is a government regulation that was reaffirmed in 2018 by the Trump administration where they actually said that the FAA has the exclusive authority to regulate aviation safety and efficiency of the navigable airspace now why this is important is because up to this point local municipalities started passing their own laws with regard to airspace but this means is you might not be able to fly over an airspace by your neighbor by a city building by a parking lot by a city-owned restroom and you would have no idea in the airspace you would have you would have no way to identify what those specifics are because everybody would have their own ordinances from County to County from city to city from district to district and you could be flying through the air and realize you're going in and out of some controlled airspace not from the FAA but from a local ordinance so the Congress actually stated that the FAA has exclusive rights to the airspace which is awesome because that lets us know if we are following the FAA guidelines and the rules and regulations that are put forth by the FAA we know that in the airspace we are good to fly now that's really really a good thing however that does not regulate where you can take off land and operate the controls for flying your drone so what we're going to be doing now is now we know we have the airspace cover because we did look up on the air map that we're OK in this airspace however let's now get into where we can actually take off and land so let's go to the next step so I started looking for state laws in California that would apply to drones so the first thing I came across is the unmanned aircraft system in state parks document from the California Department of Parks and Recreation so as I browse through this I looked and it said specifically drones are currently allowed in state park state beaches state historic parks and you can read the rest but boy it is actually allowed so I was really excited no worries about state parks can take right off from those and no hassles there so no problems from the Park Rangers I can take off I have this document and that's one thing I would do is keep this document in your possession while you're flying in case somebody comes up to you again if you're having to argue with the police you're probably going to lose regardless if it's on your side or not don't argue with that however at least it gives you peace of mind you tried to do the due diligence right so the next thing I looked as I saw well it does talk about wilderness areas natural preserves and cultural preserves which is fair enough however then there was this little note here that talks about checking with your local district before operating it may have its own posted orders so if the state parks are legal to fly in except each state park may do its own regulation I have to look even closer and drill down into the San Clemente area and find out where the state parks are in that area that I may be taking off from and find out what those regulations are so digging a little deeper I found that along this coast in California it's actually called the Orange Coast district so I did find a document that talks about the state parks in the Orange Coast districts specifically so this one now you can tell is a little more anti-drone so what they've said here is UAVs are an emergent technology that can have a negative impact right away we know we're in trouble right when they start the paragraph by saying all drones are bad news they have a negative impact we know it's not gonna be good so it has a negative impact on Park resources Public Safety and generally inconsistent with the park experience I bet these guys had the same problem with the horseless carriage just sayin due to the dramatic growth and popularity of model aircraft in the US with the Orange Coast District and the Resource Public Safety blah blah blah the restrictions are as follows no person cell launce land or operate a model aircraft within any park unique Orange Coast District boss at Chico State Beach Huntington State Beach Corona del Mar State Beach Crystal Cove the Haney State Beach San Clemente State Beach Oh Oh San Clemente sounds like something that may affect us here exceptions to this directive may include but are not limited to commercial scientific other exempting oh geez so so this is seven of 2019 so this is only a couple months before I'm gonna be in the area not good so now I see we have to look at San Clemente State Beach words the start where's the stop because we can't take off or land in these areas so let's pull that up so to do this we're gonna actually pull up Google Earth which is really cool if you haven't used Google Earth give that a try it is really pretty cool so sure enough here we are San Clemente State Park and here we go I'm going to zoom in this even a little more see if we can find that pier that I want to fly and sure enough right here is the pier here is San Clemente State Beach so you can see the State Beach and maybe it's a little harder to see in this particular view here but there's the pier that I wanted to take off in and here is the state beach here and if we go up the way here here is some more area here that we're gonna have to stay out of this is going to be Tehama State Beach if I'm saying that wrong please let me know but for the purposes of this discussion we realized that we're gonna have a problem taking off and landing there again for now flying in that airspace is okay but just taking off and landing it's gonna be restricted so we have to make sure we don't pile it too drunk from there so here we are so we're in really good shape here as well so we've dug in dug in look at that so if I'm down here by this pier you know what State Park isn't there I'm just gonna plop my butt right here on this pier and I'm gonna sit right at the base of this pic as look and we don't have any FAA regulations on our way airspace is open we don't have any State Park issues in our way so we've got the federal and the state out of the way so there should be nothing preventing me from actually flying this pier but we haven't searched our local regulations yet so let's go search the local regulations from San Clemente and see if there's anything that I need to worry about from a look remember the police can still give us a ticket up to thousands of dollars in fines and jail time so we want to make sure that we respect the local ordinances as well even though they can't legally restrict the air space they can restrict the takeoff and landing so I actually went to the San Clemente website and they did say they had an issue with some drones in certain areas of course I don't know where that is give some of the rules and regulations that are going to be required so I started going through these regulations and you can see these are ordinance numbers here and I got down and talked about a visual line of sight and 25 feet in for another individual seems fair no problem there and then I got to see no person shall take off land or operate a UA on or over private property without the written or electronic consent of the property owner if the property owner is a person other than the UA operator when the consent to up or UA is required to take off land or operate a UA on or over private property UA operators must have in their possession a copy of the written or electronic consent from the owner of the property properties over which they take off land or operate a UA no way this is not cool I know that the city of San Clemente cannot have an ordinance that prevents me from flying over private property Congress has provided the FAA with exclusive authority cities and municipalities are not permitted to have their own rules or regulations governing the operation of an aircraft so that is not true FAA can only do this now I was concerned about it maybe I was misunderstanding something and there was some uniqueness to this area so I contacted the FAA directly so I'll show you the email that I actually sent to the FAA to clarify this matter and it says I'm planning to pilot a UAV in the near future in the area California and researching the local ordinance the city it states and I took this directly from the San Clemente ordinance no person shall take off land or operate you a on or over private property without the written or electronic consent of the property owner I continue by saying the way I understand you in law humans municipality cannot restrict the airspace by stating that no person may operate over private property I am part 107 I understand taking off or landing however I'm confused that the municipality can regulate airspace can you clarify so quickly I did receive a response from the FAA and it said key thank you for contacting us you are correct local municipalities can regulate the launch landing recovery and manipulation of the controls on the ground so the requirement of taining property owner consent to take off land or operate on private property is valid however quote the require owner consent to operate a UA over private property part is beyond the scope of the authority airspace is considered public use and it's exclusively regulated by the FAA if you have any further questions please let us know so I was correct now this being said even though the municipality cannot regulate the airspace I contacted them again and I talked to a gentleman actually at the city and said how can you regulate the airspace according to the FAA you cannot do that and their response was we are not attempting to regulate the airspace but you cannot operate the controls over private property not fly your UAV but operate the controls so they said on or over and the way I take this is they're trying to be purposely deceitful so when somebody looks into flying your drone in San Clemente they will scare you from doing it that you cannot fly over private property so I believe it's probably purposely deceitful just to try to keep people from launching because they're too scared because it says you can't fly over our private property they must know what they're doing I don't want to have a problem at the local police but that is not the case they said it is only operating the controls over so don't lean over the private property when you're operating the controls with the remote and you'll be fine so since we know now that San Clemente does have some areas which they will not allow you to operate your remote we do have to find out what those are to make sure that when you pull up in a parking lot or along a road that we're not standing in an area which going to actually send the local police and give us a ticket we don't want to have that so I contacted the city for specific information and they did send me a few documents and directed me towards a website which has some of this information so here's one of the documents that they sent me and they said these are the areas where you cannot they said operate you know flyzone areas of course now take off land or operate is not true we know that but operating the controls taking off or land is valid so we can certainly fly by most of these with exceptions of prisons and such however these are some areas will be certain you don't want to pull in a parking lot and take off because we're gonna have an issue it is specific to their ordinance so the ones that were close to where we're going to be taking off or down here you're talking about Linda Lane talking these restrooms in here base of the pier pier restrooms this is all the pier that we were talking about taking off from and this is an actual map of where they restricted the operation of the controls in the cell San Clemente area so again we want to be focusing on the pier area because that's where we decided we're going to fly so here we are and here's the pier going out into the water and look at that they did restrict by local ordinance that we cannot take off or land from this area they have a 500 foot buffer around these so 250 foot radius 500 foot diameter we were thinking about taking off the pier no can do we know we have a state park right down in this area we can't take off from there however I want to fly this pier don't know why it's just something sticking out in the water but I wanted people to do it and I want to do it legally so looks to me if we go down here far enough down pass these Linda Lane here looks like we can probably fly from there keep our visual line of sight and fly down to this pier and in the ocean along there and then up up the beach as well so if we go into our friend Google Earth again and we look at where we are here's the pier this I know is the building and there is a pure restroom of another building in here this is the Linda Lane and that we just saw in this other map here so if we were a dirt down in this area I think we can take off and actually get down to this pier so that's exactly what I did when I got to the area we drove up actually figured out where we were and boy look at that we came right in here this is white this guy wasn't there by the way however we weren't right down in here went down in the corner went down a little ways here so we knew we were far enough away from the ordinance area that Brewster cured us and look at that there's the pier we can still keep on UAV within a visual line of sight go up along the tracks here really nice so not only can we fight the fly the beach here maybe get some footage of some of the surfers that are along the beach all along the pier so according to the FAA we're good controlled airspace we're good local ordinances we're good for taking off and landing we are good to go so we have a spot and we're actually going to be able to take off from here legally now does that mean that somebody's still not gonna come and harass you and say that you can't fly here it's possible but you will have done your research you will have done your due diligence so you will be as confident as you can yes I have done my due diligence I've done my homework to try to do that best I can will it be perfect not necessarily so but you know you've went through the federal guidelines we've checked for controlled airspace we've checked for temporary flight restrictions on air map we've checked for our state regulations with the state parks where we can and cannot take off and worthy boundaries are we've checked the local ordinances and regulations of where we can control our remote from where we can take off and land and of course while we're doing this we are going to follow the FAA regulations and rules that keep us and everybody around us safe we're gonna still not fly above the 400 feet we're not gonna fly over people we're not gonna harass any wildlife of course all the things that we normally would do as a responsible drone owner that is how I would approach anywhere that you're unfamiliar with even if you're familiar with it even if it's a home area start with your federal your FAA controlled airspace then go to your state level then go to your local level do your research contact the county personnel contact your state parks if you're not sure contact national parks if you're not sure and even if you're on the ground and you see somebody walk up introduce yourself you are a responsible drone pilot and just say hey I plan on taking some footage over here you know just making sure you don't have any problems with that I'd be happy to take your suggestions if you have maybe you want to stay over in this area because people walk what have you you always just want to be a good neighbor when you're flying your drone is well you don't want to be that drone guy that ends up on a national news right so that's all I have for you today I hope it was useful to you and you found some interesting information that you didn't have before you watch the video and if so consider hitting the like button I always appreciate it lets me know that something that I was doing was useful to you with that I do want your comments let me know down below have you had any areas where you've had hassles or you've done your research and somebody has still given you a hard time or did this was this useful to you well have you done your own research and found something similar I just want to know well let's start a conversation for the community so that we can all learn from it so comment below I always do appreciate that and if you have any questions of course let me know those as well I'll be happy to answer them if I can hey you're still here that's awesome since you're still here I'm gonna give you one piece of advice that was given to me a while ago by a fellow drone user and that advice is fly it like you stole it now while this is not a recommendation to be a wild man when you fly your drone it does have some validity now hear me out so what this fly it like you stole it mentality means is when you're ready to fly an area get some great footage whatever you're going to do research that area figure out what you're gonna do first without your drone and when you show up make sure your batteries are charged all your equipment is ready you unpack you go to a little bit less populated area take that drone out do what you've got to do exhaust a couple of batteries get your footage and move on if you're going to need to get some more batteries charged up don't sit there and middle of everybody and be a spectacle take your battery someplace else charge them up in your car whatever and don't sit in the same area for six hours fiddling with your drone because there is going to be somebody that's going to be a jerk they're out there they're gonna say you know what I don't like drones are noisy you're spying on me they're gonna hurt me whatever there is people that don't like anything if you give me one hobby I don't care what it is somebody's gonna say they don't like it for some reason and just try to make your life hell so it's not worth it so flying it like you stole it really is good advice in that you go in you get what you need to you get out so that you just avoid some conflict that is likely going to happen at some point in time while you're flying your drone so with that I do appreciate you being here this long and until next time good flying 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Length: 26min 38sec (1598 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 14 2019