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The customer's bigger risk is liability. If there is an incident where there is an injury, damage to property, nuisance, privacy or other claim, the company hiring the drone pilot will also be sued. If there are not flying under Part 107, it will be negligence per se, or negligence as a mater...

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Are we doing competing bridal party drone shoots? ;-). Not really our thing. We believe that safe UAV operations are key to industry growth. We agree with the FAA that the media will always report the problems, will often misreport the problems and will rarely report the benefits. So...

Friends Sue Groom After His Drone Hit Them in the Face During Reception There have been very few reported incidence of drones causing injury to people or property. When it does happen, however, we all need to pay attention. Injuries will be inevitable. News stories will shape public perception...

You can fly near, not over people. The FAA has not defined what a safe distance is. That is up to the remote pilot certificate holder to determine based on all the circumstances. So the bad news is that you still can't easily fly over people. The good news is you can fly near people as long as...

The FAA is not currently giving permission for these types of requests for flights over people. However, they have indicated that they will start doing so some time in the indefinite future. So there may not be much harm in asking. It is unclear whether not they will require A specific location...

The FAA has not provided enough information for pilots to fully understand the various strategies for filing airspace authorization request, waivers and combinations. While the FAA has said that it only wants request for specific dates and times at narrow locations, it's daytime waiver is for...

It appears they are trying to accommodate drone service companies which may use many different pilots, or even swap pilots before operations. But it does create confusion and inconsistency. Enrico Schaefer UAV Attorney www.dronelaw.pro Free Part 107 Waiver and Airspace Training Videos...

And there is the rub. Many states and municipalities would ban drones. Others would limit uses in ways that would create ambiguity. But the bottom line is no one would have any idea what the rules were from one location to the other. Biggest fight drone operators have is winning the field...

The law is clear. The Supreme Court has ruled. The FAA has jurisdiction whether you cross state lines or not. All your arguments are built on the false premise that the FAA and Congress are outside the law. But really you don't like the laws and don't want to abide by them. It's a political...

The drone community is not served well by people who take issue with the authority of the FAA to regulate UAS. The inability of the FAA to efficiently implement regulations is fair game. Enrico Schaefer UAV Attorney www.dronelaw.pro Free Part 107 Waiver and Airspace Training Videos. Part 107...

One of the best parts about being a UAV Service provider is copyright. Typically, you are going to license or assign the copyright to a customer. Most often, you are going to license. We are always trying to help the community understand that the terminology "sell" doesn't fit when it comes to...

It isn't publicized but my guess is that it's just for airspace authorization. Stayed another way, they did not ask for any waivers under part 107 in addition to the airspace approvals. We believe the appropriate strategy is to obtain airspace authorizations for a period of years and then go...

Everything in there is currently required. Enrico Schaefer UAV Attorney www.dronelaw.pro Free Part 107 Waiver and Airspace Training Videos. https://www.dronelaw.pro/part-107-waivers/

Reverse engineer this grant of waiver. https://www.faa.gov/uas/request_waiver/waivers_granted/media/107W-2016-00720_MadisonDixon_CoW.pdf Hope this helps. :-) Enrico Schaefer UAV Attorney www.dronelaw.pro Free Part 107 Waiver and Airspace Training Videos...