Local regulations for drone are a mess, any authority can put a sentence on their website that restricts drone usage. The one good news is that local authorities cannot restrict flying the drone within their area (but can restrict take off and landing / controlling within the area).
There are numerous apps that try to bridge the gap between the FAA rules (which the dji app does integrate) and the rest.
Re:DJI Mavic 3 Drone
by superdude12 on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:21AM
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What are the local rules where you were in Colorado? I thought it was pretty open here.
It’s probably bog standard regs on private property but it’s actually super locked down on federal and state public lands. (Which i can understand)
Complete no go in Boulder County - https://www.bouldercounty.org/open-space/parks-and-trails/ru...
Complete no go in RMNP - https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/management/unmanned_aircraft....
Re:DJI Mavic 3 Drone
by Dylan16807 on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:47AM
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It's not as easy to understand as I'd like. Is the issue noise? Maybe, hard to tell? If it's not noise, a ban in parks seems very excessive. If it is noise, why is there no threshold you could try to be under?
From talking to a ranger here the issue in Boulder's parks (I don't know about elsewhere) is that they disturb nesting raptors. And that seems consistent with the fact that you are allowed to fly drones in the more urban parks just not the mountain ones.
As far as I’m aware while it’s illegal to fly a drone from open space (either OSMP or BoCo), it’s legal from Boulder Parks and Rec. So any of the more urban parks are fine. And most (but not all) of the national forest land is ok as well.
They seem to be less up to speed on local restrictions. I have a DJI Mavic Air 2 and flew it last year in Colorado with no issues from the software. However I was in complete violation of some local regulations that I wasn’t aware of.
As others have mentioned, there are apps to do a better job of being complete, it’s not really that difficult to deal with but it’s disappointing at times.