I was just wondering if anyone knows what the rules are for autonomous flight using autopilot with flight plans and waypoints that the drones support these daytime. I work for a company that wants to look at using a drone in our business. We would want the drone to take off on its own fly a route for survalance purposes and the land. all Wilbur a pilot. The drone would only fly over our property and would fly under 150ft up. Is this something that we could do or would we need Fifa approval. Also if we wanted to drone to fly from one location to another to do the job would we then need FFr approval?
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The FAA doesn't care if you're using autopilot or not. If you are flying beyond line of sight of the main operator. Currently they want approval for commercial, and if you're going beyond line of sight, the approval is even more complicated (I don't even know if they grant those yet).
Of course, if you fly at 150ft over your property, this should be perfectly safe as long as the aircraft doesn't have bugs where it gets lost and flies beyond where it's supposed to, or climb to 3000ft all by itself.
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The FAA doesn't care if you're using autopilot or not. If you are flying beyond line of sight of the main operator. Currently they want approval for commercial, and if you're going beyond line of sight, the approval is even more complicated (I don't even know if they grant those yet).
Of course, if you fly at 150ft over your property, this should be perfectly safe as long as the aircraft doesn't have bugs where it gets lost and flies beyond where it's supposed to, or climb to 3000ft all by itself.