Watching the evening news they spoke about drones and model aircraft will get you a trespassing ticket or arrested. I was like..yeah right!! Yeah is right. Then interviewed a lawyer...stating that people flying these over private property are "trespassing" and if caught can be subjected to local laws related to trespassing. I was like the FAA again.....then I found this recent article, its not the FAA debacle. It is a Supreme court ruling from 1946 that just got National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz arrested for trespassing on June 28th. Even if the FAA can be sorted out.......how do you sort out trespassing??
The Supreme court ruling in 1946 still on the books.
"Before the advent of air travel, landowners owned an infinitely tall column of air rising above their plot. (The Latin doctrine was Cujus est solum ejus usque ad coelum, or “whose is the soil, his it is up to the sky.”) In 1946 the Supreme Court acknowledged that the air had become a “public highway,” but a landowner still had dominion over “at least as much of the space above the ground as he can occupy or use in connection with the land.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...metz_arrest_how_much_airspace_do_you_own.html
The Supreme court ruling in 1946 still on the books.
"Before the advent of air travel, landowners owned an infinitely tall column of air rising above their plot. (The Latin doctrine was Cujus est solum ejus usque ad coelum, or “whose is the soil, his it is up to the sky.”) In 1946 the Supreme Court acknowledged that the air had become a “public highway,” but a landowner still had dominion over “at least as much of the space above the ground as he can occupy or use in connection with the land.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...metz_arrest_how_much_airspace_do_you_own.html