{"id":901,"date":"2017-03-16T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/?p=901"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:17:29","slug":"transport-canada-comes-new-recreational-uav-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/transport-canada-comes-new-recreational-uav-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Canada comes out with new Recreational UAV rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Minister Garneau announced on behalf of Transport Canada, new rules for recreational UAV or &#8220;drone&#8221; flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Here the link from TC&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The summary looks like this&#8230; &nbsp;You can find more details on the Transport Canada website.<\/p>\n<p>Recreational users will face a fine of up to $3,000 if they are caught flying drones weighing more than 250 grams&nbsp;flying:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Higher than <strong>90 metres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Within 75 metres<\/strong> of buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals or people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More than 500 metres<\/strong> away from the user.<\/li>\n<li><strong>At night,&nbsp;in clouds<\/strong> or somewhere you can&#8217;t see it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Within nine kilometres<\/strong> of places where&nbsp;aircraft take off or land, or a forest fire.<\/li>\n<li>Without <strong>your name, address and phone number&nbsp;marked on the drone<\/strong> itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over forest fires, emergency response scenes or controlled airspace<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These rules are an interim order that will renew every 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>As a professional operator, we think it&#8217;s important to make sure that all UAV\/drone operators fly safely under the TC rules. These new measures, unfortunately, &nbsp;just turned pretty much all the reasonable recreational flyers into criminals.<\/p>\n<p>This is disappointing for a number of reasons;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recreational flyers will more than likely ignore these rules and risk the fines;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Recreational pilots are the feeder teams for our commercial operations; as&nbsp;they learn how to fly safely, they acquire a&nbsp;number of the key skills that are useful&nbsp;for commercial pilots;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>and these rules will make it more likely that the police and other law enforcement offices will hassle and delay legitimate commercial operators during their SFOC operations.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We, along with others in the UAV &nbsp;community in Canada in calling on&nbsp;Transport Canada to sit down with Recreational and Commercial users, as well as Industry groups to find out a better way to protect the public safety instead of&nbsp;outlawing a whole class of pilots!<\/p>\n<p>More details here on Transport Canada&#8217;s website:&nbsp;http:\/\/www.tc.gc.ca\/eng\/mediaroom\/interim-order-respecting-use-model-aircraft.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Minister Garneau announced on behalf of Transport Canada, new rules for recreational UAV or &#8220;drone&#8221; flyers. 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