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Q How does Part 107 affect flight Q Does anything in Part 107 affect how a
operations over people? As a law local government agency would obtain
enforcement agency, a 60-90 day approval for drone use?
lead time could prohibit us from Local governments can choose to operate under Part
accident/crime scene investigation. 107 or request a Public Certificate of Waiver
Part 107 does make it difficult to fly over non- or Authorization for certain operations.
participants, even with a waiver.
Options include: Q Does Part 107 have the same property
1) Operate under Part 107 but make sure not to owner permission requirements as the
directly fly over unprotected non-participants. Part 333 Exemption? What are the “borders”
107 does not specify a minimum distance.
2) Apply for an Exemption that allows you to fly over of private airspace? When are you over
non-participants. For safety reasons, we recommend someone’s airspace instead of in it. For
option 1. example, regular manned aircraft do not
ask for permission to fly over properties.
Q The waiver takes 60-90 days to process Part 107 does not require permission to overfly
private property but it may still be an excellent
it seems. Is this project-based or can you practice, depending on the situation—use
obtain a blanket waiver?
good judgment. The FAA refers to the National
We have seen waivers take as little as 30 days and Telecommunications and Information Administration
as many as 90. Remember, there is not a “blanket Voluntary Best Practices for UAS Privacy as well as
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waiver” under Part 107. The FAA is developing a local trespassing ordinances. Part 107 does specify
Certificate of Waiver (CoW) that we hope will be much that you cannot directly overfly any person not
faster than the Civil COA process. The waiver may participating in your operation, or endanger people
be generalized to a type of operation or specific to a or property on the ground, but it doesn’t specify a
location and time depending on the complexity of the minimum distance.
operation and the impact it has on airspace safety.
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