Any experience of regulations for flying your drone?
Generally speaking, these rules apply:
Quelle place pour les drones dans le ciel français ? - Ministère du Développement durable
Or at least that's my understanding.
I can't find it at the moment, but I remember also consulting an aeronautical chart of some variety for my specific area, noting the altitude restrictions and nearby POI.
Personally, I've flown maybe... 20-30 flights in France but only over the course of 6 weeks. All from private residence.
So no experience in public whatsoever or dealing with enforcement.
The French in my understanding are more interested in privacy and general safety of crowds/people more than anything else.
I doubt they would be concerned unless I was surveying people or flying over bad things to fly over (nuclear power plants, city centers, etc).
Trick is really not to do stupid things. Or crashing.
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I tend towards a policy of "ask forgiveness" over "ask permission".
I also pay serious and close attention to the safety of my drone and my fellow humans. Usually not in that order. ;-)
Not for every location I admit, but for most new locations, I check:
- Aeronautical charts
- Google Maps Hybrid View
- Google Earth
Day of, I usually check Flightradar and/or my tablet-attached ADS-B radio. (USB SDR + Tablet + Antenna = mobile cheap ADS receiver!)
This is not a perfect system of course, but I do try to be aware of what's around me in the sky and on the ground.
Kept me out of trouble so far. *knock on digital wood*