FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals

Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by quux on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:49PM (#18171199)

From an air traffic perspective this is very similar to asking "Why can't I erect a 100 foot unlit unmarked pole in my back yard without having to register my activity?"

There shouldn't be aircraft flying 100 feet above your house but I can think of a ton of scenarios where it could happen, and in most of them running into a drone takes the situation from "dangerous, but not an incident" to "fatal incident."

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by mtreis86 on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:58PM (#18171250)

You can put up to a 200ft tower in your back yard for radio purposes without registration so long as you're at least 4 miles or greater from an airport (closer requires proportionally smaller towers - around 1mile/50ft). https://hamradioschool.com/g1b01-maximum-antenna-structure-h...

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by sathackr on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:27PM (#18171864)

But not without a building permit and not without setback requirements.

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by jessaustin on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:28PM (#18172194)

Those are required in many populated areas. Most of USA would not involve such requirements.

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